Check out our new Cell Reports paper on motor switching during oskar mRNA transport!
We show how the two proteins Staufen and Tm1 team up to get the transport direction right and deliver the mRNA in the Drosophila oocyte. It’s been a…
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PURA Biobank opens its doors
We have launched a Biobank for samples from patients with PURA syndrome with the goal to support research.
Save the date for the 2026 PURA Conference in Munich
Watch our Youtube Video to get an impression of the Conference Venue
Our new paper is out: Read how the PUN motifs of the RNA-binding protein Loc1p catalyze RNA folding and drive phase separation.
The NAR article shows that Loc1p connects RNA annealing and RNA-mediated phase separation, which may have supported correct folding of early ribozymes…
Sabrina Bacher from our Munich group successfully defended her PhD
PhD hat-trick: in July Wieland Mayer, Thomas Gaber, and Sandra Burczyk from our Ulm team sucessfully defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations!
New paper out! Read why PURA-Syndrome causing mutations have such a high penetrance in patients.
This work published in eLife uses a range of tools to study the effects of different patient mutations on the function and structure of PURA protein.
CONGRATULATIONS! Monika Witzenberger from our Munich lab received a PhD award from the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft
She received the award for her outstanding work on human TRMT2A.
Puzzle around a protein - The Niessing lab provides important insights into the rare PURA syndrome
Niessing lab publishes study on a neurodevelopmental disorder in the journal Nucleic Acids Research
DFG-FOR2333 conference "RNA Transport Meeting 2022" from Sept. 11.-14. in Düsseldorf
The DFG-funded research network FOR2333 has been organizing an international conference on RNA biology.