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#Biochemistry2026 comes to an end!

We especially want to thank our organizers, Claudia Höbartner and Kathrin Lang, for an amazing job and all participants for making this a great conference.

We wish everyone safe travels back and hope to see many of you at the next event in 2028.

#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio

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Congratulations to the three winners of the poster awards at #Biochemistry2026:

Felix Veitl
Stefan Jungwirth
Evgeniia Dorinova

We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley for sponsoring the poster prizes!

The poster awards were awarded for the following posters: (1/4)

#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #Poster #Awards

In the final talk of #Biochemistry2026, Stefan Raunser gave an exciting overview of his group's research on "Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle".

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-biochem-052521-042909
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #Structure #cryoEM
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"Cryo-EM Structures of Higher-Order Gephyrin Oligomers Revealing Principles of Inhibitory Postsynaptic Scaffold Organization"

Diego Ortiz-López from the group of Hermann Schindelin gave an insightful talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673457v1
#cryoEM #Synapse #Neuron #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
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Julia Bartoli gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026 about the topic "A host tRNA Drives Assembly of a Cytoplasmic Viral Transcription Machine".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01653-y
#Biochemistry #cryoEM #Chemistry #ChemBio #tRNA #RNA #Virus
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"Dynamics of A-Minor Interactions in the Bacterial Ribosome"

Christian Steinmetzger talked at #Biochemistry2026 about his work on this topic in the group of Katja Petzold.

#Biochemistry #Ribosome #Chemistry #ChemBio #NMR
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Carine Tisné gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about "Advances in the structural and functional understanding of m1A tRNA modification".

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00568
#Biochemistry #RNA #tRNA #Chemistry #Biochemistry #Methylation
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"Nucleotidyltransferases and nucleotide-based second messengers"

Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann gave an insightful talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026.

https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.14838
#Biochemistry #SecondMessenger #CyclicNucleotide
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Great talk by Kathrin Leppek at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her work on the topic "Synthetic circRNAs employ IRES activity for translation in cells and in cell-free translation systems".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44318-025-00404-5
#Chemistry #Biochemistry #ChemBio #RNA #IRES
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Interesting talk by Sabine Schneider at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "Novel TET3 enzymes for next-generation epigenetic sequencing".

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/cb/d4cb00315b
#Epigenetics #Biochemistry #ChemBio #Chemistry #Sequencing #TET
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