22.02.2012

The book "Regulatory RNAs" has been released including our chapter on "Long non-coding RNAs in Cancer" - take a look, you will get a comprehensive overview about the field...

22.02.2012

Tomorrow, you can hear Tony's new story about the potential involvement of a liver cancer-associated ncRNA in cell cycle regulation for the first time at the Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists.

13.02.2012

ACCEPTED - the best word a scientist can read ! Today, it's Steffi's paper on the discovery of novel processing-deficient splice variants of Drosha in melanoma. It will be published already in the March issue of Neoplasia.

10.02.2012

A good week indeed - Sven has been invited to present our science at a Keystone Meeting as well as at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

02.02.2012

The German Society of Cell Biology (DGZ) has awarded Sven the Binder Innovation Prize 2012 !

17.01.2012

What a way to start off the new year: Fantastic news again - Tony Gutschner has been awarded a Keystone Future of Science Fund Scholarship for his abstract entitled: "MALAT1 is essential for lung cancer metastasis in a novel human knockout model". Congratulations !

15.01.2012

Just crunching some numbers for our annual report: Our review on microRNA biogenesis in Nature Cell Biology is the most frequently cited last author paper of the DKFZ published since 2009 !

31.12.2011

A successful year ends ! 2011 has brought us the first original research publications, scholarships and awards for several lab members, a new grant and - the highlight - the "RNA & Disease"-Meeting in Jena. Now, we are looking forward to a new year 2012 with great prospects: We will hopefully see the first PhDs awarded to B150 members, publish several exciting manuscripts currently in preparation or in revision and look forward to many scientific meetings.

We wish all friends, colleagues and cooperation partners a happy, healthy and successful new year 2012 !

16.11.2011

Our collaboration partners from Essen send good news: Our joint manuscript on the regulation of the NKG2D stress ligand ULBP2 by miR-34 has been accepted for publication in Cancer Research.

11.11.2011

Fantastic news: Julia Winter has been awarded a Keystone Future of Science Fund Scholarship for her abstract entitled: "Argonaute proteins regulate miRNA stability and the guide-to-passenger strand ratio". Congratulations !

01.11.2011

Accepted on the same day and now also printed on the same day: Our most recent publications in Genome Research and in RNA Biology have now been published in print. As well, the meeting report from the DGZ meeting "RNA & Disease" in Jena has been published today in RNA Biology.

27.09.2011

Special Issue on RNA & Disease

The journal RNA Biology (IF 5.6) will publish a spcial issue on "RNA & Disease" for which Sven is serving as a guest editor. Please consider submitting your original research articles or any suggestions for a review article or a point-of-view contribution to RNA Biology until November 2011.

26.09.2011

Another honor for our group: Our master student Julia Neugebauer was awarded the first prize in the young scientist presentation session of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM). Congratulations!

23.09.2011

10.09.2011

Excellent: Tony Gutschner has won the Best Poster Award of the 12th DGZ Young Scientist Meeting "RNA & Disease".

08.-10.09.2011

Welcome everyone to the "RNA & Disease" - Meeting in Jena. We all enjoyed highly interesting talks and fruitful discussions at the posters. The formal meeting report will appear in November in RNA Biology. Thanks to the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) and Carl Zeiss Jena for helping us organizing the meeting! We all had a great time and learned a lot about the fascinating topic of RNA & Disease from excellent national and international speakers! You can also find a picture of all the participants.

02.09.2011

The Laborjournal has featured our article on the use of ZFNs to silence ncRNAs online.

15.08.2011

That was fast: Today, the Genome Research paper on the use of Zinc Finger Nucleases became available online and was listed in PubMed - we hope, you will enjoy reading it.

08.08.2011

Double-play ! Today, the Chinese lucky number 8 has brought us double success at the 08.08.:
Our first two manuscripts have been accepted for publication today!
Congratulations to Julia and to Tony who each have now published their first first-author paper after less than three years into their PhDs!
Please, do not wonder if you do not find us in the lab - we are celebrating!

21.06.2011

A paper on the role of microRNAs in the invasion front of colon cancer from our cooperation partners Christoph Kahlert and Jürgen Weitz has been accepted - congratulations !

20.06.2011

Good news from Berlin: A new "Virtual Helmholtz Institute" will be established on Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia (CLL) based on an initiative by Peter Lichter and Daniel Mertens. We are looking forward to our joint project and study RNAs in this disease.

04.05.2011

A new paper is out from a collaboration with Münster!

07.04.2011

Oh happy days: Tony got great reviews on his manuscript and we hope to see it printed this year after the revision.

20.03.2011

It's done: The program for the 12th DGZ Young Investigator Meeting is finished with an attractive set of speakers. The topic this year will be "RNA & Disease" and you are cordially invited. The registration is free for DGZ members and very cheap for students - and includes accomodation and meals !

15.03.2011

Welcome to Anna Roth ! Anna joins our lab today as a new graduate student. She will focus on the function of non-coding RNAs in lung cancer.

09.03.2011

We welcome Julia Neugebauer as Master student investigating long non-coding RNAs in the DNA damage response.

2010 Holidays

We wish happy holidays and a happy and successful new year 2011 to all members, cooperation partners and friends of our group !

19.11.2010

Take a look at the new Associate Editor of 'RNA Biology' for "RNA & Disease".

15.11.2010

Pedro's paper on the role of miR-375 in breast cancer appears in print today in Cancer Research.

01.11.2010

Monika Hämmerle joins our lab as an M.D. / Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow. Monika will work as a clinician in the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Heidelberg and will strengthen our research on the role of long non-coding RNAs in liver cancer. Welcome !

30.10.2010

Three new publications on microRNA Biogenesis from Steffi and Julia are out - congratulations:

MicroRNA Biogenesis and its Impact on RNA Interference

MicroRNA Biogenesis and Cancer

MicroRNA Northern Blotting, Precursor Cloning, and Ago2-Improved RNA Interference

13.-16.10.2010

If you are interested in our research, come and meet us at the EMBL Conference "The non-coding genome".

30.09.2010

B150 goes Conferencing ! Today, we are travelling together for four days to the RNA Biochemistry Meeting of the German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

16.09.2010

Finally, our new cordless phones have arrived:
Maria, Steffi, Julia and Catherina can now be reached at -4380 and
Tony, Marion, Hannah and Silvia can now be reached at -4381.

15.09.2010

New labs - new lab members: We welcome our new technician Catherina Hildenbrand into our group and wish her a good start in the non-coding RNA world !

07.09.2010

The big day is here - and gone already: Our lab has moved from one end of the Heidelberg Life Science Campus to the other. Thanks to everyone who has participated in this adventure and made it a smooth transition !
The new lab is now well equipped and the cell culture is already up and running, so work continues without interruption...
You can find us now in the DKFZ main building, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Room H1.03.064 (3rd floor). Please note, that also our phone numbers have changed: Sven can now be reached at 06221 / 42-4383, the other new numbers will follow.

08.07.2010

Have a look into today's print issue of Nature ...

26.06.2010

Today, Sven is inaugurated into the Young Academy of Sciences (Die Junge Akademie) in Berlin.

16.06.2010

The recently accepted manuscript on SIAE mutants in autoimmunity diseases has been published online in Nature.

04. & 05.06.2010

With a public lecture on Friday and a celebration during the annual meeting of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on Saturday, Sven has been awarded the Karl-Freudenberg-Preis 2010 - here you can find more information.

18.05.2010

Good news from Halle (Saale): The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences have selected our group leader Sven Diederichs as a new member for the "Young Academy of Sciences" (Die Junge Akademie). This year, ten new members have been selected from all scientific disciplines reaching from arts and humanities to natural sciences.

17.05.2010

Marco Geigges joins us for an internship from the University of Constance - Welcome !

16.04.2010

Best possible news: Nature has accepted a manuscript from our collaboration partners at the Masschusetts General Hospital Cancer Center / Harvard Medical School in Boston with Sven as co-author! While they are celebrating with champagne this afternoon, we will enjoy the sunny day and all go for ice-cream to celebrate.

01.04.2010

No April Fool's joke: The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities has awarded Sven the Karl-Freudenberg-Preis 2010 for his research "connecting the molecular biology of non-coding RNA with questions of tumor biology". The public lecture, award ceremony and the party will be in early June, so check back later for additional news.

01.02.2010

Starting today, Marion Baas strengthens our team and will amplify our research on the role of non-coding RNA in cancer. The new Transregio-SFB TRR77 "Hepatocellular Carcinoma" thus turns into reality in our lab.

28.01.2010

Congratulations to Svantje Braun, who has published her first paper from her Master's thesis today in the Journal of Biological Chemistry !

13.01.2010

In the new year, our new student Hannah Uckelmann from the University of Heidelberg joins us for two months to learn more about the exciting world of microRNA Biogenesis in cancer.

24.12.2009

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2010 !

17.11.2009

Outstanding news: The German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided to fully fund the Transregio-SFB "Hepatocellular Carcinoma" in Heidelberg and Hannover for the next four years. This includes full funding for our project "Non-coding RNA in Hepatocellular Carcinoma" ! Let's party - and applications are welcome...

04.11.2009

Evgenij is back ! After his internship in summer, we are all looking forward to his comeback as diploma student to our lab - welcome !

06.10.2009

The last day of summer - if the weather forecast is correct (sun & 25°C): So, we will use it for a lab barbecue !

13. - 18.09.2009

This week, the first Life Science College of the German Merit Foundation ( Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ) takes place in Dresden, in which Sven organizes a group together with Michael Boutros from the DKFZ on "Genetics and Genomics in Medical Research". We welcome all the new members to this college and are looking forward to give some of them the opportunity to also gain some practical experience in our lab.

01.07.2009

Welcome to Svantje Braun who joins our lab today as graduate student !

05.05.2009

Good news: The DKFZ-Israel(MOST)-Cooperation Programme has awarded our grant proposal on the biogenesis and regulation of immune regulatory microRNAs full funding for three years.

04.05.2009

Joint forces from our lab have won the Pub-Quiz yesterday evening and took home the first prize of the month: A new mountain bike ! So, from now on, our lab has its own "lab-bike" to get from the technology park to the main building of the DKFZ... and Evgenij: Something is waiting for you to come back to Heidelberg.

01.04.2009

Congratulations to Tony Gutschner, who has been awarded a DKFZ PhD Student Fellowship !

30.03.2009

Monika Pütz, Bachelor student at the University of Heidelberg, joins us for the next four months - welcome to the non-coding RNA world !

02.03.2009

Today, our review article on microRNA biogenesis has been published in Nature Cell Biology as our first publication from our new group here in Heidelberg - let's celebrate !

01.02.2009

Welcome to Evgenij Fiskin - a Biochemistry student from the Free University Berlin, who joins the lab for a three month internship.

26.01.2009

Three parties in one day: We welcome Stefanie Grund as a new postdoctoral fellow, say good-bye to our intern Katharina Branz and congratulate Julia Winter to her first publication, which appeared online last week in the Journal of Cell Science.

31.12.2008

Merry christmas & a happy new year !

19.12.2008

More good news: The European Commission has recommended our group leader, Dr. Sven Diederichs, for funding of a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant ! This grant will substantially contribute to our work on non-coding RNAs for the next four years.

18.12.2008

Today, the selection committee for the DKFZ Postdoctoral fellowships has awarded the first five inaugural fellowships from a large group of excellent applicants. B150 is very happy that we could attract one of these selected fellows to our group: Dr. Stefanie Grund from Ed Hurt's group will start in January 2009 !

09.12.2008

Christmas Party - B150 goes Bowling... Congratulations to Tony, the undisputed master of the pins.

26.11.2008

Good news: The Helmholtz Society has selected our group as a Helmholtz-University-Group and will fund our microRNA research for the next five years !!!
For further information, please have a look at the press release of the DKFZ.

03.11.2008

Katharina Branz, a biochemistry student from the Free University Berlin, joins us today for three months to explore the world of microRNAs and non-coding RNAs.

15.10.2008

Today, Tony Gutschner joins us as graduate student from the University of Halle (Saale): Welcome to the group !

06.10.2008

Harald zur Hausen from the DKFZ has today been awarded the Nobel Prize 2008 for Medicine and Physiology "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" together with two French scientists. The entire DKFZ congratulates him !

01.10.2008

Again a happy event: Pedro de Souza Rocha Simonini joins our group from the tri-national program in biotechnology from the University of Strasbourg: Welcome !

25.09.2008

Our PNAS paper has attracted attention: After it has been selected as "Recommended Reading" by the 'Faculty of 1000' immediately after publication, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery has presented our findings now as a Research Highlight in their latest edition. Thanks & congratulations to all our co-authors !

10.09.2008

We are steadily growing: Maria Polycarpou-Schwarz joins our group as a scientist. She brings a lot of experience in RNA biology from the EMBL, so we are especially happy to welcome her to the "Molecular RNA Biology & Cancer" group at the DKFZ !

01.09.2008

The first graduate student in our lab has started - now, the research group "Molecular RNA Biology & Cancer" is really starting off. Welcome to Julia Winter !

10.08.2008

Cooling for hot summer days: Finally, our freezers have arrived... next week, we will also get pipets and delve into uncovering novel mechanisms in microRNA biogenesis and regulation.

08.07.2008

Today, our recent manuscript from Boston entitled “Co-expression of Argonaute-2 enhances RNA Interference towards perfect match binding sites” has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (2008) 105: 9284-9289.

01.07.2008

Ready, set, go ! Today is the first day of the new research group "Molecular RNA Biology & Cancer" at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ in Heidelberg. The group leader, Sven Diederichs, starts today in Heidelberg, and hopefully soon, other motivated scientists will join the group to explore the fascinating microRNA world !