2025
February 2025: Congratulations to Martina! She defended her thesis with the title „Method Development for the Detection and Quantification of Biological and Synthetic RNA Cap Structures by LC-MS/MS.”
2024
October 2024: Congratulations to Sophia! She defended her thesis with the title „tRNA modification landscape shaping protein synthesis and energy production in early ectodermal differentiation.“
July 2024: Congratulations to Marlies! She defended her thesis with the title “Oxidatively Damaged RNA – Investigating the Impact of Oxidative Stress on a Molecular Level.”
April 2024: Congratulations to Nadezda! She defended her thesis with the title “Identification and characterization of the 21U RNA processing enyzme in Caenorhabditis elegans.”
March 2024: Congratulations to Beatrice! She defended her thesis with the title “Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Programmable RNA-guided Technologies in Infection and Cancer.”
2023
October 2023: Congratulations to Robin! He defended his thesis with the title “Accelerating bioinformatics applications on CUDA-enabled mulit-GPU systems.”
His thesis was awarded with the dissertation award from the Dres. Elke und Rainer Göbel-Stiftung. Congratulations!
JGU Mainz – DIES ACADEMICUS awarded thesis 2023/2024
June 2023: Congratulations to Robert! He defended his thesis with the title “Biophysical evaluation of DNMT2 and NSUN6 inhibitors designed to selectivity target epitranscriptomal writers.”
May 2023: Congratulations to Marvin! He defended his thesis with the title “Development of covalent enzyme inhibitors: RNA methyltransferases and proteases as targets.”
May 2023: Congratulations to Larissa! She defended her thesis with the title “RNA Hypermodifications – Structural Elucidation, Biological Characterization and Manipulation.”
Her thesis was awarded with the dissertation award “Dissertationspreis Mainz” from the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung. Congratulations!
JGU Mainz – DIES ACADEMICUS awarded thesis 2023/2024
May 2023: Congratulations to Marco! He defended his thesis with the title “Quantitative profiling of tRNA pools and RNA modification analysis via Deep Sequencing.”
Secondments
2024
October: Ivanéia from the Dalpke lab did a secondment in the group of Falk Butter, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Löffler Institut, Greifswald, Germany.
August – October: Leona from the Frye lab did a secondment in the group of Filipe Pereira, Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund University, Sweden.
July: Kaushik from the Winz lab did a secondment in the group of Daniel N. Wilson, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hamburg University, Germany.
January – March: Lena from the Winz lab did a secondment in the group of David Tollervey, Wellcome Centre Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
2023
September – December: Marvin from the Schirmeister lab did a secondment in the group of Jennifer Small-Saunders, Department of Medicine: Infectious Diseases, Columbia University, NY, USA.
September: Sophia from the Frye lab did a secondment in the group of Anna Falk, Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, Sweden.
April: Sophia from the Frye lab did a secondment in the group of Mark Helm, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, JGU Mainz, Germany.
March: Irem and Salvo from the Papavasiliou lab did a secondment in the group of Julia Brettschneider and Tessy Papavasiliou, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK.
2022
July: Valerie from the Papavasiliou lab did a secondment in the group of Julian König,Institue of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
2021
December: Sarah from the Butter lab did a secondment in the group of Alexander Dalpke, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University Dresden, Germany
