We had a marvelous time at the beautiful Partnachklamm. This is my all-time favorite hike, and I hope my lab now agrees with me!

I was happy to represent our Excellence Cluster SyNergy at the Munich Science Fair (FORSCHA) at the beautiful Traffic museum Munich. I gave a talk to a more general audience on how important mitochondria for our cells and how damage to them can give rise to disease. I guess I sounded like my mom, telling people to eat healthy, stop smoking and get enough sleep :-). If you want you can rewatch the entire thing on youtube (in German).

We say good bye to our first Master student, Ezgi Senoglu, and at the same time welcome a new team member! Welcome Alina!

What joy we had when we found out that the new delivery of gloves was not a boring blue or yellow, but hot pink! Especially fitting for a lab studying the Parkinson-related protein PTEN-induced kinase, short PINK. 🙂

Hari, who has been part of our group as an intern for almost a year, successfully joined the IMPRS-LS graduate school and will start his thesis with us.

We are happy to welcome our first PostDoc, Inmaculada Segura, this week! Great to have your expertise on RNA transport and local translation on board!

After promising my lab members to get this done for over a year, it finally is time. We have a website! It is still a little rough, but I love it anyways.