2021

We welcome Ivan Kisly to our lab as a post-​doctoral fellow!

We welcome Pablo and Bianka who will do their PhD in our lab.

We're sad to say good bye to Jasmin and Dominik! After many years in the lab it is hard to see you leave, we wish you all the best for your future.

The ubiquitin-​like protein FUBI and the ribosomal protein eS30 are synthesized as one polypeptide chain. In our recent eLife publication we discovered that USP36 is involved in endoproteolytic cleavage of the fusion protein; a reaction licensing efficient final maturation of 40S subunits. Congratulations to Jasmin, Caroline, Kerstin, Emanuel, Ivo and Ulli!

Last week we celebrated the successful PhD defense of Kerstin! After the virtual defense, we all enjoyed an apero outdoors!

Together with the lab of Wolfram Antonin we published a review on "Mitotic disassembly and reassembly of nuclear pore complexes".  

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in Switzerland, the NCCR introduces women working in Swiss research institutes. Four of our lab members have been highlighted in a recent video, in which they explain more about their research. 

In case you have not seen it yet, read all about the diverse cellular functions of inner nuclear membrane (INM) proteins in our latest review. Written by a previous postdoc in our lab, Sumit Pawar, and Ulrike Kutay, the review has been published in CSH perspectives in Biology and provides an extensive overview of the latest work on INM proteins. 

The Art of Leadership Award 2020 has been won by Ulrike Kutay! We are grateful to work with Ulrike and are excited to see her leadership efforts rewarded as deserved. Congratulations as well to the other finalists, Heini Wernli and Oliver Renn. Also thanks to AVETH for organizing the award to support us in honoring Ulrike as an exemplary leader.

We welcome our semester and master students Bianka, Leonie, Claudia and Lara to the lab. They will work on their projects in our lab for 3 or 6 months.

A new paper by our lab in collaboration with the Fierz lab (EPFL) is now out in eLife: "Torsin ATPases influence chromatin interaction of the Torsin regulator LAP1". Congratulations to all authors!