Andreas Beyer Group

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Do you want to start your PhD at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research in 2027? 🗓️ Don't miss our deadline: November 3, 2026. To help you get started with your application, our wonderful PhD students and faculty members have some tips for you in our short video. Enjoy! 🍿

The abstract deadline is coming up for the FASEB on Epigenetics and Aging! Oct 19-22 in Malahide, Ireland. Submit now to be considered for a short talk! Amazing lineup including Yang Shi @denadubal.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @bbparis1984.bsky.social and more! events.faseb.org/event/Chroma...

Apply now! This is a great opportunity for truly interdisciplinary research.

🔬Researchers @beyerlab.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social developed a method that enables damage to individual cells to be precisely quantified. It uses molecular markers and enables the detailed analysis of disease progression in individual tissue samples, such as a biopsy ➡️ uni.koeln/W5DU7

Our paper on mutation susceptibility along the human genome is out! 📜🎉Big congrats to Corinna Schmalohr, Yashna Paul and Nina Bundschuh from the Beyer-lab 🌟🍾Susceptibility for mutations is remarkably similar across tissues #CRC1310 #CRC1678 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 New study from #CRC1678 members @beyerlab.bsky.social and @muellerrom.bsky.social maps kidney and liver disease using cell‑type‑specific damage scores. PDS/HDS track cell injury and reveal circadian disruption and a MASLD/NASH threshold. 🍾🥳 👉 www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

🚀 We’re excited to share the release of Bioconductor 3.23, featuring: ✅2418 software packages (94 new) ✅437 experiment data packages (5 new) ✅928 annotation packages ✅8 books (2 new) ✅28 workflows 🔗 Please see the full release announcement here: bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_...

We are excited to announce the #CRC1678 Summer Symposium! 🗓️ June 22, 2026 📍 Auditorium, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne A student‑organized day of scientific exchange featuring CRC researchers and international invited speakers. 🔗 More information on our event website: uni.koeln/U7FHR

SPACO, our tool for Spatial Component Analysis for Spatial Sequencing Data, is now available as R package on CRAN!🎉 Congratulations to the team!!! We also have a Docker image which is available on Zenodo. #SpatialTranscriptomics #DimensionalityReduction

📣#CECAD will host two exciting conferences 📆 11th - 14th October 2026 15th AHA Conference - “From mechanisms of age-associated diseases to healthy aging” uni.koeln/7X2K8 📆 14th - 16th October 2026 1stEFAR Conference - “On the Biology of Aging” uni.koeln/YGPMA 👉 Submit abstracts by May 31st

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 New work from our #CRC1678 members @volkerboehm.bsky.social and Niels Gehring in @narjournal.bsky.social shows that SMG8 and SMG9 act as nonessential but crucial modulators safeguarding the efficiency and resilience of the NMD pathway. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨 We’re excited to welcome Christina Leslie to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar. 🧬AI models for regulatory genomics and spatial biology 📅 March 17 📍Auditorium, MPI-Age ⏰ 3:00 PM Join us to explore cutting‑edge AI models shaping regulatory genomics and spatial biology!

Big congratulations to our #CRC1678 partner Niels Gehring! Isn't it amazing how little we understand about the molecular mechanisms of something as important as NMD? Read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @antebilab.bsky.social for involving us in this project! Beyer-lab member Francisco Lopes helped with the data analysis and came up with a cool way to study the stoichiometry control of ribosomal proteins. Read the preprint for more!

Together with @spanier55.bsky.social and Boris Pfander we put together a great program with support of @cecad.bsky.social Cologne, @mpiage.bsky.social and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Meeting site: www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New work from our #CRC1678 members Niels Gehring and @volkerboehm.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com shows that SMG5 & SMG6 PIN domains form a composite endonuclease (cPIN) enabling efficient mRNA cleavage🧬

Looking forward to continuing the collaboration with @pkdinternational.bsky.social in this new position.

🧬🧬🧬 REGISTRATION JUST OPENED! Make sure you join our DNA REPAIR MEETING 2026 ON PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENOME INSTABILITY in Cologne, September 7-9, organized by the German Society for DNA Repair (DGDR) and the @dfg.de Research Unit 5504. www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...

📢 PhD Positions - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 26/01 (m/f/d) The Leibniz Graduate School on Aging (LGSA) is a joint program of the @leibnizfli.bsky.social and the @uni-jena.de (FSU) in #Jena. The School calls for #applications for #PhD positions. 👇 ➡️ More: jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/c...

Beyer Group proudly presents: "Snow White and the Data Miners". It's so much fun to be part of Cologne Carnival! Thanks to all the costume designers and makers, especially to Paula and Jakub!!!

We are VERY much looking forward to the selection week and meeting the candidates! All of them are very smart people and we will have many inspiring discussions. 🎓

👩‍🔬 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Meet Lara Hitzemann @larahi.bsky.social , PhD student in the group of @beyerlab.bsky.social at the @unicologne.bsky.social

Big thank you to all those female researchers from #CRC1678 sharing their thoughts in this series! 🙏 #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM

!!!!!!!!!!!! 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍🔬 Imagine all of the Beyer Lab papers with female first authors were gone: what would our publication track record look like?

Amazing to have you here! I am looking forward to work together on #RNA and #ageing @mpiage.bsky.social

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Check out this brand new review article about Proteostasis of organelles in aging and disease in @febsj.bsky.social. Congratulations to our #CRC1678 members @thevilchezlab.bsky.social and Yara Nabawi and everyone else involved🎉

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New work from our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social reveals why some neurons age faster. Using neuron‑specific aging clocks, they identified vulnerable neurons and highlight syringic acid and vanoxerine as promising neuroprotective hits.🧬

Big congrats to Domenico and the team!

🚨Hot off the press from #CRC1678 's @ignatovalab.bsky.social 🚨 A brand‑new paper published in @narjournal.bsky.social introduces ADAM‑tRNA‑seq, a powerful framework that finally brings accuracy and scalability to Nanopore‑based direct tRNA sequencing. Congratulations! 🥳

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to welcome Duygu Ucar for an upcoming joint #CRC1678 / #CECAD Seminar about “Heterogeneity in Human Immune Aging and Vaccine Responses”. 📅 February 4 📍 CECAD Lecture Hall ⏰ 2:30 PM Join us for fresh insights into the complexity of human immune aging!

One of the greatest computational biologists of Germany - of the world I should say. He majorly shaped the field, never got stuck in one corner of science, but kept exploring new areas due to his curiosity, always aimed to understand the biology, and trained generations of scientists.

I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.

This is really cool stuff! Read the paper!

We’re delighted to report a global structural proteome analysis within living cells! doi.org/10.1038/s443... #proteomics #structuralproteomics #massspectrometry #structuralbiology #ethz @imsb-eth.bsky.social

Congrats to our #crc1678 member Akis @akispapantonis.bsky.social for this very nice Christmas gift🎄

Happy to share our recent publication, which grew out of a consulting job I did last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Three amazing months at @ethz.ch🏔️ in the @picottilab.bsky.social thanks to funding by @crc1678.bsky.social! Working on large-scale LiP-MS data and developing methods to identify structurally co-varying peptides. Grateful to @crc1678.bsky.social, @picottilab.bsky.social & @beyerlab.bsky.social!

Three #CRC1678 PhD students joined Lena Breuer’s ImproKoeln workshop 🎤 last week, learning improvisation, camera presence & interview skills. They’re now ready to spotlight diverse scientific journeys in our upcoming #DiversityInScience video campaign!

This was a great start of the @erc.europa.eu Synergy funded @batprotect.bsky.social BATPROTECT workshop @cecad.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social in Cologne

Congratulations! 👏 Dennis de Bakker from @leibnizfli.bsky.social received the LIFE Talent Award 2025 at the “4th LIFE Symposium – Time to connect”, which took place on November 26, 2025, in #Jena. Photos: Anna Schroll With @uni-jena.de

🚀 New on the #CRC1678 Website! 🌐 Explore Job Opportunities + Fellowships: - Postdoc Position🔬 - Medical Research Fellowship (6 months)👩‍⚕️ - PhD Orientation Fellowship(4 months)🎓 📅 Open year-round, no deadline, open to all! 👉 crc1678.uni-koeln.de/job-opportun...

🔥🔥🔥Now out in print: how do germ cells instruct the soma and how does the soma impact inheritance? Together with Shoma Ishikawa we provide a comprehensive overview of The Somatic Impact on Inheritance and the Germline Control of the Soma - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity within the #CRC1678 - @riemerlab.bsky.social 🔬 Study redox regulation & proteome plasticity via translation initiation 📅 Start: March 2026 (or later) 💼 100% E13 funded 👉 Apply now to explore molecular mechanisms in mammalian cells: crc1678.uni-koeln.de/job-opportun...

We had a fantastic time at the Ribo-Seq workshop in Bonn. Thanks so much, Kathrin @katleppek.bsky.social and Ranen, for organizing! We learned a lot, and we're excited to use Ribo-Seq in future projects.

Hello #rstats! 👋 Do you have an #rstats package or skill or strategy you love and would be willing to share with the @rladies.org community? We are looking 👀 for a couple more speakers 🔊 for the 2025–2026 R-Ladies St. Louis season. Reply here and we will contact you to find a date! 💜 💜 💜

Nice work together with the @jaelab.bsky.social on Fam136A as a novel Disulfide Relay substrate and guardian of proteostasis in the mitochondrial IMS - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Accompanied by a small graphical abstract…

Last Friday, we had an inspiring 10th Rhineland RNA Club meeting with top class speakers. It's great to see how the community is growing and the range of topics we're covering. Special thanks to Didier Stainier @stainierlab.bsky.social Simon Bekker-Jensen @bekkerjensenlab.bsky.social, Ranen Aviner!