Molecular Biology of Archaea
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November 2018
Our review on mechanisms of archaeal biofilm formation was published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
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January 2018
Our first "Halo" paper is out: Structure and function of the archaeal response regulator CheY in PNAS.
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November 2017
Archaea turned 40! Nature Microbiology and Nature Reviews MIcrobiology celebrate C. Woese and G. Fox seminal article in PNAS 1977:
https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/channels/1431-40-years-of-archaea
12.12.2016
At March 27-29th 2017 an international symposium will be organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 746 about "Coupling and Modification of Proteins. Information can be found here.
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05.05.2016
Kira Marakova's analysis of archaeal type IV pili is online at Frontiers in Microbiology.
14.03.2016
Our DNA transport paper was mentioned in the current issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology in the briefs.
16.02.2016
Our paper about the crenarchaeal DNA import system Ced is online in PNAS!
15.02.2016
Our FlaH paper made the cover of Molecular Microbiology!
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20.11.2015
One step closer to understand the archaellum motor! Our FlaH paper was accepted in Molecular Microbiology!
31.07.2015
Alex Wagner received one of the two poster prizes at the GRC Archaea for his work on the crenarchaeal DNA transporter!
10.06.2015
Tessa Quax received a FEMS Abstract prize at the FEMS meeting in Maastricht !
09.04.2015
Today the FlaF paper was published online in Structure.
04.03.2015
Patrick Tripp wins poster prize at the VAAM 2015! Congratulations !
02.02.2015
The archaellum is discussed in the ASM blog "Small things considered".
01.01.2015
Lisa Bischof started her SFB 746 funded PhD project on the analysis of the archaellum regulator ArnR.
01.01.2015
Patrick Tripp started his ERC funded PhD project on the analysis on different archaellum subunits.
16.12.2014
Tomasz Neiner defended his thesis! Congratulations!
20.11.2014
Our project on the archaellum regulatory network will be in the CRC 746.
01.11.2014
Tessa Quax started her PostDoc project on the haloarchaeal archaellum.
01.09.2014
Official start in Freiburg.
28.08.2014
Our lab stuff arrived !
19.08.2014
Today we had our farwell party from the MPI Marburg. Thanks for the great time!
01.03.2014
Thoung Le started her PhD project on the Uv inducible pili system in S.acidocaldarius.
19.02.2014
It is official now: in September the Albers lab will move to the University of Freiburg!
01.11.2013
Gosia Ajon defended her thesis at the University in Groningen! Congratulations!
18.10.2013
Marleen van Wolferen defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. van Wolferen!
01.08.2013
Alexander Wagner started his PhD project on the UV inducible pili system of S. acidocaldarius.
01.07.2013
Paushali Chaudhury startet her PhD working on the archaellum sponsored by the ERC.
01.05.2013
Lingling Li started her PhD on Sulfolobus biofilm sponsored by the CSC.
05.04.2013
Ankan Banerjee defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Banerjee!
14.02.2013
The link to the press release about the FlaI paper.
14.02.2013
Our joint paper with the Tainer lab about the structure of the archaellum ATPase FlaI is online at Molecular Cell.
01.02.2013
We have started working on the ERC grant to elucidate the assembly and structural features of the archaellum.
01.01.2013
Katerina Kapotova started her PostDoc project on the expression of archaeal membrane proteins.
18.12.2012
Kerstin Lassak defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations Kerstin!
12.12.2012
Julia Reimann defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations Julia!
12.11.2012
Lena Hoffman started her PhD work on Sulfolobus protein phosphorylation. Welcome!
01.11.2012
Florencia Haraut started her PostDoc in our lab and will work on the regulation of the archaellum in Sulfolobus. Welcome!
17.08.2012
Benjmamin Meyer sucessfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulation, Benjamin!
09.07.2012
Sonja got awarded an ERC starting grant to work on the archaellum.
02.-04-07.2012
We orgainzed with Bettina Siebers and Finn Werner the inernational conference "Molecular Biology of Archaea3" in Marburg. 147 participants from all over the world discussed their newest results on archaeal research.
24.05.2012
Ken Jarrell and we propose to call the archaeal flagellum "archaellum". See the opinion in TIMS here.
02.04.2012
Our article on UV induced pili (Ajon et al., 2011) is covered on the ASM microbe blog and featuered on the ASM front page.
19.03.2012
Sonja is awarded the research price of the VAAM (German Association of General and Applied Microbiology) 2012 .
01.01.2012
Michaela Wagner started her PhD thesis in the lab further developing the genetic tools for Sulfolobales.
21.11.2011
Our article on UV induced pili (Ajon et al., 2011) was featured in a commentary in Molecular Microbiology by Thorsten Allers.
October 2011
After finsihing their Master thesis Tomasz Neiner and Anna-Lena Henche started as PhD students.
October 2011
Andrea Koerdt is the first PhD student leaving the Albers lab. After three years she has defended and will now join the lab of Christina Schäffer in Vienna. All the best!
September 2011
Xiaoqing Ma has joined the lab as a PostDoc after doing her thesis work in Yulong Shen's lab.
16.05.2011
Our review on the archaeal cell envelope in Nature Reviews Microbiology is online.
02.03.2011
The biofilm article was covered in the ASM Journal "Microbes".
24.11.2010
Our first article on archaeal biofilm formation has just been published, have a look here.