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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.