News in 2008
PUBLICATION: "snoRNAs meet microRNAs"
In collaboration with the Meister lab (MPI Munich), the Rajewsky and Chen labs from the BIMSB have shown that some endogenous human snoRNAs are processed into functional miRNAs. The paper that describes this novel microRNA pathway has been featured on the cover page of 'Molecular Cell'. Next generation sequencing was a key technology for these findings.
November 2008
COLLABORATION: Collaboration with New York University
In fall 2008 New York University honored Nikolaus Rajewsky as 'Global Distinguished Professor of Biology at New York University'. This further strengthens the ties between the BIMSB and the new Center for Functional Genomics and Systems Biology at NYU, in particular the BIMSB PhD Fellowship program in collaboration with NYU.
September 2008
PUBLICATION: Tune down those proteins!
The laboratories of Nikolaus Rajewsky and Matthias Selbach at the MDC have achieved a first: they have measured and compared two ways that microRNAs control levels of proteins produced by cells.
August 2008
Links to the german press releases about BIMSB from the:
MAX-DELBRÜCK-CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE BERLIN-BUCH (MDC)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
May 2008