Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!

Abstract submission deadline for the #STS meeting on #SignalTransduction extended to 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. Great line-up of speakers with Hao Wu of Boston Children's Hospital delivering the #STS Honorary Medal: sigtrans.de/meeting-2025 | Weimar, 3-5 November

Just wow! Congrats to all the authors.

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Dresden scientists @thegutmann.bsky.social and @rnadavid.bsky.social from the @hymanlab.bsky.social discover a new strategy used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to hide from the body’s DNA immune detection system. Now published in @pnas.org. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

How could SARS-COV-2 evade detection by host cells?

Read the new paper from Theresia @thegutmann.bsky.social
and David @rnadavid.bsky.social discussing how the nucleocapsid protein prevents recognition of the innate immunity sensor cGAS

Congratulations!!!
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Tremendously grateful to my mentor Tony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social for his generous support and trust & to our exceptional PhD student David Kuster @rnadavid.bsky.social‬ @mpi-cbg.de‬! Many thanks to @dfg.de, the NOMIS Foundation, @volkswagenstiftung.de, and @maxplanck.de for supporting this work.

Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity