#biochemistry2026 — Public Fediverse posts

How are the receptors in the synapse organized?

Diego Ortiz-López from the Hermann Schindelin group discussed his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the organization of receptors in the inhibitory postsynapse by organization of gephyrin oligomers.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673457v1
#Biochemistry #cryoEM #Structure #Synapse #Chemistry #ChemBio
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Installation of tRNA modifications is key to protein synthesis.

In her presentation at #Biochemistry2026, Carine Tisné presented her group's in depth work on structural and functional studies to understand the underlying processes on the example of m1A.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00568
#Biochemistry #RNA #tRNA #Modification #ProteinSynthesis #Chemistry #ChemBio #cryoEM #Crystallography
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How can we study the function of nucleotide-based #SecondMessengers?

Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann presented her group's exciting findings in this field at #Biochemistry2026. She e.g. presented the #cryoEM structure of OAS2, which has key #antiviral functions.

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1097-2765(25)00406-X
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #RNA #Virus

How can #epigenetic modifications of #DNA be studied to better understand #biology?

In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, Sabine Schneider talked about her group's exciting work on developing new TET3 enzymes that improve epigenetic sequencing.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/cb/d4cb00315b
#Chemistry #Biochemistry #ChemBio #Sequencing
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How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?

At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
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How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?

At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem

How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?

At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem

How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?

At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem

How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?

At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave an inspiring lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425010827
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
CC: @gdch, @GDCh_BioChem

Can the functions of #metalloenzymes be further improved using non-canonical amino acids?

In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, Alexandra Deliz Liang talked about the usage of genetic code expansion in order to improve the activity of metalloenzymes using e.g. hydrophobic tuning.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.09.636911v1
#Chemistry #ChemBio #Biochemistry #BioinorganicChemistry #ProteinEngineering
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Insightful talk by Clemens Richert at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group’s work on optimized #antivirals. He gave exciting insights into the optimization of prodrugs of nucleotides #ProTides.

#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #Virus #DrugDiscovery
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Insightful presentation by Pierre Stallforth at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about their hunt for new natural products from unusual sources including those produced during amoebal predation of bacteria and those identified in ancient samples.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c17955
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5c14335
#Biochemistry #ChemBio #Chemistry #NaturalProducts #Paleogenomics
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Great talk by Akane Kawamura at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's exciting work on the #Biochemistry of JmjC demethylases with important implications for #epigenetics. Exciting insights into arginine demethylation.

https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1873-3468.14586

She also talked about the potential of these enzymes in #DrugDiscovery including the discovery of #CovalentInhibitors for KDM5.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201810179
#Chemistry #ChemBio #Biochemistry
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I was very happy to be able to talk about some of our work at #Biochemistry2026. I presented results of Patrick Zanon, Marnix Roseboom, Julia Pols and Storm van der Voort on new covalently reactive groups, chemical proteomics methods and screening technologies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01902-z
#Chemistry #ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemoproteomics #CovalentInhibitors

Great talk by Satpal Virdee at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about methods to identify and characterize ubiquitin(-like) E1 and E3 enzymes by crosslinking to tools based on (Ubl-modified) E2s.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.5b00118
https://www.nature.com/articles/nchembio.2045
#Biochemistry #ChemBio #ubiquitin #tools #Chemistry
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How can enzymes efficiently be evolved to have a broad substrate scope for #OrganicSynthesis?

In his talk at #Biochemistry2026, Stephan Hammer addressed this question on the example of methyl transferases.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202510300
#Biochemistry #Evolution #Enzymes

How can nature make #peptides covering chemical space beyond the 20 proteinogenic amino acids using the #ribosome?

Wilfred van der Donk talked at #Biochemistry2026 about the power of ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides #RiPPs.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/np/d0np00027b
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio

(Glyco-)sphingolipids play important roles in bacterial infections. Studying them requires powerful chemical tools.

Jürgen Seibel talked at #Biochemistry2026 about the synthesis of probes based on (glyco-)sphingolipids and their use to study biology e.g. using expansion microscopy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51874-w
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #LipidTime #GlycoTime #probes #infections

How can unnatural #peptides be made in an enzymatic way?

Helge Bode gave an insightful lecture at #Biochemistry2026 about engineering non-ribosomal peptide synthetases to make tailored peptides.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202508967
#Chemistry #Biochemistry #ChemBio #NRPS @gdch.de @GDCh_BioChem

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @GDCh_BioChem. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists.
#ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemistry

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @GDCh_BioChem. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists.
#ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemistry

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @GDCh_BioChem. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists.
#ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemistry

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @GDCh_BioChem. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists.
#ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemistry

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @GDCh_BioChem. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists.
#ChemBio #Biochemistry #Chemistry

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @[email protected]. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists. #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @[email protected]. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists. #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @[email protected]. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists. #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @[email protected]. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists. #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky

Getting started with a full week of #Science #conferences. I will be at #Lunteren2026 and #KNCVMCCB2026 by the #KNCV and at #Biochemistry2026 by @[email protected]. Looking forward to learning about exciting science and (re-)connecting with many scientists. #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky

@GDCh_BioChem has started a new #Award program.

If you are a #PhD candidate or student in #Biochemistry or #ChemBio, consider applying for our brand new Meeting Award. This award will support participation in the conference #Biochemistry2026 (March 16-18, 2026) in Würzburg with 500 € and give you a one-year, free membership in our Division!

#ECR #PhDs #EarlyCareerResearcher @gdch

https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/biochemistry/awards-honors/meeting-award.html

@GDCh_BioChem has started a new #Award program.

If you are a #PhD candidate or student in #Biochemistry or #ChemBio, consider applying for our brand new Meeting Award. This award will support participation in the conference #Biochemistry2026 (March 16-18, 2026) in Würzburg with 500 € and give you a one-year, free membership in our Division!

#ECR #PhDs #EarlyCareerResearcher @gdch

https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/biochemistry/awards-honors/meeting-award.html

@GDCh_BioChem has started a new #Award program.

If you are a #PhD candidate or student in #Biochemistry or #ChemBio, consider applying for our brand new Meeting Award. This award will support participation in the conference #Biochemistry2026 (March 16-18, 2026) in Würzburg with 500 € and give you a one-year, free membership in our Division!

#ECR #PhDs #EarlyCareerResearcher @gdch

https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/biochemistry/awards-honors/meeting-award.html

@GDCh_BioChem has started a new #Award program.

If you are a #PhD candidate or student in #Biochemistry or #ChemBio, consider applying for our brand new Meeting Award. This award will support participation in the conference #Biochemistry2026 (March 16-18, 2026) in Würzburg with 500 € and give you a one-year, free membership in our Division!

#ECR #PhDs #EarlyCareerResearcher @gdch

https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/biochemistry/awards-honors/meeting-award.html

@GDCh_BioChem has started a new #Award program.

If you are a #PhD candidate or student in #Biochemistry or #ChemBio, consider applying for our brand new Meeting Award. This award will support participation in the conference #Biochemistry2026 (March 16-18, 2026) in Würzburg with 500 € and give you a one-year, free membership in our Division!

#ECR #PhDs #EarlyCareerResearcher @gdch

https://en.gdch.de/network-structures/gdch-structures/biochemistry/awards-honors/meeting-award.html