#OligoOx24: dates for your diary! 10th international Oxford conference on #antisense & #therapeutic #nucleicacids will be held as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (UK) on 20-21 Mar 2024. lpmhealthcare.com/oligo-2024-Oxf… #Oligonucleotide #siRNA #mRNA #MicroRNA

Congrats to Andre Zenz for an excellent Master thesis defense in nucleic acid chemistry 🧬🎉! Looking forward welcoming you back Stephanie Kath-Schorr Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) for your PhD in May!

Enjoying 2 fantastic days of nucleic acid chemistry 🧬 and therapeutics in Oxford with Michal Hocek 🇨🇿 🇪🇺 🌍 🍷🧬🧪, Andrew Kellett, Thomas Carell, Michael Booth and many others! #OligoOx24 LPMHealthcare

Reverse transcription as key step in RNA in vitro evolution with unnatural base pairs - now published in RSC Chemical Biology! 🧬🎉 #ChemicalBiology #expandedgeneticalphabet Great work by Eva Hoffmann kathlene laberinto Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) and Mareike De Pascali @DBS_GmbH pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Great GDCh lecture by Prof. Thomas Carell Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) about the origin of molecules and life on the early earth as well as teaching our students the basics of nucleic acid conformation! #nucleicacid #originoflife 🧬⚗️🧫🧪 Thomas Carell The Carell Group

Kurt Alder Lecturer 2024 Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil Tanja Weil Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung gave us fantastic insights into controlling structure formation in cells!🚀🧫🧪⚗️ (📷:David van Gerven) Huge congrats also to our Kurt Alder prize winners! #OrganicChemistry

Excited our final version of Christine Isadora Ng's work on targeted protein relocalization is out today @nature! Molecular control over protein localization could offer new opportunities for therapeutics and biological discovery. Sarafan ChEM-H Stanford Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4158…

Interesting talk by Ralf Strasser Ralf Strasser at #GDChBioChem2024. He talked about their biophysical methods to study small molecule protein interactions. Cool application to reverse transcription with Stephanie Kath-Schorr and molecular glues with Alessio Ciulli. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

We had the first retreat with the #PhDstudents of the 2nd cohort this week! The whole TIDE group went to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler for 3 days. Besides discussing all the exciting new #research activities, there was also time for a tour of the Government Bunker and for socializing.

Please join us tomorrow for this year's Emanuel-Vogel-Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 #OrganicChemistry 🚀⚗️🎉

JOB ALERT! Two open PhD positions Stephanie Kath-Schorr in the framework of the MSCA doctoral network MeChaNiSM! Searching for an organic chemist dedicated on nucleic acid chemistry. 🚀🎉🧬⚗️ More information here: kathlab.uni-koeln.de/en/job-offers #organicchemistry #nucleicacids

Grateful for this wonderful group of lab members Stephanie Kath-Schorr Universität zu Köln! Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! 🎄🕯️🧬

🧬🔬New paper online: Nucleic acid sensing using DNA-functionalized whispering gallery mode microlasers! Great collaboration with GatherLab @sorayacaixeiro Biointegrated Photonics Lab Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) 🧪 #DNASensing #microlasers Nano Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Celebrating 75 years of #FCI VCI ! 🎉 Grateful for the funding that supports the research of Stephanie Kath-Schorr including Julian and Matea Rabar. Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) 🧬⚗️

Enjoying a fantastic week of nucleic acid chemistry 🧬⚗️🎉

The legendary conference dinner! #SNAC2025 🥂🧬

🧬 New paper out in Chemical Communications by Robert Dörrenhaus and Philip Wagner Stephanie Kath-Schorr! We introduce CTPT3, a stable C-nucleoside forming a hydrophobic base pair with dNaM for enabling enzymatic incorporation into DNA and RNA. Department of Chemistry (University of Cologne) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I'm thrilled to share that Christian Ducho of Ducho Group and I have been elected co-vice chairs of the Gordon Research Conferences on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides for 2027 and we'll be co-chairs in 2029! Thanks to the community for choosing us to lead this truly great meeting!