Eilika Weber-Ban and Karsten Weis elected EMBO members
EMBO today announced that 64 life scientists have been elected to its membership. The new EMBO Members and Associate Members join the community of more than 1,800 leading life scientists.
An election to the EMBO Membership recognizes outstanding achievements in the life sciences. The new members provide expertise and guidance that will help EMBO to further strengthen its initiatives. New members are nominated and elected by the existing EMBO members. One election is held each year. The new EMBO Members will be formally welcomed at the annual EMBO Members’ Meeting between 27 and 29 October 2021. 26 of the new EMBO Members (41 %) are women.
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About the research of the Weber-Ban group
Selective protein turnover is important for the survival of all organisms. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related bacteria rely on processive protein degradation pathways in order to survive adverse conditions encountered in their environment or inside the infected host. The group investigates large, compartmentalizing degradation complexes and their substrate recruitment mechanisms, including the mycobacterial proteasome and a ubiquitin-like, post-translational protein modification termed pupylation that recruits substrates for proteasomal degradation.
About the research of the Weis group
General research topics of the lab:
- Nuclear organization
- Intracellular transport between the nucleus and the cytoplasm
- Nuclear pore structure and function
- mRNA transport and degradation
- the role of phase separation in the life of mRNA