Stefanie Jonas elected EMBO Young Investigator
As EMBO yesterday announced in a press release, 26 young researchers were elected EMBO Young Investigators. One of them is Stefanie Jonas, who is leading a research group in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics.
Through the programme, EMBO identifies and supports some of the best researchers under 40 years of age who are in the process of building up their own laboratory. Twelve of the new EMBO Young Investigators are female (46%) and 14 are male (54%). The EMBO Young Investigators benefit from a variety of networking and training opportunities and have access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Starting in January 2022, they will join a network of 130 current and 368 former members of the programme and are active members in the programme for four years. The D-BIOL congratulates Stefanie Jonas to this great success!
The Jonas lab studies RNA processing machineries and their involvement in RNA-protein complex (RNP) assembly in the nucleus of human cells at a molecular level. They look at all steps from RNA transcription, and maturation to quality control of the final RNP. Using a wide range of approaches from structural biology, to biochemical assays in vitro and functional assays in cells, the research goal is a mechanistic understanding of RNP biogenesis.
Link to the website of the Jonas lab.
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