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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · 1d

We are delighted that our external advisory board member @ksusztak.bsky.social will be receiving this year’s Homer Smith Award at Kidney Week 2025. www.kidneynews.org/view/journal...
Congratulations Katalin, so well deserved! 👏👏💐

www.kidneynews.org

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant presentations by our NephGen PIs Anna Köttgen, Ulla Schultheiss, Michael Köttgen and Sven Diederichs in the @sfb1453.bsky.social session at this year's Annual Meeting of the @dgfn.bsky.social
#Nephrologie #dgfn

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American Journal of Kidney Diseases @ajkd.bsky.social · Aug 30

Association of Serum Afamin Concentrations With Kidney Failure in Patients With CKD: Findings From the German CKD Cohort Study

bit.ly/4fWGYES #OpenAccess

#VisualAbstract

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Aug 22

Super cool project! Maybe it's time for a NephGen comic? 🤔

Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you to everyone who joined this years' EUKISS Summer School!!! 🎉🙏 It was an amazing meeting with lovely people, impressive science and hopefully many future collaborations and projects. 😍 See you next year in Aachen! #EUKISS25 #EUKISS

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · May 28

Huge congratulations to Dr. Magdalena Brislinger-Engelhardt for defending her PhD thesis today 👏👏👏🥳🥳🥳

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · May 28

Registration for this year’s EUKISS summer school in Freiburg, Germany, is now open! Join us in July for two days of discussions around the basis of kidney functions and their relevance for kidney disease!

Registration & program ➡️ www.eukiss.org

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Oleg Borisov @olegborisovphd.bsky.social · May 26

🧬 Looking forward to presenting at the #ESHG2025! Our GWAS & EWAS studies of 10,000+ individuals reveal how genetics & epigenetics regulate trace element metabolism. Visit our poster P18.057.D today at 4pm! Huge thanks to @sfb1453.bsky.social, @zkutalik.bsky.social, and all collaborators involved!

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · May 26

Congratulations to the CIBSS team for this outstanding achievement! So well deserved!!! 🎉👏👏

CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · May 22

We are thrilled to have just found out: CIBSS has secured continued funding under the #ExcellenceStrategy! This major boost will enable us to accelerate our research into biological signalling and lay the groundwork for next-generation insights from 2026 to 2032!

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉

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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · Mar 24

Wondering whether you should read the great kidney disease genetic scorecard paper by @hongbo919.bsky.social @ksusztak.bsky.social on 2.2Mio people?
Here 👇 rdcu.be/eejuB Matthias Wuttke at @sfb1453.bsky.social and I report some highlights for you (and recommend reading the original work) #nephgen

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Robert Grosse @ grosselab @grosselab.bsky.social · Mar 6

please re-post! we are looking for a PhD candidate:
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/en/career/jo...

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today is #WorldKidneyDay! #MedSky #NephSky #StandUpforScience

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Feb 28

#RareDiseaseDay #NephSky #MedSky

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Sebastian Preissl @sebpreissl.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨2 fully funded postdoc positions for 6 years 🚨

Are you interested in gene regulation, cardiovascular diseases or aging? Join our team in beautiful Graz, Austria!

Postdoc in Bioinformatics 🖥️
tinyurl.com/3ufv767b

Postdoc in functional genomics and models (e.g. organoids) 🧪
tinyurl.com/4ucahvzn

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Uniklinik Freiburg @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social · Feb 14

Freiburger Forschende zeigen, wie seltene „Nonstop-Mutationen“ die Proteinbildung stören und die Entstehung von #Nierenkrebs fördern können. Erkenntnisse bieten Potenzial für bessere Diagnosen und Therapien.

Link zur Studie: t1p.de/ytfs3

#Medizin #Forschung

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · Feb 18

This study challenges the idea that KDM5D in male cells functions equivalently to the second KDM5C allele in female cells, implicating an interplay between KDM5C mutation and Y chromosome loss in ccRCC development in men.
@sfb1453.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

KDM5C and KDM5D mutations have different consequences in clear cell renal cell carcinoma cells - Communications Biology

This study challenges the idea that KDM5D in male cells functions equivalently to the second KDM5C allele in female cells and implicates an interplay between KDM5C mutation and Y chromosome loss in cc...

www.nature.com

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Feb 13

🏷️ #ScienceAdvances @science.org #MedSky #NephSky

SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Feb 13

Congratulations to @sfb1453.bsky.social PIs Athina Ganner, Elke Neumann-Haefelin, Ian Frew, and Sven Diedierichs and their teams! 👏👏👏 Nonstop mutations cause loss of renal tumor suppressor proteins VHL and BAP1 and affect multiple stages of protein translation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nonstop mutations cause loss of renal tumor suppressor proteins VHL and BAP1 and affect multiple stages of protein translation

Extending a protein at its end affects its stability, but also its translation efficiency and even selection of its start.

www.science.org

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Feb 11

For NephGen every day is International #WomenInScienceDay 🔬👩‍🔬🎉

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #February11

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jan 22

Join us for the fantastic annual @cshlnews.bsky.social #Xenopus cell & developmental Biology course.
Deadline for application is Jan 31st.

meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Jan 10

And another brand new publication for @sfb1453.bsky.social: Published by Ian Frew and his group in collaboration with Anna Köttgen, Melanie Börries and Natalie Köhler in @kidneyint.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #NephSky

www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

DEFINE_ME

www.kidney-international.org

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Jan 2

What a nice way to start the new year! Check out our article on the influence of rare #genetic variants on human #metabolism in the current issue of Nature Genetics
rdcu.be/d5ov1
Thanks to all collaborators and funders, @dfgpublic.bsky.social

Coupling metabolomics and exome sequencing reveals graded effects of rare damaging heterozygous variants on gene function and human traits

Nature Genetics - Gene-based rare variant aggregation study with the levels of 1,294 plasma and 1,396 urine metabolites from paired specimens of 4,737 participants reveals graded effects of rare,...

rdcu.be

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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · Dec 19

Our amazing @sfb1453.bsky.social speaker and leading PI of #nakogesundheitsstudie Freiburg Anna Köttgen gave an interview to the #BadischeZeitung 👏 👏
www.badische-zeitung.de/diese-frau-l...

Diese Frau leitet in Freiburg die bekannteste Gesundheitsstudie Deutschlands

Anna Köttgen ist eine führende Expertin in der Genetischen Epidemiologie und Spezialistin für Nieren- und Stoffwechselerkrankungen. Sie leitet die Nako-Gesundheitsstudie in Freiburg und der Region und...

www.badische-zeitung.de

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Dec 6

While we're at it: We are looking for 2 postdocs. One with experience in dev. Biol (pref. With mouse experience) and one with bioinformatics / modeling / multi-omics experience. Exceptional PhD candidates will be also considered for the project via IMPRS @mpi-ie.bsky.social recruitment.

Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Dec 4

✨️😀We are all thrilled to have been awarded an #ERC-CoG grant to pursue our MAGIX project on #mucociliary #adaptations and #microbiomes in #xenopus 🐸. Thanks to the lab, reviewers and all supporters 😘
@cibss.bsky.social SFB1453 NephGen @for5547.bsky.social

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http://tinyurl.com/3f3tmhf8

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