Nucleotide Metabolism

Join us at this year's Summer Symposium of GRK 2937 at the Center for Synthetic Microbiology in Marburg!

We are looking forward to welcoming the following confirmed speakers:

• Anjana Badrianarayanan, Bengaluru (India)
  - Order in the chaos: how cells navigate broken genomes
• Wulf Blankenfeldt, Brunswick
  - 90 years of Stickland fermentation: C. dificile‘s proline-grinding molecular machine
• Inês Cardoso Pereira, Lisbon (Portugal)
  - Energy conserving membrane complexes in dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction
• Catherine Drennan, MIT, Cambridge (USA)
  - The hard work of making deoxyribonucleotides
• Frederico Gueiros-Filho, São Paolo (Brazil)
  - Membrane-dependent regulation of PlsX controls phospholipid synthesis in B. subtilis
• Inga Hänelt, Frankfurt
  - Regulation of bacterial potassium homeostasis by nucleotides
• Aditya Kunjapur, Delaware (USA)
  - Genome engineering to bring new chemistry to life
• Lin Lin, Odense (Denmark)
  - Flux of fate: molecular and environmental drivers of microbial interactions involving Acinetobacter species
• Heath Murray, Newcastle (UK)
  - Minimization of the B. subtilis replication origin reveals distinct modules for initiator delivery, DNA unwinding, and helicase activation
• Katrin Rittinger, London (UK)
  - Bacterial E3 ubiquitin ligases: activation, mechanism and inhibition
• Holger Sondermann, Hamburg
  - Dinucleases at the crossroads of signaling in RNA degradation

Watch out for updated information and additional speakers from the microbiology universe in Marburg and beyond.

Call for Talks, Call for Posters

All scientists are welcome to submit abstracts for talks, and PhD students have the opportunity to present a poster during the symposium. A jury will select and officially announce the three best posters.

Abstracts for posters or talks need to be submitted by 18 May 2026. You will receive the link to download the abstract form in the confirmation email after purchasing your ticket.