Monthly Archives: May 2022

Lara Althaus (left), a PhD student at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology (IPT) of the Technical University of Munich, presented her investigation project at the 88^th annual conference of the German Cardiac Society (DGK), which took place at the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim from 20^th to 23^rd April 2022. Her poster on “The long non-coding RNA Schlafenlnc as a regulator of cardiac resident macrophage function” earned her a nomination for the prestigious DGK Best Poster Prize.
Lara is working in the TRR 267 B06 project under the supervision of PD Dr. Anne Dueck and Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Engelhart.

Jessica Pauli (right), a PhD student at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich, presented her doctoral work on “Bulk, single cell and spatial RNA analysis of advanced atherosclerosis” and her poster was nominated for the DGK Best Poster Prize. Jessica is conducting her investigation within the TRR 267 B04 project under the supervision of Prof.  Dr. Lars Mägdefessel.

At the beginning of 2022 the Grote Lab moved from the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration to the Georg-Speyer-Haus. The month of January was all about moving boxes, samples and equipment. However, since February the lab is fully “operational” again and the two SFB-funded PhD students Yi-Hsuan (left) and Sandra (right) are on their projects again to elucidate the mechanisms of lncRNA in the developing heart of the vertebrate embryo. The new year started well and there are already two new mouse models waiting to be analyzed.

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