Honored to share some big news: I’m now tenured as a W3 Professor of Organic Chemistry @UniCologne! Immensely grateful to all the group members who contributed to this journey🙏 — this milestone is ours to share. @ChemUniCologne #OrganicChemistry #Tenure 🍾🎉🧪🧬

Accepted article published online today. Great work by Pauline Pfeiffer and the rest of the team! Here we follow nucleotides and cellular RNA inside live cells by metabolic labelling and FLIM.

I'm thrilled to share that Christian Ducho of @ducholab and I have been elected co-vice chairs of the @GordonConf on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides for 2027 and we'll be co-chairs in 2029! Thanks to the community for choosing us to lead this truly great meeting!

🧬 New paper out in @ChemCommun by Robert Dörrenhaus and Philip Wagner @kath_lab! We introduce CTPT3, a stable C-nucleoside forming a hydrophobic base pair with dNaM for enabling enzymatic incorporation into DNA and RNA. @ChemUniCologne https://t.co/LM2kmwZUy8

The legendary conference dinner! #SNAC2025 🥂🧬

Enjoying a fantastic week of nucleic acid chemistry 🧬⚗️🎉

Celebrating 75 years of #FCI @chemieverband ! 🎉 Grateful for the funding that supports the research of @kath_lab including @JulianStrippel and Matea Rabar. @ChemUniCologne 🧬⚗️

🧬🔬New paper online: Nucleic acid sensing using DNA-functionalized whispering gallery mode microlasers! Great collaboration with @TheGatherLab @sorayacaixeiro @SchubertLab @ChemUniCologne 🧪 #DNASensing #microlasers Nano Letters

Grateful for this wonderful group of lab members @kath_lab @UniCologne! Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! 🎄🕯️🧬

JOB ALERT! Two open PhD positions @kath_lab in the framework of the MSCA doctoral network MeChaNiSM! Searching for an organic chemist dedicated on nucleic acid chemistry. 🚀🎉🧬⚗️ More information here: https://t.co/EDXFVzZ2gn #organicchemistry #nucleicacids

Please join us tomorrow for this year's Emanuel-Vogel-Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges @kieluni #OrganicChemistry 🚀⚗️🎉

We had the first retreat with the #PhDstudents of the 2nd cohort this week! The whole TIDE group went to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler for 3 days. Besides discussing all the exciting new #research activities, there was also time for a tour of the Government Bunker and for socializing.

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Back from an exciting visit to Gothenburg @chalmersuniv discussing projects with Marcus @WilhelmssonLab and Fredrik @FWesterlund. Stay tuned for our PhD position offers in the MSCA doctoral network MeChaNiSM! 🎉🧬 https://t.co/Pi7dgaOPpi #nucleicacids #chemicalbiology

Interesting talk by Ralf Strasser @Ralf_DBS at #GDChBioChem2024. He talked about their biophysical methods to study small molecule protein interactions. Cool application to reverse transcription with @kath_lab and molecular glues with @alessiociulli. https://t.co/UWetSXy9PA

Excited our final version of @tineisadora's work on targeted protein relocalization is out today @nature! Molecular control over protein localization could offer new opportunities for therapeutics and biological discovery. @Stanford_ChEMH @StanfordUChem

Kurt Alder Lecturer 2024 @ChemUniCologne Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil @WeilTanja @mpi_polymer gave us fantastic insights into controlling structure formation in cells!🚀🧫🧪⚗️ (📷:David van Gerven) Huge congrats also to our Kurt Alder prize winners! #OrganicChemistry

Great @GDCh_aktuell lecture by Prof. Thomas Carell @ChemUniCologne about the origin of molecules and life on the early earth as well as teaching our students the basics of nucleic acid conformation! #nucleicacid #originoflife 🧬⚗️🧫🧪 @CarellThomas @CarellGroupLMU

Reverse transcription as key step in RNA in vitro evolution with unnatural base pairs - now published in @rsc_chembio! 🧬🎉 #ChemicalBiology #expandedgeneticalphabet Great work by Eva Hoffmann @kathlab @ChemUniCologne and Mareike De Pascali @DBS_GmbH https://t.co/mTvag2xDsj

Enjoying 2 fantastic days of nucleic acid chemistry 🧬 and therapeutics in Oxford with @hocekm, @andrew_kellett, @CarellThomas, @DrMikeBooth and many others! #OligoOx24 @LPMHealthcare