Advancing research at the interface of RNA & infection

HIRI junior professor to receive million-Euro funding from the European Research Council for her cutting-edge project "T-FRAME".

HIRI researchers succeed in deep sequencing RNA of single bacteria. The study was published in the journal Nature Microbiology

Nationwide research network with HIRI participation publishes current findings on COVID-19 in the journal Cell

We are happy to announce the arrival of all three additions to the HIRI Graduate Training program “RNA & Infection” at the institute!

HIRI scientist Mathias Munschauer, together with colleagues of the JMU Würzburg and the Broad Institute (Cambridge, USA), develops the first global atlas of direct...

In a recent publication in Nature Communications, HIRI researchers chart the transcriptome map of an anaerobic commensal

HIRI’s Lars Barquist helps identify a novel antibiotic against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The findings were just published in Nature Communications.

In meningococci, the RNA-binding protein ProQ plays a major role. HIRI and JMU researchers show in Nature Communications that together with RNA molecules, it regulates...

This 2-day meeting, jointly organized by the science academies from France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, is postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new...

In a recent paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, HIRI researchers find natural ways to overcome limitations of the genome-editing tool.

HIRI affiliate Lars Dölken and colleagues have comprehensively decoded the genome of the herpes simplex virus 1 using new methods.

Press release by the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg about the ongoing research efforts for a SARS-CoV-2 treatment at the HIRI.

The latest publication by Jörg Vogel in the EMBO journal describes the identification of the RNA/protein complexome in the Gram-positive pathogen S. pneumoniae.

With his latest review, Jörg Vogel honors the lifetime achievements of Pascale Cossart in this special issue of Molecular Microbiology.

Join us when art meets science. Historic lecture hall, 2nd floor, building D15, Josef-Schneider-Straße 2, 97080 Würzburg, 5PM.

ERC Consolidator Grant for HIRI researcher Chase Beisel

HIRI affiliate Prof. Utz Fischer from the Biocenter of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and colleagues from the the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical...

Researchers from HIRI and the Max Planck Society develop a thermodynamic model to study frameshifting

Movie presentation followed by a discussion with HIRI scientists Jörg Vogel and Chase Beisel. At the Würzburg Biocenter (Lecture Hall A101) on December 11, 2019 at 5PM.

Anuja Kibe, Phd Student in the research group of Neva Caliskan, won the first prize at the HIRI RNA & Infection Science Slam.

Researchers at HIRI and Duke University are using a previously unexplored class of the CRISPR-Cas system

HIRI director is one of the world's best in the research field Microbiology

In Nature Communications, HIRI scientists Chase Beisel and Chunyu Liao describe a powerful means to assemble CRISPR arrays. CRATES enabled them to gain new insights into the...

Guest researcher from New Zealand studies CRISPR-Cas system in bacteria

The two leading female scientists in the field of RNA research will do us the honor of telling us about their work.

Cells are equipped with multiple defense mechanisms to fight off intruders. Genes encode the building blocks of the response that must be activated during an enemy attack in...

Dr Mathias Munschauer from the Broad Institute (USA) to join HIRI with his junior research group “LncRNA and Infection Biology”

HIRI group leader Alexander Westermann is co-author on a recent Frontiers in Microbiology publication.

The Feldberg Prize for German-British Exchange in the Life Sciences 2019 goes to Prof. Jörg Vogel from Würzburg. As the foundation recently announced, Vogel on the German side...

Special movie presentation and subsequent discussion with HIRI scientists Jörg Vogel and Chase Beisel. At the Würzburg Biocenter (Lecture Hall A101) on December 11, 2019.

Research team unravels trick with which the sleeping sickness pathogen hides from the immune system

HZI researchers discovered how early colonisation by microbes defines the properties of gut-draining lymph nodes for the lifetime of the host

A new machine learning tool could be useful for flagging dangerous bacteria before they cause an outbreak, from hospital wards to a global scale

HIRI Scientist profile RNA to fingerprint individual cells

HIRI researchers discover further applications for Cas9 scissors