Microbiologist Kai Papenfort. Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Microbiologist Kai Papenfort. Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena) - Life Awards and Personnel - Published: The European Research Council (ERC) announced today that the University of Jena, Germany will receive two major research grants, each endowed with some two million euros. A "Consolidator Grant" will be awarded to microbiologist Prof. Kai Papenfort and classics scholar Prof. Christian Vassallo. The funding will support Papenfort's project "ArtRNA - Artificial RNA regulators to probe, control, and design gene regulatory networks in bacteria" as well as Vassallo's study "APATHES - Assessing Philosophical Authors and Texts from Herculaneum and elsewhere on Early Stoicism: Insights into ancient logic, physics, and ethics towards a new von Arnim". Small RNA molecules regulate gene activity in bacteria. The microbiologist Kai Papenfort and his team are working on the function of small RNA molecules (sRNA) as part of the "Balance of the Microverse" Cluster of Excellence at the University of Jena. RNA is found in all'organisms and plays an important role as an information carrier in protein biosynthesis.
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