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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 9d

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life

In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 9d

De novo design of RNA and nucleoprotein complexes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679929v1

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Aug 28

Scientists uncovered how the immune protein ZNFX1 enables cells to walk the fine line between fighting infection & avoiding autoimmune damage. ZNFX1 can ubiquitinate & compact host & viral RNA into molecular condensates, extending ubiquitin biology to RNA itself. More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

ZNFX1 compacts and tags RNA to keep immunity in check

Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP and collaborators have uncovered how the ancient immune protein ZNFX1 enables cells to walk the fine line between fighting infection and avoiding autoimmune damage. The te...

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Irma Querques @irmaquerques.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited to share my talk at the EMBL John Kendrew Award ceremony about what transposons taught me about science, life, and change along the way.

Big thanks to my mentors, the @embl.org Alumni community, and my current scientific home @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social 💛

youtu.be/NwIikKS7EWE?...

Irma Querques - 2025 John Kendrew Award Recipient

YouTube video by EMBL Alumni

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Luuk Loeff @lloeff.bsky.social · Aug 18

Exciting times ahead!

Today marks the first day of the Loeff Lab at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. I’m thrilled to begin this new adventure and continue exploring microbial defense mechanisms and their applications through an integrative structural biology approach.

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Irma Querques @irmaquerques.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you Diana!

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 18

Congrats to group leader @irmaquerques.bsky.social on receiving the EMBL's John Kendrew Award! 🎉 From left to right: Irma's former advisor Christoph Müller, Irma, and Pavel Tomancak, Chair of the EMBL Alumni Association. (c) @embl.org

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · Jul 29

last call!
submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jun 18

⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!

👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl

Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍

⭐🧑🏼‍🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!

#EMBOMobileGenome

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 21

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 15

The DOC-torate dream team! 🎓 Seven Perutz PhD students just secured @oeaw.bsky.social DOC Fellowships - the most we've ever had in one year! Huge Congrats! 🎉➡️ tinyurl.com/29nvtf7j

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · Jul 16

Pls. share widely

Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation

MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025

→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)

submit abstract by July 29

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jun 18

⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!

👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl

Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍

⭐🧑🏼‍🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!

#EMBOMobileGenome

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Jul 16

My colleagues are awesome!

Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 16

🔬 Big boost for bold ideas! Four group leaders have secured over €1.9 million in @fwf-at.bsky.social funding. Congratulations to Erinc Hallacli, @huis.bsky.social, @martinleeb.bsky.social, and Joao Matos! ➡️ tinyurl.com/2paphtc6
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 7

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/3yn883b8

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 2

Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out

Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

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Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social · Jul 2

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint!

Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cyanobacterial cell shape

Bacteria, despite their diversity, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for their intracellular organization. In unicellular bacteria, the ParMRC DNA partitioning apparatus is well known for forming act...

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 2

🌞 A warm welcome to our summer school students! We're excited to have eight bright young scientists joining us at the Perutz for the next few weeks – diving into research, discovery, and lab life. Here's to a summer full of science and inspiration!
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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Jul 2

Exciting and rare opportunity to join the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social as a Full Professor!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease - Vienna BioCenter, Austria job with Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna | 12841053

Join theMax Perutz Labs as Full Professor to unravel disease mechanisms—from metabolism and stress to RNA regulation, epigenetics, and immunity.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats to Clemens Plaschka, who was selected to become a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO bsky.app/profile/embo...), becoming the eighth out of 14 IMP faculty members to receive this honour. More on Clemens Plaschka and his research: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Giorgia Guglielmi (she/her) @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Spoke at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social last week about my path from lab bench to newsroom. I talked science journalism (what it is + isn’t), how to talk to journalists, and how to start in #scicomm.
Thanks to @irmaquerques.bsky.social & @vbcscitraining.bsky.social for having me!

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Irma Querques @irmaquerques.bsky.social · Jun 27

Huge congratulations @sramundo.bsky.social So well deserved!

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations to Silvia Ramundo, Group Leader at the GMI, who has been awarded an ASTRA Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in recognition of her research on chloroplast biology!

Read more: https://thegmi.science/049300

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jun 17

👏 Alwin Köhler, group leader and scientific director, has received an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant! His project will explore how nuclear pore complexes remodel nuclear membranes to form functional channels ➡️ tinyurl.com/3wcvexc9

#ERCAdG
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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Jun 6

What’s it like to be a postdoc at the Vienna BioCenter? Anna Osnato shares her experience from joining the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology.

The VIP³ PostDoc Program call is open – apply now for this unique opportunity! training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...

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Fyodor Urnov @urnov.bsky.social · Apr 8

Professional gene editor and professor of Genetics here.
The world does not need more negativity. It does not need more nonscientific hype, either. I will be data-based negative and say to Colossal: give me a double-strand break!! [1/3]

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · Apr 4

Employing engineered split inteins to replace the internal regions of target proteins in a single reaction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NBThighlight

Protein editing using a coordinated transposition reaction

Protein engineering through the ligation of polypeptide fragments has proven enormously powerful for studying biochemical processes. In general, this strategy necessitates a final protein-folding step...

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · Mar 29

We are seeking a new colleague to join us at the Vienna BioCenter, specifically at my beloved home institution, IMBA @imbavienna.bsky.social

we value collegiality and a passion for curiosity driven science. Being a great and fun human being also helps!

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · Mar 28

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

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