Phillip Grote
@phillipgrote.bsky.social
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Scientist, mostly interested in genetics, lncRNAs and .... well, in everything that I deem relevant. (he/him), find me at https://georg-speyer-haus.de/en/
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jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪
This is figure 5, which shows processability and formability of BM-plastics for diverse products.
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zeinabrekad.bsky.social
#RNAsky
rivaselenarivas.bsky.social
Integrated prediction of RNA secondary structure jointly with 3D motifs and pseudoknots guided by evolutionary information.
@aakaran31.bsky.social and @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social

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All-at-once RNA folding with 3D motif prediction framed by evolutionary information - Nature Methods
Structural RNAs exhibit a vast array of recurrent short three-dimensional (3D) elements found in loop regions involving non-Watson–Crick interactions that help arrange canonical double helices into tertiary structures. Here we present CaCoFold-R3D, a probabilistic grammar that predicts these RNA 3D motifs (also termed modules) jointly with RNA secondary structure over a sequence or alignment. CaCoFold-R3D uses evolutionary information present in an RNA alignment to reliably identify canonical helices (including pseudoknots) by covariation. Here we further introduce the R3D grammars, which also exploit helix covariation that constrains the positioning of the mostly noncovarying RNA 3D motifs. Our method runs predictions over an almost-exhaustive list of over 50 known RNA motifs (‘everything’). Motifs can appear in any nonhelical loop region (including three-way, four-way and higher junctions) (‘everywhere’). All structural motifs as well as the canonical helices are arranged into one single structure predicted by one single joint probabilistic grammar (‘all-at-once’). Our results demonstrate that CaCoFold-R3D is a valid alternative for predicting the all-residue interactions present in a RNA 3D structure. CaCoFold-R3D is fast and easily customizable for novel motif discovery and shows promising value both as a strong input for deep learning approaches to all-atom structure prediction as well as toward guiding RNA design as drug targets for therapeutic small molecules.
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katharinehayhoe.com
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.
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serenasanulli.bsky.social
Excited to share our first preprint! We developed an image-based pooled screen to uncover regulators of HP1 condensates and discovered a link with intronic RNA and RNA processing. 👏 Congrats to all authors, especially Matthew, Shaopu & Chris!
biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social
An image-based CRISPR screen reveals splicing-mediated control of HP1α condensates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.676939v1
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johntngo.bsky.social
🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why
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denisduboule.bsky.social
Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
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abeisaw.bsky.social
Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇
Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages regulate extracellular matrix remodeling to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during cardiac regeneration
Nature Communications - Adult zebrafish are capable of heart regeneration, but how the collagenous injury site is replaced remains unclear. Here they provide an in-depth analysis of cardiomyocyte...
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phillipgrote.bsky.social
Sehr zu empfehlender Podcast; nicht nur weil ich mich selbst mit Genetik befasse. Wie wichtig ist doch die Grundlagenforschung …
wegner.io
Die 82-jährige Genforscherin und Entwicklungsbiologin wurde 1942 in Heyrothsberge in der Nähe von Magdeburg geboren und ist später in Frankfurt am Main aufgewachsen. Sie studierte in Tübingen, forschte in Basel, Freiburg und Heidelberg.
phillipgrote.bsky.social
It is always great to visit Lausanne and even better for such an interesting event. I am looking forward to some great discussions with PhD student generegulationworkshop.ch#home
Gene Regulation Workshop 2025
generegulationworkshop.ch
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mads100tist.bsky.social
This is it. The act of science -like art- is not the output, it is the interaction and the process. What makes us the kind of scientists we are is how we approach the problem 🧪
isabelott.bsky.social
It’s a common complaint to spend an afternoon reading papers in search of something that turns into half a sentence (that you delete next week) – I’d argue that the “foraging” benefits are real, only pay off if you’re engaging with the actual material, & worth the “inefficiency” to learn more.
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mcgambetta.bsky.social
Join us in person or online for the 24th edition of the Gene Regulation Workshop at Uni Lausanne on Sept 1st, with an again fantastic group of speakers 🥳
Edouard Bertrand
Antonio Giraldez
Phillip Grote @phillipgrote.bsky.social
Susan Mango
Danny Nedialkova
Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social
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jdtonkin.bsky.social
Publication rates before and after tenure: clear decline post-tenure in non-lab-based fields and sustained in lab-based fields. Super interesting.
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10575
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A study in Nature reports on the development of a method to trace intercellular transfer of mitochondria and demonstrates that cancer cells that receive mitochondria from neurons have enhanced metastatic capabilities. go.nature.com/4l2J2yh #medsky 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows MitoTRACER for lineage tracing of cell–cell transfer of mitochondria.
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A trial in Nature Medicine shows that transition to a Western diet resulted in pro-inflammatory changes, whereas transition to an African heritage diet rich in fruits and vegetables, legumes and fermented products led to opposite effects. https://go.nature.com/4cC97AT #foodstudies 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the schematic depiction of the trial.
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