Yasin Dagdas
@plantophagy.bsky.social
Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/evolutionary-cell-biology
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The GT goes to Stuttgart! A (brief) trip, nice scenery, good food, a touch of (mostly fictitious) science, and excellent company! What else could one wish for in a lab retreat? (Ah — it was also the 10th anniversary of the lab!) 🎂🌱🦠
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The GT goes to Stuttgart! A (brief) trip, nice scenery, good food, a touch of (mostly fictitious) science, and excellent company! What else could one wish for in a lab retreat? (Ah — it was also the 10th anniversary of the lab!) 🎂🌱🦠
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Nice paper from @leventallab.bsky.social suggess lipid-driven domains organise cargo and trafficking machinery at ERES to sort and export transmembrane proteins.
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export.
rdcu.be/eR8jj
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export.
rdcu.be/eR8jj
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export
Nature Communications - Through synchronized cargo traffic experiments, the authors explore the role of raft partitioning in ER efflux. Raft-preferring cargos show specific preferences for ER exit...
rdcu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Nice paper from @leventallab.bsky.social suggess lipid-driven domains organise cargo and trafficking machinery at ERES to sort and export transmembrane proteins.
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export.
rdcu.be/eR8jj
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export.
rdcu.be/eR8jj
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
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@helsenjana.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
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@helsenjana.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore - Nature
Thousands of centromeres were identified and tracked across two major fungal clades, showing that new centromeres spread progressively and that the kinetochore acts as a filter to determine which new ...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
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@helsenjana.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
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@helsenjana.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social
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Thank you so much Yasin! I never get tired of anything to do with evolution 😅
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thank you so much Yasin! I never get tired of anything to do with evolution 😅
🤩 Amazing story! Congrats @helsenjana.bsky.social & everyone involved in @gautamdey.bsky.social lab!!! #Evolution rocks!
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🤩 Amazing story! Congrats @helsenjana.bsky.social & everyone involved in @gautamdey.bsky.social lab!!! #Evolution rocks!
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Will you look at this. The world is shite but then there are azalea...
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Will you look at this. The world is shite but then there are azalea...
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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
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So proud to watch Jana turn a side quest into an entire research programme. Couldn’t imagine a more well-deserved outcome. 😍
The mighty yeast reveals what we believe are general principles of centromere evolution!
Behind the curtain: communities.springernature.com/posts/counti...
#MEvoSky 🧪🌎
The mighty yeast reveals what we believe are general principles of centromere evolution!
Behind the curtain: communities.springernature.com/posts/counti...
#MEvoSky 🧪🌎
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So proud to watch Jana turn a side quest into an entire research programme. Couldn’t imagine a more well-deserved outcome. 😍
The mighty yeast reveals what we believe are general principles of centromere evolution!
Behind the curtain: communities.springernature.com/posts/counti...
#MEvoSky 🧪🌎
The mighty yeast reveals what we believe are general principles of centromere evolution!
Behind the curtain: communities.springernature.com/posts/counti...
#MEvoSky 🧪🌎
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Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅
Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅
Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
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And the saga continues! Our collaborative work with outstanding Justin Korfhage & Thomas Melia’s lab in PNAS shows that ATG2A transfers triglycerides and does so bidirectionally! An exciting twist in our understanding of lipid transport.
Definitely worth a deep read:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Definitely worth a deep read:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
And the saga continues! Our collaborative work with outstanding Justin Korfhage & Thomas Melia’s lab in PNAS shows that ATG2A transfers triglycerides and does so bidirectionally! An exciting twist in our understanding of lipid transport.
Definitely worth a deep read:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Definitely worth a deep read:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Our study led by the extraordinary multitasking Daai Zhang shows here (tinyurl.com/3uhbkh54) that an additional O2 sensing mechanism based on histone methylation helps roots to prepare for potentially lethal hypoxic stress (such as in waterlogging)
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Our study led by the extraordinary multitasking Daai Zhang shows here (tinyurl.com/3uhbkh54) that an additional O2 sensing mechanism based on histone methylation helps roots to prepare for potentially lethal hypoxic stress (such as in waterlogging)
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Thrilled to have @hymanlab.bsky.social at the helm of EMBL… exciting times ahead.
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thrilled to have @hymanlab.bsky.social at the helm of EMBL… exciting times ahead.
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One environmental factor that affects crop yield is soil stress. Work @nature shows how soil compaction stress affects plant root growth through hormonal signals and cell-wall remodelling.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction - Nature
Soil compaction traps ethylene around roots, which causes transcriptional upregulation of Auxin Response Factor1, resulting in decreased root cortical cell wall thickness and thereby promoting root ra...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
One environmental factor that affects crop yield is soil stress. Work @nature shows how soil compaction stress affects plant root growth through hormonal signals and cell-wall remodelling.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Today we have Alyona Minina as invited speaker at the @ipbhalle.bsky.social talking about evolution of plant autophagy. Amazing talk and data! 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today we have Alyona Minina as invited speaker at the @ipbhalle.bsky.social talking about evolution of plant autophagy. Amazing talk and data! 🌱
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Nature featured work from our Pauli lab, where AlphaFold-Multimer helped reveal how Tmem81 and two sperm proteins create the pocket for the egg protein Bouncer to bind.
Andrea Pauli: “AlphaFold speeds up discovery, we use it for every project.”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Andrea Pauli: “AlphaFold speeds up discovery, we use it for every project.”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nature featured work from our Pauli lab, where AlphaFold-Multimer helped reveal how Tmem81 and two sperm proteins create the pocket for the egg protein Bouncer to bind.
Andrea Pauli: “AlphaFold speeds up discovery, we use it for every project.”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Andrea Pauli: “AlphaFold speeds up discovery, we use it for every project.”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Huge news from EMBL. Congratulations Tony. It marks a big change for @mpi-cbg.de and for @embl.org alike. Good luck!
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Huge news from EMBL. Congratulations Tony. It marks a big change for @mpi-cbg.de and for @embl.org alike. Good luck!
Great news for @embl.org & Heidelberg! Looking forward to see how he will shape the institute
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Great news for @embl.org & Heidelberg! Looking forward to see how he will shape the institute
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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Thrilled to share that Dr. Jirka Peschek, one of our BZH group leaders, is receiving the Chica & Heinz Schaller Award for his RNA biology research 🧬
🏆 €100,000 research funding.
Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1).
Congrats, Jirka! 🎉
🏆 €100,000 research funding.
Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1).
Congrats, Jirka! 🎉
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thrilled to share that Dr. Jirka Peschek, one of our BZH group leaders, is receiving the Chica & Heinz Schaller Award for his RNA biology research 🧬
🏆 €100,000 research funding.
Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1).
Congrats, Jirka! 🎉
🏆 €100,000 research funding.
Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1).
Congrats, Jirka! 🎉
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Check out that spindle 🤩🔥
At 63C, most eukaryotic cells would be busy exploding noisily, forget even trying to divide.
The microbial universe never ceases to astound 😍
Thanks for letting us be a tiny part of this! #ExpandThemAll
At 63C, most eukaryotic cells would be busy exploding noisily, forget even trying to divide.
The microbial universe never ceases to astound 😍
Thanks for letting us be a tiny part of this! #ExpandThemAll
While 𝘝. 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴 max temp is around 45°C, we found 𝘐. 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 grows up to 63°C with optimal growth at 55-57°C🥵. We showed cellular replication via Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy at 63°C. The previous limit for euks is 60°C!
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Check out that spindle 🤩🔥
At 63C, most eukaryotic cells would be busy exploding noisily, forget even trying to divide.
The microbial universe never ceases to astound 😍
Thanks for letting us be a tiny part of this! #ExpandThemAll
At 63C, most eukaryotic cells would be busy exploding noisily, forget even trying to divide.
The microbial universe never ceases to astound 😍
Thanks for letting us be a tiny part of this! #ExpandThemAll
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social presenting some of the exciting research we do at TSL at the Enterprise Tuesday organised by AIP at Norwich Research Park ✨
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social presenting some of the exciting research we do at TSL at the Enterprise Tuesday organised by AIP at Norwich Research Park ✨
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This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo
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Highly recommended! Nice team, exciting science, and a great place to work! 🪲🌱🍄
There’ll be several opportunities to join the group, starting w/ a PhD studentship via the BBSRC-NRP Doctoral Training Partnership.
Team up w/ us, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social & @berasymbionts.bsky.social to answer how microbes shape insect behavior:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mic...
Team up w/ us, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social & @berasymbionts.bsky.social to answer how microbes shape insect behavior:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mic...
Microbial determinants of behaviour in herbivorous beetles (SALEM_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Many animals rely on beneficial microbes for nutrition, defence, or reproduction. In this project, the student will explore an exciting new dimension of these relationships:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Highly recommended! Nice team, exciting science, and a great place to work! 🪲🌱🍄
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This is fantastic! Working in this consortium #SFB1324 has been great support as junior PI, an inspiring atmosphere and exciting science. Thanks to our reviewers for their input, to the #DFG for funding this exceptional Wnt hub, and to our speaker @michaelboutros.bsky.social for driving this forward
Our #SFB1324 has been granted continued funding for an additional period by the #DFG 🎉🥳
A big thank you goes to all #SFB1324 members for your efforts and we are looking forward to inspiring collaborations.
@michaelboutros.bsky.social
A big thank you goes to all #SFB1324 members for your efforts and we are looking forward to inspiring collaborations.
@michaelboutros.bsky.social
Die #DFG fördert zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen 9 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB). Die Themen reichen von pilzbasierten Baumaterialien über Autoimmunkrankheiten bis zu molekularer Bor-Chemie. Einzelheiten 👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This is fantastic! Working in this consortium #SFB1324 has been great support as junior PI, an inspiring atmosphere and exciting science. Thanks to our reviewers for their input, to the #DFG for funding this exceptional Wnt hub, and to our speaker @michaelboutros.bsky.social for driving this forward