Sven T. Stripp
@stripplab.bsky.social
The Spectroscopy & Biocatalysis Group @ Uni Potsdam | DFG Heisenberg Fellow | Guest-Prof TU Berlin 2023/24 | Born at 338 ppm | Not a Strip Club
https://uni-potsdam.de/en/specbiocat | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZtfyzRoAAAAJ&hl=en
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Not anymore ancient than bacteria tho 😑
Some archaea—an ancient group of microorganisms—have an entirely novel genetic code, according to a new study in Science.
The findings expand our understanding of how alternative genetic codes evolve and hint at new molecular tools for biotechnology applications. https://scim.ag/4omApQ7
The findings expand our understanding of how alternative genetic codes evolve and hint at new molecular tools for biotechnology applications. https://scim.ag/4omApQ7
An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine
Multiple genetic codes developed during the evolution of eukaryotes and bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code is known for archaea. We used proteomics to confirm our prediction that certain archae...
scim.ag
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Not anymore ancient than bacteria tho 😑
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Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Modular in vivo engineering of the reductive methylaspartate cycles for synthetic CO2 fixation
Biological carbon fixation is currently limited to seven naturally occurring pathways. Synthetic carbon fixation pathways have the potential to surpass aerobic natural pathways in efficiency, but none...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ornithology 🤝🏻 Inorganic Chemistry
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ornithology 🤝🏻 Inorganic Chemistry
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On the topic of weird "hydrogenases", I stumbled upon this slightly older paper from Heider and Szaleniec et. al: W-dependent aldehyde oxidoreductase (AOR) using H2 to reduce aromatic carboxylic acids (via ACS Catalysis) 🤯
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
On the topic of weird "hydrogenases", I stumbled upon this slightly older paper from Heider and Szaleniec et. al: W-dependent aldehyde oxidoreductase (AOR) using H2 to reduce aromatic carboxylic acids (via ACS Catalysis) 🤯
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
What Helena says
Make your own sticker against #Fascism
Woody Guthrie used his music to fight in the 1940ies. Let his guitar be a reminder to us that we all have tools available to stand up.
As biologists, we are trained to See, Understand, Document, and Report - let's apply these today!
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Woody Guthrie used his music to fight in the 1940ies. Let his guitar be a reminder to us that we all have tools available to stand up.
As biologists, we are trained to See, Understand, Document, and Report - let's apply these today!
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What Helena says
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With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio
Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song
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Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio
Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song
buff.ly/GOBpkZA
Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song
buff.ly/GOBpkZA
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Interested in a postdoc studying non-equilibrium redox biology in the Greene lab? The Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship is a great opportunity to be recognized and to provide the financial support for exciting research. DM me if you or anyone you know is interested. Nomination-based.
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interested in a postdoc studying non-equilibrium redox biology in the Greene lab? The Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship is a great opportunity to be recognized and to provide the financial support for exciting research. DM me if you or anyone you know is interested. Nomination-based.
This deserves a #NightScience tag
Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner www.science.org/content/arti...
Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner
Humor has helped this professor connect with students and colleagues—and remain resilient during hard times
www.science.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This deserves a #NightScience tag
This is what "Editor decision started" looks like
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is what "Editor decision started" looks like
They didn't accept me into art school 🤷🏻♂️
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
They didn't accept me into art school 🤷🏻♂️
While spending time with records on this otherwise uneventful Sunday, I was reminded of a compilation we published in 2010. On "Fly Russia" we showcased Moscow's budding beat scene. Would not be possible today, I guess? 😑😑
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Fly Russia, by Various Artists
17 track album
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November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
While spending time with records on this otherwise uneventful Sunday, I was reminded of a compilation we published in 2010. On "Fly Russia" we showcased Moscow's budding beat scene. Would not be possible today, I guess? 😑😑
errorbroadcast.bandcamp.com/album/fly-ru...
errorbroadcast.bandcamp.com/album/fly-ru...
As if Kleptoplasty wasn't weird enough already...
Photosynthetic sea slugs can decapitate themselves & regenerate whole body from the detached head (without the heart or guts), while the shed body do not regenerate. The process takes ~2-3 weeks. A new model for regeneration?
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
From: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
Autotomy, the voluntary shedding of a body part, is common among animals. Mitoh and
Yusa report an extreme case of autotomy with the shedding of the main body, including
the whole heart, and subsequen...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
As if Kleptoplasty wasn't weird enough already...
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Meiner Erfahrung nach leidet das 🇩🇪 Wissenschaftssystem an:
1. Keine formelle Schulung Gutachtenschreiben
2. Maßstäbe schwer zu definieren
3. Prätention & Animosität
und dann kommt die @dfg.de idR mit nur 2 Gutachten um die Ecke - ich habe eine Hall of Shame of inadequate and incorrect reviews 🤡
1. Keine formelle Schulung Gutachtenschreiben
2. Maßstäbe schwer zu definieren
3. Prätention & Animosität
und dann kommt die @dfg.de idR mit nur 2 Gutachten um die Ecke - ich habe eine Hall of Shame of inadequate and incorrect reviews 🤡
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Meiner Erfahrung nach leidet das 🇩🇪 Wissenschaftssystem an:
1. Keine formelle Schulung Gutachtenschreiben
2. Maßstäbe schwer zu definieren
3. Prätention & Animosität
und dann kommt die @dfg.de idR mit nur 2 Gutachten um die Ecke - ich habe eine Hall of Shame of inadequate and incorrect reviews 🤡
1. Keine formelle Schulung Gutachtenschreiben
2. Maßstäbe schwer zu definieren
3. Prätention & Animosität
und dann kommt die @dfg.de idR mit nur 2 Gutachten um die Ecke - ich habe eine Hall of Shame of inadequate and incorrect reviews 🤡
The perfect tattoo does not exi...
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The perfect tattoo does not exi...
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Catching up on blog posts: a biochemical role for the element tungsten, of all things. Don't look for it in your multivitamins any time soon, though:
Biochemical Tungsten - Really
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Catching up on blog posts: a biochemical role for the element tungsten, of all things. Don't look for it in your multivitamins any time soon, though:
Perhaps the most important topic in molecular biology #chemchat
#research #hydrogenbonding
NMR spectroscopy studies of hydrogen bonding
(Dračínský) – Coord. Chem. Rev.: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...
@iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
NMR spectroscopy studies of hydrogen bonding
(Dračínský) – Coord. Chem. Rev.: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...
@iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Perhaps the most important topic in molecular biology #chemchat
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#NewResearch
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people
@greening.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people
@greening.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people - Nature Microbiology
A previously uncharacterized microbial enzyme is responsible for the production of molecular hydrogen in the gut, which drives the growth of other bacteria and has implications for human health.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#NewResearch
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people
@greening.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people
@greening.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
POV Rubisco
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
a cartoon sloth is making a funny face and saying ahhh .
ALT: a cartoon sloth is making a funny face and saying ahhh .
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November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
POV Rubisco
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
New Ni enzyme just dropped!
Congrats @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
Congrats @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
Now online:
Article by Xile Hu & co-workers @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
Construction of dual-cofactor artificial metalloenzymes for synergistic and enantiodivergent catalysis of Michael addition reactions
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
Article by Xile Hu & co-workers @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
Construction of dual-cofactor artificial metalloenzymes for synergistic and enantiodivergent catalysis of Michael addition reactions
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#Chemsky
Construction of dual-cofactor artificial metalloenzymes for synergistic and enantiodivergent catalysis of Michael addition reactions - Nature Synthesis
A dual-cofactor artificial metalloenzyme is developed, incorporating a biotinylated nickel complex and a Strep-tagged peptide catalyst in adjacent streptavidin-binding sites. This synergistic artifici...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New Ni enzyme just dropped!
Congrats @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
Congrats @xilehu-epfl.bsky.social
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Nachgefragt: Prof. Dr. Gert Bange im Interview
www.biospektrum.de/artikel/nach...
@bangebalcony.bsky.social
www.biospektrum.de/artikel/nach...
@bangebalcony.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nachgefragt: Prof. Dr. Gert Bange im Interview
www.biospektrum.de/artikel/nach...
@bangebalcony.bsky.social
www.biospektrum.de/artikel/nach...
@bangebalcony.bsky.social
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We are back, soon!
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
We are back, soon!
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break.
Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon.
@microbiologysociety.org
Please spread the word
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POV you eventually decide to rebuttal
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
POV you eventually decide to rebuttal
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Stimme den Punkten voll zu. Kannst so gut sein wie du willst. Ohne Dusel, Timing und Unmengen Support von netten Leuten wirds vermutlich nix
Und schlussendlich am wichtigsten:
3. Netzwerk: Ich hatte die letzten 15 Jahre wichtige Mentorys und Kollegys, die mich beraten und unterstützt haben und als meine Fürsprecher aufgetreten sind.
3. Netzwerk: Ich hatte die letzten 15 Jahre wichtige Mentorys und Kollegys, die mich beraten und unterstützt haben und als meine Fürsprecher aufgetreten sind.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Stimme den Punkten voll zu. Kannst so gut sein wie du willst. Ohne Dusel, Timing und Unmengen Support von netten Leuten wirds vermutlich nix