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Boris Sieber @borissieber.bsky.social · 13d

Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!

Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1

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Schematic of MAPK signalling in fission yeast, budding yeast and Metazoa. No MAPK scaffold was known for ERK-like MAPK in fission yeast, as opposed to budding yeast Ste5 and metazoan KSR1/2.

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 13d

Very pretty - congrats!

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 14d

Ahh congrats!

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 16d

;))

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 16d

Yay!!! 🤗🤗🤗

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Mcclelland lab @mcclellandlab.bsky.social · 21d

Please visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? 🙏

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 21d

Cute!

bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 21d

De novo Golgi biogenesis requires coordinated transactivation of a Golgi regulon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676727v1

Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ahh so beautiful

André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Aug 15

YES

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Screenshot of Essay from Martin Schwartz on 'Why would anyone want to be a scientist'. An anniversary article from The Company of Biologists published in Journal of Cell Science.

The first few lines are: It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection. But, strange even to myself, I not only don't question the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio but consider myself astonishingly lucky to be a scientist. There are three fundamental pleasures that have sustained me through 50 years of this madness.

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Li-Lin Du @lilindu.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are pleased to share the Schizosaccharomyces orthogroup web resource (fsnibs10.github.io/SOG/) with the pombe community.

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats on your first paper 🤗

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jul 4

Yay congrats! To you and CRG ;)

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jul 2

Correct

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jul 2

Badass

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yay YAY congrats to everyone - and am super happy for my neighbour (and friend!) Jody Rosenblatt! Jody doesn’t have Bluesky, let me bug her about that

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 27

I used it once and remember feeling quite smug about it

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Marko Kaksonen @kaksonen.bsky.social · Jun 24

How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Localization of WDS proteins and fimbrin in three fungal species.

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ahh!

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 16

SO CUTE

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 16

OMG IN ALL CAPS

Max Haase @maxhaase.bsky.social · Apr 25

It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered!

“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres

The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...

www.biorxiv.org

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 6

Very

Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 2

Aww

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · Jun 2

Om mani padme hum 😭

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HittingerLab @hittingerlab.bsky.social · May 27

Just out - a collaborative effort examining gene family evolution across yeast species. We found that fast-evolving yeasts lose more genes - especially ones for splicing, metabolism, and cell division. This is consistent with their narrow metabolic niche breadth.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage | Molecular Systems Biology

imageimageLarge-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast evolution. Faster-evolving lineages lose more genes and speciate ...

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · May 25

Omg AMAZEBALLS

Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · May 25

Joining the race to the bottom has never been cooler...
www.biorxiv.org/node/4580343...
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A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme genome...

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