Bianca Introini
@bianca-introini.bsky.social
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Structural Biologist | Ion channels and membrane proteins enthusiast | Curious to see what’s inside cells nuclei | Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET | Post doc at Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in @becklab.bsky.social
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melaniemcdowell.bsky.social
Proud to share our first lab pre-print: “SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon” where @tzujingyang.bsky.social solved the structure of a ribosome-associated SND3-translocon complex involved in ER membrane protein insertion ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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rspb.bsky.social
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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massspecvanili.bsky.social
Super excited to share this as my first post with the 🦋 world! In my first co-correspondent article, we (@Mayra Borrero @Agnieszka Chacińska @IMOL Institute) look at the roles of lipids in mitochondrial protein import complexes (spoiler: there are plenty!) &call for methods (spoiler: there are few!)
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Available online - the Forum "#Lipids: emerging actors in mitochondrial protein import" from Vanessa Linke, Agnieszka Chacinska, et al.

#ProteinLipidInteractions #MembraneComplexes #LipidScrambling

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxPM_M0e4...
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jpkreysing.bsky.social
New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇
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rcsbpdb.bsky.social
After the start of the AIDS epidemic, scientists revealed the atomic structures of the molecules in HIV, helping to design treatments
Explore how PDB structures help our understanding of HIV at PDB-101 #CROI2025 pdb101.rcsb.org/brow...
Images are free for use
PDB101: Browse: HIV and AIDS
PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB
pdb101.rcsb.org
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mitosislab.bsky.social
Zhi Yang Tan & @shujuncai.bsky.social's comparative study of G0 (quiescent) and interphase fission yeast cells is out in @jcellsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jcs.263654. This study combines multiple cell-biological analyses with in situ cryo-ET. Raw data: www.ebi.ac.uk/empiar/EMPIAR-10339
DIC and cryo-ET images of G1 and G0 fission yeast cells.
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Excited to share our new preprint "Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We combine optogenetic stimulation of neurons with in situ cryo-ET to characterize membrane dynamics during synaptic vesicle fusion ❄️🔬⏱️
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cppape.bsky.social
After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Improvements in LM (top) and EM (bottom) of our micro-sam model (finetuned) compared to the default SAM model.
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pjsaez.bsky.social
Hot from the press for #CellMigration + #Nucleus aficionados

Karling @helenweavers.bsky.social lab show *in vivo* how immune cell adapt quickly to confined microenvironments during motility.

Live-cell imaging, image analysis, #Drosophila !

Full @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
bianca-introini.bsky.social
These days at EMBL in Heidelberg for the EMBO Workshop “In situ structural biology: expanding the toolbox for structural cell biology” were amazing!
I showed my work on the tetrameric serotonin receptor:

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

#EMBOinsitu
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pjsaez.bsky.social
#CellMigration happens all the time in our bodies. This may (or not) rely on adhesion molecules

#Cancer cells switch strategies during metastasis to invade other tissues

Naomi Wee (naomiwee.com) did this neat movie to explain it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9aD...
#SciSky 🧪🔬 @cellcommlab.bsky.social
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Thank you Ulja! See you tomorrow in Heidelberg!
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Thank you so much Alexey! 🙏🏻🍃
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Thank you Oli!!!🍀❄️