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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Jul 18

The nucleus is not an organelle, it’s continuous with the cytoplasm

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Jul 14

Turing discusses possibility of cloning a human from a single skin cell in 1950 in a little aside

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today! FREE.

Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · Jun 17

Not sure what to do this Saturday in London? Come to the UCL Festival of Stuff! Fun and wonder, and head-scratchingly interesting for all the family: www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/view/...

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Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social · Jun 19

The mechanics of a continuous self-assembling surface-layer aids cell division in an archaeon

out in @pnas.org

Tight collaboration with Sherman Foo, Alice Cezanne and @buzzbaum.bsky.social, Sulfolobus cryo-ET from @idocaspy.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A self-assembling surface layer flattens the cytokinetic furrow to aid cell division in an archaeon | PNAS

The surface layer or “S-layer” is a two-dimensional lattice of proteins that coats a wide range of archaea and bacteria in place of a cell wall or ...

www.pnas.org

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · May 31

Interesting

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · May 29

Beautiful work Joe!

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Joe Parham @joeparham19.bsky.social · May 29

We are excited to share our preprint describing how Sulfolobus cells coordinate DNA segregation with cell division! In eukaryotes this type of regulation involves checkpoints and CDK-cyclins. But how does this work in archaea? This is the question we ask in our paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Temporal and spatial coordination of DNA segregation and cell division in an archaeon.

Cells must coordinate DNA segregation with cytokinesis to ensure that each daughter cell inherits a complete genome. Here, we explore how DNA segregation and division are mechanistically coupled in ar...

www.biorxiv.org

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Arthur Charles-Orszag @acharlesorszag.bsky.social · May 29

What a year for the cell biology of archaeal chromosome segregation! 🧬 @joeparham19.bsky.social and @buzzbaum.bsky.social now add pieces to the SegAB puzzle by connecting it with cell division

Joe Parham @joeparham19.bsky.social · May 29

We are excited to share our preprint describing how Sulfolobus cells coordinate DNA segregation with cell division! In eukaryotes this type of regulation involves checkpoints and CDK-cyclins. But how does this work in archaea? This is the question we ask in our paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Temporal and spatial coordination of DNA segregation and cell division in an archaeon.

Cells must coordinate DNA segregation with cytokinesis to ensure that each daughter cell inherits a complete genome. Here, we explore how DNA segregation and division are mechanistically coupled in ar...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · May 20

Join us at Cheltenham Science Festival in June. I am doing events on the science of coffee, meteorites, cocktails and nappies. Yes something for everyone including babies. www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/festivals/sc...

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · May 19

In 1997, Arafat invited my father to Gaza. He asked if the PA knew he was Jewish and a Zionist. Yes, they said, but they needed better training for paediatricians. So my father went, believing that to save a child is to save a world. How horrified he would be to hear the IDF has killed 15000. Stop!

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Apr 18

Sign ups for the fall Barcelona multicellularity meeting are now up- come join us!

meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life

The study of the origins and evolution of multicellularity in different lineages has recently captured the attention of many research groups and is fueling the generation of numerous innovative resea…

meetings.embo.org

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Apr 18

MBoA 2026 will feature cutting-edge research on archaeal cell biology, evolution, ecology, and eukaryogenesis — plus a special “Archaea@50” session marking the 50th anniversary of their discovery.

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Apr 18

Excited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!

Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Apr 11

I offered to present online but was told that this isn’t possible. We need to change this culture! In a world where scientists cannot travel freely, it should be possible to attend virtually. There are always people who can’t travel who shouldn’t be excluded. Science belongs to everyone, everywhere.

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Apr 11

With a heavy heart I have decided not to attend a meeting in the US this June. I can’t act as if things are normal when science, universities, dissent & truth are all under threat. And I feel I can’t attend when there are scientists who are not able to travel to the US without fear of arrest.

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Jan 18

A question! My team recently stopped working in flies. But there are lots of fly genes we know have cool cytoskeletal phenotypes (from RNAi screens and follow up work) which I think would be great to follow up. What is the best way to encourage others to take a fresh look at them?

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Jan 4

Thanks to Gordon and Betty Moore for funding fundamental research to better understand our planet:
www.moore.org/article-deta...

www.moore.org/article-deta...

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Dec 27

Gaugin discovers the joys of ‘archaea’

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Dec 21

This scientific meeting looks amazing!

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Dec 22

The ‘nuclear origin’ paper is now available for all to read! Please share.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38018971/

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Dec 12

One-week international workshop on evolution June 22-29 in the Swiss Alps for Master's & early PhD students. Application due 28 January 2024.

I've co-taught the course several times (but not this time), and it's a terrific format and beautiful location.

www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/gua...

Evolutionary Biology | University of Basel

www.evolution.unibas.ch

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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · Dec 7

Very excited to introduce you to Datascape Realities, my new venture, a true collaboration between artists and scientists, to transform data into immersive mixed realities including #VR and #AR. Get in touch if you would like to work with us! #sciart
www.datascaperealities.com

Datascape Realities | Home

Datascape Realities specialises in visualising scientific data through VR spatial design

www.datascaperealities.com

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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · Dec 7

Yay, the all-new MRC-LMB 2023 #cryoEM course lectures are now online! Happy learning. 🥳

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · Dec 8

Look up Noel Bernard (botanist) as well!

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