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TIBS is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026 - join in the fun and share your ideas with us! To learn more, visit: https://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/anniversary Managed by editor @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 The #TIBSCelebrates50 call for cover art is open until Sept 30!

Are you a #SciArtist who loves biochemistry?! A biochemist who also creates #SciArt?! 🖌️✨ Share your design - one will be selected to be featured on the cover of the January 2026 issue!

More info 👉 lnkd.in/edXQmmeg

#TIBS50 #CoverArt

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 8h

What an amazing meeting!

Don't hesitate to reach out to TIBS or @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social if you have further questions, want to share ideas, or simply want to connect!

@molbiosystems.bsky.social

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 1d

📝 Available online - the Scientific Life "Daily standup meeting: Enhancing accountability and psychological safety" from
@jestsai.bsky.social and co.

#PsychologicalSafety #Collaboration #Trust #Accountability #ScientificCulture

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsTM3S6Gf...

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Sannie Culbertson @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Whoop! We've extended the #coverart deadline to the end of October!

Celebrate #TIBS50 with Trends in Biochemical Sciences by sharing your cover art ideas - it could appear on the January cover of the journal 🎉 🎨 !

More info: www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 1d

📝 Available online - the Review "The nuclear export receptor CRM1/XPO1 and its diverse cargoes" from Ralph Kehlenbach and @yuhminchook.bsky.social.

#CRM1 #Exportin1 #NuclearTransport #NuclearPoreComplex #RNAExport

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 2d

Want even more? Then check out:
💡 A Spotlight from Carly Schissel highlighting work on programmable protein editing
💡 A Spotlight from Felipe Muñoz-Guzmán and Luis F. Larrondo highlighting work on circadian clocks
🔬 A TechoftheMonth on tissue expansion proteomics from Tiannan Guo et al

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 2d

📝 Giovanna Musco et al Review the 'fuzzy interactions' of HMGB1
📝 Engineering protein inhibitors for matrix metalloproteinases is Reviewed by Julia Shifman et al
📝 Reginald McNulty and co Review the link between oxidized DNA and NLRP3 inflammasome activation

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss out on other great Review content!
📝 A Feature Review from @wclu-lg.bsky.social and colleagues on nondegrading molecular glues for protein interactions
📝 Another Feature Review from Thomas Jentsch et al on the transport functions of LRRC8/VRAC channels

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Our October issue is now online. Access the full issue 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch....

🎨 The cover highlights a Review from @chiosislabmskcc.bsky.social‬ and co on how PTMs reprogram chaperones into epichaperomes.

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Jessica Tsai, MD, PhD @jestsai.bsky.social · 5d

Incredibly proud of Tsai Lab post-doctoral fellows Stefania Tocci and Aspen Hirsch for their new paper in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social Daily standup meeting: enhancing accountability and psychological safety www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Daily standup meeting: enhancing accountability and psychological safety

Research laboratories often struggle to maintain a trusting environment which negatively affects team cohesion. Daily standup meetings provide a means…

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 8d

Don't hesitate to reach out to @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social if you have questions about a career in editing, have ideas you'd like to share, or just want to chat about what makes you excited (or what you find challenging) about science!

Sannie Culbertson @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely delighted to have had the chance to represent @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social in beautiful Puerto Varas, Chile at the @molbiosystems.bsky.social conference earlier today!

Great talks already, and looking forward to three more days!

(And yes - the volcanoes made an appearance ☀️!)

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 13d

⌛ Time is running out - share your #coverart and help us celebrate #TIBS50 by Sept 30!!!

Want more info?? Look here: www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

#TIBSCelebrates50 #SciArt

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Reminder - the #TIBSCelebrates50 call for cartoons is open! Publish your sketches with us in a special anniversary cartoon series!

📅 The deadline is rolling, though we will start accepting submissions in October!

More info: www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

#TIBS50 #ScienceSketch #SciArt

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 14d

Online now - the Forum "The interplay of the cGAS–STING pathway with the lysosome" from Yinfeng Xu and Wei Wan.

#InnateImmunity #Lysosome #cGASSTING

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpuN_M0e4...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 15d

⏰ It's not too late to help us celebrate #TIBS50 - share your #coverart ideas with us and see it on the January cover! 📅 Deadline is Sept 30!!

📅 Don’t forget—the submission deadline is next week!! Get inspired, get creative, and submit your design today!

More info 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

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Sebastian Glatt @sebastianglatt.bsky.social · 15d

I'm excited to share that our latest review, “Mapping rRNA, tRNA, and mRNA Modifications in Ribosomes at High Resolution”, has just been published in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social!
Read the full review here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mapping rRNA, tRNA, and mRNA modifications in ribosomes at high resolution

Chemical modifications of rRNA, tRNA, and mRNA play key roles in protein synthesis by affecting the structure of these RNAs, by modulating decoding, a…

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 16d

📝 Online now - the Review "Mapping rRNA, tRNA, and mRNA modifications in ribosomes at high resolution" from Lukasz Koziej and Sebastian Glatt.

#RNAmodifications #epitranscriptomics #TranslationRegulation #CodonBias #TherapeuticTargeting

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lnYa3S6Gf...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 16d

📝 Online now - the Review "E3 ubiquitin ligases in signaling, disease, and therapeutics" from Shaun Olsen et al.

#ubiquitin #E3UbiquitinLigase #UbiquitinProteasomeSystem #TargetedProteinDegradation

Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Sannie Culbertson @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 The deadline is approaching to share your cover artwork - this is your chance to have your artwork featured on the cover of the January 2026 issue!

📅 Submit by September 30, 2025! More info here 👉 lnkd.in/edXQmmeg

#TIBSCelebrates50 #CoverArt

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 19d

📝Online now - the Review "Engineered protein inhibitors for precise targeting of matrix metalloproteinases" from
Julia Shifman et al.

#MatrixMetalloproteinases #MMPInhibitors #ProteinEngineering #ProteinBasedTherapeutics

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1llJs3S6Gf...

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Publish your biochemistry-inspired cartoons with us in our new article called #ScienceSketch!

🎉To celebrate #TIBS50, we’re reviving an early tradition with a special anniversary cartoon series!

📆 Get your submissions in now! Find details: www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

#TIBSCelebrates50

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 21d

📝 Online now - the Review "Membranes as targets and modifiers of mutant huntingtin aggregation" from Justin Legleiter.

#HuntingtonsDisease #polyglutamine #amyloid #lipidbinding #neurodegeneration

Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1ll3e_M0e4...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 The #TIBSCelebrates50 call for cover art is open thru Sept 30 - share your ideas now!

🎨 Have your original artwork featured on the cover of the January issue! One design will be selected to celebrate this milestone with us.

More info here 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

#TIBS50 #CoverArt

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 23d

Publish your biochemistry-inspired cartoons with us in a new article format we're calling #ScienceSketch!

#TIBSCelebrates50 #TIBS50 #SciArt

Sannie Culbertson @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social · 23d

🚨Reminder - the #TIBSCelebrates50 call for cartoons is open!

🎉 50 years ago, @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social featured cartoons with its review content - we want to revive this with a special anniversary cartoon series!

📅 Share your ideas with us: www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 23d

📝 Online now - the Review "Decoding protein structures with residue interaction networks" from Silvio Tosatto et al.

#RIN #ProteinStructure #ResidueCentrality #Allosterism #ArtificialIntelligence

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 26d

Online now - the Review "Intrinsic disorder and fuzzy interactions drive multiple functions of #HMGB1" from Giovanna Musco, Marco Emilio Bianchi, et al.

#FuzzyComplexes #IntrinsicallyDisorderedRegions #Multivalency #MolecularChaperone

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