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Michael @schlierflab.bsky.social · 1d

Are you interested in Biomolecular Condensates and looking for a PhD training? Check out the 12 (!) open PhD positions (also 1 on smFRET & condensates 🙃) in Dresden @rtg3120.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social starting April 2026. Apply latest by 24 Oct 2025 here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/

Join Us – RTG 3120 Biomolecular Condensates

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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 1d

You can get MSAs directly from AlphaFold DB now (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk). I also missed the FoldSeek implementation, which lets you search for structurally similar proteins direktly.

This saves some clicking around. Neat!

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Titus Müller @titusmueller.bsky.social · 3d

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Jane Goodall for EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE in this interview to remind us of what is important and to encourage us to never loose hope and to try to make a difference everyday of our life 🤝🫶!!!

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 6d

"Jane" (2017), directed by Brett Morgen, with music by Philip Glass, and based on unseen footage discovered shortly before, is one of the most enchanting films I've ever seen. Goodbye Jane Goodall, and thank you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRlU...

Official Film Trailer: JANE | National Geographic

YouTube video by National Geographic

www.youtube.com

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Ben Morehouse @benmorehouse.bsky.social · 7d

Our story describing the Panoptes bacterial immune defense system is now finally peer-reviewed and published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Panoptes system uses decoy cyclic nucleotides to defend against phage - Nature

The Panoptes antiphage system defends bacteria by detecting phage-encoded counter-defences that sequester cyclic nucleotide signals, triggering membrane disruption and highlighting a broader strategy of sensing immune evasion through second-messenger surveillance.

www.nature.com

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 9d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Matt Hutchings @matthutchings.bsky.social · 10d

Biogenesis and function of archaeal lipoproteins.

This takes me back. The first papers I published from my new group were on lipoprotein biogenesis in Streptomyces with @proftracypalmer.bsky.social about 15y ago.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Uncovering the prevalence, key biogenesis enzymes, and biological significance of archaeal lipoproteins - Nature Communications

Lipoproteins are major cell-surface components in archaea, but their functions and the lipidation mechanisms are unclear. Here, Hong et al. identify two proteins required for attachment of proteins to unique archaeal membrane lipids via thioether bonds, and demonstrate their importance in archaeal physiology.

www.nature.com

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · 11d

Mir geht das des Öfteren auch so … werden wir alt 😅?? Und viel Spaß in Nürnberg! Schaust Du auch mal bei uns in Regensburg vorbei?

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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 13d

Find up to date links to the Farnung lab's cloning, experiment designer, and buffer preparation software tools here: www.farnunglab.com/tools

Services 3 — Farnung Lab

www.farnunglab.com

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in removing particle-associated microbes from particles for eg flow cytometry, culturing, or other single-cell microbiology purposes? Led by graduating PhD stdnt Jordan Coelho:

Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

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FEMS @femsmicro.org · 15d

To maintain genome integrity, extreme organisms like archaea rely heavily on repair pathways.

This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how the halophile model organism Haloferax volcanii repairs DNA double strand breaks quickly and efficiently. #FascinatingMicrobes

#FEMSmicroBlog: Halophile archaea healing themselves

This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how the halophile model organism Haloferax volcanii repairs DNA double strand breaks quickly and efficiently. #FascinatingMicrobes

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 19d

new Lai lab #miRNA paper alert!! happy to share Renfu Shang's mechanistic insights into the mysteries of miRNA cluster assistance. wonderful collab with Niko Popitsch and @ameressl.bsky.social

🧵 later, but if you don't know this process, my daughter illustrated it.🧬

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

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thank you for finding me here! I try to post new art every couple of days. My original works are temporary street art, but you can buy prints, books, calendars and postcards of their images at zinnart.com/store. Cheers!

Collections

Online store and information hub for the street art of ephemeral sidewalk chalk artist David Zinn, known for his cheerful 3D (three-dimensional) creatures including the stalk-eyed monster Sluggo, flyi...

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · 21d

Another great story from the Albers lab @archaellum.bsky.social 👍!! Congrats to all authors … exciting science ☺️!!! But how shall we name the motility structures now that archaellum is not exclusively reserved for Archaea any longer 😳??

Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Ken Stedman @xtremevirusprof.bsky.social · 26d

Archaeal Virus Ph.D. project! (With Tessa Quax)
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

www.rug.nl

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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 28d

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Exciting Instruments @ei-science.bsky.social · 28d

What is single-molecule FRET? Watch
@timcraggs.bsky.social
explain how this technique measures nanometer-scale distances and captures single-molecule conformations - youtu.be/BpCsTVJkQyE #structuralbiology #moleculardynamics #discovery #smFRET

What is single-molecule FRET?

YouTube video by Exciting Instruments

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please re-post:

Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin

Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

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meisterlab.bsky.social @meisterlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

3rd Argonaute Conference successfully concludes · AGO

3rd International Argonaute Syndromes Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and online, was another truly life-changing, inspiring, and emotional event

argonautes.ngo

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Argonaute band rocked big time and indeed brought a lot of joy 🤩 ☺️! Thanks again guys!!

eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · Sep 7

in these mostly wretched times, you have to find joy wherever you can. last week my ad hoc band the Argonautes (me, Yuki Tomari, Germano Cecere) had a blast playing in Prague. we rocked some old and new songs, and can't wait to do it again in Toronto 2027!

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · Jul 8

"m6A in the coding sequence: linking deposition, translation and decay"
by Kathi Zarnack (@zarnack-group.bsky.social) & colleagues

"This review explores [m6A in] mRNA decay, with a focus on the newly discovered CDS–m6A decay (CMD) pathway..."

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

Figure 2. Overview of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) decay pathways. m6A acts as a destabilizing mark on mRNA.

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Franz Narberhaus @franznarberhaus.bsky.social · Sep 3

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/b...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Biology of Microorganisms (m/f/d)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · Sep 3

Next stop: Cambridge for the Next Generation Biophysics Symposium ☺️. Seeing the „first generation DNA model“ combined with fantastic new biophysics at MRC LMB makes me joyful and happy 🙃.

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The Fromm Lab @frommlab.bsky.social · Aug 29

#argonautes2025 day3 with amazing talks spanning widely over generegulation to evolution and parasitic interaction (via AGO).

A presentation by the Argonautes Syndrom family alliance reminded how relevant research on Argonautes and related mechanisms is

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