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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 1d

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa

Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor

Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation.

Click the link above to learn more & apply!

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Avner Schlessinger @schlessingerlab.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting read: Structural insights into brain thyroid hormone transport via MCT8 and OATP1C1 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Structural insights into brain thyroid hormone transport via MCT8 and OATP1C1

Structures of the solute carrier transporters MCT8 and OATP1C1 reveal mechanisms of thyroid hormone transport into the brain and identify a conserved extracellular allosteric site in OATP1C1.

www.cell.com

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 4d

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/...
Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010
#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

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Emily Liman @emilyliman.bsky.social · 8d

Students/Postdocs - a great opportunity to work with an incredible scientist, and wonderful mentor!

Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania! Our lab will be relocating to the Department of Pharmacology in Jan ’26. We’re hiring at all levels—reach out if you’re interested! @isbupenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to share the inaugural paper from the lab. We describe a molecular mechanism for the activation of outer dynein arm motors that power the vital motion of cilia.

Open access link below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's a cool animated summary

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Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 10d

A very special thanks to Dr. Vera Moiseenkova-Bell and Dr. John Wherry @ejohnwherry.bsky.social for their extraordinary support in making this happen.

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Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania! Our lab will be relocating to the Department of Pharmacology in Jan ’26. We’re hiring at all levels—reach out if you’re interested! @isbupenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

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NKF Nephrology Professionals @nkf-professionals.bsky.social · 17d

👏 Congratulations to Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, recipient of the 2026 David M. Hume Memorial Award!

Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/47Taye5

We look forward to celebrating our award winners at SCM26 #NKFClinicals. Stay tuned for registration opening October 2025.

@ksusztak.bsky.social

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Guenter Resch @nexperion.net · 15d

Happy to announce "Technical Innovations Using #SerialEM: A Community Meeting", a new format of hybrid meeting David Mastronarde and I are organizing in April 2026. For more info, a preliminary list of speakers, pre-registration etc. visit
www.nexperion.net/semcm2026

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 15d

NYSBC is holding our third 3D ED/microED short course November 3-5, 2025. The agenda includes in-depth lectures on theory & hands-on practicals covering sample preparation, setting up a TEM for data collection and data processing.

The deadline to apply is tomorrow:
nccat.nysbc.org/activities/c...

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 16d

Join us for the next CryoEM Current Practices Webinar on 9/25/2025 at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT with Dr. Sarah Clark who will sharing her research on the "Architecture of a Bridge-like Lipid Transfer Protein."

Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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korblab @korblab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Please repost! We are looking for a new research specialist for our lab. See korblab.com for more about what we do and apply at wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · Aug 27

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

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

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · Aug 27

Single-molecule flow cytometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672174v1

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Mikkel Roald-Arbøl @roald-arboel.com · Aug 25

Inspired by @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team, I'm collating a database of #PhD and #postdoc fellowships in the #EU. I'm standardising the information an entry needs, making it easier to (1) search and (2) contribute - and I would appreciate input, especially from other #ECR! Please share!

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Job #AJO30338, WDR-00054776 Assistant Professor - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 23

Nature research paper: Molecular mechanism of ultrafast transport by plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases

go.nature.com/3HpdTqq

Molecular mechanism of ultrafast transport by plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases - Nature

Structural insights into ultrafast Ca2+ transport by plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases are provided, highlighting an essential role for PtdIns(4,5)P2 dynamics.

go.nature.com

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Johannes Morstein @morstein.bsky.social · Aug 14

Excited to share our new @pubs.acs.org paper! We engineered cells with ~10% photolipids in the ER membrane. This enabled optical control of membrane viscosity to study its impact on ER→Golgi protein transport. @dirktrauner.bsky.social @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Optical Control of Membrane Viscosity Modulates ER-to-Golgi Trafficking

The lipid composition of cellular membranes is highly dynamic and undergoes continuous remodeling, affecting the biophysical properties critical to biological function. Here, we introduce an optical a...

pubs.acs.org

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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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Chi-Min Ho @cmholab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH

A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo

Integrated structural biology of the native malarial translation machinery and its inhibition by an antimalarial drug

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Integrated structural biology approach leveraging in situ cryo-electron tomography reveals molecular details of the native malarial translation...

rdcu.be

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was such a pleasure to attend this celebration: “The Structure of Bacteriorhodopsin 50 Years On: Electron Cryomicroscopy and the Dawn of Membrane Protein Structural Biology.”

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · Aug 4

The LMB recently hosted a symposium to mark 50 years since Richard Henderson and Nigel Unwin published the structure of bacteriorhodopsin, the first 3D structure of a protein determined by #cryoEM.

Read about the event and find more photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-structur...

#LMBNews 🧪🔬

Attendees of the recent bacteriorhopsin symposium, photographed from above.

Black and white photograph of Nigel Unwin and Richard Henderson sitting outside the LMB, 1991

Symposium attendees applauding in the LMB's Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

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Debnath Ghosal @debnathghosal.bsky.social · Aug 2

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you are at #MM2025 come by booth 1135 to learn more about the NIH sponsored transformative high resolution #cryoEM & #cryoET programs. We offer these technologies to the nation at no cost at the point of access.

cryoemcenters.org cryoetportal.org

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henrietteautzen.bsky.social @henrietteautzen.bsky.social · Jul 28

I am excited to share our latest preprint presenting the structure of human NHE6, a key endosomal Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger involved in Christianson syndrome.

We bring together #cryo-EM, NMR, SAXS, lipidomics, and functional assays for an integrative analysis of NHE6 architecture, function, and regulation.

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Jim Hurley @jimhurley.bsky.social · Jul 25

Structural and cell biology NPG publication two-fer today: lysosome signaling structural biology tinyurl.com/mt3uc96k with @robzonculab.bsky.social and mitophagy initiation tinyurl.com/3rpjyfjt with @martenslab.bsky.social @lazaroulab.bsky.social and @hummerlab.bsky.social

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