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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · 8d

Many thanks to @emmuro.bsky.social, @mainzuniversity.bsky.social, for his great talk on the #evolution of #eukaryotes. The entire study can be found here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

📷 Open AI DALL-E-generated image of a eucaryotic cell provided by E. Muro. The content may not be accurate or complete.

AI-generated image of a eucaryotic cell by Open AI DALL-E provided by Enrique M. Muro. The accuracy and completeness of the image content provided is not guaranteed.

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ReALity @realityunimainz.bsky.social · Sep 3

*****SAVE THE DATE*****

On 24 November 2025 from 9.00 - 16.00h in Linke Aula, Alte Mensa, JGU Campus, the ReALity Initiative presents its next workshop with the Scotland Hub, titled

"Molecular Communication in Brain Health"

For more information, go to: reality.uni-mainz.de/upcoming-tal...

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks Janina Hesse from LIR Mainz for organising our last seminar with Burak Bulut from @sgn.one on the molecular adaptation of the bioindicator Chironomus riparius to oxidative stress. Read more: doi.org/10.1101/2025....

#chironomus #ecology #evolution

📷Istvan and Sabine Palfi; IQCB; (f.l.t.r.)

Small but significant! With a length of only 7–8 mm, the harlequin fly Chironomus riparius is a crucial bioindicator for freshwater ecosystems. Burak Bulut from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre investigates how temperature and time shape the evolution of Chironomus riparius and presented his work in our last IQCB seminar. Read more here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656541v1.full. The images from top right to bottom left are from Istvan and Sabine Palfi, see link https://nabu-naturgucker-beobachtungen.de/?&desktop=1&bild=-1105556447, and IQCB.

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SFB 1551 - Collaborative Research Centre 1551 @sfb1551.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎉 Congrats to @kgaurav.bsky.social, Lukas Stelzl & @reneketting.bsky.social (SFB1551) on their new Biophysical Journal paper! #MUT16 #PhaseSeparation #MutatorFoci #SmallRNA #GeneRegulation #Celegans #ProteinAssembly #RNAResearch #MultiscaleSimulations Great teamwork👏👏👏 www.cell.com/biophysj/ful....

Multi-scale Simulations of MUT-16 Scaffold Protein Phase Separation and Client Recognition

Phase separation of proteins plays a critical role in cellular organisation. How phase separated protein condensates underpin biological function and how condensates achieve specificity remain elusive...

www.cell.com

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Aug 13

@humboldt-foundation.de Fellow @tadmon.bsky.social from the University of Dschang uses mathematical modeling to explore how climate factors impact the dynamic transmission of the Ebola virus. Read more www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

#Ebola #disease #climatechange #mathematics

In our last seminar, Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow Prof. Dr. Calvin Tadmon from the University of Dschang, Cameroon, used mathematical models to explain the dynamics of the Ebola virus. These models simulate the virus's spread and identify important factors, such as temperature, rainfall and transmission routes. Read more about his research here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1468121824000580.

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Did you know that 99.99 % of all vertebrates reproduce sexually? In his seminar lecture, Randy Klabacka (Brigham Young University, UT, USA) explained what we can learn from the remaining 0.01%. Read more: doi.org/10.1086/719014

#reproduction #vertebrates #evolution #lizards

Shown is the checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata), a species studied by Randy Klabacka from Brigham Young University (Utah, USA) to enlighten the role of sexual and asexual reproduction in the evolution of vertebrates. Read the following article to learn more: https://doi.org/10.1086/719014

IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Jul 14

Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on the Evolution of Ageing!

Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...

#ageing #evolution #lifesciences

The Gutenberg Workshop on the Evolution of Ageing is organized by Margaux Bieuville, Hanna Kokko and Victor Ronget from the University of Mainz together with Edward Ivimey-Cook from the University of Glasgow. The Workshop will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 at Wasem's Monastery Engelthal Ingelheim.

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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social · May 21

Hanna Kokko als neues Mitglied in die @leopoldina.org gewählt / Humboldt-Professorin der #UniMainz für herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen gewürdigt presse.uni-mainz.de/hanna-kokko-... #Biowissenschaften

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · May 22

In our last seminar hosted by @kokkonut.bsky.social, Karl Grieshop from the University of East Anglia shared with us the fascinating topic of sexually antagonistic selection. Learn more about his research by exploring one of his papers: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#selection #evolution #genetics

Why are genes selected differently in males and females? In our last seminar, we had the pleasure of welcoming Karl Grieshop from the University of East Anglia, UK, who shared with us the fascinating topic of sexually antagonistic selection. Learn more about his research by exploring one of his papers via this link https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2816

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · May 13

Good news! You can still register for the Gutenberg Workshop on Laboratory Automation until 19 May.

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 25

▶️ ⚙️ Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on #Laboratory #Automation at @unimainz.bsky.social 🥼 🦾

🗓️ 3-5 June 2025 📍 Helmholtz-Institute Mainz

Info gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/laboratory-a...
Deadline to register soon!
converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/ind...

#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence

Gutenberg Workshop on Laboratory Automation. The event poster shows a futuristic roboticised laboratory scenario. The key dates of the event as well as the invited speakers and organizers. The workshop will take place from 3-5 June 2025 at the Helmholtz Institute Mainz on JGU Campus.

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 25

▶️ ⚙️ Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on #Laboratory #Automation at @unimainz.bsky.social 🥼 🦾

🗓️ 3-5 June 2025 📍 Helmholtz-Institute Mainz

Info gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/laboratory-a...
Deadline to register soon!
converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/ind...

#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 23

*** OPEN POSITION in the IQCB Community ***

Really interesting PhD position in the field of drug design and machine learning available in Oscar Palomino-Hernández´s Lab, @mainzuniversity.bsky.social:

lnkd.in/ebi49HZa

#Chemistry #Medicine #Mainz #MachineLearning #DrugDesign

Pharmaceutical capsule. Picture by julos on Freepik accessible via https://de.freepik.com/fotos-kostenlos/medizinische-ikone-3d-illustration_47777795.htm

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 7

NEW STUDY on the origin of the eukaryotic cell by IQCB member Enrique Muro from @mainzuniversity.bsky.social and colleagues from the University of Valencia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and the University of Zurich published in PNAS

Click here to read the full article doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Gene and protein length distributions for the zebrafish Danio rerio illustrated in a bar chart adopted from E.M. Muro, F.J. Ballesteros, B. Luque, & J. Bascompte, The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (13) e2422968122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422968122 (2025).

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great networking event with people from @unimainz.bsky.social, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, @imbmainz.bsky.social, TRON Mainz, Holzer Scientific Consulting, @uni-saarland.de, StarSEQ and @nanoporetech.com to explore and discuss applications of long-read sequencing technologies.

#lifesciences #Mainz

Connecting the Long-read Sequencing Community in and around Mainz. With this purpose, scientists and technical staff from the University of Mainz, University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of Molecular Biology Mainz, TRON Mainz, Holzer Scientific Consulting, Saarland University, StarSEQ GmbH and Oxford Nanopore Technologies met at the end of March to explore and discuss various applications of this cutting-edge technology.

It has been a pleasure for the IQCB Mainz to organise this event together with Nathaniel Deimler, Dr. Andre Holzer, Prof. Peter Baumann and Prof. Susanne Gerber, and with the support of the University of Mainz, the University Medical Center Mainz, Holzer Scientific Consulting, and the DFG Transregio 319 RMaP.

IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Feb 28

We were happy to welcome Prof Andreas Deutsch from @tudresden.bsky.social to our seminar series. He showed math models which help us understand how #tumours grow and how their growth can be contained. See also link.springer.com/book/10.1007....

#mathematics #modeling #cancer #gliobastoma #cells

Great seminar on 26 February! We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof Andreas Deutsch from Technische Universität Dresden to our IQCB Seminar Series Cross Disciplines. He showed mathematical models such as Conway's Game of Life, which help us to understand how tumours grow and how their growth can be contained. On this topic he published a book with Sabine Dormann from Universität Osnabrück entitled "Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation" with the DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7980-3.

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Feb 18

@federicomarini.bsky.social from #IMBEI, #UniversitätsmedizinMainz, opened this year's IQCB Under the Hood Seminar Series with a very interesting and interactive lecture. He highlighted tools like #iSEE and #GeneTonic that improve exploration of omics data.

#Omics #RNASeq #SingleCell #Software

Dr. Federico Marini from IMBEI at University Medical Center Mainz opened this year's IQCB Under the Hood Seminar Series with a very interesting and interactive lecture entitled "Enhancing interpretation of omics data - When interactivity met reproducibility". He highlighted tools like iSEE and GeneTonic that improve exploration of omics data. Find out more about the speaker and the presented software via this link: https://federicomarini.github.io/

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌟Calling All Long-Read Sequencing Enthusiasts in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt! 🌟 We´re thrilled to invite you to a Local Meetup tailored for researchers and professionals working with long-read #sequencing technologies. Register via lnkd.in/ejazwjPZ - Space is limited!

#unimainz #lifesciences

🌟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐳, 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭! 🌟

We’re thrilled to invite you to a 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐩 tailored for researchers and professionals working with 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, with a special spotlight on 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠.

This event is a unique opportunity to connect with the vibrant research community right here in the Saar-Pfalz region and foster collaboration in this cutting-edge field.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮:
🔬 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 – Dive into experiences, workflows, and current challenges in long-read sequencing.
💡 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – Explore innovative applications, advancements, and trends in the sequencing landscape.
🤝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 – Connect with local researchers and professionals, exchange insights, and spark potential collaborations.

Whether you’re an expert in long-read sequencing or just starting to explore its immense potential, this is your chance to engage with like-minded peers and grow within a thriving local community.

📅 𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏 𝐍𝐨𝐰 - via https://lnkd.in/ejazwjPZ – Space is limited!

The event will take place at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and is supported by members from the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, the Universitätmedizin Mainz, the RMaP consortium and Holzer Scientifc Consulting.

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IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Feb 4

Terrific start to 2025! Last Wednesday, IQCB members had a great time sharing their research and finding potential cooperation partners. #UniMainz Vice President Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller-Stach gave an exciting keynote on how new tools in #Mathematics can be applied in #DataScience.

Impressions of the IQCB General Assembly & Networking Event on 29 January 2025.

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