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MMSB-Lyon @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social · May 14

Le MMSB propose une mobilité NOEMI
Rejoignez l'équipe "Ecologie et Évolution Moléculaire des Phages" qui travaille sur les éléments génétiques mobiles et l'immunité bactérienne. Profil Génétique bactérienne, Écologie microbienne et Evolution expérimentale
🤝Contactez-nous pour rejoindre notre unité!

MMSB – Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry

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Karina Jouravleva @karinajouravleva.bsky.social · May 13

Thrilled by the interest already shown in the CNRS-funded thematic school dedicated to small regulatory RNAs—and there is still time to join us!
📅 Oct 6–10, 2025
📍 Sète, France (Le Lazaret)
🧬 Focus on siRNAs, miRNAs & piRNAs across eukaryotes
Details & registration: internat25.sciencesconf.org

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Cyril Bourgeois @cbourgeois.bsky.social · Apr 3

Une mise en avant de nos travaux récents sur le gène DDX17 dans les troubles du neurodéveloppement. @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social @inserm.fr @jcourchet.bsky.social
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Identification d’un nouveau gène impliqué dans les troubles du neurodéveloppement : le gène DDX17 - IMIND

La recherche sur les troubles du neurodéveloppement (TND) vient de franchir un nouveau cap grâce à cette récente étude sur le rôle du gène DDX17 dans le développement neuronal.

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Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social · Apr 3

A écouter: un podcast dans lequel @mirko-francesconi.bsky.social nous parle de nématodes et d'épigénétique.
Un grand merci à @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social.

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Podcast | Qu'est-ce que tu cherches ?

Avec « Qu’est-ce que tu cherches ? », le podcast science du CNRS, partez à la rencontre des scientifiques, découvrez leur quotidien, leur domaine de recherche, leurs avancées et ce qui les motive. Dan...

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Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Victor Ambros @vambros.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Read the Letter

Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.

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Karina Jouravleva @karinajouravleva.bsky.social · Mar 30

I am pleased to announce the upcoming thematic school on small regulatory RNAs. It will take place in Sète from October 6–10, 2025. Pre-registration is open until June 6. For further information, please refer to the attached flyer and visit: internat25.sciencesconf.org. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

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Rita Rebollo @ritarebollo.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hi! Here is a PhD opportunity at Montpellier, IGH institute with Séverine Chambeyron to study endogenous retroviruses ! #TEsky #PhD

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RNA Therapeutics Institute @rti-umasschan.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hot off the press from the Zamore lab on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Defining the roles of the Integrator, NEXT, and nuclear exosome complexes in Drosophila oogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · Feb 27

On May 7, the 19th Annual Microsymposium on RNA Biology will be held at the Vienna BioCenter. Submit your abstract by February 28! Details are below. #microsymposium2025 #smallrna #events

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ericci-aeruginosa.bsky.social @ericci-aeruginosa.bsky.social · Feb 18

Our latest work on HIV-1 translational control is out!
@naturecomms.bsky.social

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

Here, we performed a transcriptomics, translatomics and whole proteomics analysis during the course of infection.

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Non-AUG HIV-1 uORF translation elicits specific T cell immune response and regulates viral transcript expression - Nature Communications

Here, integrating ribosome profiling, RNA-seq and proteomics to reveal transcriptional and post-translational regulation in HIV-infected T cells, the authors show that non-AUG translation of viral ups...

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · Feb 13

#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:

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Bertrand Mollereau @mollereaulab.bsky.social · Feb 10

Check out our new article on #autophagy in #BPAN neurological disease available in bioRxiv. #raredisease #drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cheers! @ensdelyon.bsky.social @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social

A dWDR45 knock-out Drosophila model to decipher the role of autophagy in BPAN

Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) is a rare neurological disease characterized by severe cognitive and motor impairments. BPAN is caused by de novo pathogenic variants in the ...

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RNA Therapeutics Institute @rti-umasschan.bsky.social · Feb 7

ONE MONTH left to submit your abstract for a short talk at the 2025 RNA Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic (in person and virtual!) https://buff.ly/4hJHLdC #RNATx2025

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Feb 6

Check it out! Another novel RNA modification - ADP-ribosylation - that was previously only known on proteins. A cousin to #glycoRNA 👏

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

Graphic showing modification of mRNA with ADP-ribose mediated by bacterial enzyme cmdTAC

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David Suter @davidsuter.bsky.social · Feb 6

Genome architecture folks, this perspective is really worth your time www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Cohesin as an essential disruptor of chromosome organization

Chromosomes are long strings of DNA carrying multiple genes. A chromosomal factor called cohesin creates loops of DNA proposed to be functional units of the genome. By contrast, it is proposed here th...

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · Jan 27

Any slug enthusiasts among my followers? Please RT. Our lab develops a slug laboratory model from Deroceras laeve (genomes, CRISPRs, small RNAs ...) and I am opening one PhD position on "piRNa and genome defense in gastropods". Info & online application here:
www.img.cas.cz/kariera/phd-...

Volné PhD pozice (v angličtině) – Ústav molekulární genetiky AV ČR, v. v. i.

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Karina Jouravleva @karinajouravleva.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our review on small endogenous RNAs in animals is online: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We thank @martinjsimard.bsky.social, @svobodalab.bsky.social and the third, anonymous, reviewer for helping us improve our manuscript. @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

A guide to the biogenesis and functions of endogenous small non-coding RNAs in animals - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Many new small RNA species and their derived fragments have been recently identified in animals. This Review discusses the biogenesis and functions of both structural small RNAs, such as tRNAs and sma...

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · Jan 24

I have one open PhD position. Maybe one of the last PhD positions in the lab as I'm planning changes in what we do and how we will do it some five years from now. I'm offering freedom (pun intended), respect, an interesting project, and a good full time contract w. health insurance.

Institute of Molecular Genetics @imgprague.bsky.social · Jan 24

🧬Unravel the evolution of RNA cutting enzymes in @svobodalab.bsky.social
Learn more about the project 👉http://img.cas.cz/phd
Join us, we are waiting for you!
Your future starts now!
#phd #phdstudent #science #openpositions #phdcommunity #prague

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Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social · Dec 5

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus

In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...

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Korostelev Lab @korostelevlab.bsky.social · Dec 6

RiSANA is online!

We detail the Ribosome Stimulated Angiogenin Nuclease Assay (RiSANA) to explore: (a) whether Angiogenin is activated by bacterial 70S ribosomes; and (b) whether the closest homolog RNase 4 is stimulated by 80S: tinyurl.com/3fftczrw
Congrats Emily Sholi and Anna Loveland!

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The Fromm Lab @frommlab.bsky.social · Nov 30

MirGeneDB 3.0 is published.
Great teamwork and substantial improvement of database, Taxon sampling and we took over nomenclature of novel genes and families, too

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MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models

Abstract. We present a major update of MirGeneDB (3.0), the manually curated animal microRNA gene database. Beyond moving to a new server and the creation

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Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social · Nov 28

Karina @karinajouravleva.bsky.social went to La Tour du Pin to discuss rare diseases and therapies with high school students. #AFM-Téléthon. #1000chercheursdanslesecoles.

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La Tour-du-Pin. Téléthon : au Calloud, les élèves ont rencontré une chercheuse du CNRS

Ce mercredi 27 novembre, le collège Le Calloud a vibré au rythme de la science et de la recherche. Dans le cadre de l’opération nationale “1 000 ...

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