EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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@science.org ⤵️challenges prevailing notion—repressor and activator act by distinct mechanisms: repressors block via steric hindrance/activators enable Pol II binding to promoter🧬

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism | Science bit.ly/adv2064

I'm always reminded of Tim Hunt's description of going to the library: "flipping through tables of contents of all the latest issues, hoping there isn't something relevant to your work..." 3/n

Glad you enjoyed it! À la prochaine

📣 New preprint from the lab - Endogenous fluctuations of transcription factor levels shape their occupancy in unexpected ways
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Some studies suggest that the Earth is flat, but many experts are skeptical

My quote of the day

Masha Gessen

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Dosage responses of aneuploid autosomal chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677044v1

Thank you, Simone!

✨Thanks to amazing students @tobiaskletter.bsky.social, postdocs @biswashere.bsky.social & collaborators @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ & ALMF @embl.org ✨

👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8

Our chromatin scaling paper is now out in its peer-reviewed form! 🎉
We added some controls, statistics, and a new introduction to better contextualise our findings. Overall a much-improved version we hope! (see my earlier thread for the preprint background)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the important benefits of @reviewcommons.org is having a peer-reviewed preprint, which to an increasing number of funders counts as a published paper @embo.org

Saves important time for trainees to have their work recognized.

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

Very harmonious and inspiring collaboration with Niels Gehring, @volkerboehm.bsky.social and team at Uni Köln, and colleagues at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social . Rapid UPF1 depletion illuminates the temporal dynamics of the NMD-regulated human transcriptome: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Facts are unfolding but while Trump officials have claimed that the Venezuelan boat was carrying drugs, independent and verifiable proof of the cargo has not been publicly provided. Even if true, then arrest and fair trial are the right response, not the death penalty. 11 were killed.

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We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Three-Year Funded Postdoctoral Position to study organelle architecture in mammalian oocytes – Terret-Verlhac Lab, CIRB, Collège de France (Starting 2026).
For more information, please contact: [email protected]