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We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher at OIST (Okinawa, Japan) to explore how mitotic stress shapes aging.
If you’re excited about cell biology, aging, and mechanistic discovery, we’d love to hear from you.
More info: www.oist.jp/careers/post...
Website: www.oist.jp/research/res...
If you’re excited about cell biology, aging, and mechanistic discovery, we’d love to hear from you.
More info: www.oist.jp/careers/post...
Website: www.oist.jp/research/res...
Cell Proliferation and Gene Editing Unit
Every day, millions of cells divide to sustain essential tissue functions. Errors in this process can lead to developmental disorders or cancer. Our research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of cel...
www.oist.jp
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher at OIST (Okinawa, Japan) to explore how mitotic stress shapes aging.
If you’re excited about cell biology, aging, and mechanistic discovery, we’d love to hear from you.
More info: www.oist.jp/careers/post...
Website: www.oist.jp/research/res...
If you’re excited about cell biology, aging, and mechanistic discovery, we’d love to hear from you.
More info: www.oist.jp/careers/post...
Website: www.oist.jp/research/res...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
www.biologists.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A versatile cohesion manipulation system probes female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy - Nature Aging
To study pathways that lead to aneuploidy during aging, the authors provide a system that enables cohesion protein depletion in mouse oocytes, mimicking effects that occur during aging. They uncover a...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Phosphoproteomic identification of Mos-MAPK targets in meiotic cell cycle and asymmetric #oocyte divisions. New study from Ivan Avilov, Peter Lenart (@plenart.bsky.social) and colleagues @maxplanck.de: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis
#Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Phosphoproteomic identification of Mos-MAPK targets in meiotic cell cycle and asymmetric #oocyte divisions. New study from Ivan Avilov, Peter Lenart (@plenart.bsky.social) and colleagues @maxplanck.de: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis
#Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
🔊New preprint from our lab!
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulate meiosis, germ cell development and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
Germ cells accurately organize their chromosomes through the program of meiosis to successfully generate haploid gametes for fertilization1. Chromosomal pairing, which is essential for homologous reco...
www.researchsquare.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔊New preprint from our lab!
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist?
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu
in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡
We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍
Check the link below!
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Our latest research in collaboration with @nilssonlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Polo kinase inhibits protein phosphatase 1 to promote the spindle assembly checkpoint and prevent aneuploidy
Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is essential for spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) silencing and mitotic exit, but its regulation during mitosis remains i…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Our latest research in collaboration with @nilssonlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
+++ Pflegeeinsatz NSG Kerstlingeröder Feld +++
BSG, BUND & RüRiG packen gemeinsam an und pflegen diesen Hotspot der Biodiversität vor den Toren der Stadt! 🪓
Treffen: 25.10. | 9:00 | GUNZ #Göttingen oder 9:25 am Kehr
Anmeldung: [email protected]
BSG, BUND & RüRiG packen gemeinsam an und pflegen diesen Hotspot der Biodiversität vor den Toren der Stadt! 🪓
Treffen: 25.10. | 9:00 | GUNZ #Göttingen oder 9:25 am Kehr
Anmeldung: [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
+++ Pflegeeinsatz NSG Kerstlingeröder Feld +++
BSG, BUND & RüRiG packen gemeinsam an und pflegen diesen Hotspot der Biodiversität vor den Toren der Stadt! 🪓
Treffen: 25.10. | 9:00 | GUNZ #Göttingen oder 9:25 am Kehr
Anmeldung: [email protected]
BSG, BUND & RüRiG packen gemeinsam an und pflegen diesen Hotspot der Biodiversität vor den Toren der Stadt! 🪓
Treffen: 25.10. | 9:00 | GUNZ #Göttingen oder 9:25 am Kehr
Anmeldung: [email protected]
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
We usually learn that centrioles/basal bodies are made of microtubule triplets. But our work on Plasmodium shows its basal body is built from singlets, which then mature into the doublets of a functional cilium. #TEAMTOMO www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A basal body microtubule singlet-to-doublet transition in Plasmodium male gametogenesis - Nature Communications
Yang et al. use cryo-ET and resolve a unique native architecture of microtubule singlet-to-doublet transition in the basal body of Plasmodium. They reveal the key role of δTubulin and ε-Tubulin in thi...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We usually learn that centrioles/basal bodies are made of microtubule triplets. But our work on Plasmodium shows its basal body is built from singlets, which then mature into the doublets of a functional cilium. #TEAMTOMO www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Huge congratulations to Wieczorek Lab PhD student Bin Cai and now-PI Jingwei Xu @xujwet.bsky.social on figuring out the surprisingly complex structure of the A-C linker crosslinking microtubule triplets in Tetrahymena basal body centrioles! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Structure and assembly of the A-C linker connecting microtubule triplets in centrioles
Multiscale cryo-EM of centrioles reveals the structure and polymorphism of the A-C linker connecting microtubule triplets.
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Huge congratulations to Wieczorek Lab PhD student Bin Cai and now-PI Jingwei Xu @xujwet.bsky.social on figuring out the surprisingly complex structure of the A-C linker crosslinking microtubule triplets in Tetrahymena basal body centrioles! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Dick is one of the most thoughtful folks in cell biology--this is a must read for anyone interested in microtubules!
Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
October 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Dick is one of the most thoughtful folks in cell biology--this is a must read for anyone interested in microtubules!
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
+++ BSG-Winterprogramm 2025/26 +++
Volles Programm Naturschutz von Oktober 2025 bis März 2026!
👉 13 Pflegeeinsätze 🪓💪
👉 5 Exkursionen 👩🎨🦆🦋🦢🌼
👉 5 Vorträge 🌤️🌗🌳🐟🦝
PDF ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/files/Progra...
Online ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/programm.html
Volles Programm Naturschutz von Oktober 2025 bis März 2026!
👉 13 Pflegeeinsätze 🪓💪
👉 5 Exkursionen 👩🎨🦆🦋🦢🌼
👉 5 Vorträge 🌤️🌗🌳🐟🦝
PDF ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/files/Progra...
Online ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/programm.html
October 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
+++ BSG-Winterprogramm 2025/26 +++
Volles Programm Naturschutz von Oktober 2025 bis März 2026!
👉 13 Pflegeeinsätze 🪓💪
👉 5 Exkursionen 👩🎨🦆🦋🦢🌼
👉 5 Vorträge 🌤️🌗🌳🐟🦝
PDF ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/files/Progra...
Online ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/programm.html
Volles Programm Naturschutz von Oktober 2025 bis März 2026!
👉 13 Pflegeeinsätze 🪓💪
👉 5 Exkursionen 👩🎨🦆🦋🦢🌼
👉 5 Vorträge 🌤️🌗🌳🐟🦝
PDF ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/files/Progra...
Online ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/programm.html
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
+++ Ausstellung: "Faszinierende Artenvielfalt in der Region Göttingen" +++
Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin & Biologin Svenja Meyer (@fminifera.bsky.social) zeigt die @bsggoettingen.bsky.social aktuell Werke über die regionale Biodiversität.
Vernissage: 10. Oktober | 17 Uhr | Stadtbibliothek Göttingen
Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin & Biologin Svenja Meyer (@fminifera.bsky.social) zeigt die @bsggoettingen.bsky.social aktuell Werke über die regionale Biodiversität.
Vernissage: 10. Oktober | 17 Uhr | Stadtbibliothek Göttingen
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
+++ Ausstellung: "Faszinierende Artenvielfalt in der Region Göttingen" +++
Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin & Biologin Svenja Meyer (@fminifera.bsky.social) zeigt die @bsggoettingen.bsky.social aktuell Werke über die regionale Biodiversität.
Vernissage: 10. Oktober | 17 Uhr | Stadtbibliothek Göttingen
Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin & Biologin Svenja Meyer (@fminifera.bsky.social) zeigt die @bsggoettingen.bsky.social aktuell Werke über die regionale Biodiversität.
Vernissage: 10. Oktober | 17 Uhr | Stadtbibliothek Göttingen
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Our Fast & Fair peer review initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE
#fastandfairpeerreview
#fastandfairpeerreview
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our Fast & Fair peer review initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE
#fastandfairpeerreview
#fastandfairpeerreview
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Meet the CAGE: a newly-discovered protein nanocapsule💊, conserved from bacteria to eukaryotes! Looks more like an eclair🍩 than a prezel🥨. This protein pastry now makes us wonder- what's the filling!? Huge congrats to the ever-amazing @computingcaitie.bsky.social, now at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🧪🧶🧬
I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Meet the CAGE: a newly-discovered protein nanocapsule💊, conserved from bacteria to eukaryotes! Looks more like an eclair🍩 than a prezel🥨. This protein pastry now makes us wonder- what's the filling!? Huge congrats to the ever-amazing @computingcaitie.bsky.social, now at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🧪🧶🧬
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Feeling excited & grateful 🌟
Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 (Life Sciences) — for our team’s live ovulation imaging.
Thanks to Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our lab!
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2...
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 #ScienceBreakthroughs
Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 (Life Sciences) — for our team’s live ovulation imaging.
Thanks to Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our lab!
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2...
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 #ScienceBreakthroughs
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Feeling excited & grateful 🌟
Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 (Life Sciences) — for our team’s live ovulation imaging.
Thanks to Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our lab!
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2...
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 #ScienceBreakthroughs
Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 (Life Sciences) — for our team’s live ovulation imaging.
Thanks to Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our lab!
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2...
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 #ScienceBreakthroughs
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Congratulations, Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social! 🍾 The Falling Walls Foundation has awarded our director the Science Breakthrough 2025 prize! Melina Schuh and her team were the first to visualize the process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real time.
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations, Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social! 🍾 The Falling Walls Foundation has awarded our director the Science Breakthrough 2025 prize! Melina Schuh and her team were the first to visualize the process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real time.
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Chromosome condensation mechanically primes the nucleus for mitosis
Timely and accurate transition into mitosis is essential to preserve genome integrity and avoid chromosome segregation errors. This transition depends on spatial and temporal activity patterns of the ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#Reproducibility
#Reproducibility
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#Reproducibility
#Reproducibility
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
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]
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
August 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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]
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
Tabea Marx from the Department of Meiosis @schuhlab.bsky.social talks about the group’s ovulation research in the new SWR Wissen video (in German)! Why is ovulation research so challenging for scientists? What did the team find out? Watch the video to learn more👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...
Was ihr noch NICHT über den Eisprung wusstet! | SWR Wissen
YouTube video by SWR Wissen
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Tabea Marx from the Department of Meiosis @schuhlab.bsky.social talks about the group’s ovulation research in the new SWR Wissen video (in German)! Why is ovulation research so challenging for scientists? What did the team find out? Watch the video to learn more👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...
Reposted by Nina Schweizer
📢Introducing the official Bluesky account for Reproduction and Fertility.
We publish research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical #reproduction and #fertility, across all animals, including humans.
Follow us for research highlights, journal news, and opportunities to get involved!
We publish research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical #reproduction and #fertility, across all animals, including humans.
Follow us for research highlights, journal news, and opportunities to get involved!
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢Introducing the official Bluesky account for Reproduction and Fertility.
We publish research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical #reproduction and #fertility, across all animals, including humans.
Follow us for research highlights, journal news, and opportunities to get involved!
We publish research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical #reproduction and #fertility, across all animals, including humans.
Follow us for research highlights, journal news, and opportunities to get involved!