Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ronnie Berntsson

@rberntsson.bsky.social

150 followers 110 following 50 posts

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine @UmeaUniversity, Associate Professor. Type 4 Secretion Systems #T4SS. Chair of SFBBM (www.sfbbm.se). Science policy. Views my own. https://www.biostruct.umu.se/principal-investigators/ronnie-berntsson/

www.biostruct.umu.se

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Mar 14

We are looking for a postdoc!

Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria!

Please share!

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Postdoctoral position to study Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems - Umeå, Sweden job with Umeå University | 12837918

A two-year Postdoctoral position for studies of Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems that facilitate the spread of antibiotic resistance

www.nature.com

7 6

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · 8d

Seems like a very handy tool!

Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 8d

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

Protein Domain Designer tool for the generation of publication-ready protein domain diagrams

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · Aug 29

Visit PDB-101 to learn more about Antimicrobial Resistance

PDB101: Global Health: Antimicrobial Resistance: About: Bacteria and Antibiotics

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

pdb101.rcsb.org

1 1

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

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...

14 110 300

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ok, då köper jag det! 😀

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Aug 15

Det låter ju iofs väldigt gott, men att kvalificera som middag är väl att ta i lite.. 😂

1 1

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?

Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria

Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

journals.plos.org

5 63 140

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Lars-Anders Carlson @lacarlson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Interesting that they could put a number on it. And yes, that's a reindeer seeking shade behind a concrete wall. Not their usual place to hang out...

World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · Aug 14

Climate change made the relentless heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland about 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely. Our latest study was published this morning.

“This event should be taken as another reminder that no country is safe from climate change” - @frediotto.bsky.social

🧵

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · Aug 12

Cryo-EM ligand building using AlphaFold3-like model and molecular dynamics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40788932/ #cryoem

4 4

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Jul 25

I've only had 8 molecules (of a 67 kDa protein) in the ASU as the maximum. However, are you sure that you have so many molecules? About 5 years ago we solved a structure that had 81% solvent content...

1 1

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

graphical abstract of the article the extended mobility of plasmids

4 94 190

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Maciek Wiatrak @macwiatrak.bsky.social · Jul 21

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.

Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧵 1/n

3 59 91

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · Jul 3

😳😱 not a smart move…🧬🧶

Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 2

Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90

Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out

Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold

scim.ag

1 1

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm today starting as pro-dean at the medical faculty at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years ahead, together with the new dean Katrine Riklund and the others in the faculty leadership!

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Jun 2

Finally! ERC is reducing the length of part II of their application form.

'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jun 2

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

europa.eu

1 4 23

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 24

Vad i hela friden är en ”puck” med ost? Brännvin på eftermiddagen är däremot underskattat 🙂

1 1

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 23

Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂

sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...

Åtta nya toppforskare till Sveriges unga akademi - Sveriges Unga Akademi

Den 23 maj tar Sveriges unga akademi emot åtta nya ledamöter – framstående yngre forskare från fält som datadriven biovetenskap, historia och hållbarhetsvetenskap. Med sina olika perspektiv stärker de...

sverigesungaakademi.se

2 4

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 19

Grattis!

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 11

Bra tråd om man är intresserad av skog!

Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · May 10

I början på april deltog jag i ett webbinarium om skogen och klimatpolitiken som Klimatsossarna ordnade. Det spelades in, så den nyfikne kan kolla på det, men jag tänkte också dela några av mina reflektioner i en tråd.

klimatsossarna.se/innehall/sem...

Webbinarium: Skogen och klimatklimatpolitiken, del 2/2 — Klimatsossarna

Inspelat webbinarium om skogens roll i klimatpolitiken. Del 2 av 2.

klimatsossarna.se

1 4

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 6

will it be live streamed? 😀

1 2

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 5

"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

35 310 980

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 3

What can one say..

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

www.nature.com

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · May 2

Might know some that are looking. Would you mind sending over a CV?

1 1

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Apr 25

Only 5 more days left to apply. Take the chance and join us trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, in beautiful Umeå, Sweden. We are extremely well equipped, and are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! 😀

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Mar 14

Postdoctoral position to study Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems - Umeå, Sweden job with Umeå University | 12837918

A two-year Postdoctoral position for studies of Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems that facilitate the spread of antibiotic resistance

www.nature.com

Ronnie Berntsson @rberntsson.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is cool stuff, will be interesting to try out!

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Apr 17

AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊

In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃

Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...

Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson

Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Apr 8

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves

4 14 93