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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · 21d

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · 21d

New paper from our postdoc @fedevignale.bsky.social, et.al!

Studying microbialites in Argentina 🇦🇷, they show how extreme, early Earth-like conditions shape microbes, minerals & biosignatures- insights for Earth’s past and life beyond 🌎 🧬.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · 23d

We’re looking for a GL!

Join us at EMBL Hamburg! 🧫🦠🧬

The position will be based at CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social , an interdisciplinary research centre focused on infection biology, and will be integrated into EMBL's research programme. @embl.org

Find out more and apply here: lnkd.in/dJU9pee7

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EMBL @embl.org · Aug 8

At EMBL Grenoble, lead an independent research group using bold, original approaches to integrate complementary structural biology methods with emerging nano X-ray imaging technologies, bridging scales and modalities to unravel molecular mechanisms.

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · 23d

Check it out the latest open position to join EMBL in Heidelberg!
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EMBL @embl.org · Aug 7

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠

Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.

Take a look at these four open positions 👇

SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congrats to the Grünewald, Topf groups & et. al @cssbhamburg.bsky.social on their Nature paper! 📃 🍾

Trapping and resolving the elusive prefusion form of HSV gB - neutralizing HSV-1 & HSV-2 with a single nanobody is no small feat!🦙

Glad that our SPC facility have contributed to this [email protected]

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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · Aug 27

Excited to be part of the Instruct Centre Germany!

@jankosinski.bsky.social @landaulabcssb.bsky.social @topf-lab.bsky.social @carobarisch.bsky.social @bosse-lab.bsky.social @spcembl.bsky.social

Instruct-ERIC @instruct-eric.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are delighted to announce that Instruct has added a Centre in Germany, and expanded its existing Centre in Spain with new facilities, services, and technologies!

See the list below - all new services will be available for funded access soon!
Watch this space!
instruct-eric.org/news/new-ger...

New German Centre and Expanded Spanish Centre Approved

Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.

instruct-eric.org

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Jul 1

Exciting to be with part of my group at the 15th European Biophysics Congress (EBSA) in beautiful Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

If you are around, join my talk today about tools for the analysis of biophysical data 💡🧩

Check our posters for open discussion and networking !📃🖇️

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@cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Jun 11

KinGenie, an online tool for the analysis of kinetics data, has been introduced on the 4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference in Paris, France 🇫🇷

A great addition to our eSPC web server💡🚀

Reach out to us for further input!

@osvalb.bsky.social
@mosbri.bsky.social
@embl.org
@cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Jun 10

4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference starts today 📍in beautiful Paris, France 🇫🇷

Excited to see familiar and new faces from our TNA site, network and continue collaborating on research infrastructures projects in molecular biophysics 🧬🧫 🤝

@mosbri.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Happy to co-host a workshop on lipid nanoparticles together with @embl.org Hamburg this week. The workshop is a part of the @eugloh.bsky.social ‘Entrepreneurship meets Health Innovation at Large-Scale Facilities’ conference.

@landaulabcssb.bsky.social @spcembl.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · May 12

Our latest research is out 📄 !

This study provides an interaction map of Sla2 & the regulatory proteins Sla1 & Pan1, predicted by AI modeling & confirmed by molecular biophysics.

@lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @meytallandau.bsky.social
@emilgustavsson.bsky.social
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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Now publication NAR is online:

doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

ChiraKit: an online tool for the analysis of circular dichroism spectroscopy data

Abstract. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is an established biophysical technique to study chiral molecules. CD allows investigating conformational ch

doi.org

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Apr 28

This project was conceived as a collaboration in the frame of MOSBRI @mosbri.bsky.social

SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Apr 28

🔊 Thrilled to share our latest work, just published in NAR! 📃

We present ChiraKit, open-source tool to process raw CD data and perform advanced analysis!

Access via our eSPC web-server!

➡️ spc.embl-hamburg.de
@osvalb.bsky.social @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Apr 24

Tanks for the nice feedback! Peer-reviewed publication coming soon 😉👍

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Clarissa Czekster @cczekster.bsky.social · Apr 24

Just want to say thanks to @spcembl.bsky.social for developing ChiraKit and allowing quick and informative analysis of CD data - more here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
best news of the day today as we were stuck with beautiful but hard to analyze data 🙂 #scienceisawesome

ChiraKit, an online tool for the analysis of circular dichroism spectroscopy data

Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is an established biophysical technique to study chiral molecules. CD allows investigating conformational changes under varying experimental conditions and has bee...

www.biorxiv.org

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · Mar 28

We're hosting an Ask Me Anything about Biophysics on Bluesky today with BPS Ambassador Alumnus Gonzalo de Prat Gay! Tweet your questions with #BiophysicsAMA and tune in at 11am USA Eastern time.

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Emil Gustavsson @emilgustavsson.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨The registration for the Functional #Amyloid Meeting is finally open, check it out on landau-cssb.de

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Mar 21

Congratulations to George who had his PhD defense today! 🥂🍾🥳🎉 @uni-hamburg.de @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social · Mar 7

Happy International Women's Day! #IWD2025

We encourage everyone to #AccelerateAction and support #DEI.

@carobarisch.bsky.social @landaulabcssb.bsky.social @topf-lab.bsky.social @mariarosenthal.bsky.social @bosse-lab.bsky.social @jankosinski.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨!

👉🏼 @fedevignale.bsky.social

🏔️ Our latest study explores seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef at Laguna Pozo Bravo 🇦🇷 - a site with conditions reminiscent of early Earth 🌍🦠

📖 Read here : doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Feb 17

If you’re attending the BPS 2025, don’t miss the poster of our ARISE fellow @osvalb.bsky.social

He’s presenting eSPC, online data analysis platform on biophysics ! 🔎

Date : 18/02/25
Time : 13:45
Session: “Protein stability folding & chaperones”
Poster : B38

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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Osvaldo Burastero @osvalb.bsky.social · Feb 14

Looking forward to making new connections at #BPS2025👨 Meet me at poster B38 on Tuesday 18 Feb 13:45. Session "protein stability folding and chaperones"

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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @spcembl.bsky.social · Feb 11

Today,on #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate the contributions of women in structural biology & biophysics!

As an international team of women scientists 🇦🇷 🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🇻🇪 , we’re proud to push the boundaries of discovery 🧬🦠

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceForAll

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