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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · 2d

So good I’m almost worried it is fake but anyhow an amazing message to start the week to 😊

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 12d

🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT!

She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha @impvienna.bsky.social for their research on vertebrate fertilization, which was awarded this year's ÖGMBT Life Science Research Award in Austria for basic research!

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 12d

🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT!

She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 12d

Initial attempt at replicating in relion (parameters in next post). This is for Aca2-RNA, using a 100k subset of the 2D-classified particles (no prior 3D cleanup).

A 1-class ab initio in relion, then local refinement in relion (1.8deg searches+blush) gives a nominally 3.3Å map; 3.5 Å w/out blush.

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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 14d

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 🧬🧪

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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 25d

This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress!

We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below.

Read on for details... 1/x

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · Aug 26

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

University of Basel @unibas.ch · Aug 26

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the @biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This will be made possible by the Georg H. Endress Foundation.

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between b...

www.unibas.ch

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yes, he definitely has a unique style :)

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 25

JP’s an artist! :)

Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yep, JPs the artist behind it!

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Laura Johansen, MPH (she/her) @laurajohansen.bsky.social · Aug 23

+1 would sign - I used FlyBase *regularly* for my undergrad thesis on Drosophila genetics!

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you are thinking about the future of structural biology, we are too! Our two cents (Jürgen Plitzko and I) just got published online here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 23

+1 would sign. @flybase.bsky.social is truly essential!

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 18

So awesome this is out in its final form. Congrats @jennysachweh.bsky.social , @becklab.bsky.social and team. Happy I could contribute a little to the story 😊

Jenny Sachweh @jennysachweh.bsky.social · Aug 18

My PhD paper is in press @cellpress.bsky.social and now online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...!

Contents: weird #NPCs in yeast and flies, #CLEM, in situ #cryoET and more!

Made possible by the amazing @becklab.bsky.social team at @mpibp.bsky.social and collaborators! #TeamTomo

The small GTPase Ran defines nuclear pore complex asymmetry

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) bridge across the nuclear envelope and mediate nucleocytoplasmic exchange. They consist of hundreds of nucleoporin build…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Extremely excited for the second version of this workshop at the MPI of Biophysics l, Frankfurt, that will happen 12-20. April 2026. Absolutely amazing lineup of speakers, I am very much looking forward to learning from everyone! Apply here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 13

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Jul 18

Behind the paper article by Manel Llado Santaeularia on our manuscript on the in cell structure of a transposable element with @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years @viennabiocenter.bsky.social Special thanks @sramundo.bsky.social for making this interaction possible!

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thanks, excited to be here!

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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · Jul 15

Exactly two weeks left to submit your abstract to the EMBO Mobile Genome Workshop.
☝️this year we will select from abstracts 2 “long” talks to highlight last minute breakthrough from early career scientists. Apply! July 29th

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jun 18

⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!

👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl

Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍

⭐🧑🏼‍🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!

#EMBOMobileGenome

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Jun 11

Learn more about the collaboration possibilities offered at Vienna BioCenter as Victoria Deneke shares her insights as a Postdoc at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology.

The VIP³ PostDoc Program call is open – apply now! training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...

#VBCPostDoc

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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · May 26

We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · May 7

Also always pins down the things one actually doesn’t know regarding an instrument, especially if you dig deeper. Love it, so I’m totally with you!

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Philippe Van der Stappen @phaips.vd.st · May 6

Hey #TeamTomo,
Ever been in need of a tutorial about the fundamentals of cryo-electron tomography? From preprocessing raw frames to high-res subtomogram averaging?
That's why @florentwaltz.bsky.social and I made this website!

tomoguide.github.io

Follow the thread 1 /🧵
#CryoET #CryoEM 🔬🧪

Welcome to TomoGuide

A step-by-step Cryo-ET guide

tomoguide.github.io

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · May 7

Cool stuff! Gonna be super useful in teaching, thanks for putting this together Philippe & Florent!

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Apr 10

You should check out drosophila’s bruchpilot 😅 fruit fly has the best names for sure :D

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