Integrated MSc/PhD Graduate Program applications are now open! mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/application Get an impression about our program and science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ni1.... Apply now and become part of our vibrant student body. Spread the word!

The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations @vcmentowski.bsky.social for solving a remarkably challenging molecular puzzle

Are you eager to join an international community of scientists to tackle novel and exciting research projects in the areas of #biochemistry, #structuralbiology, #biophysics, #cellbiology, #chemicalbiology and #syntheticbiology? Apply NOW for a #fullyfunded #PhDpositions @IMPRS-LM.

ASM, ASBMB, ASCB & FASEB are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling allowing cancellation of $800M in NIH grants, threatening labs, jobs, and early-career scientists. Stable funding is vital for U.S. science. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are you curious about what PLK1 kinase is up to these days? Have a look at our latest review on @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social. Arianna Esposito Verza, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and I discuss the latest findings on a very important enzyme that is still full of surprises, 35+ years from discovery!

Fascisti che diffondono balle su un social di fascisti, per aizzare odio e violenza contro migranti Il manuale è sempre lo stesso, ed è così pieno di esseri umani miserabili che funziona sempre comunque www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...

Very happy to see our contribution to a better understanding of Hsp70/90 #chaperones online! Congrats and a big thank you to all co-authors, collaborators and reviewers! #proteostasis @poepsel-lab.bsky.social @crc1430.bsky.social @unidue-zmb.bsky.social

Is the nomination of uncle Donald for the Nobel in Economics ready, folks?

Also check out the associated News & Views by Masayasu Taki and Masayoshi Nakamura highlighting the work from @kjohnsson.bsky.social lab on SNAP-tag2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Condensin II activation by M18BP1 - published by @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social Lab & @alessandrovannini.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social & Rowland Lab @nkinl.bsky.social in molecular @cellpress.bsky.social congrats to @duccioconti.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

With a great line up of speakers: @renemedema.bsky.social Anna Akhmanova Christopher Campbell @marstonlab.bsky.social @mcclellandlab.bsky.social @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social @annestraube.bsky.social Taking place at the beautiful CRG: @crg.eu @biologists.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social

The findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...

🚀 Fully-funded #PhD opportunity in Computational Biology with our @florianjug.bsky.social Group through Politecnico of Milan DADS programme! Co-supervision by Francesca Ieva. 🧬 Use #AI to decode complex biological data across scales. Apply by 9 July 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/1-fu...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @vcmentowski.bsky.social reports a direct interaction of BUB1 with the RZZ that is necessary for RZZ recruitment when CENP-E is depleted. This may complete the identification of the receptors of the RZZ required for fibrous corona assembly

I hope US folks on the No Kings rallies know how much people outside the US are heartened to see them. We always knew the US is full of very fine people who totally reject and revile what's happening, but my god it's good to see it.

So Musk knew his buddy’s name was in the Epstein files but still supported him through the campaign and after his election? Ok…what’s next?

The 3rd Berlin Single Molecule Biophysics Course will run from 8th to 12th September at the HU-Berlin, Institute of Biology. Learn about single channels, single molecule TIRF, theory and analysis. Apply by 7th July at [email protected]. Fee waivers and bursaries available. ! Please share widely !

“A White House official said on Wednesday that Mr. Trump was likely to raise freedom of speech issues with Mr. Merz and suggest that Germany’s commitment to it had deteriorated.” (From the NYT today) What should Merz answer in your opinion?

I have had the privilege to train many chinese students over many years. They enriched our lives and did great science. Many are still here and contribute to the US scientific enterprise. The push to revoke student visas is cruel and unnecessary. We must push back. www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g...

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

And, again, WHERE IS #BIGPHARMA in defending #basicscience? laying low? playing dead? Waiting it out? Do SOMETHING! SPEAK UP! Use your gigantic lobbying machine to defend us instead of peddling your wares and increasing your profits. Or do you think highly trained workforce grows on trees?

Congrats for a fantastic defense and your even more fantastic achievements @vcmentowski.bsky.social

I am finding that my recurring question of 'how can this be legal?' is no longer a valid question in this regime.

Interactions with multiple inner #kinetochore proteins determine mitotic localization of FACT, say Julia Schweighofer, Bhagyashree Mulay, Andrea Musacchio (@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social) and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Mitosis

Schweighofer, Mulay, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social et al. reconstitute direct interactions between FAcilitates Chromatin Transcription and the 16-subunit constitutive centromere–associated network core of the chromatin-proximal #kinetochore rupress.org/jcb/article/... #mitosis

Looking forward to celebrating 80 years of federally funded science, technology and innovation @standupforscience.bsky.social SF, March 7, Civic Center, 1-3 pm 🧪 🧫 🧬

Geoffrey Hinton FRS- the ‘Godfather of AI’ has called for Elon Musk FRS to be expelled from the Royal Society - Musk’s response suggests he couldn’t care less @royalsociety.org

Nel terzo anniversario dell’aggressione russa all’Ucraina, all’Assemblea generale Onu, gli Usa (con Russia, Bielorussia, nord Corea, Ungheria, Israele) votano contro la risoluzione che condanna l’aggressione della Russia 193 paesi, 93 sì, 18 no e 65 astenuti, tra cui Cina e Iran

So thrilled to share my first paper as a first author. In these in vitro reconstitutions we observe how purified #spindle #proteins interact with #microtubules using #TIRF #microscopy 🔬👩🏻‍🔬 Grateful to those magic brains of the @surreylab.bsky.social for all the support along the way! 🫂

It's only a temporary place until we renovate your max plack department

❗ Institut Jacques Monod Lectures❗ 📅 March, 7 📍 Buffon amphitheater Next month , the Institut Jacques Monod lectures will welcome @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social , who will present «Feedback control of mitosis in the context of the kinetochore ». ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dsJr9

I am very pleased to share that I have been awarded a #MSCA #postdoc fellowship to study structural aspects of inner kinetochore nucleation on centromeric DNA with @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social 🧬🔬

Thinking back to the sort of things the press was worried about around this point in the Obama administration.

Cell division aficionados: please spread out and consider registering to this conference!

Dilemma: click the box or offer the program its chance to show the incomprehensible message again?

A word of caution: the apparent inevitability of charlatans is a consequence of the fact that quite often they come across as the most interesting folks in the room (even in science)

PhDs in biochemistry, structural biology, pharmacology, or similar, located in the US and with strong publication track records and a high motivation to solve Parkinson's, please send CV directly to me at [email protected]. Repost appreciated.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b... The Italian genius…🙄

A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID

The language and the truth are important here. I’ve had to interrupt both tv and radio presenters who said Trump won a majority of votes. He didn’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just in time for Christmas. Latest from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... great collaborative effort with @nilssonlab.bsky.social @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen.

Double whammy: Wellcome Centres are no more & MRC Units are on their last funding cycle. Huge blow to science in cities other than Cambridge-Oxford-London which continue to have well-funded institutes with excellent infrastructure (Crick, LMB etc). The rest of us…? www.science.org/content/arti...