New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Please repost - position of Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs available at our Institute in the heart of Europe (Basel, Switzerland) 👇

Research Specialist in Microscopy and Spatial Transcriptomics (80-100%) www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #biozentrum #biozentrumbasel #universityofbasel #researchjobs #sciencejobs #basel #job #hiring #recruiting #carreers #research #specialist #microscopy

SAVE THE DATE! The EMBO workshop "Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like proteins in Health and Disease" will be on September 2026. Exciting line up of talks and an amazing location! Organised by @kulathu.bsky.social, @merbllab.bsky.social, @simonapolo.bsky.social, Claudio Joazeiro. Registration open soon.

Please share and spread the word!

Thrilled to be selected as one of the 28 EMBO Young Investigators for 2026! It is an incredible honor, and I am especially proud to be the second scientist from Czechia chosen since the programme began in 2001. Happy to join Tomas Pluskal in representing our country in the EMBO YIP.

I am delighted to share that our new manuscript is published as an online Pre-proof at the Journal of Biological Chemistry!! 🎉 www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Join us in Lunteren, the Netherlands on March 5 & 6, 2026 for the 32nd Dutch Cancer Biology meeting. We have two fantastic keynote speakers: @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and @colindascheele.bsky.social and the rest of the program will be by early-career scientists. Info: www.dutchcancerbiology.nl

📢 We’re on Social Media! Want to keep up with research news, lab highlights, and opportunities from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Umeå University? ✅ Follow us on LinkedIn: 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/mbb-... …and here on Bluesky: @mbb-umu.bsky.social #UmeaUniversity

A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply! Please share!

Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader Closing date 27th November www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

It was wonderful to organize the @gbmev.bsky.social Cellular Organelles meeting in Düsseldorf along with Andreas Reichert at University of Düsseldorf. Leading Organelles biologists from Germany attended the 2025 meeting. Thanks to the constant support from Konstanze Winklhofer and Johannes Hermann

Deadline coming up soon!

Very happy to share our collaborative project on FAM118 proteins - noncanonical sirtuins that form filaments and process NAD in human and other vertebrate cells.

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

Thrilled to share that the final piece of my PhD work is now on bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With support from @nvidia and the @NSF, we used AlphaFold to screen 1.6M+ protein pairs, revealing thousands of potential novel PPIs. All data can be viewed at predictomes.org/hp

🚨We have just launched a search to fill a new Jr group leader position!🚨 Great conditions to kickstart your own independent carreer - happy to answer any questions you might have. please spread the word and repost! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/rvz/jobs-...

✨ Passionate about cell biology or biochemistry? Join the Martens Lab as a postdoc to uncover why autophagy stalls at disease-linked protein aggregates - and how to restart it 🧠 Apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/24dcrcke

Great career opportunity at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social: The @impvienna.bsky.social is looking for a new Junior Group Leader in cell and molecular biology, synthetic biology, genomics, gene regulation, development, cancer, immunology or infection biology. More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Check out our @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 Minisymposium on ER Homeostasis. With THIS speaker lineup, this event will be as dynamic, transformative and productive as the ER itself! So don’t 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 yourselves over and join us to 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 in world of the ER. (All PUNS intended.)

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct

Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Lipid bilayer thinning near a ubiquitin ligase selects ER membrane proteins for degradation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#MembraneTraffickers! Our next online seminar is this Thursday, Nov 6 at 5 PM CEST! We’ll hear from @agatawitkowska.bsky.social on mechanical control of neurotransmission and @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social on lipid storage mechanisms in health and disease. Spread the word and join the discussion!

ICYMI: New Online! Decoding ubiquitin signals inside cells

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu

Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

🚨🚨🚨 We are launching the 2nd application round for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program MemBioMed, offering cutting-edge training on exploring the complex behavior of cellular membranes & unlocking their therapeutic potential. Students can apply here: life.univ-cotedazur.eu/internationa...

📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026 For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026 ➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw

🚨Our paper is out! 🥳 Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion. Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... it all started years ago with a failed experiment 🧵👇 1/9

Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

This is going to be fun - we are really pleased with the program - there is some really exciting science on the menu! Do sign up!

🏆 #LabOlympics 2025 at the ZMB are over — congratulations to the 'Ehrmännchen'! 🎉 They didn’t just take home the trophy, but also the honor of hosting the 2026 edition! A big thanks to @hellerschmiedlab.bsky.social, @icce-unidue.bsky.social and all other participants for their amazing team spirit!

Explore emerging research with field leaders @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social #Autophagy : Mechanisms to Therapy, this February in Keystone! keysym.us/KSAutophagy26 #KSAutophagy26 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

ER exit sites are dynamic ER subdomains that integrate signals, reshape membranes and steer secretion. Twelve groups in the field came together to map their diversity, regulation, unanswered questions and future directions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬Ubiquitin Precursor: A Key to Healthy Aging? Scientists @cecad.bsky.social and @hhu.de have identified a new form of the protein Ubiquitin, responsible for proteostasis and healthy aging opening up potentially new perspectives for the treatment of cancer and age-related diseases. uni.koeln/BLXJA

Preprint alert! 🚨 We reveal molecular switches that enable the nucleolus to reorganise into a proteostasis hub - coordinating protein quality control with ribosome biogenesis and cross-talk with other stress-responsive organelles. A big tour de force by the team 💪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sacca' lab investigates the behavior of molecular motors within engineered DNA origami nano-compartments to understanding of how nanoscale confinements influence biochemical processes and energy conversion. Interested? Then apply to @imprs-lm.bsky.social #IMPRS #PhDposition #Syntheticbiology

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.

If you would like to contribute to uncover the mechanisms by which proteolytic enzymes in the ubiquitin system operate and exploit these insights for novel therapeutic approaches, then apply to the Gersch lab @maltegersch.bsky.social #IMPRS-LM. #IMPRS #PhDposition #PhDprogram #ChemicalBiology

The 5th Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social on September 30th are one week away. We have an exciting program including our keynotes Sarah O'Connor (@oconnorlab.bsky.social) and @craigmcrews.bsky.social. Make sure to register for free: web.cvent.com/event/... #ChemSky #ChemBio

Excited to share our new paper! 🎉 The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Very thankful to @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social for his mentorship and support over the years.

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

A few months ago, our review “The Molecular Toolbox for Linkage Type-Specific Analysis of Ubiquitin Signaling” 🧬🧰🛠️ came out in ChemBioChem. Time to give it a spotlight! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer