How do mitochondrial ribosomes keep pace with membrane insertion? Now out in NSMB: We show that mitoribosomes slow down at defined positions linked to membrane insertion and protein topology: rdcu.be/fhqIT #Mitochondria #Ribosome #CryoEM

We’re hiring! 🇸🇪🔬
 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Prokaryotic Microbiology (molecular focus) at Stockholm University. Supportive environment + strong molecular research 👉https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:921526/type:job/where:125/apply:1 Please share!!

Please register ! We are looking to seing you in Marseille !

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

We built an AI that will tell you what will get your grant rejected. It’s a tough critique, but it’s better to know when you can still do something about it 👇 @qedscience.bsky.social

🤔 Still wondering how smFRET works in practice - and how it complements your current techniques? Our handbook shows when and why to use it alongside existing methods to add dynamic, single-molecule insight. Download: buff.ly/CxuqL1A #smFRET #biophysics #biochemistry

📢 We are #hiring! ▫️Group Leader in Chemical Biology ▫️Group Leader in Structural Biology ▫️ Public Procurement Officer (Maternity Leave) ▫️#Postdoc fellows @batllelab.bsky.social, @swculek.bsky.social  & more!  ➡️ https://bit.ly/irbjobs #IRBJobs #ScienceJobs #JobOffer #OncoSky #AcademicSky #ChemBio

🚨 #JobAlert We're looking for a junior group leader interested in #SyntheticBiology, #BiologicalMaterials, or similar. More info ➡️ tud.link/3tn7bb Application deadline: May 21 #WeAreHiring #PI #GroupLeader #Academia #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #Germany

It's already back ???? #Maythe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou Well, somebody has to do it @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social 🫣 poke @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Did you know that the nucleosome inspires the Millennium Falcon design and made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs ?

New📜 from our lab provides a mechanism for how gut Bacteroides evolve effector repertoires secreted by conserved T6SSs, shaping competition and gut biodiversity 🦠 Heteromeric Hcp proteins recognise and “carry” multiple effectors minimizing protein sequence variability 🧬 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

Come and join us at B CUBE (TU Dresden) as group leader - great environment, lots of Molecular Bioengineering from biochemistry to biophysics around and looking forward to support you in setting up your own research team. Details 👇 datashare.tu-dresden.de/s/XtAFtSy25H.... Deadline 21 May 2026.

Join us! We are recruiting an Associate/ Assistant Professor in quantitative, systems and engineering biology (QSEB) @warwicklifesci.bsky.social . warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

There's more - we also have a broad call for 6 Assistant Professors in @warwicklifesci.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We introduce ConforNets, a mechanism for conformational control in AlphaFold3 models - SoTA at producing diverse conformations on every multistate benchmark (N=104) - Novel capability: transfer state from one protein to another Outperforms BioEmu, ConforMix and AFsample3 🧵1/8

ComEC structure is out!! 😍 Congratulations to the authors! That’s not an easy one. We have been trying for years to get that structure… We failed and gave up.

Was just asked to spread the word about this position. Structural biology and Chemical Biology positions in Barcelona, one of the great cities of the world! www.irbbarcelona.org/sites/defaul...

🛡️ @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins Sky Defense! Our ambassador is raising $500,000 for interceptor drones and other air defense equipment to help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks. Join us — let’s make a difference, strengthening Ukraine against terror: u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Our paper on the proton-driven secondary active #transporter SbmA for antimicrobial peptides is finally out! We used #cryoEM, #EPR, #MD to show that it resembles and undergoes conformational changes like #ABC transporter TMDs consistent with an alternating-access transport mechanism.

Dear Lipid and Membrane Enthusiasts, There is only one month!! left to register and submit your abstracts for the @embo.org Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, which will be held from September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, Germany. Workshop program and registration page: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...

#joboffer #Germany plz spread it I'm hiring a Junior leader (E13; 100% for 3-5 y) to start own independence w/ focus on #CryoEM SPA or ET Ideally 1-2y postdoc experience Plz get in touch, if you are interested in #Structural biology & #MicroBiochem @sfb1381.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

A leader in the cell biology of signalling, the 2027 Centenary Award is presented to Matthew Freeman in recognition of his pioneering discoveries into the biological significance and mechanisms of rhomboid intramembrane proteases and pseudoprotease and unwavering commitment to mentorship!

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

In a followup with @longzhou88.bsky.social and Yue Liu we move from molecular mechanism to membrane architecture. A giant ETC-ATP synthase assembly containing 10 ATP synthases and 6 respiratory complexes builds long-range periodic OXPHOS arrays on native cristae langtaosha.org.cn/lts/en/prepr... 1/4

1. Littauen: halbiert die Kosten für alle Bahntickets. 2. Spanien: senkt MwSt. für Kraftstoffe und Strom von 21 auf 10%. 3. Belgien, Luxemburg, Polen, Ungarn und Kroatien: Preisdeckel. 4. Alle europäischen Länder: Tempolimit. In Deutschland darf der Kraftstoffpreis nur noch 1x/Tag erhöht werden. 🤡

Sad news on the passing of Prof. Andreas Engel, a pioneer in the field of cryo-EM (shared with the 3DEM community by Henning Stahlberg). Andreas' kindness, warmth, and enthusiasm for science and his colleagues will be missed.

I will probably be hiring either a PhD or a Postdoc in the near future. If you are interested in deep biochemical history or molecular mechanisms of evolution please get in touch.

First conference of the newly founded interfaculty Center of Membrane Research at HHU. Two days of exciting talks about all areas of membrane research. Thanks to all speakers and participants for a great time. For sure worth to be repeated!

What a blast! 🎉 Our International Symposium last week gathered 27 world class speakers and over 200 participants. From electrifying plenary talks to vibrant poster session chats, the energy was palpable and the atmosphere truly unforgettable. A massive thank you to all speakers and attendees!

Only 2 weeks left to submit your application for the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs, taking place 26–31 August in Porto, Portugal! Curious about what awaits you in Porto? 🌅 Get a sneak peek into your week at the summer school: buff.ly/ANhKb4T buff.ly/ANhKb4T

The newly established NeCEN Utrecht is looking for a #cryoEM scientist! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Work with a new Krios 5 + pFIB and support cutting-edge life science research. 📍 Utrecht | 🗓 Apply by 30 April Please share with your network!

What a fascinating story is hiding in bioRxiv!! An elaborate work of @doylemt1.bsky.social an co-workers to understand the function of the bacterial TAM machinery ❤️‍🔥 and here it is, a rich body of evidence for the "ancient" bridge for the lipid transfer 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Standing ovations for an incredible Maya Schuldiner, who just received the Otto Warburg Metal at the #MosbacherKolloqium of the @gbmev.bsky.social and delivered the most impressive, passionate speeches one can imagine... beautiful oration by Christian Ungermann and many tears in the lecture hall 🧪💕

Thanks to the Organizers of @sfb1381.bsky.social conference in Freiburg for putting together a brilliant scientific program and all the great people! Ultimately happy that our most recent work was appreciated by the public, with a poster prize to Marius Benedens 🤩

I'm thrilled to be starting as Professor for Molecular Biology at Heidelberg University in April. Looking forward to this adventure!

Its official, from April civil servant for "the Ländle" - Congratulations @jamessaenz.bsky.social on becoming professor @uniheidelberg.bsky.social - and I am happy to be back in town. @mpi-cbg.de @bcube-tud.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social

Happy to announce that my institution, @irbbarcelona.org, is opening two group leader positions, 1 in chemical biology and 1 in structural biology, to strengthen our expertise in molecular sciences: please spread the word !

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The team is ready to departure to Freiburg meeting @sfb1381.bsky.social and the spirit is top 🤩 Followed by Mosbach colloquium @gbmev.bsky.social #lipidtime, and even more membranes at icmr.hhu.de symposium @hhu.de Busy days, and so many great people to meet!

Quick career update. Since beginning of March, I am appointed as Professor of Biosensorics at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU, Germany). Expect more single-molecule and single-cell inspired stuff & #OpenMicroscopy soonTM (🧬,🧫,🔬,🧪).

Attention scientists from all over the world🙃 The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants are out! 🥳 117 scientists from 31 countries will pursue bold, interdisciplinary research, from #neuroscience to #ecology and beyond! 🧪 Are you one of the new #HFSPAwardees? 🔗https://bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 #sts #HFSP

Getting ready for our upcoming symposium! We are excited to welcome our international speakers and all other participants to Freiburg next week for what promises to be an unforgettable SFB 1381 Symposium.

Out now in EMBO J ahead of World #TB day! Our friends at the TB Drug Accelerator identified EtfD as a high-priority target for fast acting treatments so @courbongautier.bsky.social jumped into action. Our EtfD assay & struct are already being used to help find new therapeutics tinyurl.com/3cb2j5k9

When it rains myco publications in pours myco publications! Now out in PNAS tinyurl.com/2a6833n4 When @zestytoast.bsky.social accidentally isolated the long-chain acyl-CoA carboxylase, we quickly realized we were looking at a fascinating machine essential for building the mycobacterial membrane...

Am 04. März ernannte Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck den Biotechnologen Dr. Johannes Rebelein @rebeleinlab.bsky.social zum W3-Professor für Nachhaltige Biotechnologie. Rebelein wird damit auch Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Enzymtechnologie der HHU am @fz-juelich.de. 1/2

How are histones acetylated as they emerge from the ribosome? We show that NAA40 cooperates with the NAC complex to enable co-translational acetylation of H2A/H4, revealing NAC as a coordinator of nascent protein modification. Read more about our collaboration with @kirmizislab.bsky.social #cryoEM

Call for applications: New Director at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at @fz-juelich.de, combined with a joint W3 professorship with @hhu.de in "Microbial Biotechnology". www.academics.de/jobs/direkto...