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...

Spring is at the campus @hhu.de 🤩

The research group of Michael Weber @mpi-cbg.de is looking for a Ph.D. student (f/m/d) in high-speed nanoscale imaging. Apply now until March 31: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6328947...

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What an amazing development here! @hhu.de 🤝@fz-juelich.de Best wishes for great science - and the highest hopes for future collaborations!

We are currently recruiting PhD students, postdocs, and a group leader to join the Institute. If you’re interested, please send me a personal message or email your CV and a brief motivation letter to: [email protected].

We are inviting applications for a joint appointment: Director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Full Professor (W3) at MLU Apply by April, 24 via: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de Join us in advancing innovative research at the interface of chemistry and bioactive natural products.

By pure serendipity I came across this: An awesome take on peer-reviewers, by Sho Takatori (www.takatorilab.com). Laughing through tears... I wish it resonated less here 💔 😵‍💫! www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXw...

🧵 Proud to present a tour de force by postdoc @gregbwhitfield.bsky.social solving the mystery of how bacterial Tad pili can extend and retract with a single motor ATPase. Great collaboration with Lynne Howell, @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social, @ianyyen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Happy to share our story about how mitochondrial outer membrane protein insertases came to be…..

EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis 📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026 A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics. ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026 🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr... 📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl

Molecular insights into the capsular polysaccharide transporter Wza-Wzc complex pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41644548/ #cryoem

The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Structural basis of outer membrane biogenesis by the TamAB translocase ->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Do register! It is really worth it, I promise!

We are online! Apply, repost, inform all your amazing colleagues and lets have a great #lipidlove time in Dresden meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...

🌟 PhD positions at IMPRS-CBP! Applications open from Jan 23 – Mar 11. Fully funded PhDs in cellular biophysics at @mpibp.bsky.social , @goetheuni.bsky.social l and @unimainz.bsky.social . 👉 imprs-cbp.mpg.de #phd #biophysics #imprs_cbp

Looking forward the travel to Jena (first time there since 20 years!) - to meet the microbiology & membrane transport folks! ❤️‍🔥

Happy to share the most recent collaboration with @synbiojazz.bsky.social to produce plant pigments in cyanobacteria. This time our cyanos were quite talented at transforming aromatic amino acids into colorful beetroot compounds! 🫜🦠

Are you interested in a postdoctoral position? Do you have experience in mitochondrial biology and in vivo research? Please send me your CV!

New paper out! 🚨 We uncover how Mycobacterium marinum (red) exploits host sterol-rich membrane microdomains (green) to damage and escape from its phagosome Huge shoutout to @angieprrt.bsky.social and Cristina Bosmani for their very elegant work! 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Me getting back to sending nagging emails on January 6th when people return to work from the Christmas break

The paper by Pia Lavriha, Carina Fluri, Jorge Hernández González and Volodymyr Korkhov, published in @natcomms.nature.com provides molecular insights into lipid-mediated conformational changes in Cx32 gap junction channels. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

We are looking for a team leader to join the cryo-EM facility work at the new Ernst Ruska-Centre 2.0 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We have a series of microscopes used by (@irene-vercellino.bsky.social, Schröder, @sachsegroup.bsky.social) and external users. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊 Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects. #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs Full job ad: lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...

Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to become part of the SCALE community! Several professorships and group leader positions are available at Goethe University and FIAS. We are looking for professors in the fields of molecular microbiology, cellular biochemistry, and molecular biochemistry.

Werde Teil des Teams @hhu.de: #Stellenangebot, scheinbar unbefristet. Grüße an #ichbinHanna & #ichbinReyhan

The last chapter from my postdoc days is finally online! We solve structures of the ER membrane O-mannosyltransferase Pmt4 and uncover a functionally important cytosolic binding site for the Dol-P-Man substrate lipid - allosteric regulation or a long sought after Dol-P-Man flippase?? 🔄 rdcu.be/eUJfb

Die DFG will künftig die Nutzung von Künstlicher Intelligenz #KI in der #Begutachtung ermöglichen. Der Einsatz darf allerdings nur unter klar definierten Bedingungen erfolgen. Eine Leitlinie dazu soll im ersten Quartal 2026 veröffentlicht werden. Mehr zu den Prinzipien: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

Beautiful sunrise in the Botanical garden @hhu.de ! Let the whole week be so splendid! 🤓

🚨PhD position alert🚨 🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅ Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery! 📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw 📆Deadline: 23 January #PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI

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Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1

🚨 Fully funded PhD positions in #microbiology! Join IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life in Marburg,Germany 🌱 Interdisciplinary research 🧬 World-class mentoring 🧪 State-of-the-art research infrastructure 🗓️ Apply until Jan 31, 2026 🔗 imprs-marburg.mpg.de/3197/JOIN-US#microbiology#PhDposition #WomenInSTEM

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

🔥 New episode of the Night Science Podcast! Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC, the European Research Council. She discusses how funding agencies can better support bold ideas and we explore how to evaluate creativity in grant proposals. @marialep.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2AJj...

Opening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

Really happy to see the work (doi.org/10.1038/s414...) published. Here, we show the full-length helical cryo-EM structure of p62/SQSTM1 and first cryo-ET visual of p62 positive structures inside the cell.

🎺✨ Adventsstimmung an der HHU: Am 4. Dezember erfüllt wieder festliche Musik den Süden des Campus Gärtner Jochen Stappmanns gibt am Donnerstag ab 13:30 Uhr vom Dach des Biologiegebäudes 26.14 ein adventliches Trompetenkonzert – und singt dazu. 1/3

We cracked the mystery: Pteridines are the natural ligands of CutA, a widespread protein in nature @pnas.org @hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social CutA is one of #PII signaling family, but it's function remained unknown coz we didn't know what it binds.... 🧵Thread below👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...