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Hello from Barcelona! Thrilled to announce my recent joining of the @arnausebe.bsky.social Lab at CRG with the support of a Beatriu de Pinós fellowship. Glad to be back in the city that saw me grow as a scientist. More more single cell omics, more evo-devo, more weird organisms... coming soon!

New preprint out! Zhoubo Hu et al "A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis". We identify CAIR1, a UVR8-interacting protein, as a redox-responsive regulator of catalase localization and activity, maintaining cellular ROS balance. 🌱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today’s @bzh-hd.bsky.social seminar is on Cross-linking mass spec #XL_MS & how it can be used in cell biology, given by Fan Liu. Thx @cpaulino.bsky.social for inviting her!!!

@yichangsung.bsky.social gave a great talk on tandem kinases for the UC Davis Plant Path seminar.

Excited to join the Editorial Board of @plosbiology.org, one of the pioneers of high-quality, open-access publishing.

Two new papers from the lab published in The EMBO Journal! link.springer.com/article/10.1... By Kai Walstein, @louisa-hill.bsky.social and others – On role of M18BP1 in CENP-A loading link.springer.com/article/10.1... By Arianna Esposito Verza and others – On mechanism of activation of PLK1

Setting up my new lab at the Medical University of Vienna. Exciting times! 🧪🔬

Can plant pathogens boost vector fitness? Together with @hassansalem.bsky.social, we review how phytopathogens can spread further by moonlighting as insect symbionts 🪲 More on this nifty lifestyle in @annualreviews.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is kinda like giving wetsuit-wearing proteins a bath and seeing where they get wet... youtu.be/6zutA_4NYBQ

I agree--reading this book was one of the influences that shaped my career. I also wore out a copy writing this piece about its influence. HIGHLY recommended 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31935171/

For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science. I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback) www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...

The first hybrid meeting of “the Fellowship of MUMEI (木霉)” took place in Göttingen ❄️ We discussed the terminology of #Trichoderma (木霉)-plant interactions, shared ideas and established new collaborations. Thanks Irina Druzhinina @rbgkew.bsky.social for leading and Annette Pfordt for hosting 🍄‍🟫💚🌱

Our new paper! @PNASNews, 1/17 Healing isn’t about eliminating stress- it’s about regulating it. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Work led by @akanshaganguly.bsky.social reveals how plants carefully manage wound-induced stress (ROS) at the cellular level to activate organ regeneration.

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Happy and proud to share the first first-author paper from @arianna-kr8.bsky.social! Lettuce phenotypes strongly influence leaf-associated microbiota. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preprint: Here we report a glass bead-based system suitable for the *simultaneous monitoring* of Arabidopsis root exudate and root microbiome dynamics. Teaser: some link between glucosinolates ~ SynCom composition. Happy reading. Credits to Charlotte Joller et al.! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵 Preprint here!: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @cellarchlab.com @phaips.vd.st @biologyatyork.bsky.social #Rubisco #PhaseSeparation #Condensates #Pyrenoid

Excited to share this detailed biophysical study of #PhaseSeparation in the Pyrenoid, an algal microcompartment that fixes a third of the Earth's #CO2 🌏. We combine methods across scales, in vitro 🧪 and in vivo 🦠 Thanks for the very fun collaboration! 🤗 #PlantScience 🌾 #TeamTomo 🔬 #LivingPhysics 🧬🧶

They should study methylation decay and epigenetic aging in Djokovic! www.espn.com/tennis/story...

Today the very first PhD student of Dodonova Lab has successfully defended his PhD Thesis!!🥳🥳🥳 And that with Honours, so well deserved!! Huge congratulation, dear @harshranawat.bsky.social !!!👏 Awesome PhD and awesome Defense!! Very happy and proud! And brilliant future ahead!👨‍🎓🎓🥳

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

Very happy to see this work finally published! I am truly grateful to all the collaborators who made this work possible, especially @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social, and @kaessmannlab.bsky.social. It’s been a pleasure working with you!

We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Paper alert! 📢 How do cells fight viruses without harming themselves? 🧬 In @natcomms.nature.com, the @versteegga.bsky.social lab uncover a previously unknown safeguard that keeps DNA-mutating antiviral enzymes in check, protecting the genome while preserving antiviral defense ➡️ tinyurl.com/4xbxz9e8

Tips for improving your resolution in SEC (Size Exclusion Chromatography)(aka gel filtration) youtu.be/c5XZwEYnO34

Excited to join the Editorial Board of @plosbiology.org, the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences, that's blazing a trail in support of selective, equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster 📝 🤓 🌱

It's not always that sunny, but Uppsala Uni–especially the Evo Biol Centre (EBC)–is a great place to set up your lab. Apply to join us!

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Thanks a lot to @zivirus.bsky.social visiting us from @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social to talk about the #tobamovirus revealing a crossroad between viral movement and #PlantImmunity 🍅🦠 Thanks as well to @incavirus.bsky.social for hosting! 🙏

Make your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰 Summary 🧵 below.

Archaea may not be well known, nor well studied, but these microorganisms can live in the most extreme environments, but also right on our skin. They’re everywhere. EMBL researchers are now exploring their unique ecosystem adaptability and link to evolution. www.embl.org/news/science...

1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!

The origin of eukaryotic cells continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in biology. EMBL Grenoble is excited to welcome Florian Wollweber, who will use cutting-edge imaging techniques to study Asgard archaea — microbes closely related to our earliest ancestors. 🦠🔬 www.embl.org/news/people-...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Our paper on the structural and functional basis of the human dimeric OS9–SEL1L–HRD1 ERAD complex, together with @qilabuva.bsky.social, is now out! Huge congratulations to Leo, Emir, and Elina! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work from our Haselbach lab with collaborators captures ribosomes 𝘮𝘪𝘥-𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 and reveals a flexible, modular strategy behind their assembly, rather than a strict assembly line. Published in _Nucleic Acids Research _👉 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag036

Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

Just published: Ancient oomycete honors Sophien Kamoun Sophien Kamoun, group leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, has been celebrated in the most enduring way possible: a newly discovered fossil species has been named in his honour. medium.com/p/ancient-oo...

IMBA Group Leader Nicolas Rivron has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his research on human blastoid models of early development: https://imba.science/4t0OUfR

Registration is now open! The 4th edition of the Mendel Early Career Symposium will take place on 21-22 May at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. This two-day event brings together researchers across career stages to discuss the latest research in all areas of plant science.

We’re happy to welcome Dr. Ana María Cuervo to the External Advisory Board of #IRBBarcelona. A world leader in #AgingResearch, she brings outstanding expertise and a strong international perspective. Warm thanks to Dr. Michael P. Czech for his long-standing support. 🔗 https://shorturl.at/FgF8j

Congratulations, Dr @hsuanpai.bsky.social! Well done! 🥳🥳🥳 Thanks for the invitation, @kamounlab.bsky.social. It is always nice to discuss science with friends and colleagues @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social

GT Lab (median) New Year dinner 🎉 + Clem’s farewell 😊🥲😔 at Chin-Thai Restaurant/天富楼 in Tübingen — amazing food and better company! All the best for your PI life (!) @clemmar.bsky.social — so much fun lies ahead! (but we will miss you!!)