Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social, Dana Branzei and myself are co-organising the 2026 Machines on Genes meeting in beautiful Crete as the 94th Harden Conference hosted by @biochemsoc.bsky.social Register now - lots of opportunities for selected talks www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Website and registration for the INSERM workshop on "Modern Methods in Molecular Parasitology" are now live! Open to all interested! Fantastic programme! ateliersinserm.dakini-pco.com/en

Our structure determination of a dopamine-binding DNA aptamer yielded surprising results. The structure had only 2 Watson-Crick base pairs, but lots of base pairs normally only seen in RNA folds. Check out our crazy DNA structure in the recent bioRxiv preprint, along with other binding details.

#Jobalert 🚨: Please RT ! Looking for a #PhD student for exciting project on the interphase between epigenetics and cellular metabolism: How do (nuclear) metabolic enzymes reguate chromatin function ? #epigenomics, #epigenetics, #metabolism www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/ife/job-o...

A big welcome to everyone who has joined us for the @bspparasitology.bsky.social trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis meeting this week in the beautiful city of Ceske Budějovice!

Die US-Regierung stoppt 22 #mRNA-Impfstoffprojekte im Wert von 500 Mio. Dollar. Ein „riesiger Fehler“, sagt Nobelpreisträgerin Katalin Karikó – und sie hat recht. (1/6)

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

New preprint: nxReLo: a simple assay to probe direct interactions between nuclear proteins in cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Joint effort between Sherif, Jana, and Maria, and in collaboration with Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social.

Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes. An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification. Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

Registrations open for the 7th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference #IBSBC2026 @instruct-eric.bsky.social Great line up of speakers @kowaeva.bsky.social @sattler-lab.bsky.social @joanampereira.bsky.social @avbroeck.bsky.social @schwalbe-lab.bsky.social instruct-eric.org/news/registr...

Welcome to EMBL Florian!

Hello, I have a participation slot to give away for the helicase conference next week in Lisbon. Anyone who did not get a seat??

‼️ Job alert 🚨: I have an open 3-year postdoc position in my lab to develop novel crosslinking mass spectrometry workflows. 🧪🧪 So if you want to do cool stuff in protein MS, please apply ! ⬇️ Please RT www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss... #Academicsky #Chemsky #teammassspec

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📢Deadline extension until 9 June to register to the PSB Symposium on " #MachineLearning in Cellular #StructuralBiology ", EPN Campus Grenoble, France, 26-27 June 2025🧬 For more information: www.psb-grenoble.eu/psbsymposium... @esrf.fr @embl.org @illneutrons.bsky.social

📢 Big Announcement: Registration & abstract submission open for EMBO Workshop "Host-Parasite Relationship: From Mechanisms to Control Strategies" organized by ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social @embo.org 🗓️ 5-8 Oct 2025 - Les Embiez Island-France 🔚Deadline: 15 Jul 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-hos...

Congrats! Excited to see you at our @psb-grenoble.bsky.social Symposium in Grenoble end of June!!

Join us in our first TrypsClub Career Talk featuring Julius Lukeš! Everyone interested in Trypanosomes is welcome (except PI's - sorry)!

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Are you a postdoc ready for transition to an independent position? You connect infection biology with cutting-edge structural biology or multimodal imaging? Are you aware of such a colleague? I am seeking speakers for "The Next Generation in Infection Biology" microsymposium on June 6 2025.

Tune in! – Kowa group on air tonight 19h CET with the English Talk Radio of @radiocampus.bsky.social Grenoble. We chat about recent and future research, life as a scientist, and life at @embl.org Grenoble. #RNAsky #researchforall @hpetrzilkova.bsky.social - link: campusgrenoble.org/ecouter-en-d...

A bit late, but I fantastic time at @embl.org in Grenoble last week! Huge thanks to @kowaeva.bsky.social for the invitation and exciting discussions!

1/ Last call for the EMBL-UNESCO Residency Programme! ⏳ If you’re a female African scientist working in infection biology, this is your opportunity to develop scientific skills while fostering collaboration across borders. 🙌 Apply until 31 March 2025. www.embl.org/about/info/s...

🧬 Don't miss out the PSB Symposium on " #MachineLearning in Cellular #StructuralBiology " at the EPN Campus Grenoble, France, on 26-27 June 2025 🧬 🐦Early Bird rate until 15 April (registration deadline 25 May) Info & registration: www.psb-grenoble.eu/psbsymposium2025 #AI #Proteindesign

Maame Ekua Acquah became interested in COVID-19 while helping set up the testing facility in a medical laboratory. She now studies the host-viral dynamics of the virus, with particular emphasis on rural and urban communities in Ghana. At EMBL, Maame was based in the group of @kowaeva.bsky.social.

Save The Date : The Next EMBO Workshop « Host-parasite relationship: from mechanisms to control strategies », organized by @ParaFrap, will be held October 5-8, 2025 @EMBOevents #Science #Parasite #France

📢 Calling all female African scientists. Applications open for the EMBL-UNESCO 3-month residencies in infection biology: 🪴 Grow your network 🧪Develop your skills 🧠Exchange knowledge with international colleagues Deadline: 31 March 2025 www.embl.org/about/info/s... #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Its #WorldNTDDay on January 30th 2025. There are many events happening around the world the week of January 27th-31st to support the important work being done to hashtag#beatntds. Join the fight and make an impact on peoples lives. @who.int @globalvoices.org @madhupai.bsky.social worldntdday.org

Architecture and RNA binding properties of the trypanosome nuclear cap-binding complex - key complex in the parasite’s RNA metabolism. Final peer-reviewed version is public! #RNAsky #trypsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Kowalinski group's latest study on trypanosome parasites reveals significant differences between the trypanosomal and human nuclear cap-binding complex. This key player in cellular RNA metabolism could be a potential target for novel anti-parasitic drugs. www.embl.org/news/science...

🚨 Retirement Symposium for Prof Mark Carrington of the University of Cambridge Our #Trypanosoma colleagues may want to attend this symposium in Cambridge on the 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡, 2025 (register by the 15th!) - Details at QR code & tinyurl.com/2uw8tryu

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York! Please share! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Une ouverture pour un poste de professeur en biochimie au sein de notre équipe ! Consultez l'offre : www.univ-orleans.fr/upload/publi... Vous pouvez me/nous contacter pour toute question.

I am proud to receive the ERC Consolidator Grant! I am excited about the journey ahead! #RNA #trypanomomes #cryoEM

[🔴New episode] What's the ideal recipe to go from 🔲 to ✅? 🎙️ Ana Boskovic, group leader @embl.org shares with us what we might call the “First lab manifesto” LISTEN NOW 🎧 ► www.buzzsprout.com/1356877/epis... 💌 ► Receive Season 3 in your mailbox : bit.ly/NLTLP

Kickout of the #sifrARN by Cyril Bourgeois for 3 days of exciting #RNAbiology in Lyon!