Late happy International Women's day! With video messages to young scientists from Stefanie Kaiser @kaiserlab.bsky.social and me. www.science-allemagne.fr/science-de-l...

Do you work on DNA or RNA protein complexes? 🧬 Come to Machines on Genes this June in Crete! ☀️ Super early discount is ending this Sunday so register now! 😃

The BSP TrypsClub is back from its winter break! Join us for a discussion about #NTDs with Dr. Sabine Specht, Global Clinical Program Excellence Lead at Bayer AG, Switzerland. Sign up here: forms.gle/tXK62GWeqqfr...

Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#PhDPosition open — #RibosomeBiology & #Translation QC 📍 JGU Mainz, Germany 🗓️ Apply by 10 Mar 2026 (or until filled) 🔗 Full details + project options: 👉 ak-winz.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/jobs/

Very pleased to be on the organizing committee of the EMBO course Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes in 2026! We have a fantastic line up of speakers and tutors, please share widely! 👉apply here: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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!