Oocytes store large amounts of proteins to support the earliest developmental stages. In @nature.com, the Leung group describes the structure of the cytoplasmic lattice in unprecedented detail. At least 13 different proteins assemble into a stable storage complex. hubrecht.eu/oocyte-storage-complex/

+++ City Nature Challenge +++ Auch #Göttingen beteiligt sich an der #CityNatureChallenge! Organisiert vom Projekt "Fokus Vielfalt" der @consbiogoe.bsky.social werden vom 24.-27. April auf @inaturalist.bsky.social Artmeldungen gesammelt! 🌼🐝🦋🪶🍄 Infos ▶️ fokus-vielfalt.de/initiativen/...

CenSpark is out ! Congrats Gönczy team et al.

I'm excited to tell you about the most recent preprint in my lab, demonstrating that a conserved spindle matrix protein, NPP-21/TPR, is required for the stronger checkpoint in germline cells during embryogenesis in C. elegans

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Spindle pole proteins confine chromosomes to ensure their expulsion during female meiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713942v1

Also do check out a related manuscript that came out last week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Honored to receive the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Very grateful to my lab and all collaborators - this recognition belongs to all of us. ✨

We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

📢 OPEN CALL: Lay Summary Editor📢 Reproduction and Fertility is seeking a Lay Summary Editor to review author-written lay summaries, ensure clarity for non-specialist audiences, and provide feedback before publication. Interested? Email your CV to [email protected]

Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing. We explore this link in our new preprint. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’re pleased to announce our first 2026 Special Collection: Evolving Perspectives in Management of Menopause Transition. This collection will explore current and emerging evidence in menopause care. For more info and to submit: raf.bioscientifica.com/page/menopau...

Delighted to share my PhD work with @schuhlab.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social on #humaneggrejuvenation, now available as a preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 🎉 Grateful to my collaborators for the teamwork and support 🙌 More details here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Aging #Aneuploidy

Our work on improving human egg quality was featured in @theguardian.com. We hope this will help to make #IVF more successful and allow more couples to conceive. 💜

Human eggs must segregate their chromosomes with exquisite precision — yet errors rise with maternal age, causing miscarriage & infertility. Our new article on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social shows why chromosome cohesion fails in aging eggs & how to improve it. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/10)

We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher at OIST (Okinawa, Japan) to explore how mitotic stress shapes aging. If you’re excited about cell biology, aging, and mechanistic discovery, we’d love to hear from you. More info: www.oist.jp/careers/post... Website: www.oist.jp/research/res...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨ With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

Phosphoproteomic identification of Mos-MAPK targets in meiotic cell cycle and asymmetric #oocyte divisions. New study from Ivan Avilov, Peter Lenart (@plenart.bsky.social) and colleagues @maxplanck.de: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #CellCycle #CellDivision #Physiology #Meiosis

🔊New preprint from our lab! Zygotene cilia regulates meiosis, germ cell development, and fertility in zebrafish, mice, and humans www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

⚡Ready to grow and be inspired as a scientist? We’re looking for a *PhD student* to join our lab at @crg.eu in Barcelona and explore how cells self-organize, uncovering life’s inner design💡 We offer strong mentoring, cutting-edge science, and a vibrant international team🌍 Check the link below!

Our latest research in collaboration with @nilssonlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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We usually learn that centrioles/basal bodies are made of microtubule triplets. But our work on Plasmodium shows its basal body is built from singlets, which then mature into the doublets of a functional cilium. #TEAMTOMO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Huge congratulations to Wieczorek Lab PhD student Bin Cai and now-PI Jingwei Xu @xujwet.bsky.social on figuring out the surprisingly complex structure of the A-C linker crosslinking microtubule triplets in Tetrahymena basal body centrioles! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dick is one of the most thoughtful folks in cell biology--this is a must read for anyone interested in microtubules!

+++ BSG-Winterprogramm 2025/26 +++ Volles Programm Naturschutz von Oktober 2025 bis März 2026! 👉 13 Pflegeeinsätze 🪓💪 👉 5 Exkursionen 👩‍🎨🦆🦋🦢🌼 👉 5 Vorträge 🌤️🌗🌳🐟🦝 PDF ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/files/Progra... Online ▶️ www.biologische-schutzgemeinschaft.de/programm.html

+++ Ausstellung: "Faszinierende Artenvielfalt in der Region Göttingen" +++ Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin & Biologin Svenja Meyer (@fminifera.bsky.social) zeigt die @bsggoettingen.bsky.social aktuell Werke über die regionale Biodiversität. Vernissage: 10. Oktober | 17 Uhr | Stadtbibliothek Göttingen

Our Fast & Fair peer review initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE #fastandfairpeerreview

Meet the CAGE: a newly-discovered protein nanocapsule💊, conserved from bacteria to eukaryotes! Looks more like an eclair🍩 than a prezel🥨. This protein pastry now makes us wonder- what's the filling!? Huge congrats to the ever-amazing @computingcaitie.bsky.social, now at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🧪🧶🧬

Feeling excited & grateful 🌟 Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 (Life Sciences) — for our team’s live ovulation imaging. Thanks to Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our lab! www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2... #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 #ScienceBreakthroughs

Congratulations, Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social! 🍾 The Falling Walls Foundation has awarded our director the Science Breakthrough 2025 prize! Melina Schuh and her team were the first to visualize the process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real time.

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

New preprint from the lab! Please check it out. 🚨 Have you ever wondered how cells decide when it’s time to divide? So did we! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #Reproducibility

Three-Year Funded Postdoctoral Position to study organelle architecture in mammalian oocytes – Terret-Verlhac Lab, CIRB, Collège de France (Starting 2026). For more information, please contact: [email protected]

Tabea Marx from the Department of Meiosis @schuhlab.bsky.social talks about the group’s ovulation research in the new SWR Wissen video (in German)! Why is ovulation research so challenging for scientists? What did the team find out? Watch the video to learn more👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDz-...

📢Introducing the official Bluesky account for Reproduction and Fertility. We publish research and reviews on basic, translational and clinical #reproduction and #fertility, across all animals, including humans. Follow us for research highlights, journal news, and opportunities to get involved!

20 years of the EMBO Lab Leadership course - an amazing achievement! Thank you so much to everyone who has been part of the course over the years 🙏 Come and find out for yourself why this incredible training has stood the test of time: www.embolableadership.org #lifescience #EMBOLabLead

🦇🦇🦇 Fledermausnacht am Göttinger Kiessee 🦇🦇 Leitung: Annika Schröder (Fledermausbeauftragte Stadt Göttingen) Treffen: 22.08. | 19.00 Uhr | Bootsanleger Kiessee #Göttingen Anmeldung an: [email protected] 📸 David Singer

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FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz 💚 Thanks to the team ‪@biswashere.bsky.social‬, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay ‪@matthewkraushar.bsky.social‬ @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ 💚

Wie aus einer anderen Welt...Bläuling am Wegesrand #Butterfly

+++ Pflegeeinsatz Schweckhäuser Wiesen +++ Unser Arbeitskreis Biotoppflege war wieder aktiv! 🪓 Mit 16 Aktiven haben wir ein sehr artenreiches kalkreiches Niedermoor im FFH-Gebiet 139 bei Landolfshausen gepflegt. 💪 Kleiner Thread 🧵⤵️

Orange tip, Anthocharis cardamines. Five years after I found the butterfly, I was finally able to photograph the caterpillar and the pupa 🎉

Please RT 🙏 If you’re an early career researcher working in the fields of structural or synthetic biology wishing to start your lab then come join us at Imperial. We’re looking to support outstanding individuals for external Career Development Awards/Fellowships. www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...

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