Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

Copy-back RNA synthesis by coronavirus polymerase requires helicase activity and is stimulated by remdesivir and molnupiravir | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Coronavirus #SARS2 #COVID19 #singlemolecule #biophysics #magnetictweezers

WORK: our Bionanoscience department at TU Delft is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Biophysics of Living Systems. Apply! Deadline 30 July careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-As... RT=nice

📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Postdoctoral Position and PhD Fellowship in studies of the structure-function relationships and conservation of metabolic enzyme filaments in Kelli Hvorecny's newly established group at my department at the University of Copenhagen

Want to do a PhD combining cryo-EM, AI-driven binder design, and deep virology in a cutting-edge environment and in an international team? We're hiring @CSSB_Hamburg 🔬 You: curious, rigorous, MSc in biochem, biophysics, virology, related Interested? DM me. Please RT 🙏 #PhDposition #cryoEM #virology

Registration is opened for the FASEB conference DNA Topoisomerases in Biology and Medicine ! July 20th-23rd 2026, Nashville, TN Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, May 25, 2026 Early Registration Deadline: Monday, June 8, 2026 #DNATopSRC John Nitiss, Valerie Lamour & Keir Neuman

Did you know that Pierre Chambon's laboratory was the first to use the term "nucleosome" in 1975 ? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026) 1963 PARP 1970 RNA Pol II 1975 Nucleosome 1977 Split genes 1980 Promoter 1983 enhancer 1986 Nuclear receptor

Please like, retweet, and share with your favorite colleagues! Try q.e.d here! qedscience.com (you just drop a file and 10-15 minutes later it's ready) (16/16)

📢 We are now recruiting a PhD student in Structural and Molecular Virology in Sweden 🇸🇪 Work on RNA viruses using cryo-EM and in situ cryo-ET, with access to world-class microscopy infrastructure Perfect for candidates with backgrounds in biochem, structural bio, and virology More info ⬇️

Open #postdoc fellowship in my group. Virus replication and cryo-ET. Projects can be tailored to ambitious candidates with diverse backgrounds, so don't hold back from applying! DM for more info. Deadline 22May. Apply here: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #virus #virology #teamtomo #cryoEM

Two open postdoctoral positions in my group at DAMTP, at University of Cambridge: Cell Biophysics & Biological Active Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55046 Active & Intelligent Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55141 Repost is much appreciated ! 🙏🏼 #Postdoc #CellBioPhysics #Robots #ActiveMatter

New preprint from the lab where we derived a simple and robust in situ force calibration method for high throughput #magnetictweezers that works even for short tethers and apply it to understand the mechanism of directional #mitochondrial #transcription termination by MTERF1.

The newly established NeCEN Utrecht is looking for a #cryoEM scientist! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Work with a new Krios 5 + pFIB and support cutting-edge life science research. 📍 Utrecht | 🗓 Apply by 30 April Please share with your network!

Postdoc opening with us at EPFL! Experimental project on how ATP driven chaperone cycles keep proteins out of equilibrium. We will quantify energy use, kinetics, and functional outcomes, including clients whose native-like functional state is stable only by sustained chaperone action.

A bit less recent work published in @narjournal.bsky.social led by Klein, Das and Bera. Great collaboration with many labs showing that SARS-CoV-2 polymerase must undergo an activation step to enable RNA synthesis. doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #SARSCoV2 #polymerase #RNAvirus #singlemolecule

Recent article from the lab published in @jacs.acspublications.org. Big congrats to first author Zainab Rashid for leading the study and great collaboration with @tomngrossmann.bsky.social and Jocelyne Vreede labs!😃 doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #singlemolecule #dsRNA #RNAtherapeutics

I was the last couple of days in Oxford to give a seminar, invited by my postdoc adviser @achilleskap.bsky.social. First time there since I left in 2016. I had a fantastic time, great discussions on science and else. Thank you Achilles for hosting me so well! 🤗

🧬📄 Preprint update (v2): We added new biochemical experiments that clarify how IWS1 associates with the transcription elongation complex and further define competition between IWS1 and RECQL5. 🧪⚙️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Structural model is already available in the PDB (9MLC).

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

Learn more about the basic physical principles that underlie the behaviour of living cells in the EMBO Workshop "#Physics of Cells: PhysCell2026" in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 7–11 September 2026. Deadline: 8 May https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-physcell#Physics#EMBOphysCell26 #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

We are happy to be hosting David Dulin, @dulinlab.bsky.social, of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social today, for a Bijvoet Seminar entitled "Leveraging high-throughput magnetic tweezers to investigate coronavirus replication at the single-molecule level".

Incredibly excited to be taking part in the EMBO Workshop Pathogen Immunity & Signalling. Thanks to Annemarthe van der Veen, @kajastelab.bsky.social, @iannaconelab.bsky.social, @maurogaya.bsky.social, @manellab.bsky.social, @jnpruneda.bsky.social, Jan Rehwinkel & Mads Gyrd-Hansen for organising.

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

TT in Experimental Biophysics The Danish Institute for Advanced Study and the Dept of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Biophysics or a related discipline fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

An excellent opportunity for early-career researchers! Fellows receive salary comparable to an Assistant Professor position and research funds. For 2026, the program invites theory‑focused researchers in natural sciences and technology: www.oist.jp/research/bur... @oistedu.bsky.social

Another academic year, another NWO Physics of Life newsletter! Check it out 👇 nwobiophysics.nl/newsletters > Interview with former chair Kristina Ganzinger (AMOLF) and our new chair Kristin Grußmayer @tudelfttnw.bsky.social > Biosketch by Lisa Tran @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social > and more..

Interested in our recent norovirus NS3 work? 👇 Join us to dig deeper! I'm recruiting a PhD candidate to investigate NS3's role in viral replication and assembly using #cryoEM, #cryoET, and other complementary techniques. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4f3t3aae Please share! 🙏

We are grateful to @danielhurdiss.bsky.social for inviting us to contribute to this great work! ☺️

Saudi Arabia confirms 9 MERS cases, including hospital cluster www.cidrap.umn.edu/mers-cov/sau...

Repost appreciated: Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, 🇸🇪 to uncover how arboviruses remodel the cellular interior. In situ #cryoET combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics. Deadline 4 May. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/

still possible to apply: phygenome.sciencesconf.org

A PhD position is open for this year. A candidate should have a background in programming skills.

Please share, we have #PhD opportunities for anyone interested in filming the #Biophysics of life at the nanoscale. Full details at: heath-afm-lab.github.io/positions/ Projects based around developing and applying High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy methods to understand molecular dynamics.

Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd. workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...

Mapping the complete influenza A virus infection cycle through single vRNP imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm happy to see this paper I handled finally out! -- Directed evolution in mammalian cells using an orthogonal alphaviral RNA replication system with antiviral-induced mutagenesis #ChemBio #synbio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant. If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch! Application deadline: January 19th. Please share with your networks 🙏 Job link: tiny.cc/7v33001

Thanks David - we hope people will find it useful! We will look to share the protocols and other useful info in a dedicated method paper in the new year!

We are looking for new group leaders. If RNA is your thing, and/or computational biology and you want to start your own group, check out these links. Feel free to contact me about these! And, please help me spread this. Thanks! www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta... www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta...

Can't agree more!⬇️

We have an opening for a 4 yr PhD interested in membrane remodelling and cryo-EM/ET of a minimal cell division machinery: edu.nl/bukan You will be part of the EVOLF consortium in which 30 leading biochemists/biophysicists work together to explore if and how we can build autonomous synthetic cells.

Soon possible to register for BioPhyChrom VII in September 2025 www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

PhD position available in our group as part of a EU-Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network “MeChaNiSM”. World-leading academic laboratories in single-molecule biophysics, organic synthesis, molecular modeling and industrial partners to train 15 Doctoral Candidates. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has been shown to reduce HIV infections by 96% in a SECOND late-stage Phase III trial. Lenacapavir was 99.9% effective at preventing HIV in MORE THAN 2,000 participants. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Identification and genomic characterization of a novel bisegmented coronavirus in the lesser panda www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...