I am very excited and proud that Julia Pols very successfully completed their PhD in our group. They wrote an excellent PhD thesis and engaged in exciting in-depth discussions with all the opponents during the PhD defense. (1/5) #PhDone #PhD #ProudPI #Antibiotics #ChemBio #ChemSky

I am very happy that @mprothiwa.bsky.social joined us today for a department visit and a lecture. She gave a very interesting lecture on "Chemical strategies to understand bacterial immune evasion". link.springer.com/protocol/10.... #ChemBio #ChemSky #Bacteria #Proteases #Probes

Save the date! 15th Activity Based Protein Profiling meeting #ABPP2027 is in Leiden, 2-4th June 2027. Join the mailing list for program updates and rego: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/led3/abpp2027 #chembiol #proteomics #ABPs #Chemicalprobes @led3hub.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

It was great to be part of the discussion about the faculty priority themes of @leidenscience.bsky.social and to represent the @led3hub.bsky.social alongside @mvdstelt.bsky.social, Laura Heitman and @kimmb1.bsky.social.

Our theme leader, @mvdstelt.bsky.social, introduces our LED3 hub at the meeting of all of our faculty priority themes of @leidenscience.bsky.social. Great discussions on the annual and communication plan and the outlook for the future. Exciting things ahead. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...

Interested in Activity-based Protein Profiling? We are excited to host the 15th Activity-based Protein Profiling meeting (@abpp2027.bsky.social #ABPP2027) on June 2nd to 4th, 2027, at Naturalis in Leiden. Save the date and sign up for our mailing list: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l...

Great presentation by Andrea Chicca from Synendos Therapeutics. He talked about the development of endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitors from basic science to phase 2 clinical trials. He gave great insights, how to translate exciting science into societal impact. www.synendos.com/post/septemb...

"Chemical strategies to understand bacterial immune evasion" I am very happy that @mprothiwa.bsky.social will visit us on March 3rd to give a lecture on this topic at 15:00 in the Gorlaeus building, room CM3.23. If you are interested, make sure to come by. #Bacteria #ChemBio #ChemSky #ImmuneSystem

We hope you all enjoyed Christina's talk as much as we enjoy sharing our science! Seems like it was a packed house 🫡

Amazing @led3hub.bsky.social Lecture by @thewoolab.bsky.social! She talked about her group's exciting work on protein C-terminal cyclic imids as natural ligands of cereblon for protein degradation. (1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TPD #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #Degron

We are very happy that Christina Woo (@thewoolab.bsky.social) visited us for a very well-attended LED3 Lecture. She talked about the importance of C-terminal cyclic imides as natural #degrons for protein degradation with important implications for targeted protein degradation. #TPD #ChemBio #ChemSky

@thewoolab.bsky.social at @led3hub.bsky.social seminar series on Rewriting Protein Modifications #LED3

#ABPP2027 will be happening in Leiden on June 2nd to 4th, 2027. I am excited to be part of the organization together with an amazing team. Sign up for our mailing list here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l... #ABPP #ChemoProteomics #ChemPro #ProteoProbes #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery

New preprint from our LED3 hub on ChemRxiv! The labs of @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social , @gjpvwesten.bsky.social and Laura Heitman with first author @seanmckenna.bsky.social present COMBINAUT: an automated parallel synthesis platform for rapid access to 22.9M-compounds. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Great paper by the groups of Pierre Stallforth, @hellmichgroup.bsky.social and @mlakemeyer.bsky.social of @uni-jena.de in @jacs.acspublications.org . Microbial DL-peptidases with an important role in predator defense. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry #Bacteria #Microbes

Great opportunity to work as a #PhD or #postdoc with a great PI (@mlakemeyer.bsky.social), at @uni-jena.de. Interested in #ChemBio, #Biochemistry, #Chemistry, #Microbiology and/or pharmaceutical sciences? Check it out: PhD: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/8... Postdoc: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

We had a great #TuesdayTalk at @leidenscience.bsky.social this week by Sebastiaan Haffert. He talked about the various technological and scientific challenges of building extremely large telescopes that allow them to look for exoplanets and hopefully find proof for extraterrestrial life.

If you are an #AssistantProfessor in the #Netherlands and want to give your input on the Recognition and Rewards Program in Dutch academia, here is your chance!

Are you an #AssistantProfessor in the #Netherlands interested in Recognition and Rewards? The national programme of Recognition & Rewards is looking for Assistant Professors for an informal dialogue session about content-based career development on 3 March 2026. (1/2) rrview.nl/calendar_e...

Are you interested in joining a local network of Assistant Professors at Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Centre? Join the kick-off meeting of APNet Leiden on 19.2.! fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit... #AssistantProfessor #Netherlands #Networking #Lobby CC: @unileiden.bsky.social

APnet Leiden is having its kick-off meeting on February 19th to set up a local representation of #AssistantProfessors in Leiden. If you are an Assistant professor at @unileiden.bsky.social or LUMC, consider joining this meeting to build a string network. Sign up: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit...

I am very happy that we again managed to invite two world-leading scientists as keynotes for the 6th Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social. We are working on an exciting additional program. Stay tuned! Mailing list: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit... #ChemSky #ChemBio #ChemBioTalks

Join us at @apnet.bsky.social to amplify the voice of #AssistantProfessors in the #Netherlands.

Very much looking forward to the @led3hub.bsky.social Lecture by Christina Woo (@thewoolab.bsky.social)! I am sure it will be a great one. If you are interested in #ChemicalProteomics and/or targeted protein degradation #TPD, you will not want to miss it. #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery #degrader

We are looking forward to the LED3 Lecture of Christina Woo (@thewoolab.bsky.social) on February 26th. She will talk about "Rewriting Protein Modifications". If you are interested, make sure to come by! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l... #ChemBio #ChemSky #ChemicalProteomics #TPD

@anneosbourn.bsky.social (from @johninnescentre.bsky.social) is today’s @led3hub.bsky.social seminar speaker on Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications #NaturalProducts

Great @led3hub.bsky.social Lecture by @anneosbourn.bsky.social. She talked about the amazing diversity of plant natural products, the gene clusters for their synthesis and their recombinant production for applications in #food and #health. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Plants #NaturalProducts

We are very happy that @anneosbourn.bsky.social from the @johninnescentre.bsky.social visited us today for a LED3 Lecture. She talked about "Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications". #Plants #NaturalProducts #GeneClusters #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #Food #Health

Are you interested in cutting edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Check out our #Biochemistry2026 meeting in Würzburg from March 16th to 18th. Deadlines for reduced early bird registration fee and abstracts have been extended to January 28th. veranstaltungen.gdch.de/microsite/in...

Interested in setting up a meeting to expand your interdisciplinary network? The @knaw-nl.bsky.social may have the right funding for you: - you have defended your PhD 3 to 7 years ago - you work in academia in the Netherlands - up to 10,000 € - deadline is February 2nd www.knaw.nl/en/funds-and...

We have an exciting remaining program for our @led3hub.bsky.social Lectures of this academic year. Make sure to mark your calendars and come by. CC: @leidenscience.bsky.social

We are looking forward to the LED3 Lecture of Anne Osbourn on January 29th She will talk about "Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications". If you are interested, make sure to come by! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l... #ChemBio #ChemSky #Plants #Metabolites

If you are a #PhD candidate and want to attend #Biochemistry2026 (veranstaltungen.gdch...), make sure to apply for our meeting award, which comes with 500 € for the attendance and a free year of membership in @gdchbiochem.bsky.social en.gdch.de/network-s...

We have a great line-up of speakers including: Jennifer Andexer, Helge Bode, Stephan Hammer, Akane Kawamura, Alexandria (Ali) Deliz Liang, Carina de Oliveira Mann, Stefan Raunser, Schraga Schwartz, Pierre Stallforth, Carine Tisné, Satpal Virdee, Wilfred van der Donk #Chemistry #Meeting CC: @gdch.de

📢 Deadline Extended to January 15th, 2026! Apply for our Meeting Award to get: ✅ 500 € grant for the #Biochemistry2026 conference ✅ 1 year of free Fachgruppe Biochemie membership Apply now: en.gdch.de/network-s...#Biochemistry2026 Share with a #ECR who needs to see this! #Chemistry #ChemBio #PhD @gdch.de

Are you interested in cutting-edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Join us for the GDCh #Biochemistry2026 conference in Würzburg on March 16th to 18th, 2026. Registration is now open and you can submit an abstract until January 10th, 2026: veranstaltungen.gdch...#Biochemistry#ChemBio?#Biochemistry2026/2)

Registration is open for the GDCh #Biochemistry conference👇

Great speech by the new president of @unileiden.bsky.social, Luc Sels, at the New Year's reception of @leidenscience.bsky.social. He gave great insights into his vision for the future of our university including excellent fundamental science, collaboration, internationalization and societal impact.

Very interesting Tuesday Talk by Meindert Lamers at the New Year's reception of @leidenscience.bsky.social. He talked about the power of different electron microscopy techniques to visualize biological samples on length scales from tissues to individual molecules. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our dean Jasper Knoester addresses our faculty @leidenscience.bsky.social in his New Year's speech. Interesting insights into the future strategic goals of our faculty and great to hear him highlight the priority themes including the @led3hub.bsky.social with new theme leader @mvdstelt.bsky.social.

Proof that you can never keep up with the literature 🤕 Great list @stephanhacker2.bsky.social and thanks for sharing.

wow! Thanks for the shoutout 🥹 Hopefully our papers in the coming year will continue to impress 😉 stay tuned!!

2025 was a year full of great scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. Here, I want to highlight 10 papers that got me really excited. Of course, this is a highly subjective selection and I am sure I am forgetting some papers that I would love to include, but here it goes: (1/12)

Which cysteines are hyper-reactive in specific cancer types and tissues? The lab of @balynzaro.bsky.social addresses this question by measuring cysteine reactivity across the NCI-60 panel that includes 9 different cancer types.(1/2) www.cell.com/cell-chemica... #ChemBio #ChemSky #ChemicalProteomics

Let's start the year off right with an exciting paper post! In this @chemcomm.rsc.org paper, the groups of @meganwright.bsky.social and Stuart Warriner investigate the metal-independent labeling of proteins using isocyanides. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic... ##ChemBio #ChemSky #CovalentInhibitors

Looking for a New Year's resolution, that you can immediately successfully complete? Be better connected to your peers and make your voice heard by important stakeholders. As #AssistantProfessor in the #Netherlands, you can achieve this now, by becoming an APNet member for 20€. ap-net.nl/register/

Last paper post of the year! Amazing @natchembio.nature.com paper by @thewoolab.bsky.social. PCMT1 installs cyclic imides at the C-terminus of proteins via SAM-dependent methyl ester formation, which then leads to degradation using cereblon. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ChemSky #ChemBio #TPD

If you are a #PhD candidate and want to attend #Biochemistry2026 (veranstaltungen.gdch...), make sure to apply for our meeting award, which comes with 500 € for the attendance and a free year of membership in @gdchbiochem.bsky.social en.gdch.de/network-s...

We have a great line-up of speakers including: Jennifer Andexer, Helge Bode, Stephan Hammer, Akane Kawamura, Alexandria (Ali) Deliz Liang, Carina de Oliveira Mann, Stefan Raunser, Schraga Schwartz, Pierre Stallforth, Carine Tisné, Satpal Virdee, Wilfred van der Donk #Chemistry #Meeting CC: @gdch.de

Are you interested in cutting-edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Join us for the GDCh #Biochemistry2026 conference in Würzburg on March 16th to 18th, 2026. Registration is now open and you can submit an abstract until January 10th, 2026: veranstaltungen.gdch...#Biochemistry#ChemBio?#Biochemistry2026/2)