This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress! We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below. Read on for details... 1/x

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great to see our story on dynein & kinesin co-dependence published www.nature.com/articles/s41..., and absolutely chuffed that it's made the front cover (thanks NSMB!). A brilliant News & Views too by Steven Markus www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab between @carter-lab.bsky.social & Straube lab🔬

Happy to have contributed a small part to this exciting story about the ancestors of eukaryotic tubulin in Asgard archaea. Congratulations to all the co-authors!

Microtubules in Asgard archaea 🤩🤩 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Extremely happy to see our work finally out!🎉 Great collaboration between @rouxlab.bsky.social @buzzbaum.bsky.social labs and a real pleasure to work and share co-first authorship with incredible scientists and friends @diorgeps.bsky.social @sami-c.bsky.social. Big thanks to the rest of the authors!

New research on ancient Asgard archaeal ESCRT-III proteins reveals evolutionary secrets of membrane remodelling. Diorge Souza, Javier Espadas and Sami Chaaban, investigated the ESCRT-III proteins with Buzz Baum and Aurelien Roux. Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/asgard-archa... #LMBResearch (1/2)

How do great discoveries sometimes come from unexpected findings? It’s right there in the first paragraph of Fleming’s paper: a contaminated plate led to the discovery of penicillin. Much work was required to turn the discovery into practice, but this simple observation started it all.

Please share this PhD opportunity in my new lab in Bristol, using protein design/ engineering to understand and build molecular motors to control intracellular transport. Working with @markdodding.bsky.social and Prof Dek Woolfson. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular...

If you’re interested in how molecular motors coordinate to power intracellular trafficking events (e.g. endocytosis), I’ve got a PhD position available to study this at vibrant Bristol uni. In this project, we will capture highly dynamic events by #cryoEM, single molecule imaging & cell biology. 🔬❄️🧪

Our review of Intraflagellar transport is out now! We cover lots of the recent advances in our understanding of IFT, and where we think there are still some gaps. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FOMO? The below is really good to find people your followers are following, but you are not. #OpenSoftwareAcceleratesScience bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

Using interactive web-viz for sharing results lossless is always an option! In this case it's as easy as clicking "View Tomogram" here: cryoetdataportal.czscience.com/runs/14185