🌟Elin Zätterman🌟(University of Dundee, Scotland) won a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course 'Susan Lindquist School on #Proteostasis, held in Espoo, Finland! 🎉🏅Congratulations, Elin! 🎉👏👏👏 📸Photo: Elin with our Managing Editor, Dr. Duncan Wright. #EMBOFEBSproteostasis

🎉🏅We congratulate 🌟Megan Lee 🌟 @eawag.bsky.social, winner of the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course 'The New #Microbiology', recently held in Spetses, Greece! 🎉👏👏👏 #EMBOnewMicrobiology

Looking to create an eye-catching #graphicalabstract to summarise your research? 🎨 Scientist and graphic designer Dr. Matteo Oliverio shares his tips and experience in this new guide published in @febsletters.bsky.social Read the full article here ➡️ tiny.cc/1pqs001 #sciencecommunication

We're here for Day 3 of the Susan Lindquist School on Proteostasis! This has been a fantastic course, with talks on both the history of the field and the latest research, as well as many animated discussions--and there's much more yet! #ProteostasisSchool #Proteostasis #embofebsproteostasis

🎉🏅We congratulate 🌟Nils Reinhard 🌟 (University of Würzburg, Germany), winner of a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the European Biological Rhythms Society meeting #EBRS2025 in Lübeck, Germany! 🎉👏👏👏 @nils-reinhard.bsky.social

🎉🌟Ruoshi Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan) won a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the European Biological Rhythms Society meeting #EBRS2025 in Lübeck, Germany! 🏅Congratulations, Ruoshi! 🎉👏👏👏 #circadian

Very excited to be attending the fourth Susan Lindquist School on Proteostasis in Espoo, Finland! We enjoyed fantastic talks by Rick Morimoto, David Balchin, and Anne Bertolotti on the first day, and were happy to contribute to a discussion on academic publishing. #embofebsproteostasis

Bacterial GES-1 is an extended-spectrum β-#lactamase conferring #AntimicrobialResistance. Find out how it is inhibited by the β-lactamase inhibitors enmetazobactam and tazobactam 🖊️ Adrian Mulholland, James Spencer (University of Bristol) & colleagues ➡️ bit.ly/4n6AFmw

🎉🎖️We congratulate 🌟Julia Scott🌟(Center for Molecular Medicine, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands), on winning the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the FEBS Advanced Lecture Course 'Functional #genomics of #metabolic diseases', held in Spetses, Greece! 🎉👏👏👏 @juliasscott.bsky.social

⏰ Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar reviews the molecular clock: how protein interactions & modifications drive circadian rhythms, with links to health & disease. Read more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CircadianRhythms #MolecularBiology #clock

🔔 New Issue! 🩻 Articles on the #cytoskeleton and more, including: 🥇 Editor's Choice: β-#Actin mutation impairs SETD3-mediated methylation 🖊️ Review: Mechanisms of #GPCR anterograde transport 🧑‍🔬 Scientists' Forum: Building a new research group ➡️ bit.ly/47IrzHP

How do lipid-modified proteins reach the cilium? 🧬 ARL3 and its regulators create spatial control of cargo release—key to signaling & linked to ciliopathies like Joubert syndrome. Read more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CellBiology #Cilia #GTPases

🔬 Why does cancer relapse years after treatment? Dormancy, aided by autophagy, helps tumors survive, hide & later reactivate. Explore the autophagy–dormancy link: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CancerResearch #Autophagy #Metastasis

All aerobic life depends on pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes ⚡ Yet their structures and assembly vary widely across species. Discover the differences: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Biochemistry #Metabolism #MolecularBiology

🥇👩‍🔬 Congratulations to Rayane da Cruz Albino winner of our 2025 Writing Contest: Celebrating #WomenInScience! 🎊 Her essay, “Black Pitch Illuminated: The legacy of Professor Jean H. Langenheim,” celebrates a trailblazer who inspired Albino’s own journey in ethnobotany. ➡️ bit.ly/3I21s3U #WomenInSTEM

To survive multiple extreme conditions, polyextremophiles produce protective exopolysaccharides 🛡️Learn how these molecules aid adaptation: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Microbiology #Extremophiles #Glycobiology

🔔 New Issue: Focus on #Autophagy and #Cancer, featuring three new Reviews: 🖊️ Transcriptional regulation of autophagy in cancer 🖊️ Autophagy in cancer, liver and brain disorders 🖊️ Autophagy and cancer dormancy Plus Research articles on both iron #metabolism and #microbiology: ➡️ bit.ly/3VlJBYJ

Immune responses need to be fast ⏱️ mRNA metabolism adapts rapidly via alternative splicing, polyadenylation & decay. Find out more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Immunology #RNA #mRNAmetabolism @ilegnini.bsky.social

🧪 Stenmark and colleagues offer structural insights into the unexpected activity of anabolic #steroid stanozolol as a nanomolar inhibitor of MTH1, an #anticancer drug target. ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70116

🦠 #Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge. Here, Adinolfi, Marengo and colleagues characterized an M. tuberculosis sulfurtransferase SseA and its interaction with SufEMtb, offering a potential therapeutic target. ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70117

"What are the minimal requirements for life? 🧬 Designing synthetic cells means tackling the complexity of natural lipid membranes. Gan et al. explore lipidome needs & systems: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SyntheticBiology #Membranes"

That's me!! Honored to have been shortlisted and excited to read the winning submissions!

🏆 👩‍🔬 In February, we marked Women in Science Week by announcing our 2025 Writing Contest: Celebrating #WomenInScience. Before presenting our winner later this month, we're pleased to share our shortlisted entries below. Read more on the FEBS Network: ➡️ bit.ly/4fN9PwH

🦠 Taki and colleagues identify a novel signaling pathway for IL-4 production involving βcTyr573 and the adaptor ShcA in mouse primary #basophils: ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70111

Lymphoma research is moving beyond flat 2D models 🧫 Faria et al. review new 3D non-Hodgkin lymphoma systems and the challenges ahead: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Lymphoma #3DCellCulture #CancerResearch

In Early View: Snelling, Cohen and colleagues report structural insights into TRAF2 binding to TIFA during ADP-heptose #signalling, and that TRAF2 contributes to TIFA degradation by #autophagy. ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70110

Exploring lipid diversity and minimalism to define membrane requirements for synthetic cells febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @febsletters.bsky.social

Often overlooked, 3′ UTRs play a crucial role in gene regulation—interacting with RNA-binding proteins, ncRNAs, and shaped by alternative polyadenylation. Read more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #RNA #GeneExpression #MolecularBiology

🔔 Our August issue is online! Issue 15 features: 🖊️ Review: Spatial positioning of #senescent cells in development, healing, and #aging 🐟 Editor's Choice: Social context of #HeatStress and #MutagenStress in zebrafish ➡️ bit.ly/45iS5FW

🔬 What’s the role of dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment? Explore DC subsets and new therapeutic strategies in cancer. Read more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CancerImmunology #DendriticCells #TumorMicroenvironment

In a new article published in FEBS Letters, Pei Tong et al. describe the use of an amphipol-stabilized multi-pass #transmembraneprotein as an immunogen to generate high-affinity #antibodies against #VMAT2. Online here ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/1873...

🚀 What’s it like to launch a new lab? Hans-Georg Sprenger shares challenges, early wins & the joy of mentoring in molecular metabolism research. @mpiage.bsky.social Read the interview: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ScienceCareers #Mentoring #ResearchLife

🧬 A pathway-centric systems biology approach could transform type 2 diabetes care. In their Review, O’Sullivan et al. explore molecular drivers from omics to AI: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Diabetes #SystemsBiology #GutMicrobiome

🎉🎖️We congratulate 🌟Diksha Sharma🌟 (@partchlab.bsky.social, @ucsantacruz.bsky.social), on winning a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the #GordonResearchConference on #Chronobiology, recently held in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain! 👏👏👏

🎉🎖️Congratulations to 🌟Baris Cakilkaya🌟 @unimainz.bsky.social, winner of a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the #GordonResearchConference on #Chronobiology, recently held in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain! 👏👏👏

🌍 Environmental exposures can disrupt skin & mucosal barriers—triggering disease. Learn more about the epithelial barrier theory: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Immunology #EpithelialBarrier #EnvironmentalHealth

🌍 Before RNA, could life have started with amyloids? 🧬 Self-replicating β-sheet peptides suggest a co-evolving amyloid–RNA–lipid–protein world – read the newest Perspective: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OriginOfLife #AmyloidWorld #RNAWorld

A new study by Tanmay Dutta et al. reveals a previously unknown function of YbeY in #smallRNA regulation in #Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Online here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2enrhey8

🎉🎖️We congratulate 🌟Chia-Teng Chang (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA), winner of a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the 19th International #Zebrafish Conference, held in Madison, WI, USA! 👏👏👏 🎉We wish you all the best, Chia-Teng! 🎉 @izfs.bsky.social #IZFC2025

🎉🎖️Congratulations to 🌟Priyom Adhyapok (Duke University), on winning a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the 19th International #Zebrafish Conference, recently held in Madison, WI, USA! 👏👏👏🎉 🎖️We wish you all the best, Priyom! 🎉 @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social‬ #IZFC2025

🎉 🌟Tamir Dingjan (Weizmann Institute of Science) won a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the FEBS Special Meeting on #Sphingolipid Biology in Varna, Bulgaria! 👏👏👏Congratulations, Tamir! 🎖️🎉 @slbiology.bsky.social‬

🧬With 90+ genes behind retinitis pigmentosa, gene therapy isn't always an option. Could targeting cGMP/cAMP pathways offer a broad treatment strategy? 👁️ Read more: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Retina #Ophthalmology #Neurodegeneration

Recombinant proteins are commonly used to investigate #proteinaggregation--but can purification tags themselves affect aggregation? 🤔 A new study published in @febsletters.bsky.social suggests this may be the case ➡️ tinyurl.com/yhecdb3j

🔬 Extracellular vesicles shape immune crosstalk in B-cell malignancies—but remain elusive. Explore the latest insights from new single-EV & single-cell tools: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EVs #CancerResearch #BCellLymphoma @danielbachurski.bsky.social

Our special issue on dendritic cell biology in health and disease is online now! Featuring 7 free Review articles on the role of dendritic cells in metabolism, cancer, and immunity, and more. Read the issue for free here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2zw4znee #dendriticcells #immunology @fandreata.bsky.social

💊From gene discovery to life-changing therapies, #CysticFibrosis is a triumph of translational science! Read about new successes in CFTR modulators & gene therapy: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CF #PrecisionMedicine

🎉🎖️We congratulate 🌟Jesús Daniel Gómez-Zepeda (IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain) on winning the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the @biochemsoc.bsky.social meeting on small #Gproteins, recently held in Manchester, UK! 🎉👏👏👏 #SGP25 #Gproteins25

How does the multidrug efflux transporter #Pglycoprotein affect the plasma #membrane? 🤔 In a new study published in @FEBS_Letters, Burkhard Tümmler et al. report that P-glycoprotein modulates the fluidity gradient. Read the full open access article here ➡️ tinyurl.com/y8zn35eh

⚔️ T cells vs. B-cell tumors—who wins? Single-cell technology elucidates roles in pathogenesis, progression, and therapeutic response 💊 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #CancerImmunology #SingleCell #Lymphoma

In our latest issue! Zhizhi Wang and colleagues at ShanghaiTech University describe a new chemically-induced dissociation system for regulating protein-protein interactions in the #endoplasmicreticulum. Read the article here ➡️ tinyurl.com/y56zfxv3