The flagellar pocket collar (FPC) is a cytoskeletal structure essential for nutrient uptake & immune evasion in #Trypanosome. @mbonhivers.bsky.social &co use U-ExM to provide novel insights into FPC biogenesis, and reveal 2 unknown cytoskeletal structures @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3bWi6

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

...and now something for RNA enthusiasts @nccr-rna-disease.bsky.social The function of the vault complex has finally been solved: it is a lampshade.

Another case of convergent evolution?

Convergent Evolution? – Spiral staircase in the “Église Saint-Catherine” in Loix, France

Congrats to all authors, especially Lim who had an impressive PhD viva last week! TAC is a very interesting structure linking mitochondrial DNA and basal bodies in trypanosomes

The trypanosomal TAC of is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation: Discovery of the novel TAC53 subunit and the tubular arrangement of the TAC filaments Joint study by the Ochsenreiter and Schneiderlabs. 👏 to 1. Author Lim. journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma

so happy to have Katie as a colleague !

Sie haben friedliche Menschen gewaltsam attackiert! Was haben Sie zu Ihrer Verteidigung zu sagen? Ach? Sie dachten, das seien Klimaschützer? Ach so! Na dann ist es gut. Das kann schon mal passieren.

The trypanosomal TAC is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. We provide insight into TAC assembly: one of the most extreme sorting event for any mitochondrion. Congratulations to Philip, Salome and Bernd #mitochondria #mtDNA #Trypanosoma journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Anna's hummingbird in my yard moments ago. #DavisCA, #birds, #wildlife #birdphotography #hummingbirds #NikonD500

🎊The Front Cover Art for our recent paper: A View on Molecular Complexity from the GDB Chemical Space @yebuehler.bsky.social and Jean-Louis Reymond is now out @JCIM! 👉 tinyurl.com/yc4ufsfw @acs.org @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch @DCBPunibern #MyACSCover #chemicalspace #drugdiscovery #molecules

Dem Menschen, der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass Microsoft Word "DNA" automatisch auf "DANN" ausbessert, wünsche ich von Herzen, dass alle seine fallengelassenen Marmeladebrote mit der bestrichenen Seite nach unten auf dem Boden aufkommen.

Dialog with society about phage therapy - our Agora project is taking off! Getting ready for lots of events across the country (D/FR): phagenforum.ch 💊🎙️🇨🇭

I may be in a world of hurt from my bike accident Sunday ... but I can't help sharing bird pics. Here is a gif I made of pics of a broad tailed hummingbird from my trip to Arizona last week. #birds

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Genomes of nitrogen-fixing eukaryotes reveal an alternate path for organellogenesis #protistsonsky

Proteins must be folded into their correct shapes to function properly. @hillerlab.bsky.social discovered tiny “folding factories” in cells that enable efficient and accurate protein folding. @unibas.ch @snsf.ch @natcellbio.nature.com www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

Hey blueskiers! We are looking for examples of "microRNAs" that you came across in your studies that seemed weird or behaving unexpectedly.

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

Yes! You will hear from us - and about phages! Lots. Looking forward to debate with the Swiss public about how to help patients which currently cannot get help from medicine in an effective way.

This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist

Just now - Bull(e)seye!

Definitions cannot be right or wrong, only more or less useful. Most definitions in biology (species, organisms, individuals, what counts as alive, etc) are messy and will likely always be problematic. Drawing binary lines in continuous data is, at root, kinda arbitrary.

Our labs Science meets Abstraction - M.C. Escher's Mitochondrion

What an nice and simple experiment!

Published now. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

The tripartite attachment complex (TAC) of Trypanosoma brucei is required for mitochondrial DNA segregation. Want to know how its outer membrane part is assembled? Check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just stumbled upon a German tongue-twister song by Bodo Wartke… about the sexiest cell organelle. Yes, endoplasmic reticulum - your moment has come. youtube.com/shorts/EP5pd...

Last Wednesday the Birchgletscher in the Swiss Alps collapsed, devastating large parts of the village #Blatten and blocking the Lonza river which created a small lake. Thanks to aerial images shared by #swisstopo, I was able to create a 3D model of the area. You can explore it here 👉 skfb.ly/pxHLC

Researchers in Science have developed a tool to silence specific mitochondria-encoded mRNAs in living cells, which could help scientists understand the origins of certain mitochondria-related diseases. scim.ag/3F6Wm5d

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

How an organelle evolves in #symbiosis with a cell: Intermediate stage sheds light on the assimilation process phys.org/news/2025-03... A nucleus-encoded dynamin-like protein controls endosymbiont division in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Protists #Microbes

Winning the lecturer of the year award from the #Biology department of @unibe.ch definitely made my day 🤩🎉 (after a tough week, otherwise 😅). UniBern has been very supportive and generous in providing excellent teaching courses so KUDOS to them!

Preprint by the Schimanski & Schneider ( @schneian.bsky.social ) labs & collaborators w/ 1st author Clirim Jetishi "Beyond a Linear Structure: The Tubular Organization of the Tripartite Attachment Complex and the Functional Role of TAC53 " @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social buff.ly/ZxzIwnu @unibe.ch

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings. Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top. Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them. Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

How can #science be made comprehensible through #art? 🔬🎨 Liliane Burkhard from #unibern showed this as #artist in residence at @egu.eu in Vienna. Her #installation of used conference posters illustrates the #dynamics of scientific ideas: www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/making_...

Researchers at #unibern, @stanford.edu, and @embl.org have discovered a new cellular mechanism that influences the stability of mRNA. 🧬 The findings could enable new approaches in #cancer therapy: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas.... @nccr-rna-disease.bsky.social

"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔎 #Ultrasound activates cilia on #urinary stents and catheters & creates a streaming that efficiently removes biofilm and encrustations from the surface. ☝️ Revolutionary technology developed by #unibern, Inselspital & @ethzurich.bsky.social : mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...

TbTim20 a novel subunit of the non-canonical trypanosomal TIM complex is only essential in kDNA-lacking cells. This is likely because, as yeast Pam17, it supports protein import at low membrane potential doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Genial 2 Minuten zum Faschismus in den USA und wie Jens Spahn ihn hier mit dem Hofieren der AfD salonfähig macht. Großes Kino!

Sign ups for the fall Barcelona multicellularity meeting are now up- come join us! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

The question of the origin of #SARS-CoV-2 is a matter of significant scientific and public interest. Current publicly available data suggests a natural origin, while evidence supporting a lab origin remains scarce. Although no hypothesis has been definitively proven, the available data indicate...

Good news - after 76 yrs with no new drug for rhodiensese Human African Trypanosomiasis, @who.int has faciliated research, development & now delivery ofmore effective fexinidazole to replace suramin & melarsoprol. Huge benefit given harsh side effects of the latter. www.who.int/news/item/07...

I've been doing this for 30 years & I still can't believe that when people ask me what I do for a living I get to tell them "I'm a scientist". It feels like a kid's fantasy career that they dress up as for Halloween, like "astronaut" or "pirate". I feel very lucky I get to do this day in & day out.

Our latest research on #Coronavirus Nsp1 found its home (and a new name) at @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Thankful to the first (dream) team of my lab and funding for making this happen. @nccr-rna-disease.bsky.social @mcid-unibe.bsky.social @unibe.ch