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Prof. at University of Bonn, Chemical Biology, Phosphatases, views are my own, she/her
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Yamuna Krishnan
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I read this book when I was 15 and fell in love with DNA. I re-read it at 32 with lived experience in Science and it filled me with rage. I cannot pick up that book now. It reveals what women were/are up against.
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Wonderful concert Sunday night in Cologne. So happy that I got to see Johnny Marr! Great crowd too!
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Nilsson lab
19 days ago
I have a PhD opening in my lab for an exiting project using base editor screens to find novel drug targets. Please help spread the word.
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PhD student position in the Cell Signaling and Cell Cycle group at the Danish Cancer Institute.
The Cell Signaling and Cell Cycle group, headed by Prof. Jakob Nilsson, is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student to establish novel CRISPR
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1572&ProjectId=145533&DepartmentId=18958&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=False
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Carlos Conde
19 days ago
Our latest research in collaboration with
@nilssonlab.bsky.social
,
@andrea-musacchio.bsky.social
and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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Polo kinase inhibits protein phosphatase 1 to promote the spindle assembly checkpoint and prevent aneuploidy
Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is essential for spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) silencing and mitotic exit, but its regulation during mitosis remains i…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012497?dgcid=author
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Rob Klose
25 days ago
Come join us in Geneva for everything epigenetics and gene regulation. It will be a great meeting! Please repost!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities, March 2026, in Geneva, with field leaders!
https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/C12026
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Sjors Scheres
26 days ago
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/ab52d2c2-0688-48e7-a7d1-77ae54a6aa4b
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Kimberly Beatty
3 months ago
scienceimpacts.org
Please share this link widely-- it allows people to see how the loss of NIH funding will directly impact their county. Includes current impact and future impacts. It is grim. NIH funding benefits us all.
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
https://scienceimpacts.org/
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Center of Medical Biotechnology
3 months ago
Join us! Registration is now open for the 17th German
#Peptide
Symposium, 4–6 March 2026, in Essen
@unidue.bsky.social
! An open-topic event on modern peptide chemistry featuring top speakers including
@mbogyo.bsky.social
,
@mkoehn.bsky.social
& more. 🔗
www.uni-due.de/17gps/
#17GPS
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From in the historically rich city of Boston, MA. Some lessons don’t get old.
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Eileen Furlong
3 months ago
To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job/Group-Leader---Genome-Biology-Unit_JR2069
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Kusterlab
3 months ago
Kusterlab is looking for a new member to join our Bioinformatics team. Apply now if you're interested in working with us!
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Very excited that the EMBO workshop on
#phosphatases
is about to start in the beautiful Juliusspital venue in Würzburg!
4 months ago
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Felix Campelo
4 months ago
Announcing a new
@embo.org
Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology" that we are organizing with Michael Krieg and Verena Ruprecht at
@icfo.eu
(Barcelona) on 16-20 February, 2026. Please, repost and spread the word! 🙏
#EMBOmechanobio
meetings.embo.org/event/26-org...
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Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology
Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field that emerges at the cross-section of biology, physics and engineering. It aims to understand how living cells, tissues and animals sense and respond to me…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-organelle-mechanobiology
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Evangelia Petsalaki
4 months ago
Do you have experience in mechanistic modelling of biological systems and want to do a postdoc with an interdisciplinary team on developing Digital Twins for rare disease? We have the job for you! Check it out below - deadline July 13th, online interviews 24th July.
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Ylva Ivarsson
4 months ago
We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student in Biochemistry - Uppsala University
PhD student in Biochemistry, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=836489
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Happy to be at
#APS2025
, great science and community! And an unexpected wonderful reunion after >10 years with two previous postdocs in my group: Jayanta Chatterjee and Yansong Wang!
5 months ago
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Elsässer Lab
5 months ago
also anyone with an apt/house for rent in
#freiburg
, 4+ rooms, preferably Herdern, Güterbahnhof, Wiehre, ANY time, ANY price, SEND IT MY WAY
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I am very sad about the passing of Philippe Bastiaens. My heart goes to his family, his colleagues and his group
www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/philipp...
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The Max Planck Institute in Dortmund mourns the loss of Philippe Bastiaens
https://www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/philippe-bastiaens-obituary
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Anirban Banerjee
6 months ago
We still have an open postbac position in the intramural program of the NIH for starting sometime this summer. Shares, reposts much appreciated-
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Swiss Chemical Society (SCS)
7 months ago
Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2025 - Last Chance to submit your abstract for a talk!
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
‼️Submit your abstract today via
ptf25.scg.ch/registration
#ptf25
#scs
#medchem
#switzerland
#symposia
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Carolyn Bertozzi
7 months ago
SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web.
chemsymposia.com
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Join Chemsymposia 2026: Research & Innovation | ChemSymposia 2026
Join us at Chemsymposia 2026 to discover groundbreaking research in physics applications. Connect with experts, engage in insightful discussions, and explore our venue, registration details, and speak...
https://chemsymposia.com/
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Jordan Meier
7 months ago
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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EMBO
7 months ago
Join scientists, biotech start-ups and pharmaceutical companies to discuss
#phosphatase
research at the EMBO Workshop "Phosphatases: From basic research to translation" in Würzburg, Germany, 27–31 July Deadline: 11 April
meetings.embo.org/event/25-pho...
#EMBOphosphatases
#EMBOevents
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Phosphatases: from basic research to translation
Phosphatases have been considered undruggable for decades. However, recent breakthroughs with the first small molecule phosphatase inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy now in clinical trials have resu…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-phosphatases
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Adam Gilbert
7 months ago
Clever way to look for new CRBN ubiquitination substrate…
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A method to identify small molecule/protein pairs susceptible to protein ubiquitination by the CRBN E3 ligase
Although using DNA-encoded libraries (DELs) to find small molecule binders of target proteins is well-established, identifying molecules with functions beyond binding remains challenging in pooled scr...
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc01251a
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Don’t forget to register for the EMBO conference on phosphatases, July 27-31 2025 😊
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Stephan Hacker
8 months ago
Very excited for the virtual
#RSCPoster
conference by
@rsc.org
over on LinkedIn that is happening on March 4th and 5th and to be a subject chair for
#RSCChemBio
together with Lyn Jones and Ali Tavassoli. (1/2)
www.rsc.org/our-events/r...
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Stephan Hacker
8 months ago
Very much looking forward to the 25th anniversary symposium of ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem
#CBCCPC2025
in Berlin on October 23rd and 24th, 2025. There is an ever growing list of amazing speakers confirmed for this event. (1/2)
#chemsky
#ChemBio
@chemistryeurope.bsky.social
www.cbc-cpc2025.org
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Elena De Vita
9 months ago
Did you recently complete a ChemBio/MedChem PhD (non-UK) and are looking for the next challenge? I am seeking a prospective applicant for a Newton Fellowship with an exciting project in targeted protein dephosphorylation! Please reach out to
[email protected]
royalsociety.org/grants/newto..
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Wolfgang Huber
9 months ago
Do you love software engineering for exciting biological applications, open science, open source, R, Bioconductor, modern web, cloud & ML technologies? We're looking for a software engineer to work on R/Bioconductor tools for biological data science and AI.
www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...
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Ben Schumann
12 months ago
#Chembio
crowd! Come and join
#ESBOC25
, the oldest Chemical Biology Symposium in Europe, in its 58th (!) instalment, on 28th-30th May 2025 - in beautiful and scenic Gregynog/Wales! Chaired by none other than Olalla Vazquez and with a rockstar lineup:
www.esboc.org.uk
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ESBOC – European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry
https://www.esboc.org.uk/
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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
10 months ago
Am 10. Februar 2025 startet die Abstimmung über die Namensänderung unseres Vereins in „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemie“. Der Vorstand der GDCh bittet alle Mitglieder um ihre Zustimmung zu diesem wichtigen Schritt. Mehr Informationen:
www.linkedin.com/posts/gdch-d...
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German Chemical Society (GDCh) on LinkedIn: Wichtige Information zur geplanten Satzungsänderung der GDCh! Am 10…
Wichtige Information zur geplanten Satzungsänderung der GDCh! Am 10. Februar 2025 startet die Abstimmung über die Namensänderung unseres Vereins in…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gdch-de_wichtige-information-zur-geplanten-satzungs%C3%A4nderung-activity-7290295225984430080-K-M_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Stephan Hacker
9 months ago
If you are member of
@gdch.bsky.social
, you should have gotten an e-mail that you can vote on the change of the name of GDCh to "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chemie". If you have, I encourage you to make use of your vote!
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Derek Lowe
9 months ago
I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War. Same link, new title and some updates.
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-happening-inside-nih
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Open for nominations: Chemical Science lectureship to recognize independent researchers at all career stages who made exceptional discoveries and innovations in their field within the last five years. Focus is this time on the chemistry of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics.
rsc.li/chemsci-lect...
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Chemical Science Lectureship
Chemical Science are delighted to launch a new Lectureship in our 15th anniversary year in 2025 to recognise and celebrate the significant contributions our authors make to the chemical sciences commu...
https://rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship25
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Michelle Wille
10 months ago
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Stephan Hacker
10 months ago
I had an amazing time at the
#AdvancesChemBio
with many interesting talks, exciting posters and inspiring discussions with colleagues and friends. Thank you so much to the organizers from
@gfg-chembio.bsky.social
for organizing such an outstanding meeting.
#chemsky
#ChemBio
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Euna Yoo
10 months ago
Happy to share our work published
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
. We describe the design of activity-based probes and chemoproteomic strategies to study USP18.
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Chemical tools to define and manipulate interferon-inducible Ubl protease USP18 - Nature Communications
USP18 is a multifunctional cysteine protease involved in IFN pathways. Here, the authors report chemical probes and chemoproteomics platforms that allow to detect and perturb USP18 activity in complex...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56336-5
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Cristina Viéitez
10 months ago
Our lab is recruiting Postdocs with strong background in Epigenetics, PTM biology and/or Cell Signalling along with experience with bioinformatics 👩💻👨💻 📢 Apply through the IBFG Postdoc Call 2025! 🔗 Check all the positions here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1JxNd...
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Adrian Saurin
10 months ago
If you’re thinking of what meeting to go to this year then check out the
#phosphatase
meeting in Würzburg. Lots of great speaking slots and events for junior researchers. It’s always a fun meeting
meetings.embo.org/event/25-pho...
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Phosphatases: from basic research to translation
Phosphatases have been considered undruggable for decades. However, recent breakthroughs with the first small molecule phosphatase inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy now in clinical trials have resu…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-phosphatases
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@Westermarcklab
10 months ago
Here we are, happy to join the community!
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Bryan Dickinson
10 months ago
Super excited to finally share PANCS-Binders: our group's decade-long quest to accelerate protein binder discovery. TLDR: PANCS-binders is fast (2 days), cheap (pennies), has extremely high fidelity (low false positive and negatives), and high-throughput. 1/n
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Cathleen Crudden
10 months ago
Also please remember that a review of a person (i.e. author) is done in the context of tenure or promotion reviews. When reviewing a paper, we ask that you please review only the data and its interpretation, not the people involved. We have received many cases like this lately.. 2/
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Cathleen Crudden
10 months ago
For all those providing reviews of scientific papers–firstly, thank you. We would not have a useful scientific literature without you. Secondly, please keep in mind that your reviews are read not only by the PIs but also students. There is no place for anger or impolite language in a review.... 1/
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Enfu Hui
10 months ago
Thrilled to share our
@sciimmunology.bsky.social
paper! We report that rodent PD-1 is weaker than human PD-1 (reduced ligand binding & signaling) & lacks a conserved vertebrate motif. Humanizing mouse PD-1 disrupts T cell anti-tumor responses, raising many questions.
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Fleur Ferguson
10 months ago
We are hiring! Apply to join our dynamic team as a
#chemicalbiology
postdoc or research scientist below. Chemical biology:
jobrxiv.org/job/universi...
Mass spectrometry:
jobrxiv.org/job/universi...
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Chemical Biology Postdoc in the Ferguson Lab at UCSD
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-diego-27778-chemical-biology-postdoc-in-the-ferguson-lab-at-ucsd/
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Join us in Würzburg, Germany, for the EMBO workshop “Phosphatases: From basic research to translation”! July 27-31 2025. Newest developments in the field, from academia and industry. Great networking opportunities! Short talk slots available. Hope to see you there!
meetings.embo.org/event/25-pho...
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Phosphatases: from basic research to translation
Phosphatases have been considered undruggable for decades. However, recent breakthroughs with the first small molecule phosphatase inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy now in clinical trials have resu…
https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-phosphatases
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Stephan Hacker
11 months ago
Scientists to Follow! As my "Scientists to Follow" list (
go.bsky.app/3SyoVNw
) reached capacity and I did not want to extend the short list (
go.bsky.app/C4URhFa
), I made a part 2 with plenty more scientists that post exciting content here:
go.bsky.app/9keb2TP
Please share this post! (1/n)
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Johannes Zimmermann
11 months ago
Who is messing with your favorite protein Filamin C in stressed muscle cells? 🧩🔬 We tackled this riddle in our latest paper in Scientific Reports. A huge shoutout to former lab mate Anja and Thomas from the
@mkoehn.bsky.social
lab - this was a true team effort! 👏🎉! A short thread: 🧵(1/5)
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Big thanks to Johannes, Thomas Kokot, Bettina Warscheid and everyone involved in this wonderful collaboration!
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