A limited number of poster presentation slots remain for RNA 2026 in Montréal, Canada from May 26th – 31st. We encourage you to register and submit your poster abstract by April 24th to secure one of the remaining spots! www.rnasociety.org/conferences/

If after reading the article you are still hungry for more about alternative TREX-2 complexes, also check out the recent preprints from the labs of Torben Heick Jensen @heick.bsky.social and Mary Dasso 😉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very thankful to @embo.org for generously supporting Jan’s research stay at David Tollervey’s lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social with a Scientific Exchange Grant! - @rtg2355.bsky.social research

2nd call for postdoc positions in the lab. Get in touch for more information or simply apply here: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Poster abstracts and early bird registrations for the 31st Annual Meeting of the RNA Society are due by March 31st! RNA 2026 website: rnasociety.org/conferences/ #RNA26

Excited to be part of this collaborative work on telomere biology in pluripotent cells. We found that nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) becomes essential for cell survival in the absence of TRF2, by preventing production of a dominant-negative TRF1 isoform. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the latest RNA Salon feature highlighting the importance of local community meetings! @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNA www.rnasociety.org/featured-sal...

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

The #DFG will in future permit the use of #AI in peer review under clearly defined conditions. The basis for this is a newly published guideline and the white paper “Artificial Intelligence in the Review Process”. The new regulations will apply as of 16 April. 1/4 www.dfg.de/en/news/news...

We are excited to share our new preprint: iCLIP3 — an improved protocol for transcriptome-wide mapping of protein–RNA interactions at single-nucleotide resolution.

Postdoc positions available in my lab in Aarhus, Denmark on 'Mammalian Nuclear RNA Production and Turnover Systems'. Please get in touch for further information or simply apply here: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award. Deadline: 15 May Read more: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/#WomenInScience#award

Junior RNA Scientsts - the @rnasociety.bsky.social Mentoring Program deadline is now Feb 20, 2026 ⏰ Get 1-1 guidance on career decisions, research planning, and academia vs industry. More mentors than mentees apply, so do not miss this opportunity. Details are in the email from the RNA Society 📧

#PhDPosition open — #RibosomeBiology & #Translation QC 📍 JGU Mainz, Germany 🗓️ Apply by 10 Mar 2026 (or until filled) 🔗 Full details + project options: 👉 ak-winz.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/jobs/

🧪 My lab has an opening for a postdoc position soon! Please share/get in touch!

📣NuQuest consortium update: Our first joint publication is out!Review on quiescence—A milestone for our initiative laying out the scientific groundwork & collaborative vision for our MSCA-DN application coordinated by @jlugiessen.bsky.social 1/n www.mdpi.com/3700996 #NuQuest #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork

Happy to announce our RTG 2355 International Conference “Regulatory landscapes of RNA: From code to control”, Sept 14-16, 2026 in Giessen, Germany. Topics cover #RNA as messenger, recruiting platform, sponge, regulator & sensor. 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf Save the date – registration opens May 1!

Congrats to Fabienne and co-workers!

📣 Our lab is looking for a PhD student to join us in exploring RNA biology! Details in the announcement. Feel free to reach out with any questions—and please RT!

Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes. An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification. Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

Congratulations to Anne Spang @spanglab.bsky.social for being elected as a new #AAASFellow by @aaas.org ! The world’s largest scientific society recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of cell #biology and #biochemistry. @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

I'm excited to share our latest publication on co-transcriptional RNA folding in a eukaryote! Great work by Leo Schärfen with collaboration from Isaac Vock and Matt Simon! @leoschaerfen.bsky.social @mattdsimon.bsky.social Take a peek here authors.elsevier.com/a/1kpxo_Oylr...

A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA. Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RNA Salon in mRNA Translation We have an exciting lineup with Keynote by: Marvin Tanenbaum (Hubrecht/ Delft) Please RT @goetheuni.bsky.social @cpi-exstra.bsky.social

📣 We are advertising for a postdoc to join our team at the University of Edinburgh! Our lab studies gene regulatory mechanisms in development, and how genetic changes may impact these processes to alter development and shape human craniofacial form and function 🧬🧪

Cool! #MTR4 #RNADecay #RNA #RNAExosome The #nuclear #exosome co-factor #MTR4 shapes the #transcriptome for #meiotic initiation Li Zhang, Jianshu Wang, Zhidong Tang, Zhen Lin, Ruibao Su, Naijing Hu, Yao Tang, Gaoxiang Ge, Jing Fan, Ming-Han Tong, Yuanchao Xue, Yu Zhou & Hong Cheng rdcu.be/ed5WM

✨New online!✨ @altmeyerlab.bsky.social, @karimmekhail.bsky.social et al. discuss how DNA double-strand break repair is modulated by nucleus and genome reshaping through chromatin state, condensates of repair proteins, and cytoskeleton reorganization. 🔗 go.nature.com/3DBSVCP

Super proud! Congrats and well done!

Congratulations to RTG2355-member Jennifer Kothe from Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg's lab for successfully defending her dissertation - well done, Jenni! 🎓🥳 (And please note the DNA, RNAP, RNA and ribosome on the cake!)

Excited to share the work of Jennifer Kothe et al suggesting a mechanism to be used by bacteria for fine-tuning gene expression according to ribosome availability and translation efficiency: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open PhD position in our RTG2355 - great diversity in topics, invited speakers, retreats and symposia, workshops, soft skill courses - and very nice people!

We have a 4 year PhD position available to study the impact of the RNA exosome on ribosome specialisation! Get in touch if you are interested or just apply. March 31st deadline. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Second call for a postdoc position in my lab. Please read more and apply here: mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

We are excited to share the work of Nataliia Stefanyshena who showed that maintenance of an optimal Mex67 level in nuclear mRNPs is required for efficient mRNA export: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in RNA biology, especially mRNA processing and export from nucleus to cytoplasm? We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to investigate the RNA-binding proteins Sub2 and Tho1 🧪🧫🔬 More details and instructions on how to apply: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Wolfgang! @wkhuber.bsky.social Read my slow analysis manifesto and join the slow analysis movement. Let's make data analysis healthy again!

The rise and shine of yeast optogenetics Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

This work is not only an amazing resource for the community, it is also a total masterclass in code reusability, data FAIRness and reproducibility. Hopefully, this is the future!

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐍𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? Our new study “Disabling leading and lagging strand histone transmission results in parental histones loss and reduced cell plasticity and viability” is out in 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. Led by @lleonie.bsky.social @biranalva.bsky.social 🧵 More below👇

PhD position vacant in the lab. Please spread the news. Study topic: Mammalian nuclear RNA production and turnover systems. Learn more about the lab here: www.mRNP.au.dk

A proteome-wide yeast degron collection for the dynamic study of protein function Full text: rupress.org/jcb/article-... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

FYI: New online! Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes

Not long until the deadline for this faculty position @dunnschool.bsky.social... Are you the one to lead a group doing great research in a special environment, while teaching outstanding students? www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

PomBase is GBC Global BioData Resource of the week www.linkedin.com/pulse/pombas...

Come and join us for the RMU RNA salon "Translation" in Frankfurt! Tuesday, April 1st 2025, 12:30 – 6:00 pm at Medical Campus Niederrad, Building 22 – HS22-2. Please register here: bit.ly/13_RMU_RNA_S... Thank you @rnasociety.bsky.social and #lexogen for funding!

We are recruiting! Center for Gene Expression has 2 or more open positions for PhDs @ucph.bsky.social. Come join our team to work on RNAPII and transcriptional regulation (gregersenlab.com). It's a wonderful city and amazing research environment. Deadline March 6. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

We are pleased to announce registration for RNA 2025 - the 30th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society - is now open! www2.rnasociety.org This year’s meeting will be held at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in sunny San Diego, California, USA from May 27th - June 1st, 2025.

New online! Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes