📣 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

Exciting opportunity! Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is looking for a Head of the DNA-Biofoundry MaxGENESYS. Join us in vibrant #Marburg - apply by 15 February 2025. #ScienceJobs #SyntheticBiology #Biofoundry @maxplanck.de

Our newest publication is out! N-6-methyladenosine (m6A) promotes the nuclear retention of mRNAs with intact 5′ splice site motifs www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/2/... Here is a short 🧵: (1/n)

Check out our recent work on CDS #m6A mediated RNA decay (CMD)! Decay relies on ribosome pausing at m6A containing codons. Great collab with the Zarnack lab & colleagues. Thank you @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social , @imbmainz.bsky.social and RMap🥳 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Since April, we have been busy curating pathways using GO-CAM pathway modelling. So far, 466 proteins (33 pathways) have been modelled. We have modelled signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, and other processes. The full list is here: www.pombase.org/documentatio..., and will increase weekly!

The GfG is delighted to reconnect with everyone here on Bluesky! We're excited to announce our upcoming symposium, "Epigenetics & Chromatin", taking place September 24–26 in Giessen, Germany. Stay tuned for more details! (... and become a member of the GfG...!)

Congratulations to Anne Spang for receiving the renowned Lelio Orci Award. The award honors her pioneering work in intracellular organization and her research achievements in Cell Biology. @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

#RBBP6 #mRNA #3'end #Processing #RNA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello Bluesky, Caliskan Lab is hiring! Our new Lab in Uni Regensburg has open #ERC funded PhD and postdoctoral positions (with long term employment opportunities) in viral #RNA-protein interactions regulating #translation, #transcription, #recoding and #single-molecule-analysis #RNA

Also including JLU Giessen

Now out on bioRxiv: our collaboration with Simone Heber, Anne Ephrussi and Jeff Chao reveals how Staufen interacts with the kinesin adapter aTm1 to localize oskar mRNA in #Drosophila oocytes, modulating kinesin-1 dependent mRNA transport. #RNAsky #RNA doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Is chromatin ordered or disordered? It all depends on the linker DNA length. Check our latest work with Mike Rosen and Sy Redding. We explore how changes in linker DNA length (as small as 1 bp) fine-tune chromatin structure, between order and disorder, and the properties of chromatin droplets

Phosphorylation of a nuclear condensate regulates cohesion and mRNA retention #RNAbiology #RNAlocalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out in @naturecomms.bsky.social: Kris's work showing that elongation factor Spt5 suppresses DNA-directed, T tract-dependent RNAPII termination but promotes the torpedo-dependent mechanism - from the Vasiljeva lab @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social (not on bsky). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can apply to our postdoc position until 12 Jan: We are looking for a Postdoc in Functional Genomics to examine the roles of conserved yet unstudied proteins, focusing on cellular quiescence and ageing. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

mRNA export factors sense transcription inhibition and adapt by storing mature export-competent mRNA in nuclear speckles to enable rapid release when transcription resumes @thedawsonlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Find out whether your favourite yeast protein shows RNA-dependent behaviour on the interactive web interface to our budding and fission yeast R-DeeP data: yeast-r-deep.computational.bio (2/n)

Happy to join Bluesky! We have news for friends of RNA in fission and budding yeast - our census of RNA-dependent proteins is online: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We are using R-DeeP (pioneered by @maiwen-ch.bsky.social) @pombase.bsky.social & @yeastgenome.bsky.social (1/n)