The Bacterial RNA Biology Group in Jena is hiring a new PhD student! 🔬🧫🧬 We are looking for a motivated candidate to study bacteriophages of the opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae. 🔥 Apply by July 26, 2026 🔥 Details on the position and application: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

Introns have a hidden regulatory role! 🧬🎉 Delighted to share our latest paper showing that inefficiently spliced introns and spliceosomal proteins direct RNA methylation, engaging RNAi to silence retrotransposons and regulate gene expression nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in RNA and proteins? Perfect! 😀 We seek to fill a fully funded 3+ years PhD position for a project on pre-mRNA splicing regulation using structural biochemistry in combination with cell biology and bioinformatics. Find more information on our lab's homepage and get in contact via e-mail!

There is more to transcriptional readthrough than meets the eye, and it could even provide a therapeutic opportunity in cancer. Check out our new perspective, inspired by recent work from Neugebauer and Grzechnik labs! #RNABiology #RNASky #Epigenetics

Nice work! #RNAExosome #RNA link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Abstract submission deadline is approaching for "The complex life of RNA" @embl.org in Heidelberg 13-16. October 2026! There will be almost 30 selected talks! Submission deadline: 7. July 2026!

Happy to share the latest work on a bacterial protein that inhibits human mRNA decay machinery, in collaboration with @smlea.bsky.social #RNAsky www.nature.com/articles/s41... Intracellular pathogen effector reprograms host gene expression by inhibiting mRNA decay | Nature Communications

Exciting PhD position available in the Diepold lab @kit.edu ! We're especially interested in international students with expertise in molecular biology and ready to lead a cutting-edge research project in molecular machines and infection biology. Find out more at diepoldlab.com.

Deadline alert ⏰⌛- if you want to present a poster or short talk at our conference in September, please submit your abstract by next Sunday, June 14! The template is available for download on the conference website 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf

www.nature.com/articles/s41... - from @igorulitsky.bsky.social - "most chromatin regions reported as bound by trans-acting RNAs in recent studies in mammalian cells appear to be technical artifacts"

#RNAExosome www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

Last call for this awesome opportunity: www.czbiohub.org/program-mpi-.... If you hold a US-PhD degree and want to join one of the labs at the @mpi-cbg.de or @mpipks.bsky.social for a fully-funded postdoc, apply! Deadline is May 20.

Join us at our special anniversary Symposium on RNA biology at the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social campus! We promise 3 days of interesting science, discussions and hopefully new ideas and learnings for everyone - plus a symposium dinner at the Vienna city hall!

We're hiring! Join our growing team at the @crg.eu as a postdoc. Curious about how mRNA translation and decay cross-talk? We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a project in the field of RNA biology and gene regulation. Apply here: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please share!

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

We have a 4 year PhD position available to study the impact of the RNA exosome on ribosome specialisation in different cell types! Get in touch if you are interested or just apply (UK students only). Deadline Wednesday, May 20, 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Final call for postdoctoral positions in my lab in wonderful Århus. You may apply using this link: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

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!