Asgard archaea were first found in mud at the bottom of the North Sea. Today, cellular biologists Martin Pilhofer and Christa Schleper are exploring one of their more elusive structural elements: a totally tubular system that looks a lot like our own. www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...

We are currently witnessing the complete succumbing to blackmail of the so-called civilized world. The speed of general moral and ethical decline in the name of economic constraints and reasoning is shocking. We must be aware that scientific integrity will not escape untouched.

Proud of my doctoral student Charlotte Schilling who successfully defended her thesis today! Congratulations, ⁦‪Charlotte, on an excellent job! 👏🥂

Check out our latest preprint with the Qi lab on the structure and disease physiology of the human ERAD complex. Outstanding work by Leo, a cell physiologist whom we successfully tempted into structural biology! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The type 1 pilus in its full glory! 👏

Muñoz-Hernández, Xu, et al. @mike-wieczorek.bsky.social @ethz.ch report #cryoEM structures revealing how NEDD1’s C terminus forms an α-helical tetramer that docks onto the γ-TuRC without inducing major conformational changes in the complex during its recruitment to MTOCs rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Congratulations to our colleague Jörn Piel and the other awardees! nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/05/15/j...

Breaking news and a great honour for D-BIOL professor Jörn Piel: he wins the very prestigious Jung Prize for Medicine! Our congratulations! ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

As scientists we must be ready to communicate the importance of vaccination wherever the discussion may come up, with family, friends or at the hair dresser. Be prepared to explain in a fact-based and accessible manner.

Check out our new study revealing how ATP-independent activator Bpa binds asymmetrically to the Mtb #proteasome — and pinpointing key Bpa residues involved in substrate interaction. 👏 Tatjana v. Rosen, Rafal Zdanowicz & @yasser-elhadeg.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

More than 2 decades ago the PINK1 protein was found to be linked to Parkinson's disease, but its structure and how it was activated was not known. Until @science.org today. A triumph for cryo-EM and structural biology, introducing new targets for drug intervention. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In case you've forgotten about measles induced immune amnesia www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... w/ @michaelmina.bsky.social @virusesimmunity.bsky.social

Thank you, Annette, for taking on this important responsibility!

Fully agree! “Peer” review being the important aspect here. And yes, reviewing takes time, as it should.

Babysteps-we’ve all been there… 😂 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Some good news! The final program for the inaugural #GRCBiologyofMycobacteria is up! We are also officially oversubscribed but cancellations happen... www.grc.org/biology-of-m...

👏 Another chapter in the midnolin proteasome story from @xingulab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new study from the Weber-Ban lab led by Charlotte Schilling @cm_schilling with support from @rafal_Zdanowicz @Glockshuber_lab reveals the signal linking DNA damage to the activation of the mycobacterial DNA damage response. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...