📣 To celebrate Biophysics Week, the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup (MSAF) of @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host a webinar on March 24 at 11am EDT. Our speakers are @mejohnson81.bsky.social, @ibudin.bsky.social, and Cecília Leal (not on 🦋). 🧪 👀 More info in the alt text! Please share! 🔄

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

“Unraveling the Dynamics of Human Mitochondrial DNA Replication, One Molecule at a Time” will be the topic of our next IQF Seminar: 🗣️ Borja Ibarra, @imdeanano.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March 🕛 12:00 📍 Salón de Actos - IQF All welcome! #IQFSeminar

"Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft gedenkt Jürgen #Habermas in Dankbarkeit – für ein Jahrzehnt in Starnberg, das zu den kühnsten Kapiteln ihrer Geschichte gehört, und für ein Werk, das weit über dieses Jahrzehnt hinaus wirkt." Ein Nachruf auf Jürgen Habermas www.mpg.de/26269576/jue... / Von Jürgen Renn

New OpenFold3 preview out! (OF3p2) It closes the gap to AlphaFold3 for most modalities. Most critically, we're releasing everything, including training sets & configs, making OF3p2 the only current AF3-based model that is functionally trainable & reproducible from scratch🧵1/9

Today is #InternationalWomensDay, a day for celebrating the achievements of great women across all areas of society! As one of the @ec.europa.eu gender champions we are running a #WomenInScience workshop in Brussels on 27 May 2026. For more info and to register:

The new circoscontacts ChimeraX command shows circular residue contact plots. Created by Peter Carlton at Kyoto University and available from ChimeraX menu Tools / More Tools... cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera...

Q-scores are calculated for atomic models derived from 3D electron microscopy maps, measure how well the model fits the map and reflect the quality of the map itself. 🔗 Find out more: https://ow.ly/4Vkx50Ynrxi @ucsandiego @ActaCrystD @IUCr #CryoEM #QScores #Validation

Join us on March 24 at 18:30 h at @ibfg.bsky.social “Biophysics in Salamanca: Can Biophysics Explain Life?” Three short talks, a live optical tweezers demo, and a pizza party! #BiophysicsWeek @csicdivulga.bsky.social @usaloficial.bsky.social @csiccyl.bsky.social

Este fin de semana no dejéis de escuchar el programa "A hombros de gigantes". Durante el desarrollo del mismo, Manuel Seara y yo charlaremos sobre las tubulinas, proteínas clave del citoesqueleto que, entre otras cosas, mantienen la morfología celular.

🌞🧬👩‍🔬¿Eres un/a posdoc joven (2-7años tras PhD) en biología estructural y deseas recopilar datos preliminares para tu próximo grant? @instruct-eric.bsky.social ofrece <15k€ a pequeños proyectos I+D de desarrollo tecnología o software dentro de la biología estructural integrada. 👇

🔬 El @ibfg.bsky.social organiza mañana el encuentro “ConCiencia Café”, una actividad abierta a todos los públicos para conocer de cerca a las científicas de nuestro centro de investigación ☕️ #11F #DíaMujeryNiñaEnCiencia 📅 #20DeFebrero 🕟 16:30 📍 Cafetería, IBFG 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

FCHo2, not talin, enables inside-out activation of integrin ɑvβ5 in curved adhesions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PERSON OF THE DAY. 10 February 1923. German-born Wilhelm Röntgen died (aged 77). He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays which earned him the 1st Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. It’s one of the greatest diagnostic medical advances of all time.

Remember: the day after Valentine’s Day is the deadline to apply for our PhD studentship!! Highly important topic and a fantastic opportunity to learn a lot!!! Don’t even think about it!!

Clement E. Blanchet et al.: SASBDB reaches 5000 data sets: empowering open science and next-generation SAS analysis ##SmallAngleScattering##BiologicalDataBanks##OpenData... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798326000641

#IQFSeminario #IQFSeminar Segmented Droplet Sample Delivery for Serial Crystallography 🗣️ Alexandra Ros, from Arizona State University 🗓️ Wednesday, 4 February 🕛 12:00 h 📍#iqf

My personal obituary for Richard Hynes now live on the Manchester Cell-Matrix Centre website. www.manchester-matrix.org/news/profess...

Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941 + Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures) + MacArthur Fellow, 1985 + Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991 + President, Biophysical Society, 2012 #WomenInSTEM

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

Register for the January 26 Webinar on Advanced Search Learn what is new in the redesigned Advanced Search feature and how to use it in this free event

New online: When cryo-EM modeling meets structure prediction

8–11 June 2026 | 📍 Heraklion, Crete 🇬🇷 Get ready for Machines on Genes 2026, the 94th Harden Conference by the @biochemsoc.bsky.social — four days of molecular mechanisms and friendly discussions! 🧬☀️🔬❄️ Organised by @lapassmore.bsky.social, Dana Branzei, me.

Missed the 43rd Structure Meets Function webinar with talks from ALBA and BESSY, showcasing the new Instruct Centres? Find the full recording here to see it all again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdD...

A great talk today from Jose Luis Vilas Prieto of @cnb-csic.bsky.social, outlining the use of the @instructi2pc.bsky.social for cryo-EM and cryo-ET at the RI-Hubs webinar on Cryo-ET! Find out more about CNB-CSIC here - instruct-eric.org/centre/instr...

Check out our new Talin Infographic! The poster summarises why we think there is a binary code in animals. Great artwork made by Josh Hawley @golgigraphics.bsky.social

AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop thenode.biologists.com/https-www-yo...

#SeminarioDeInvestigación 🔬 | El @ibfg.bsky.social organiza el seminario "Combining structural and functional data: the many controls of the enzyme tyrosine hydroxilase". 🗣️ José Mª Valpuesta, @cnb-csic.bsky.social 🕛 12:00 📍 Salón actos, IBFG Más información 👉 ibfg.usal-csic.es/index.php

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

🧬The Second Salamanca International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology Course, #BioPhySal, will take place at @usaloficial.bsky.social from June 22 to June 28. 👩‍🔬 #IRNASA-CSIC is part of the scientific committee. 🗓️ Registration closes on January 20. 🔗 biophysal.org

Excited to share our new preprint! and the surprising finding that the second integrin-binding site (IBS2) does not bind integrin. IBS2 can be better explained as talin-talin interactions mediated via a cryptic talin-binding site in R11. We also show a new role for vinculin as a mechano-chaperone

🧪Arriba "Integrative Structural Biology in the new Instruct-ES" Punt de trobada per a investigadors i experts en tècniques de #cryo-EM, #RMN i #XRAY 📅29 i 30 de gener ✍️Inscripcions: instruct-eric.es/2025/10/10/2... @instruct-eric.bsky.social @iqf-csic.bsky.social #ICTSNews #NMRchat #NMR

KANK2 at focal adhesion regulates their maintenance and dynamics, while at fibrillar adhesions it influences cell migration via microtubule-dependent mechanism prelights.biologists.com/highlights/k...

📢 External seminar at the IBFG! 🥼Talk by Dr. José Mª Valpuesta - CNB-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) 🔬Topic: Combining structural and functional data: the many controls of the enzyme tyrosine hydroxilase 🗓 Jan 16, 2026 – 12:00 PM 📍 IBFG Auditorium, Salamanca

Saddened to learn of the death of Richard Hynes. A giant of cell biology, Richard made a massive contribution to extracellular matrix and cancer biology - in particular early work on fibronectin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

Excited to introduce the Salamanca Consortium for Structural Biology and Biophysics (SCBBS), a collaborative network bringing together CSIC and University of Salamanca researchers to advance interdisciplinary molecular and biophysical science.

The SBBC participates in the organization of the Second Salamanca International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Course, June 22–28, 2026. The course is led by Profs. Carlos Bustamante and Eva Nogales (University of California, Berkeley) Registration open until January 20th biophysal.org

🧪Second Salamanca International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Course🧫 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Organized by Profs. Carlos Bustamante and Eva Nogales from University of California in Berkeley 🗓️ REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 20TH📝 SIGN UP NOW! ➡️ biophysal.org

New collaborative preprint! A striking result: a disordered linker in KANK1 binds as many as 15 LC8 dimers, forming a protein rod that bridges cell membranes and microtubules! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coming 2027...

Happy 50th Anniversary of the Stanford SSRL synchrotron radiation and protein crystallography initiative

El domingo 5 de enero a las 18:00 y en Radio5, Manuel Seara y yo charlaremos sobre las opsinas. Capaces de realizar múltiples funciones por su capacidad para detectar luz visible. Sin duda, la más conocida es la rodopsina, la de la visión. Está ya disponible como podcast.

I am delighted to introduce our new Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs) funded by the Research Council of Finland. www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. One image analyst and one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!

Talin didn’t evolve for integrins... integrins evolved for talin 🤯 pN force coupling via talin is ancient, conserved from amoebae to humans; signaling came later. Read this amazing paper here 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨ATENCIÓN🚨 Abrimos la convocatoria al premio JI-SBE a la mejor tesis de Biofísica de 2025. Si has defendido tu tesis en 2025 y es del ámbito de la biofísica, esta es tu oportunidad‼️ Consulta las bases del premio para más información: sbe.es/wp-content/u...

New interview alert! We had a chat with Mike Cianfrocco, Scott Stagg and Jan-Hannes Schäfer about their CryoSift tool – details in the thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlc...

Calling researchers in Spain! Don't miss out on the Instruct-ES Workshop, the first meeting of the expanded Spanish Centre in Instruct-ERIC Find out all about the technologies and latest research taking place at Instruct Centre Spain - register here 👇 instruct-eric.org/events/integ...

🚀 Update Alert The new PDBe-KB Ligand pages are live with a cleaner layout, intuitive tabs, and a brand-new onboarding tour to help you get started. Explore here 👉 pdbe.org/chem/STI

At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...

🚀 OPEN PhD POSITIONS in #SyntheticBiology! Join #SYNBIO-CSIC, an EU-funded doctoral programme by CSIC: ✔ 20 positions ✔ Cutting-edge research in #EngineeringBiology ✔ Interdisciplinary training for future leaders ➡️https://lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/ #MSCACOFUND #SYNBIO