Today, it was Lisa's turn to defend her PhD thesis and she did an absolutely fantastic job 😍 Especially going into full structure of the RNA Pol2 catalytic core and explaining the mutants. It was an outstanding discussion! I am really proud of her performance today 🥹

sunday evening, berlin (sound on)

I finally got around to reading this piece by @mariafarrell.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com, and it's fantastic. Drawing comparisons to ecology, it's a superb manifesto for the open web.

Puma Blue @ Gretchen 19/5/26 pure magic 🪄

Excited to share our work uncovering SNOR, a ribosome-associated factor that promotes translation restart after dormancy published in Nature!! This was, as usual, a wonderful collaborative effort between our group and the Mattei Lab @simonemattei.bsky.social @embl.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/9 New preprint from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with the Nishimasu Lab! We uncover how the DRT3 antiphage immune system pairs two reverse transcriptases, one RNA-templated and one protein-templated, to build a double-stranded DNA effector. doi.org/10.64898/202...

spring in Neukölln

How do mitochondrial ribosomes keep pace with membrane insertion? Now out in NSMB: We show that mitoribosomes slow down at defined positions linked to membrane insertion and protein topology: rdcu.be/fhqIT #Mitochondria #Ribosome #CryoEM

In our "Meet the first author" series we spoke with Lisa Martina and Michal Malszycki about their recent paper, their fascination with nuclear speckles, and how an unexpected discovery helped them gain insight into the functions of speckles. www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2026-mt... @aktast.bsky.social

a really cool molecular basis for memory, and its inheritance, in a really cool system 🤩 thought provoking for the origins of multicellular memory encoding in nervous systems

Another of my Japan paintings. This is Kyoto though! Thought it would be calming for my Bluesky art friends! #oilpainting #primitiveart #artbrut #japanart

nice review on the guardians of translation, proteostasis, and its adversaries in the cytoplasm 👏 Ulrike Topf febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are excited that Claudia Langenberg and Malte Spielmann joined the MPIMG this year as external scientific members of the Max Planck Society. These roles are held by researchers with close MPI ties, strengthening our network and fostering collaboration. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2026-ex...

We are looking for a human MALAT1 overexpression plasmid. Does any of you kind people have it?

In this interview, @juliabatki.bsky.social, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us understand disease, and her love of improv. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Raquel Fueyo's lab studies the impact of transposons on human embryonic development and disease. We talked with her about what drew her to this field, her lab's work culture, and how she finds inspiration for her science in art. @fueyoraquel.bsky.social Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2026-in...

The research highlight of our recent work on nuclear speckles is online. The photo choice is eggcellent. Happy Easter! 🌸🐰🥚 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

awesome PI awesome lab 🔥

this is the feel-good story science needed right now - a reminder to the present and future generations of scientists that science is wild and beautiful. the next story is at the horizon of your imagination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

@ berlin: anyone else having old testament exodus-levels of ladybugs in your apartment ?

The annual WFMU Fundraising Marathon comes to your radio tomorrow! For two weeks, hear your favorite DJs team up to raise funds, give away cool prizes, and remind you that WFMU is a listener-sponsored, non-profit radio station that needs your support! Make a pledge right here: pledge.wfmu.org

Fantastic event on a critical current topic - academic freedom and resilience of science. This is the ethos of our @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social Symposium 2026! Let's continue this conversation: youngpisymposium2026.com Bravo @humboldt-foundation.de & great speakers for highlighting this topic 👏

the latest from the Aktas Lab @aktast.bsky.social @molgen.mpg.de 🤩! linking nuclear speckles to splicing and evolution - insights at many scales as they do among the very best 💫

@tjryan.bsky.social will join the @fens.org satellite @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social as a keynote speaker. He is Professor of Neuroscience at @tcddublin.bsky.social and Chair of the FENS Advocacy Committee. He will speak about advocacy for neuroscience in Europe. Join us 👉 youngpisymposium2026.com

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Among the amazing keynote speakers at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social, a Satellite Event of @fens.org in Barcelona, is Noelia Antón Bolaños 🤩. Noelia will tell us about her journey from Spain to Boston, and now to her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social. Register! youngpisymposium2026.com

Among the amazing keynote speakers at the @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social, a Satellite Event of @fens.org in Barcelona, is Noelia Antón Bolaños 🤩. Noelia will tell us about her journey from Spain to Boston, and now to her lab at @umcutrecht.bsky.social. Register! youngpisymposium2026.com

we are proud to be supported by the Association of ERC Grantees for this FENS 2026 Satellite Event in Barcelona 🤩 Register now! 🤝 @obarnstedt.bsky.social for our link to the ERC 🫶

Ribosomes in pairs: A survival strategy inside stressed cells. When nutrients drop or temperatures shift, cells switch to survival mode. New work by @erin-schuman.bsky.social & colleagues shows that inactive ribosomes pair up via a ribosomal RNA link @andschwarz.bsky.social @muellermara.bsky.social

explorers at the farthest reaches of our knowledge 🤩 neuronal ribosomes, and their mysterious rRNA expansion segments immense story from the dream team @andschwarz.bsky.social & @muellermara.bsky.social in the @erin-schuman.bsky.social lab at @mpibrain.bsky.social ribosome structure♥️neurons

opening in the Lund lab! apply 👇

Now in its final form published in @devbiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a pitch-perfect description of my scientific process youtube.com/shorts/E-2Zv...

Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]

i'll see you there Dafni! join us to build resilience in these times of uncertainty for neuroscience...for (all)science. anyone reading the news in the US and UK lately? stronger 🤝 together

suuuper cool ❤️‍🔥🤩❤️‍🔥 evolution of a "visceral brain" tempted to step outside of the "cranial brain" for a hot minute...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

your spaceship to the protein folding universe 🚀👽 from captain Steinegger and crew 🧑‍🚀

now online: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

We wrote a protocol article detailing induction of dormancy in stem cells, embryos, and blastoids. We hope that it is useful to the community. As usual fun to work with @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, Heidar and Dhanur.

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

Lovely science symposium this week in Berlin, co-organized by my lab at MPI @molgen.mpg.de and Ori Avinoam's lab at the Weizmann Supported by generous funding from the Heineman & Minerva Foundations, for @maxplanck.de 🤝 Weizmann collaboration. Science 🤝 Food 🤝 Drinks 🫶 Friends

this is exactly in the spirit of our Young PI Symposium 2026! 🤝 Resilience for Neuroscience in Times of Uncertainty 🤝 👇 register! youngpisymposium2026.com

Coming up!!!! Registration now open!!!!! a forum to meet more peers in the baby PIs neuro world! location is not bad either!!! Go on register!!

This Saturday at WFMU's Monty Hall: "Sun Ra: Do the Impossible," a kaleidoscopic portrait of the visionary jazz musician, composer, and poet. Hosted by DJ Irwin Chusid. Q&A to follow w/exec producer Bradford Smith and Sun Ra biographer Paul Youngquist. Tix/info:

New preprint from my lab!!! We took advantage of the MitoTag mouse line to study what mRNAs associate with mitochondria in axons in vivo, and we were in for a surprise! Other than our favorite Pink1, mainly cytoskeletal mRNAs hitch a ride and pave the way for axon growth. shorturl.at/rYe1U

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

We spend way too much time manually analyzing #microtubules 🔬 Together with Mario, Justus, Dominik, Felix & Erik we used synthetic data and foundation models to build a fully automated segmentation pipeline.
 #microscopy, #imageanalysis & #AI Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅 Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!