Interaction of Pf4 tactoids with bacteria and synthetic colloidal rods Important biophysical measurements on the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm-related phage Pf4 by Dirk Aarts laboratory with @abultarafder.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Measurement of atomic scattering factors by cryoelectron microscopy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42101996/ #cryoem

Oxygen gradients reshape cross-feeding through emergent spatial organization of gut commensal bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Use of isotope labels and cryo-CLEM-FIB-SIMS to study microbial communities by Hannah Ochner. Collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @jmghigolab.bsky.social

Come and work with us on #cryoEM of alpha-synuclein amyloid filaments from #Parkinsons disease! 🥳 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Congratulations to @lapassmore.bsky.social, Joint Head of the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, who has been elected an international member of @nationalacademies.org Congratulations to #LMBalumni Andrea Brand who has also been elected. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews

Congratulations to Manu Hegde, Group Leader & Joint Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, who has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations also to the #LMBalumni joining him, Julie Ahringer & Edward Egelman. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews

A leader in the cell biology of signalling, the 2027 Centenary Award is presented to Matthew Freeman in recognition of his pioneering discoveries into the biological significance and mechanisms of rhomboid intramembrane proteases and pseudoprotease and unwavering commitment to mentorship!

Our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain" 🥳 With Michel Goedert and Masato Hasegawa. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our new paper applying fast DIA proteomics to bacterial co-cultures at scale. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @kiranrpatil.bsky.social

Tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group, @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social & @medcambridge.bsky.social, studies how TB thrives, including what drives its drug tolerance. Read more: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/GdOa... #LMBintheNews #WorldTBDay #EndTB

Check out our pre-print, where we train a protein and small molecule force field from scratch with a graph neural network. We show comparable performance to existing, manually-tuned force fields on a range of tasks including binding free energy prediction. (1/4) arxiv.org/abs/2603.16770

We're excited to announce the beta-release of #RELION-5.1! 🥳 This release has important updates on our #amyloid processing pipeline, as described in this preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... There are also some tweaks for #teamtomo. #OpenSoftwareAcceleratesScience

Interested in one of the top jobs in European biology? @embo.org has opened a call for its next Director, to succeed Fiona Watt Really spectacular opportunity! Spread the word... www.embo.org/features/emb...

Join #EMBOCryoEM to get a comprehensive foundation in advanced single-particle and cellular tomography techniques – we'll cover the entire workflow from sample preparation to data collection and image processing. https://s.embl.org/cry26-01-bl Apply by: 11 May 2026 @embo.org

Archaea hit prime time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab. @mrclmb.bsky.social Please get in touch if you have any questions. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳 mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

How did life arise from simple chemical building blocks? New #LMBResearch led by @edogia.bsky.social in @philholliger.bsky.social group has identified a small self-replicating ribozyme that could be the answer. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

A reminder to sign up for the 2026 EMBO archaeal meeting im Cambridge: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc.... Registration is open. We are looking forward to hosting you!

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#MolecularBiology of #Archaea: Life Through the Prism of Archaea" in Cambridge, UK, 6–10 July 2026. Deadline: 15 April https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-archaea#MolecularBiology#Archaea#EMBOArchaeaBiology #EMBOevents #CellBiology #StructuralBiology #ecology #evolution #biophysics 🧪

We have an opening for a research support officer. Come and join us! Please share.

Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!

Postdoc opportunity with Michel Goedert and myself to work on #cryoEM/#cryoET structures of #amyloids. Feel free to email me with any questions you might have. mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

BBC News - Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Pleased to share our review on S-layers with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen, and @tbharat-lab.bsky.social, where we explore recent advances and argue that deeper insight into S-layers is key to deciphering microbial interactions and community organization. @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social. S-layers are everywhere! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Be our neighbour, please apply!

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩 #RNA #cryoEM

The final version of our multispectral microscopy manuscript is now online at Nature Photonics: www.nature.com/articles/s41... The main additions are some further comparisons to yet more unmixing algorithms, in which we find that our algorithm is still the most accurate.

Excited about our most recent collaboration with the Wong lab, lead by William Schmidt, describing a T4P and CdrA-mediated mechanism of sensing surface EPS. Fun stuff and great work William and team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

My wonderful colleage Colin Kleanthous is raising money for the MND association. Please support Colin in this worthy endeavor! www.justgiving.com/page/colin-k... (Please repost!)

Sofia Lövestam's vault structure is now online in Structure @cellpress.bsky.social. 🥳 How beautifully explorative is #cryoEM! We never planned to do this. The vaults just came down with #amyloids from human brain tissue, and Sofia decided to have a closer look. www.cell.com/structure/fu...

#ICYMI, @newscientist.com spoke to Wes Robertson, Group Leader in the LMB’s PNAC Division, about the ‘gargantuan effort’ behind synthesising E. coli with just 57 codons: www.newscientist.com/article/2490... #LMBintheNews

The story of the discovery of monoclonal antibodies 50 years ago shows how the free exchange of ideas can lead to life-changing treatments go.nature.com/45GeSM0

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The LMB recently hosted a symposium to mark 50 years since Richard Henderson and Nigel Unwin published the structure of bacteriorhodopsin, the first 3D structure of a protein determined by #cryoEM. Read about the event and find more photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-structur... #LMBNews 🧪🔬

Highly recommend, speaking from experience!

We are excited to be a part of a collaboration lead by Tarafder and Bharat titled "Targeted disruption of phage liquid crystalline droplets abolishes antibiotic tolerance of bacterial biofilms" - this work has exciting implications for biofilm-targeted therapeutics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Targeted disruption of phage liquid crystalline droplets abolishes antibiotic tolerance of bacterial biofilms led by @abultarafder.bsky.social Great collaboration with @pearce-maths.bsky.social and @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

NEW from me at STAT: We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c... 🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML

Another chance to join the amazing @mrclmb.bsky.social with its generous core funding that allows it scientists to perform world-leading science, and with the best research culture you'll have ever experienced! 🤩