🚨 First lipid paper of the year! 🚨 Combining neutron reflectometry and MD simulations, we show how α-fetoprotein interacts with lipid membranes, depending on composition, with implications for biomarker detection and biosensing! Great start to 2026! Congrats to the team! 🎉 @sfb1638.bsky.social

Hi all!! At some point I passed 1K followers! Time for a re-intro! My name is Fiona! I am originally from Florida, did my postdoc at UCSD now I am a Junior Professor at the University of Freiburg in the Institute for Physical Chemistry, lets connect! I also love the ocean and halloween costumes!

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

🚨We are hiring🚨 We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026. You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment. 👉 More information below 📩 Apply until 4 January 2026

🎄 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞! 🎄 Thrilled to share a special pre-holiday gift to 𝗟𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼 & 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀! 𝐏𝐈(𝟒,𝟓)𝐏𝟐 𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 is essential for the unconventional secretion of 𝐅𝐆𝐅𝟐, driving rapid formation of a lipidic membrane pore, enabling membrane translocation ⏩⏩ 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share that Dr. Jirka Peschek, one of our BZH group leaders, is receiving the Chica & Heinz Schaller Award for his RNA biology research 🧬 🏆 €100,000 research funding. Ceremony today, 26 Nov, 5:30 PM, Marsilius Kolleg (INF 130.1). Congrats, Jirka! 🎉

@cnehls.bsky.social, Ilpo Vattulainen, and I are organizing the next Membrane Biophysics Section Meeting of @dgfb.bsky.social The meeting brings together diverse views on the roles of membranes and lipids in biology. It’ll be an exciting, interdisciplinary event — registration is now open! 👇

Excited to share our new @narjournal.bsky.social paper! Using ReLo and AlphaFold, we described a network of interactions between Drosophila piRNA pathway factors suggesting new links how they coordinate to ensure transposon silencing and genome integrity. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

❗Hello Bluesky World❗ 🚀 Excited to share that the German Biophysics Society (DGfB) is now on social! We bring together scientists at the interface of physics, chemistry & biology! Stay tuned for news, events & meetings! ✨

Now @bzh-hd.bsky.social Jonathan Friedman is talking in #mitochondria organization

🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨 #LipidTime Excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 We propose a hypothesis for how FGF2 crosses the plasma membrane — a mechanism that may reflect a general principle of membrane remodeling. 🔑 Key idea: Non-bilayer lipid accumulation alters membrane properties, driving remodeling.

Thrilled to have contributed to this amazing work! Thanks for having us on board 🙌 Huge shoutout to our super-talented postdoc #MelanieKönig for her outstanding efforts 💫. And big congratulations to everyone involved in this terrific team effort! 🎉 @sfb1638.bsky.social @bzh-hd.bsky.social

A bit late—but better late than never! Honored to present my work at #EBSA2025 in Rome a few weeks ago. I first attended EBSA in 2017 in Edinburgh and haven’t missed one since. This year in Rome—my first home—was especially meaningful. 🇮🇹 Already looking forward to Berlin 2027—my new home! 🇩🇪

Looking for a PhD position? The Schuck lab has an opening for a student interested in finding out how human cells control the size of their endoplasmic reticulum. Please visit www.bzh.uni-heidelberg.de/schuck and navigate to 'Open Positions'.

Do you want to become our colleague? We are looking to fill a part-time (50%) permanent position for a Technical Laboratory Assistant, starting September 15, 2025. See below for further details on the role and responsibilities 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

It was an honor and a real pleasure to be the first speaker at the inaugural @bitsinbio.bsky.social meetup in Berlin!A fantastic opportunity to share my past work and future research directions with such an inspiring and engaged audience! Huge thanks to @instadeep.bsky.social for making it happen!

Just back from the Jacques Monod Conference on Membrane Remodeling in Roscoff—an inspiring trip for Sebastian Schuck and Michael Meinecke (@meineckelab)! We had exciting science, engaged in inspiring discussions, and enjoyed the stunning setting. There’s nothing quite like membrane research.

If you’re in vibrant Berlin next Friday, May 16, come to visit me! I’ll be giving a talk on how computer simulations help us understand lipid-driven membrane remodeling events! Plus, word has it there will be pizza and drinks after the talks! 🍕🍻 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 lu.ma/gcrpy5fg

The Schuck lab is looking for a PhD student or postdoc who is keen to understand how cells control organelle size and shape. For more information, please visit www.bzh.uni-heidelberg.de/schuck and have a look at 'open positions’.

🚨 Lipid Time! 🚨 Excited to share our latest story now on @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social ! Our brilliant PhD student @manpreet0700.bsky.social , together with @walter-nickel-bzh.bsky.social and myself, shows how PI(4,5)P₂ asymmetry in the plasma membrane drives the unconventional secretion of FGF2! 👇👇👇

Our lab is hiring 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc to study the mechanism of lipid transport using computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, AI). Fully funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social for 4 years, with amazing collaborators and excellent life and working conditions. Apply by email. Please share and repost!

Hello Science World, Our SFB1638 is now on bluesky. We study cellular membrane remodelling pathways.

🚨Lipid Time🚨 Proud to be part of this amazing consortium focus on membrane remodeling!! 🔬Excited to contribute as a key computer simulations hub 🧑‍💻 connecting and supporting all the projects in this collaborative effort! 💪 #SFB1638 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bzh-hd.bsky.social

Wrapped up our first Spring School — such a fun and inspiring event! Amazing science, great people, perfect weather and lots of good vibes all around. Already looking forward to the next one.

Lovely start into our new #SFB1638 on cellular membrane remodeling with a two-day kick-off meeting at the International Academic Forum Heidelberg (IWH). Many thanks to our speaker @meineckelab.bsky.social and team for the great organization.

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity #2 🚨 We are looking for candidates with a strong background in molecular dynamics simulations of membrane protein interactions to unravel the role of lipids in CD95 oligomerization and signaling! Please apply by March 28! #LipidTime @bzh-hd.bsky.social

#PostDocCalls Project #85: ˚⋆🔬Lipid-Mediated Regulation of CD95 #Oligomerization and Signaling🧪🥽🧠⋆˚ Applications on the Alliance website: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... @dkfz.bsky.social @fabiololicato.com @bzh-hd.bsky.social @hlsalliance.bsky.social #LipidTime #ProteinDesign

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 🚨 Are you passionate about protein design and lipid interactions? Do you want to explore cutting-edge computational and biophysical approaches to understand these systems? Join our research group at @bzh-hd.bsky.social @hlsalliance.bsky.social #LipidTime

🚨 We are hiring 🚨 We seek to fill a full-time teaching position starting September 1, 2025! We look forward to your application (cover letter, CV, certificates, etc.) in a single PDF. Deadline: March 14, 2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bzh-hd.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

🚨We are on Bluesky🚨 Hello World! Finally, the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) is on Social Media! Follow us for research updates, discoveries, and lab highlights! 🔬🧪🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬

The Computational Life Science Lab 👩‍💻👨‍💻 is finally up and running! There’s still some cabling to fine-tune, but we’re getting there. Stay tuned—the wet lab will be opening soon! 🫣😱 #compchem

This is my hometown, Catania! One of the most magical things about the christmas season here is the unique choice it offers. You can either ski on 🌋Etna or swim in the Mediterranean sea 🏊. How amazing is that?

It’s not just a summer treat—Granita is always in season for Sicilians ☀️🍧

Happy ending (of the year): the release of our preprint, "The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior", now available on @ChemRxiv. 👉 Read the full preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... and get the parameters here: github.com/Martini-Forc...

Excited to announce the release of our preprint, "The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior", now available on @chemrxiv.bsky.social 👉 Read the full preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

🚨Lipid Time🚨 Excited to share our new perspective on how lipids and their #asymmetric distribution in the plasma membrane shape the thermodynamics and kinetics of FGF2 membrane translocation machinery! 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-7w2ng #LipidTime 👇👇

Huge 🚨Lipid Time🚨 for #compchem Community! The release of the new set of #Martini3 parametrizations for a wide range of lipid types is now out on @chemrxiv.bsky.social This milestone marks a huge step forward for simulations of lipid systems and their interactions.

Hello everyone 👋 We are CECAM, the European Center for Atomic and Molecular Calculations, based on the EPFL campus in Switzerland. Our aim is to foster fundamental research on computational science for societal benefit. Discover more about us and our activities on our website: www.cecam.org

If you are a fan of ligand binding kinetics, come to the CECAM workshop that @herrflow.bsky.social, Rebecca Wade, Giovanni Bottegoni and I are organizing next year in Lausanne. The registration deadline is January 10, hurry up! #compchem www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

📢 It's our great pleasure to invite you all to our upcoming #Workshop on "Computer Simulation and #Theory of Macromolecules" in #Hünfeld on March 7-8, 2025 in #hybrid format! See you online or on-site! More details are provided here: www.mpinat.mpg.de/workshop/hue... #TheoryHünfeld2025 #biophysics

go.bsky.app/Qc4frbt Made a starter pack for computational chemists, let me know who I missed please @jchodera.bsky.social @olexandr.bsky.social @jelfschem.bsky.social

We have a #Job opening for a #PhD student in our group here @mpi-nat.bsky.social in Göttingen 🇩🇪 in connection to #RTG2756 #CYTAC Job advert 🔗https://mpinat.mpg.de/4793823/28-24?c=645962 🔗https://uni-goettingen.de/rtg2756 #mircotubules #Applications welcome!

I made a MD starter pack! Dm or reply to be added ☺️☺️ go.bsky.app/QQjPjbL

Result of 15 years BioMemPhys Group @biomemphys.bsky.social at FAU Erlangen @unifau.bsky.social

Now online at JCTC: “Is the Functional Response of a Receptor Determined by the Thermodynamics of Ligand Binding?” Our answer: Yes, it is! And we can use it to predict ligand efficacy. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

First up this beauty from @jimhurley.bsky.social & team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... They reconstituted the mTORC1 complex bound to LUVs, show that dimensionality reduction through membrane binding increases activity by an order of magnitude & provide the Cryo-EM structure of the complex.

A starter pack on the molecular theoretical quantum world. #compchem #molphys #theochem 🧪 go.bsky.app/UGFPoE2

I am thrilled to receive the Young Investigator Award 🏆 from the German Biophysical Society at #dgfb24 ! I am very much looking forward to presenting my research during the plenary talk on Tuesday🚨Lipid Time 🚨

🚨Lipid Time🚨 I am thrilled to announce that I’m starting my journey as an independent group leader at @UniHeidelberg Biochemistry Center. I will combine experimental research and computer simulations. Stay tuned for upcoming open positions! #NewPI fabiololicato.com