I like to show the evolution of this classification to the students to highlight the fantastic bioinformatics work of Kira and Eugene and co-authors but also to illustrate the rapid development in the field ☺️.

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Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

How to become a "hot RNA" 🌡️? The answers were kindly provided by hyperthermophilic archaea: rRNA modifications are key! Check out this new publication presenting pan-modification profiling of the epitranscriptome. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... (1/3)

We are hiring…position suitable for PhD student with interest in ribosomes, antibiotics and cryoEM… www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

ribosomologists take note 👇 archaeal ribosome hibernation factors aRDF, Dri, ...and now: Hib (see ALT) #Archaea #ArchaeaSky

Are you interested in Biomolecular Condensates and looking for a PhD training? Check out the 12 (!) open PhD positions (also 1 on smFRET & condensates 🙃) in Dresden @rtg3120.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social starting April 2026. Apply latest by 24 Oct 2025 here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/

You can get MSAs directly from AlphaFold DB now (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk). I also missed the FoldSeek implementation, which lets you search for structurally similar proteins direktly. This saves some clicking around. Neat!

Thank you Jane Goodall for EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE in this interview to remind us of what is important and to encourage us to never loose hope and to try to make a difference everyday of our life 🤝🫶!!!

"Jane" (2017), directed by Brett Morgen, with music by Philip Glass, and based on unseen footage discovered shortly before, is one of the most enchanting films I've ever seen. Goodbye Jane Goodall, and thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRlU...

Our story describing the Panoptes bacterial immune defense system is now finally peer-reviewed and published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Biogenesis and function of archaeal lipoproteins. This takes me back. The first papers I published from my new group were on lipoprotein biogenesis in Streptomyces with @proftracypalmer.bsky.social about 15y ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Find up to date links to the Farnung lab's cloning, experiment designer, and buffer preparation software tools here: www.farnunglab.com/tools

Interested in removing particle-associated microbes from particles for eg flow cytometry, culturing, or other single-cell microbiology purposes? Led by graduating PhD stdnt Jordan Coelho: Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs 🌊

To maintain genome integrity, extreme organisms like archaea rely heavily on repair pathways. This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how the halophile model organism Haloferax volcanii repairs DNA double strand breaks quickly and efficiently. #FascinatingMicrobes

new Lai lab #miRNA paper alert!! happy to share Renfu Shang's mechanistic insights into the mysteries of miRNA cluster assistance. wonderful collab with Niko Popitsch and @ameressl.bsky.social 🧵 later, but if you don't know this process, my daughter illustrated it.🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you for finding me here! I try to post new art every couple of days. My original works are temporary street art, but you can buy prints, books, calendars and postcards of their images at zinnart.com/store. Cheers!

Another great story from the Albers lab @archaellum.bsky.social 👍!! Congrats to all authors … exciting science ☺️!!! But how shall we name the motility structures now that archaellum is not exclusively reserved for Archaea any longer 😳??

Archaeal Virus Ph.D. project! (With Tessa Quax) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

What is single-molecule FRET? Watch @timcraggs.bsky.social explain how this technique measures nanometer-scale distances and captures single-molecule conformations - youtu.be/BpCsTVJkQyE #structuralbiology #moleculardynamics #discovery #smFRET

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

Read more: argonautes.ngo/en/news/3rd-...

The Argonaute band rocked big time and indeed brought a lot of joy 🤩 ☺️! Thanks again guys!!

"m6A in the coding sequence: linking deposition, translation and decay" by Kathi Zarnack (@zarnack-group.bsky.social) & colleagues "This review explores [m6A in] mRNA decay, with a focus on the newly discovered CDS–m6A decay (CMD) pathway..." Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Next stop: Cambridge for the Next Generation Biophysics Symposium ☺️. Seeing the „first generation DNA model“ combined with fantastic new biophysics at MRC LMB makes me joyful and happy 🙃.

#argonautes2025 day3 with amazing talks spanning widely over generegulation to evolution and parasitic interaction (via AGO). A presentation by the Argonautes Syndrom family alliance reminded how relevant research on Argonautes and related mechanisms is

🧬 Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II relies on a web of elongation factors. Our new work shows how IWS1 acts as a modular scaffold to stabilize & stimulate elongation. Fantastic work by Della Syau! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kicking off our third day of #argonautes2025 with a talk by Nobel Prize winner and all around amazing person, scientist, and mentor, Victor Ambros! 🐙

Conference season part II: one of my favourites, the Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025. As always with some specials: Ago playing cards ♠️♥️♣️♦️ & Ago gin (a favourite since the first meeting). Such fun to have co-organized this @svobodalab.bsky.social ❗️, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & Gunter Meister.

Repost appreciated: Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics. Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/

Check out the new paper of my former lab about novel haloviruses infecting Haloquadratum walsbyi, the "square queen archaeon" of hypersaline systems 👑🟪 academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

What #biophysical process steers one #microRNA to select one #mRNA over another? Trying to decipher this for miR-34a: our long standing efforts with the labs of @anderssonlab.bsky.social and Alan Chen (SUNY RNA) are finally out: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Thanks for the exciting journey 🤩😍

Chromosome enthusiasts, York is calling! Join us at The Biology & Physics of Chromosomes www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f... Late breaking abstract deadline 📆 7 August @biophychrom.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social #microsky

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77

📢Preprint out! Excited to share my final work from the @soreklab.bsky.social! We mined phage dark matter using structural features shared by anti-defense proteins (viral tools that help phages bypass bacterial immunity) to guide discovery. Found 3 new families targeting immune signaling!

🚀 Join us for our 20. (!) 🌟 VAAM Industry-Academia Panel on "Synthetic Microbiology Driven Drug Discovery" We're excited to welcome: 🎤 Steven Schmitt - Myria Biosciences AG, Basel 🎤 Helge Bode - @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social, Marburg 📅 Thu July 17th, 4 PM CEST 📝 Register here: t1p.de/rqk1z

#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp

Let’s go Germany #GER - POL at the #Euro2025

Who wants to join our betting game for the #EURO2025? Sign up to the #FriendsOfFootball group here: emtippspiel.srf.ch/communities/... no cash - just for fun & honor 😉

If you would like to be selected as a speaker from the abstracts, please use your chance until the end of the week to submit! 👇

Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea #microbiology #archaea #methane #methanotrophy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes. 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

Archaea always surprise us … again and again and again ☺️!

What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠