Asteroids, antibiotics and ants: a year of remarkable science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@galitzlil.bsky.social receives the @biologytechnion.bsky.social award for the best paper of 2025

גלי צליל @galitzlil.bsky.social מקבלת את פרס מאמר השנה הפקולטי ל2025

Our BEHIND THE STORY. A glimpse into the role of auxiliary metabolic genes in cyanophages during infection communities.springernature.com/posts/a-glim...

Still need to use up 2025 funding? Places available for @embo.org Lab Leadership for #Postdocs course 27–29 January! Take time to focus on interpersonal skills + discover tools to support development. Sign up now and still get invoice this year: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

#פידמדע וכדאי להזכיר גם את 3 הזוכות הנוספות: מורן יסעור מהעברית. @leeat-keren.bsky.social מווייצמן @meravcohen.bsky.social מתל-אביב

Dr. Ayala Shiber from the Technion has been selected to join the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Program www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

ד"ר אילה שיבר מהטכניון נבחרה לתוכנית החוקרים הצעירים של הארגון האירופי לביולוגיה מולקולרית (EMBO) www.technion.ac.il/blog/article...

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

Congratulations to our Dr. Ayala Shiber for becoming a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (YIP) www.embo.org/press-releas...

Call for Nominations for the Annual Faculty of Biology Conference Award, 2026 biology.technion.ac.il/en/call-for-...

Paper of the Month September 2025 Winner – Almog Angel! biology.technion.ac.il/en/paper-of-...

xCell 2.0: robust algorithm for cell type proportion estimation predicts response to immune checkpoint blockade link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Using a combination of X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM, a new study from @landaulabcssb.bsky.social shows that amyloids,form different structures that could be useful as a natural mechanism of immune protection. More info: t1p.de/4n8se @amyloid-sam.bsky.social @emilgustavsson.bsky.social

Light-harvesting by antenna-containing xanthorhodopsin from an Antarctic Pseudanabaenaceae cyanobacterium www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Behavioral age-detection in individuals reconstructs minute-scale developmental transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Distinct cis-acting elements combinatorically mediate co-localization of mRNAs encoding for co-translational interactors in cytoplasmic clusters in S. cerevisiae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Machine Learning Identifies Common Risk Variants and Implicates Abnormal Vision Physiology in ASD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecular mechanisms underlying p62-dependent secretion of the Alzheimer-associated ubiquitin variant, UBB+1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic Tumor Immune Microenvironment Remodeling Predicts Response of Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage lysis-associated life-history traits from population-scale dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A functional cyanophage thioredoxin increases competitive phage fitness www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @rantahan.bsky.social

The Trojan Horse Gene of the Marine Virus www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

Distinct cis-acting elements combinatorically mediate co-localization of mRNAs encoding for co-translational interactors in cytoplasmic clusters in S. cerevisiae www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Resilient Journey Through Science www.embo.org/people/a-res...

"EMBO steps in and shows you that interpersonal #skills are learnable, which provides instant results at any point of your #career,” says Alina Pushkarev, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social. 🧪 Learn more here: https://www.embo.org/people/thinking-out-of-the-box/#skills#career#research

Several years ago I told students in my Electrodynamics class that they could make a final exam formula sheet using "one side of a piece of paper." Needless to say, the instructions now specify that the surface must be orientable. 🧪 ⚛️

A study conducted in the @biologytechnion.bsky.social reveals a unique mechanism in immune system aging www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/arti...

Calcium-Regulated Mitochondria Remodeling by Myo19 is Required for Filopodia Tip-Extension www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SLAYER: a computational framework for identifying synthetic lethal interactions through integrated analysis of cancer dependencies academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Now online! The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids We review how recent discoveries in the field of brassinosteroid signaling provide new insights into its role in shaping organ growth across cell layers #plantscience www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social

1/6 PhD /PostDoc positions available. Exploration of physiological functions of the cell fusogen Fusexin1 in Archaea. In a collaborative project between the Albers lab (Freiburg) and the Podbilewicz lab (Technion) starting in January 2026.

🎉 Huge congrats to Maya Schuldiner from the Weizmann Institute (Israel) for the 🏅 Otto Warburg Medal 2026! Her work on how proteins find their way to organelles and how these organelles talk to each other has reshaped how we think about cells 🧬✨ #OWM #WeizmannInstitute @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Check out our new preprint on the evolution of enhancer loss. Turns out there are 50 ways to lose a function. We found four of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BindUP-Alpha: A Webserver for Predicting DNA-and RNA-binding Proteins based on Experimental and Computational Structural Models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Comprehensive analysis of 42 psilocybin-producing fungal strains reveals metabolite diversity and species-specific clusters www.nature.com/articles/s41...

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

CARMIL2 deficiency disrupts activation-induced metabolic reprogramming in T cells, and is partially rescued by glutamine supplementation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper in Nature! 'Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology' explores how neurons in the zebrafish optic tectum exhibit diverse functions and shapes despite similar transcriptional profiles. 🔗 rdcu.be/d9GVM

Meet Sheila and Alina, graduates of our faculty and EMBO postdoctoral fellows - פקולטה לביולוגיה Biology Faculty biology.technion.ac.il/en/meet-shei...

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference www.nature.com/articles/d41... @odedrechavi.bsky.social @sheilaroitman.bsky.social @alinapi.bsky.social @barakrotblat.bsky.social

Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025) here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)