Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on! #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 elifesciences.org/articles/105... 1/🧵

Extremely excited for the second version of this workshop at the MPI of Biophysics l, Frankfurt, that will happen 12-20. April 2026. Absolutely amazing lineup of speakers, I am very much looking forward to learning from everyone! Apply here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland

Our first DinoSphere seminar is this Tuesday, 1 July at 9 AM CEST! A good way to start the day if you're in Europe ☕ We will hear from Yong Heng Phua (OIST) and Karel Mocaer (Heidelberg) 🔗 Zoom link on our website: tinyurl.com/4duvwtvp

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

We’re kicking off the DinoSphere Online Seminar Series! Join us for our first session with Karel Mockaer (Heidelberg) & Yong Heng Phua (OIST) 📅 1 July 9AM CEST 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mjaverj Spread the word! @protistwtmostest.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social&Norico Yamada

Pleased to share my very general review of Photosynthesis now published in Nature Reviews Mol Cell Biol 🌞🌱 rdcu.be/em1lz Hopefully a useful primer for Postgrad and undergrad students

Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing? Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenScience

Hey #TeamTomo, Ever been in need of a tutorial about the fundamentals of cryo-electron tomography? From preprocessing raw frames to high-res subtomogram averaging? That's why @florentwaltz.bsky.social and I made this website! tomoguide.github.io Follow the thread 1 /🧵 #CryoET #CryoEM 🔬🧪

You want to start tomography? Solve structures inside cells? Reach Nyquist 😳 ? @phaips.vd.st and I have a website for you! tomoguide.github.io You'll find a tutorial on how to reconstruct tomograms, pick particles and do subtomogram averaging, using different software! Hope it will be useful !

🦠🧠 MemBrain update! 🧠🦠 We’ve updated our preprint! It now covers the full MemBrain v2 pipeline for end-to-end membrane analysis in #CryoET: segmentation, particle picking, and spatial statistics. 🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🔗 Code: github.com/CellArchLab/... 🧵(1/6) #TeamTomo

Hey Everyone!❄️🔬 We have two fully funded PhD positions @humantechnopole.bsky.social this year! Help us understand better how one of the main stress regulators - the nucleolus - integrates synaptic inputs!🧠Find all the calls - also from my amazing colleagues - here: www.semm.it/education/ho...

Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉 You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩‍🎨

Check out @deglushk.bsky.social 's method to measure membrane thickness in cryo electron tomograms!

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?

To all #TeamTomo #CryoET and #Chlamydomonas aficionados: we have updated EMPIAR-11830 with a bug fix concerning some cryo-CARE denoised tomos as well as additional files and metadata! 🎉👩🏽‍💻 www.ebi.ac.uk/empiar/EMPIA... A little thread about what's new... 🧵 1/n

📢 Registration is now open for 'Wellcome-MRC Cryo-EM in Structural Biology 2025'! 📅 Join us online March 3-7 at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social for lectures & demos in #CryoEM & #CryoET: sample prep, SPA, model building & more!🧬 🔗 www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/...

Our methods paper made it to bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Full #cryoET workflows for #plant tissues. Plus some general tricks and tweaks on serial Lift-Out and cryo-FLM. 🧪🧵1/5 #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM #CLEM

Extremely excited to be joining the vibrant community of the Vienna BioCenter to build up cryo-ET and cryo-FIB milling on campus soon!

Give control to shareholders, and enshittification will happen, where a relentless drive for growth will reduce quality for users. It would be cheaper and better to keep companies away from control over scientific publishing. Scientists do most of the work anyway. Look at @elife.bsky.social!

I am very happy to share our latest work on the detailed cryo-EM structure of the NDH-PSI supercomplex of spinach. Thanks to Werner Kühlbrandt, Alex Hahn and @mpibp.bsky.social ! 🍃❄️🔬 You can find the paper in open access in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another reminder, we are soon reaching the max number of participants so now is a good time to register #volumeEM

In case you missed our first webinar of 2025, it is now available. Lorenz Lamm from MUDS - Munich School for Data Science presented MemBrainv2- an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography. https://buff.ly/4hutFwf #SBGridwebinars #ScienceMatters

Announcing the new bioRxiv dashboard widget - it's now easier to when articles have comments, peer reviews, community discussion, media coverage, videos, and automated analyses 1/2 connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/01...

Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience

Looking forward to talking about MemBrain-seg tomorrow and giving a sneak peek into other MemBrain v2 functionalities 👀🚀

At the intersection of art and science 🎨🧪 some masterpieces reveal fascinating lessons in #biophysics! Join Prof. Werner Kühlbrandt on a unique tour of the Städel Museum, where he explores mirror symmetry, cellular energy, and more. Read more: www.biophys.mpg.de/2840124/art-... 🔗 #ArtMeetsScience

We are hosting a cryo-EM grid nanofabrication workshop on 28 April 2025, as part of the Canadian Cryo-EM Nexus (ccemn.ca). Learn how to make holey gold or holey carbon grids in your own laboratory! Space is limited, so please apply at web.cvent.com/event/ee88ac...

More than 1'800 tomograms available for the community. Towards visual proteomics using our favorite organism Chlamy! Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Find it on EMPIAR (11830) and fully annotated on the CZI data portal: cryoetdataportal.czscience.com #TeamTomo

Tomorrow(!) morning at 9AM pacific, I am giving a webinar for EMS discussing the surface morphometrics pipeline and our approach to contextual structural biology #teamtomo. Free to attend, hope to see you all there! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I am excited to share some of my PhD work on the motile cilia interactome revealed by XL/MS with @jbwallingford.bsky.social @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social Ophelia Papoulas, Chanjae Lee, David Taylor, and @builab.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

Check out @wojwie.bsky.social and @lorenzlamm.bsky.social work on the thylakoid membranes in spinach! Wojciech stared to long at the segmentations and started seeing Van Goghs in it, so we made his fever dream a reality. More work from #teamthylakoid to come under the starry night skies of Basel!

🥳New cryo tomography Preprint ☀️🌱🔬Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Proud to be part of this great work with @cellarchlab.com @wojwie.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

This one was delayed for a while… apologies to the musicians. Collab with Matt, Will and Lorna (over on Twitter). And a great dev effort from Lorenz @lorenzlamm.bsky.social. Ofc @cellarchlab.com team. Comment if you want to help. #teamthylakoid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starter pack with our community of researchers here at @unibasel.bsky.social🇨🇭, including some of us at the @biozentrum.bsky.social 🧪

@sofie-dot-rec.bsky.social is here now too! Woo 🎉