Mushuvirus is the most widespread phage genus in the human gut. 🌍 Together with other family members, these viruses occur in 89% of humans worldwide, including the Iceman Ötzi! How is it possible that they were hidden in previous metagenomic analyses? [1/7] Read: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Membrane Labyrinths of Plant Plastids – From Geometry to Biological Function" 👤 Prof. @lucjakowalewska.bsky.social (Plastid Nanomorphology Group) 📅 May 15, 2026 | 🕘 11:00 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "SNI1, a cold-sensitive regulator of meiotic recombination shaped by recent evolution in A. thaliana" 👤 Dr. Alexandre Pelé (IMBB, Genome Biology Research) 📅 May 8, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Paczoski Auditorium (Faculty of Biology) See you there! 👋

New week, insights! ✨ The team led by Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula (@stoplab.bsky.social) reveals in EMBO Reports how SETD2 acts as a genetic "traffic controller." A vital step in understanding cancer biology! Congrats to @michal-gdula.bsky.social, @agatakstepien.bsky.social, @mgkopczynska.bsky.social! 👏

Great news! 🥳 A new study from the group of @piotraz.bsky.social shows that it is possible to precisely control where meiotic recombination occurs in plant genomes using the CRISPR/dCas9 system. Now published in Science Advances! Congratulations Maja Szymańska-Lejman, Piotr Ziolkowski and the crew!

Great news! 🥳 Dr. Anna Baud with Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak showed that insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) positively regulates the noncanonical translation of expanded CGG repeats and may be a promising target for clinical applications. Published in Nature Communications!

Big news! 🥳 Joanna Szpotkowska, together with Prof. Malgorzata Borowiak, presents Glutathione Peroxidase 2 as a critical regulator of human posterior foregut differentiation, revealing oxidative stress as a key determinant of pancreatic versus non-pancreatic cell fate. Now in Nature Communications!

Great news from our Institute! 🎉 Dr Katarzyna Taylor has received a 2026 Early Career Grant from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. Her research on MBNL1 and MBNL2 could help uncover new therapeutic targets in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Congratulations! myotonic.org/2026-grant-r...

🚀 New Job Alert: Postdoctoral Fellow at IMBB! Join the Lab of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at Adam Mickiewicz University! 🎓 🔬 Study T2D using pancreatic organoids & multi-omics. 📍 Poznań, Poland 📑 NCN-funded OPUS project Apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/428161

Andrzej Zieleziński (@uam-ibmib.bsky.social) with Sebastian Deorowicz (@sdeorowicz.bsky.social), Cedric Notredame, and Adam Gudyś present FAMSA2, enabling ultra-scale multiple protein sequence alignments. Now in Nature Biotechnology! Congrats to all authors! 🎉

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Les liaisons dangereuses: who is the winner – plants or pathogens?" 👤 Prof. Magdalena Krzymowska (IBBPAS) 📅 April 17, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Paczoski Auditorium (Faculty of Biology) Don't miss it, see you there! 👋

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Seed molecular biology" 👤 Prof. Szymon Świeżewski (IBB PAS, Warsaw) 📅 April 10, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

This Friday at the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Katarzyna Klonowska from the Institute of Biooganic Chemistry PAS in Poznan will give a talk on mutation landscape in tumour suppressor gene syndromes - join us!

This Friday at the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Urlike Topf from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS will give a talk on aging-dependent #oxidation of ribosomal proteins and its implications for organismal healthspan - join us!

Michal Gdula group leader at @uam-ibmib.bsky.social is saerching for a postdoc to work on the epigenetics of pancreatic cancer within colaborative OPUS-LAP funded by @ncn.gov.pl and @dfg.de - reach out! #3Dgenome #cancer #pancreas

This Friday @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Maja Szymańska-Lejman @szymanskalejman.bsky.social will tell us about reprogramming meiotic #recombination with dCas9 - Don't miss it! #meiosis

What drives CGG RAN translation in #FXTAS? Anna Baud & Krzysztof Sobczak with Rajani Gudipatti & Malgorzata Borowiak all from @uam-ibmib.bsky.social just published at Nature Communications : IGF2BP3 regulates FMRpolyG—promising FXTAS target. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Friday @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Magda Kopczyńska @mgkopczynska.bsky.social (@stoplab.bsky.social) on #SETD2 methyltransferase activity in gene definition and transcription regulation. Don't miss it! #epigenetics #transcriptionTermination #chromatin

MAB-FENG FNP grant awarded to Krzysztof Sobczak team @uam-ibmib.bsky.social for the TREAT-EXP project! 4 groups led by Anna Baud, @michal-gdula.bsky.social, Rajani Gudipatti and K. Sobczak will work at the Centre of Adavnced Technologies on nucleotide repeat expansion diseases – congratulations!!!

Join us this Friday morning for the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Józef Dulak from the Jagiellonian University @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social will give a talk on the modeling cardiac and muscle diseases with induced pluripotent stem cells! #IPSCs

Great news for @uam-ibmib.bsky.social! Three @ncn.gov.pl OPUS grants to our researchers: @juliadluzewska.bsky.social, Wojciech Szlachcic and a collaborative Polish-German OPUS-LAP grant to @michal-gdula.bsky.social & @akispapantonis.bsky.social from @uni-goettingen.de. Big congrats to everyone!

Did you know that changes in pre-mRNA 3' cleavage and RNAPII termination can go in different directions? Even more, the spacing between these two events is linked to the gene expression level❗️Check out our latest pre-print to learn more tiny.cc/330w001 1/6

Join us this Friday morning for the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Agata Starosta @agatastarosta.bsky.social from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS will give a talk on on translational control in #BacillusSubtilis during sporulation! #translation

Join us on Friday for @uam-ibmib.bsky.social IBMiB seminar of Halina Petrykowska from our Department of Gene Expression to learn about male-specific #miRNAs whihc regulate sperm development and function in Marchantia polymorpha!

1/ @reviewcommons.org, @embo.org's preprint peer review platform, is taking an important step forward. Multiple publishers, including eLife, are now jointly running the peer-review process on behalf of the platform. 🔗 buff.ly/Rm1XotK

Don't miss this Friday's @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar! Agata Stepień from @stoplab.bsky.social & AMU Centre of Advanced Technologies presents her latest research on pre-mRNA 3' end processing and #transcriptionTermination. #RNAbiology

Join us on Monday for @UAM_IBMiB seminar of Jacek Nowak from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics to learn Elongation factors in synthesis of developmentally controlled non-coding RNA in Paramecium ! #ncRNA

Join us on Monday for @UAM_IBMiB seminar of Takeshi Matsui from the Tokyo University of Technology to learn about keratinocyte-specific cell-death in formation of epidermal barrier! PhD students/postdocs are welcome for the cereer advice meeting! #cellDeath #corneoptosis #ID_UB

🚀🧬 Exciting space science! Yeast engineered with tardigrade genes have been launched to the International Space Station for pioneering experiments by Hanna Kmita's group @uam-ibmib.bsky.social ! Check out the movie for more details! #ISS #tardigrades #space #radiation

Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak , the director of the IBMiB UAM, has been elected to the prestigious group of corresponding members of the Polish Academy of Sciences - congratulations !

Join us this Friday morning @uam-ibmib.bsky.social for the seminar: Prof. Kashmir Singh from the Panjab University, India will give a talk on the role of long Non-Coding RNAs in fungal infections in grapevine! #lncRNA

The teams of @piotraz.bsky.social Ziółkowski from @uam-ibmib.bsky.social and Mikhail Mikhailov discovered that a natural DNA trick triples #recombination in maize! Congratulations to the authors !!! Check out the paper: lnkd.in/dh3QEFSy

Congratulations to Jan Brezovsky form the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social & @iimcb.bsky.social on being recently awarded the @ncn.gov.pl OPUS-LAP research grant! His work on rational design of substrate transporters in bacteria to enhance metabolism promises exciting insights! hashtag#NCNtoTlen

2nd Polish #RNA Biology Meeting in #Poznan co-organized by @uam-ibmib.bsky.social‬ has started yeaterday evening with talks of Ramesh Pillai & Sebastian Glatt @sebastianglatt.bsky.social‬ - many more great talks, posters & discussions ahead! #PolishRNABiologyMeeting

Asia Kwiatkowska & Ewa Stein from Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula Lab @stoplab.bsky.social‬ shared their expierience with insect cells culturing for protein production! Check out the paper at scientific reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41... look also at the twittorial: x.com/kwiatkowska_...

Join us this Friday morning for seminar: Mateusz Bajczyk from @uam-ibmib.bsky.social‬ will give a talk on the roles of DEAD-box Helicases in Plants! #DEADbox

Congratulations to Magda Kopczyńska @mgkopczynska.bsky.social from @uam-ibmib.bsky.social‬ for best PhD publication in 2024 Award given by @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social !!!

Join us this Friday morning for seminar: Franz Boideau from @uam-ibmib.bsky.social #Geneome Biology Lab @piotraz.bsky.social‬ will give a talk on the mechanisms controlling meiotic crossovers! #meiosis

Join us tomorrow for Lidia's talk on #RNAbiogenesis !

Great news for @uam-ibmib.bsky.social‬ research groups: OPUS @ncn.gov.pl‬ grant was awarded to Artur Jarmołowski to study U1 snRNP & Sonata to Halina Petrykowska to investigate Male-specific microRNAs - big congratulations!!! #NCNtoTlen #3ProcentNaNaukę

Join us this Friday morning for the seminar: Lidia Vasilieva from Oxford University @ox.ac.uk will give a talk on regulation of #RNA biogenesis! @BiochemOxford #RNAbiogenesis

Katarzyna Tutak with Anna Baud & Krzysztof Sobczak @uam-ibmib.bsky.social‬ identified novel modifiers of #fragileX linked Repeat Associated Non-AUG #RAN translation associated with RPS25, RPS26 & chaperone TSR2. Just published in @elife.bsky.social‬, congratulations! elifesciences.org/articles/98631

Andrzej Zieleziński @uam-ibmib.bsky.social with Adam Gudyś & @sdeorowicz.bsky.social dvelopped Vclust: fast and accurate tool for calculating intergenomic similarities (like ANI) and clustering virus/#phage genomes. Just published @naturemethods - congratulations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us this Friday morning for the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Nick Proudfoot from @ox.ac.uk will give a talk on noncoding transcriptome in human! @DunnSchool.bsky.social #lncRNA

Join us tomorrow for the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Stefan Heckmann from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research @leibnizipk.bsky.social in Gatersleben will share with us his insights in #meiosis!

It's been great to have Mike Robson @drmrobson.bsky.social @uam-ibmib.bsky.social - amazing talk, meeting with PhD students & postdocs, hopefully another stop towards tightening of collaboartions between Poznan & Berlin @mdc-berlin.bsky.social! Thanks to #ID-UB for funding! #epiegenetics #LADs

Collab. work of Krzysztof Sobczak, Kasia Taylor @uam-ibmib.bsky.social & Łukasz Sznajder,University of Nevada showed: tandem repeat expansions in the myotonic dystrophy are linked with the disruption of alt. splicing of #autism-risk genes! Check out the paper @NatureNeuro: nature.com/articles/s4159

Gene Therapy Lab @uam-ibmib.bsky.social led by Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak is looking for enthusiastic PhD student for the EU MSCA Doctoral Network project on therapeutical potential of antisense oligonucleotides in myotonic dystrophy, check out link for details! #ASO euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/324410

Join us next Friday on 25th April for the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Mike Robson @drmrobson.bsky.social from Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social will tell us abut the genome-lamina interactions during limb development! thanks to ID-UB POB2 for funding! #epigenetics #LADs #chromatin

All Eurpean RNA Researchers: join us at the 2nd Polish RNA Biology Meeting @uam-ibmib.bsky.social,June 24-27 Poznan! Keynote speakers include Elena Conti, Andrzej Dziembowski @sebastianglatt.bsky.social, Reinhard Lührmann, Kai Papenfort, Ramesh Pillai & Bertrand Séraphin! #RNA 2ndrna.web.amu.edu.pl