Proud that our work is online now in @jacs.acspublications.org 🎉 A big thanks to everyone involved in this project! If you are interested have a read: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!

This morning we travelled into the fascinating world of neurons and synapses with @erin-schuman.bsky.social. We learnt how protein synthesis takes place in neuronal dendrites. 🧠 @mpibrain.bsky.social #imprs_cbp #gradschool #brain

We followed with a day packed with CryoEM! We heard about the cryoEM from Werner Kühlbrandt, STEM-EELs from Bonnie Murphy and CryoET from Martin Beck.

We're very excited to welcome the new generation of #IMPRS students during our Symposium on Cellular Biophysics 🧪 This morning, we heard spokespersons Volker Dötsch and Martin Beck, and coordinator Pamela Ornelas, introduce the doctoral program to the new students! #imprs_cbp #biophysics #gradschool

We had a great start of the #IMPRS Symposium on Cellular Biophysics to welcome our new students. Thank you for your fascinating talks Michaela Müller-McNicoll, Bernhard Hampölz and Christian Münch 👏 #imprs_cbp #phd #biophysics

I am sooo excited. Starting tomorrow the next edition of the fabulous #emboiclip2 course begins. @koenig-lab.bsky.social, @zarnack-group.bsky.social, moi & Elias Bechara will present 3 improvements to the method, a semi-automated workflow for data analysis and an exciting line up of speakers. Ready?

Congratulations! 🎉

🎉 We congratulate Prof. Dr. Eric Helfrich on nomination for the Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award 2026! 🔬👏

We’re looking forward to the IMPRS-CBP Symposium on Cellular Biophysics at the @mpibp.bsky.social ! Join us on Sept 15–22 for a week+ of talks from our faculty as we welcome our new students! 🧑‍🎓Learn more here: imprs-cbp.mpg.de/symposium-on...

Fresh in Nature Communications: a big update from the international biocondensate community featuring SFB1551 spokespersons @dormannlab.bsky.social and @lemkelab.bsky.social Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to all authors!

We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

Congratulations Jenny, Martin and Bernhard 🥳!

🚀 Spotlight on early #career #science! On Sept 15, six outstanding young #researchers present their work at the Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award 2026 – #Symposium in Frankfurt. Don’t miss it! | 🔗Register now lmy.de/MzPjd #GoetheUni

🧪 Who is Erin M. Schuman, winner of the 2026 HFSP Nakasone Award? She uncovered that synapses — the brain’s communication hubs — can make their own proteins, rewriting how we think memories form. Discover her research 👉zurl.co/niEzX #HFSPNakasoneAward #sts

🎉 Congrats to @kgaurav.bsky.social, Lukas Stelzl & @reneketting.bsky.social (SFB1551) on their new Biophysical Journal paper! #MUT16 #PhaseSeparation #MutatorFoci #SmallRNA #GeneRegulation #Celegans #ProteinAssembly #RNAResearch #MultiscaleSimulations Great teamwork👏👏👏 www.cell.com/biophysj/ful....

*Seminar Alert* Prof. Sergej Djuranovic, PhD Brown University, USA Date: 02.09.2025. 15:00 Venue: Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, Seminar room 4, Haus 23 (S23-4) @djuranoviclab.bsky.social @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

🚛 Ribosomes on the road! New research from the Schuman Lab @mpibrain.bsky.social shows neurons can locally assemble ribosomes - far from the nucleus and close to synapses. A big shift from textbook biology! 📚🧬🔗 bit.ly/3GUJKPv #Neuroscience #CellBiology #Ribosomes

👏Congratulations to @mixmue.bsky.social, @heilemannlab.bsky.social, and all co-authors on their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research! Proud to see this work arise from the collaborative efforts of SCALE faculty, including Stefan Müller and Dorothee Dormann. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Prof. Franziska Matthäus in der🆕Ausgabe des unireport @goetheuni.bsky.social ehem. 🗣️von➡️LOEWE-CMMS @fias.bsky.social zu »Critical Computational Literacy @ GU Future Skills and Beyond« einem🆕 Lehrangebot zu KI & Co➡️ www.unireport.info/176087817/un... mehr zu Matthäus➡️ proloewe.de/de/persoenli...

#ER - #membrane contact sites are often distorted by existing labeling methods. @steveroyle.bsky.social &co present an inducible labeling system (LaBeRling) using #LaminB receptor to fluorescently tag ER-membrane contact sites in live cells, preserving morphology @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lv6gxu

👆🏼 @tuda.bsky.social

Proud to share our first lab pre-print: “SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon” where @tzujingyang.bsky.social solved the structure of a ribosome-associated SND3-translocon complex involved in ER membrane protein insertion ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Many congratulations to @MpiBrain Director Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 Nakasone Award! 🧠 @hfspo.bsky.social 👏

HIV-1 nuclear import is selective and depends on both capsid elasticity and nuclear pore adaptability pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40624219/ #cryoem

Prof Thomas Prisner awarded the 2025 Richard R. Ernst prize in magnetic resonance at EUROMAR 2025 in recognition of pioneering contributions to biomolecular research through advances in EPR and DNP methodologies @brukercorporation.bsky.social #NMRnews #NMRchat #NMR #Euromar2025 🧲

🧊🔦 CryoRhodopsins — a newly discovered clade of microbial rhodopsins found only in cold environments — absorb red light under acidic conditions and behave like molecular photoswitches! Discovered by an interdisciplinary team led by SCALE PI Prof. Dr. Josef Wachtveitl.🧵

Many congratulations!

Workshop Alert: On July 10, Nathalie Weickgenannt and Laura Buglioni from @angewandtechemie.bsky.social will be at Goethe University Frankfurt to host a Wiley Publishing Workshop. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into scientific publishing!

Finally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you Steffi and Veselin.

Seminar Alert: Prof. Igor Ulitsky, PhD Weizmann Institute of Science Date: 21.07.2025. 3 pm Venue: Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, Seminar room 1, Haus 22 (S22-1) @igorulitsky.bsky.social @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

🏆 The SCALE-it Best PhD Award 2025 celebrated groundbreaking doctoral research shaping the future of science! From interdisciplinary innovation to pioneering methods & major scientific contributions — we honored early-career researchers pushing the boundaries:🧵

New publication in @narjournal.bsky.social - Using NMR, SAXS & MD, we characterize the dynamic nonaloop of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta s2m RNA, contributing to future ensemble-functional studies of dynamic RNA motifs. Full text: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #RNA #StructuralBiology #NAR #NMR #MDSimulations

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #heartmusclecells :)

We are very happy to invite you to our 9th Rhineland RNA Club at @dzne.science Bonn with great local speakers and Lena Steckelberg @lenasteckelberg.bsky.social as our invited speaker. All #RNA enthusiasts are welcome! Organized by @inahuppertz.bsky.social and @katleppek.bsky.social. #RNAsky

🎉 Congratulations to FIAS Fellow Sebastian Thallmair on receiving the Director’s Award for Excellent Mentoring (June 17, 2025)!🧵 Image: Sebastian Thallmair (left) and FIAS Director Volker Lindenstruth. Source: FIAS website (lnkd.in/eZEz6zdk)

One more week to catch the early bird registration deadline and submit an abstract to this International Condensate Meeting in Frankfurt, with fantastic invited speakers! 👇

🔬 Join the 1st Human RNome Project Workshop 📅 Aug 4–8, 2025 | 📍 Frankfurt, Germany 🧬 Hands-on Mass Spectrometry of RNA + expert-led Break-Out Sessions The Human RNome Project (HRP) brings together experts in RNA chemistry, sequencing, MS, bioinformatics & therapeutics.

Congratulations Ana 🤩. We are very proud of you!

Congratulations to our director Ana García-Sáez for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant! 📣 Her work on mitochondrial membranes continues to push the frontiers of biophysics and cell biology 🧬 #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu @office-garcia.bsky.social

🎉We are excited to kick off the SCALE-it Best PhD Award 2025! We look forward to celebrating our outstanding awardees, enjoying inspiring keynote lectures, and sharing this special moment with our vibrant community! 🤩

🔬 Calling all super-resolution and single-molecule imaging enthusiasts! The 14th Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Symposium (SMLMS 2025) is happening this August 26–28, 2025 in Bonn, Germany! @smlm-symposium.bsky.social

🔬 Are you working with single-molecule super-resolution methods (SMLM, MINFLUX) and would like to meet experts in the field and discuss your work? 👉🏻 consider attending the SMLMS 2025 Meeting in Bonn 👉🏻 abstract submission is open until June 27th 👉🏻 www.smlms.org @smlm-symposium.bsky.social

We have a preprint for you EHD2 forms rings on caveolae necks, in contrast to most EHDs forming helices. We determined its structure on membranes and show that N-term acts as a spacer By Elena, Vasya @vasiliimikirtumov.bsky.social, Jeff &Oli Daumke www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉We’re celebrating the #SCALE-it-Best-PhD-Awards-2025, honoring exceptional researchers! 🎓 This year, three remarkable dissertations were recognized, selected from a highly competitive and multidisciplinary pool of candidates. 🧵

👉🏻 so glad to see this work out now ... a masterpiece conceived, led and driven by 👉🏻 Christoph Spahn 👏@michriscopy.bsky.social (🚨 #NewPI) and with great collaborations 🙏 @henriqueslab.bsky.social @seamusholden.bsky.social @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Wolfgang Baumeister @maxplanck.de, awarded the 2025 #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine for pioneering work in cryo-ET! Learn more 👉 europa.eu/!JBXDBG #FrontierResearch #ERCSyG #CryoET #StructuralBiology #shawprize2025

What’s the worst comment/question someone has directed to you during the Q-A after you presented in a conference. I’ll start: “Your earlier work was much better and more interesting.”