Our latest #preprint led by Yumary M. Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov The largest database of giant #virus MAGs (GVMAGs V2) with >18,000 genomes from #marine, freshwater, anthropogenic and terrestrial environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Beautiful enzyme evolution work by Steve Withers and coworkers 👏 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Although highly topical, kleptoparasitism does not get nearly the attention it deserves! Here, a plant exploits the kleptoparasitic behavior of a fly that likes to snatch ants killed by spiders. 🕷️🐜🪰🌿 So the thief itself gets taken advantage of. Nice going, plants! www.cell.com/current-biol...

How are RNAs sorted for export vs. degradation in the nucleus? In collaboration with @heick.bsky.social’s lab we (@clemensplaschka.bsky.social and @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social labs) discovered a direct mechanistic link between the export and decay machineries: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/x)

I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October. More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

Wonderful news, and big congratulations to my dear friend, colleague, and brilliant scientist @obenaufa.bsky.social for winning this major Award! Super happy for you!

Join us for the 4th annual NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

Looking for PhD or postdoctoral opportunities in #AI+biology #proteinengineering? the brilliant @arianemora.bsky.social has joined @aithyra.bsky.social in beautiful #vienna. I wish I could start over again!

Happy to share our work on the structure and function of the unusual E3 ligase ZNFX1 @cp-cell.bsky.social. It uses a nucleic acid-activated transthiolation mechanism, ubiquitinating and clustering RNA to protect cells in an immune response. @clausenlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

So proud of our Icy, who gave a talk at the Chlamydomonas conference and was recognized with a prize! Moments like these—seeing lab members shine—are the happiest part of being a group leader 😊

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Was lucky to see this presented at the NYC cryoEM meeting earlier this year - super cool stuff!

If you are thinking about the future of structural biology, we are too! Our two cents (Jürgen Plitzko and I) just got published online here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/ Please share. Thank you!

piRNAs are essential for transposon silencing in the animal germline. But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response? Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀Great work led by @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social in the Martens lab @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social shows a new mechanism for #mitophagy initiation, revealing unexpected flexibility in the assembly& activation of the #autophagy machinery👇 Check it out 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants

Congratulations to Hing Pan Ng, PhD student in Yan Ma’s lab, who received a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Ng will investigate the molecular mechanisms that gall-inducing insects use to remodel plant cell walls during gall development. More: https://thegmi.science/3b9d1b

Great to see this out. A story that spanned continents, cities and budget codes… www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to all the teams involved! @clausenlab.bsky.social @e3chembio.bsky.social

Travel’s got me wiped, but catching up with @colindascheele.bsky.social, @pierresantucci.bsky.social & @olivierduss.bsky.social at #FEBS2025 made it totally worth it. Huge thanks to Pelin Telkoparan and Dilek Cevik for the wonderful hospitality—what a time in Istanbul!

#MetabolismMondays Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell

A great defense of discovery-based science in a time when it is very much needed.

Great work by Benjamin Springstein @huepfkiesel.bsky.social and the lab of Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social. Really stunning finding of the evolutionary repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cell shape cytoskeletal system in cyanobacteria. Make sure to have a look!

Exciting and rare opportunity to join the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social as a Full Professor! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint! Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Always ‘one atom away’: The long, rocky journey to an HIV prevention breakthrough | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Plant cells can be filled with chloroplasts, as shown in this image of moss gametophore phyllid ("leaf") cells. These cells have not been stained with fluorescent dyes; we only observe the autofluorescence of chloroplasts (green 🟢) and of the cell walls (magenta 🟣) #microscopymonday #plantcell #moss

We are #hiring! Join the GMI as a Communications Officer and help shape a compelling, consistent presentation of the GMI—online and in print—ensuring our message resonates with diverse audiences. More below!

Interesting flowering phenotype!

I missed the GMI retreat and messaged the rest of the team to ask how things were going… and this is what they sent me. Should I be proud or concerned? 😉

He resolved that he would not stop either, even though it was a huge sacrifice on his part. I believe this is what we owe our trainees: so long as they are invested in their work, we must be as well, even if it seems like the world is on fire around us, both literally and figuratively. 10/

Picture of the Day! I love that we can just hop on the EM whenever we want—especially when someone in the lab spots something cool (this time it was Cheuk-Ling Wun—kudos to her!). Perks of being at @gmivienna.bsky.social and @viennabiocenter.bsky.social 🤗!

📣 Our new VIP3 Postdoc program is accepting applications! Wondering what's it's like to do a postdoc at the Vienna Biocenter? Find out here👇 🎉

Nature research paper: EndoMAP.v1 charts the structural landscape of human early endosome complexes https://go.nature.com/3Z6mJ1X

We’re building a collaborative space for early-career researchers working at the intersection of dinoflagellate taxonomy& molecular biology. 🔗 Learn more: sites.google.com/view/dinosph...
💬 Got questions or input? Please reach out and let us know. Hope to see you there!

🎉Congratulations to IMP postdoc @vdeneke.bsky.social, from the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who received the International Zebrafish Society’s Chi-Bin Chien Award for her scientific and personal contributions to the zebrafish research field. ➡️Read more: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

Every hear of Vaults? If not, read this preprint! New from the lab, exploring novel mechanisms of RNA trafficking in neurons and what they might mean for memory. Led by stellar PhD student Mason Musgrove. #RNAsky www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Researchers in Science have developed a tool to silence specific mitochondria-encoded mRNAs in living cells, which could help scientists understand the origins of certain mitochondria-related diseases. scim.ag/3F6Wm5d