Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de

Anthony Hyman @mpi-cbg.de @hymanlab.bsky.social recognized as a Clarivate @clarivateag.bsky.social Citation Laureate 2025. He is one of the 2025 Laureates in the field of chemistry, together with Clifford Brangwynne @brangwynnelab.bsky.social and Michael K. Rosen. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors

Research Associate (100%) Starting from 1 November 2025 or as per agreement Group @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #job #research #biology #microbiology #science #basel #recruiting #career

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.

It is! You might enjoy this infographic explaining how the source properties are encoded in a signal 📊: ligo.org/wp-content/u...

Our Autumn PhD call is OPEN! 20+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. Explore projects in Cell & Chromosome biology + more 👉 www.vbcphd.at Apply by 10 Oct 2025

Join EMBL AI! We have ambitious plans to transform life sciences research through AI. Interested in using ML/AI to solve complex interdisciplinary challenges? We’re looking for two senior leaders based at EMBL Heidelberg👇

Hydrophobic interactions of FG-nucleoporins are required for dilating nuclear membrane pores into selective transport channels after mitosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674396v1

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

Looking forward to discussing our little active droplet theories with students!

New findings out today in Nature Chemistry from the Brugués @brugueslab.bsky.social at PoL, alongside colleagues at @mpi-cbg.de and the IPF Dresden 🧪 The authors have discovered a new method to identify the molecular makeup of biomolecular condensates Read our press release here: tud.link/ajwtaz

Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!

We have a fully funded 3y postdoc position open!!!! Come join us @mpi-cbg.de and @poldresden.bsky.social to understand the role of Membranes in Controlling Biogenic Crystallization :) this is part of our #HFSP funded project with @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social and @vmonje.bsky.social! Applications👇

Maybe boiling-hot planets aren’t uninhabitable after all? The search for extraterrestrial life often focuses on planets that could have liquid water, but nonevaporating ionic liquids could also host the processes of life. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see this wonderful story out in @prxlife.bsky.social !!! 🧼🧬⚡ Thanks @vsorichetti.bsky.social , Paul Robin, @ivnpla.bsky.social , Šaric & Cuylen Labs for this wonderful collaboration!!! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

And it's finally published on @prxlife.bsky.social! Thanks to Paul Robin (Hannezo lab) , @ivnpla.bsky.social (Šaric lab), @aharmendariz.bsky.social (Cuylen lab). It's been a very stimulating and highly satisfying journey! 🧬 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Ki-67 shapes the nucleolus by anchoring chromatin via its amphiphilic properties https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666339v1

🧪 Open PhD or Postdoc position 🧪 The project is in collaboration with my new collegue Miha Modic. If you are interesed in RNA modification, centromeres and bioinformatics this is for you! Miha has more positions to fill, infos on his linkedin: linkedin.com/in/miha-modic-9aa8a752.

Open position with two really great and very close-by colleagues at KIT Karlsruhe, @erhardtlab.bsky.social and @paraspeckle.bsky.social

This seems like a really important paper comparing chromosome tracing methods, demonstrating that classical denaturing DNA-FISH and chromosome tracing leads to substantial distortion of 3D genome structure, likely due to the high-temperatures involved (70-90C): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An active torque dipole across tissue layers drives avian left-right symmetry breaking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665037v1

Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026? #EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics

Brillouin microscopy showing strength in non-invasive, live-imaging applications! Studying fruit fly embryos during gastrulation as cells rapidly change shape @prevedel-lab.bsky.social @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social @marialep.bsky.social characterised & mapped mechanical changes in 3D. rdcu.be/ev6ZX

1 month left to apply! The Vienna BioCenter PostDoc Program (VIP³) offers 16 fully-funded, 3-year positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics, and related fields. Apply today: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

Check out our latest research! Using a motif predictor and AlphaFold models, we designed experiments to validate their interaction interfaces and tested the effects of uncharacterized variants on binding, then predicted the effects of hundreds of them. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity

How could SARS-COV-2 evade detection by host cells? Read the new paper from Theresia @thegutmann.bsky.social and David @rnadavid.bsky.social discussing how the nucleocapsid protein prevents recognition of the innate immunity sensor cGAS Congratulations!!! ‬

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Shuting Xu 🎉㊗️ As Shuting is the first PhD graduate from our Dresden lab, I was probably more nervous than she was. But Shuting delivered an outstanding, stimulating presentation and handled the Q&A with confidence. Very well done! 1/2

We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our newly published work in @natcellbio.nature.com. We found that differentiating cells tune the size and architecture of mitotic organelles through changes in cytoplasmic density. Many thanks to my fantastic co-authors! 💥

We're hiring! The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) seeks Scientific Editor or Senior Scientific Editor, dependent on experience. Join our team in New York City! Apply here 👉 careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs?keyword... #STEMjobs #LifeScienceJobs #PublishingJobs #ScienceJobs

Are you looking for homologous sequences but alignments do not seem to work? SHARK is available as a webserver: compare sequences or search against precomputed IDR datasets: bio-shark.org @narjournal.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

🚀 Applications OPEN! 🚀 Study Life Sciences at CMCB, @tudresden.bsky.social 🔬🧪 Regenerative Biology & Medicine 🌱⚙️ Molecular Bioengineering ⚛️🧬 Physics of Life Apply now ➡️ tud.link/b672uf #MSc #LifeSciences #StudyinGermany

We're thrilled to announce that our Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) has been renewed for a second funding phase (2026-2032) by @dfg.de ! Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🎉👏 We'll continue our cutting-edge research towards understanding what brings matter to life! #biophysics #dfg

We are very happy that XiaoYan's (Andy!) paper is out, congratulations to all authors @cellpress.bsky.social @xiaoyan52802927.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Demixing of TDP-43 inside stress granules generates pathological aggregates linked to ALS/FTD @mpi-cbg.de @biotec-tud.bsky.social

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

These Clusters will be funded: 🔹CARE: Climate-Neutral & Resource-Efficient Construction 🔹CeTI: Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop  🔹ctd.qmat: Complexity, Topology & Dynamics in Quantum Matter 🔹@poldresden.bsky.social 🔹REC2: Responsible Electronics in the Climate-Change Era

Wanting to become an #editor? Join our sister journal @emboreports.org! www.embo.org/vacancy/scie...

Join us at 6pm CET May 12 for the next seminar in our series with Prof. Tony Hunter (@salkinstitute.bsky.social) and Dr. Jesús Alvardo Valverde (@jesusav.bsky.social). Register to attend: tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2 (1/2)

If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”? If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein. Think I’ve finally found a way.

📢 Fresh off the press and featuring new exciting experiments! 🧪 We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊 doi.org/10.1016/j.st... B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

🚨 #JobAlert Leite das gerne an deine Kollegen weiter! Wir suchen eine/n Projektassistent/in für unser internationales Team bei Physics of Life! Bewerbt euch bis zum 8. Mai. Mehr Infos: tud.link/rywtux #joboffer #wearehiring #jobdestages #sachsenjobs