Yasin Dagdas

Meanwhile AI's greatest contribution to academia will be one of this showing up at the doorstep of every unproductive leech plaguing Universities.

Perhaps academia’s greatest contribution to AI safety is bureaucracy. Good luck conquering the world when every step requires a printed form, a stamp, and a posted original.

Our new group picture! Excited to welcome Ceren, Hannah and Samuel joining the team🔬🧬🌱 @uni-muenster.de

Considering my book "The Tree of Life" for introductory evolution class? I have a few complimentary copies to evaluate. Please DM me. And please repost.

Review in Science described it as "..a fantastic informal introduction to a course on evolution.. recommended it to my first-year students".

Very excited to see this work out today!

Discovering viral immune antagonists directly from predicted protein structures. 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huge thanks to the amazing collaborators! 🤗

Train booking in Germany!

Our group’s inaugural PhD 🎉🍾

Toasting the successful & excellent defense of Dr. Garcia-Lozano 🎈

Congratulations, @marlenygarcial.bsky.social!!

Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges Mitigating climate change requires broad societal buy-in. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) produce cost-optimal pathways, but these are complex and not easily customized to reflect individuals’ pre...

Must read: Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges

“Many of the strategies we identified require that individuals change their behavior and all require general public support.”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ubiquitin & Friends Fiesta in Vienna, 29-30 April 2026.
Great speakers, small size, a friendly community, perfect for early-career researchers to connect with fellow ubiquitin enthusiasts. Sign up at www.protein-degradation.org/symposium/ and submit abstracts for talks and awards.
#ubfriends26

A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.

📢 #CIBSS research highlight!

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social helped identify SYFO2, a protein that lets legumes 🫛☘️“open the door” to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 🦠 The team even activated it in tomato 🍅 — suggesting this symbiosis could be engineered in new crops. 🌱

🔗 kurzlinks.de/v7bi

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Can AI untangle a Newton’s Cradle? Tell me about that!

An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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@nitzantal.bsky.social @romihadary.bsky.social @soreklab.bsky.social use structure prediction and in silico binding site analysis to discover viral immune evasion proteins! Exciting for our lab @reneechang.bsky.social @riveralopz.bsky.social to help with this project.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Next position advertised by our cluster: We are searching for a Lab Manager running the single cell-sequencing lab at Heidelberg University.
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling - Nature Microbiology A structural catalogue of the Asgard archaeal pangenome reveals hundreds of eukaryotic-like proteins that suggest a higher degree of cellular complexity in the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.

🧵 1/10 New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from my postdoc at @mib-wur.bsky.social! 🎉

How eukaryote-like was the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes? Sequence searches alone can't tell us — so we used protein structure prediction to look deeper. 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is such amazing news!!! Congrats @leokiss.bsky.social !!! @unidue.bsky.social is sooo lucky to have you. Looking fwd to hearing all the cool discoveries your lab will make 😊

I am incredibly excited to share that I will start my independent lab at the @unidue-zmb.bsky.social at the @unidue.bsky.social as Junior Professor of Cellular Biochemistry. Research in my lab has the goal to decipher the ubiquitin code!
There are multiple open positions!
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A big thank you to Yen-Ping Hsueh from the @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social for an outstanding talk on #predatory #fungi yesterday! A fascinating topic and a truly insightful discussion.

Many thanks as well to @alexanderforderer.bsky.social, @carogutj.bsky.social and Gloria Meng-Hsuan Lin for hosting!

First first-author pub mugs for Jodi and Clarice!! I’m so lucky to have awesome grad students 🤓💚🌽

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

Mapping the yeast atructural interactome with AlphaFold3: an open call for collaboration We are excited to announce the early-stage release of our S. cerevisiae  structural interactome mapping project. Using AlphaFold3 (AF3), w...

We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations.
www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

Insect herbivory dependent on a specialised bacterial symbiosis - fascinating talk by new @johninnescentre.bsky.social group leader @hassansalem.bsky.social #CMINorwich26

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop:

What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper

When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET

Where: online, Webex

This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon.

www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

Attenuation of epicardial activation and myofibroblast abundance via the Fbln2–Nupr1b axis stimulates cardiac regeneration in zebrafish - Nature Cardiovascular Research Kayman Kürekçi et al. show that fibulin-2 regulates epicardial cell activation through nuclear protein 1b signaling to balance fibrosis and regeneration after cardiac injury, and modulating this pathw...

Excited to share our latest work on cardiac regeneration! 🚨 Here @gulsumkayman.bsky.social identified Fibulin2 as a critical matricellular protein regulating the balance between regeneration and fibrosis. 🐟🫀 1/2

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congratulations Dr. @lbmountain.bsky.social! The past 6 years with you in the lab were a joy! Starting as a rotation student, MSc student and PhD student, moving with us from Heidelberg to Bern, sharing so many memories. You will be missed is the understatement of the year. Thank you for everything!

Congratulations Dr. @lbmountain.bsky.social I could not be prouder of your achievements and the scientist you have grown into.

Your output, your calm demeanour, your focus, your enthusiasm and your community-oriented mindset make you a fantastic scientist, team member, person and role model.

New paper from the lab. Important insights into the compartmentalisation of terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia oil body cells. #PlantScience #SynBio www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social