A consortium of group leaders from IMP, IMBA (Vienna BioCenter) and ISTA has been awarded an FWF Emerging Fields grant to study how germ cells safeguard and pass on genetic information across generations.
First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka VavruΕ‘ovΓ‘. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio π§ͺ
Colorful comparison of different zygote sizes from the minuscule C. elegans (50 micrometers) to the massive chick zygote (30k micrometers). Credit to Prof. Richard Behringer.
To give people a sense of the scale of these videos, check out this comparison of zygote sizes created by @rrbehringer.bsky.social π§ͺ #devbio
You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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Postdoc positions available in my lab in Aarhus, Denmark on 'Mammalian Nuclear RNA Production and Turnover Systems'. Please get in touch for further information or simply apply here:
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
Exciting news:
Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow!
We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network.
Details & application π
β¨ New postdoctoral opportunity in #cell biology at UNIGE!
@sophiemartinlab.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to study cellβcell fusion.
Spread the word and see details below π@mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.socia
Join us in Vienna for the biggest international 'FISH' meeting in 2026! No matter which fish is your favorite model - zebrafish, medaka, killifish, cavefish, Danionella, cichlids, stickleback, you name them...- this meeting is for you!
www.ezm2026.org
Abstract submission deadline is March 15th.
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons π€©π€ͺ A short π§΅
Weβre looking for a motivated Master student to join our team!
Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? π‘π§«π§¬π¬
Then please apply!
#optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs
Please RT. Thank you!π
Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The demystification of piRNA clusters
if you wonder how cells generate piRNAs specifically against transposons & you are looking for a weekend read
check out @86dominik.bsky.social's opus magna (or Dominik's great thread)
a shared project with the one and only Rippei Hayashi, lab alumnus & friend
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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π¨ Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. Weβre hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
And a new paper from the lab. A follow up to a previous study in which we elucidate the mechanism of the nuclear transport. Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ulrichβs research will help advance our understanding of RNA biology & gene regulation, as well as how these mechanisms might be altered during viral infections & other diseases.
@hohmannulrich.bsky.social comes from the @impvienna.bsky.social / @imbavienna.bsky.social
www.imb.de/about-imb/ne...
π paper alert!
Nice work from the Laub lab showing that binding to ring structures made by different phage defense proteins activates RNAse to inhibits translation and phage infection. It needs to be in a 24-meric ring structure to cut.
π§ͺ#microsky
Really excited to join IMB for this new scientific endeavour!
Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Now out in Nature! We visualize infection of the RNA virus RSV in real-time with single-vRNP resolution to understand how RSV establishes viral factories, biomolecular condensates that act as sites of viral replication. A huge collaborative effort led by Dhanushika Ratnayake!
rdcu.be/e1bBW
Formation & function of #MembranelessOrganelles! #CryoET structures of #proteasome storage granules inside cells!
Read our paper @cp-cell.bsky.social!
βPublication: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
βPress Release: www.biochem.mpg.de/en/pressroom
@uoftmedicine.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu #UPSmeetMet
New findings in Science offer insight into why some embryos fail to develop past zygotic genome activation, pointing to an unexpected root of human infertility.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/46cc4WI
Iβm happy to share the main result of my PhD, which you can find on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... If you are interested in learning about a new way to perform DNA-PAINT multiplexing, which we call Combi-PAINT, or if you are interested in the study of mRNA conformation, keep reading! 1/10
π Exciting News! π 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting :
π Submit your abstract and register today: www.germanfishmeeting.org
π
When: September 16β18, 2026
π Where: Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
#germanfishmeeting2026 #fish #research #zebrafish #science
Excited to share our new paper! We developed a method to visualize proteasomal degradation at the singleβmolecule level in live cells, enabling us to dissect distinct modes of substrate engagement, probe co-factor dependence, and study proteasomeβribosome collisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New lab paper!! We develop a technology for real-time, single-molecule visualization of proteasomal substrate degradation in cells. We find that the site of substrate engagement by the proteasome determines decay kinetics, efficiency and co-factor requirement.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discuss #RNA 3' ends and their regulation at the EMBO Workshop "RNA 3' ends and beyond" in #Oxford, United Kingdom, 7β11 September 2026.
Deadline: 4 May 2026
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3
#EMBORNA3EndsBeyond #RNAsky #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents π§ͺ
AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop thenode.biologists.com/https-www-yo...
check this beauty from @reneketting.bsky.social @koenig-lab.bsky.social and co
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
π§¬π¬@science.org A genetically encoded device for #transcriptome storage in mammalian cells | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @broadinstitute.org
