Karla Feijs-Žaja

Are you interested in cutting edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio?

Check out our #Biochemistry2026 meeting in Würzburg from March 16th to 18th.

Deadlines for reduced early bird registration fee and abstracts have been extended to January 28th.

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Did you miss the original abstract deadline? No worries, we’ve extended it to January 30th! Don’t miss your chance to be part of an exciting meeting highlighting the cutting edge of the field.

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I must admit... Websites with timers like this make me slightly nervous. We've still got 4 hours left - why the red?? 😅

The PARP Family & ADP-ribosylation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

Just two more days to submit abstracts for the "PARP Family and ADP-ribosylation CSHL meeting. We have an amazing lineup of speakers. The majority of speakers are selected from abstracts. Don't miss out! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

The YoungPI working group organised an online workshop to gain insight into the grant review process, using DFG grants as an example. The focus will be on improving our understanding from a reviewer's perspective.
Our guest will be @friedemann.bsky.social
Register now for the 2nd February at 4pm.

A general rather than site- & function-specific role for protein modification by ADP-ribosylation?
@kfeijszaja.bsky.social , Roko Zaja and coworkers find that labeling by #PARP7 facilitates ubiquitin-dependent degradation of multiple targets upon proteotoxic stress
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Job alert! We are recruiting a postdoc to study a novel RNA modification: ADP-ribose.

🔬Do you have experience working with RNA? Are you eager to explore new frontiers in RNA biology? Join our team and help uncover the secrets of RNA ADP-ribosylation: adpribosylationlab.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/p...

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📅 Workshop Details (Limited to 8 participants)
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: January 20, 2026 (online)
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 1, 2025
Led by: Dr. Beate Scholz (Scholz CTC GmbH)
Not a member of the GBM-YI? You can register here: gbm-online.de/de/young-inv...

Seeing how I always comment on train connections when traveling in Germany... My train is on time 🎉 Which means I'll be arriving an hour and a half early 😅 See you later at the @gbmev.bsky.social GBM Compact Meeting in Frankfurt!

I remember the reviewer who once said our manuscript is "a cornucopia of mistakes". That was really helpful indeed 😐

I'm grateful for Nonso's hard work on this project, Jörg's assistance with autophagy, Bernhards' hosting of our little group and the excellent teamwork with Roko.

The reviewers and editor from the Journal have also been great to shape the revisions and make the paper better.

Thank you all 🙏

Do other PARPs label substrates for degradation as well? In which conditions is this most relevant? How do ADP-ribose and ubiquitin connect to regulate degradation?

This is a very exciting finding, as it connect well with several recent publications that indicate that proteins modified by PARP7 are degraded. For example: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/0.1038/s4431...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

It also leaves many questions to be answered in future:

PARP7 is a proteotoxic stress sensor that labels proteins for degradation | The EMBO Journal imageimageADP-ribosylation is thought to occur on specific sites to affect specific characteristics of target proteins. Here, it is found to play a more promiscuous role, with PARP7 labelling proteins for efficient degradation during proteotoxic ...

I'm very excited to be able to share the latest work from our group with you:

doi.org/10.1038/s443...

We find that PARP7 is stabilised following proteotoxic stress and ADP-ribosylates proteins to enable their degradation. This occurs in a ubiquitin-dependent manner.

The advantage of having a Croatian husband, is that you can find beautiful spots to spend some time away from everything 😏

Perhaps Midnight Library by Matt Haig?

Upcoming Event: "From Academia to Industry – Working at Novo Nordisk A/S"
📅 Date: August 21, 2025
🕟 Time: 4:30 p.m.
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Martin Peter
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Zoom link will be sent to registered participants.
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The Biochemical Society 2027 Awards. Our 2027 Awards are now open for nominations! Deadline 3 November 2025

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Awards! With 12 categories spanning all career stages, there's never been a better time to recognise the outstanding work of your colleagues. Visit our website to find out how to nominate #BiochemAwards buff.ly/FHTSGz8

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An incomparable legend.

Figure 2. Overview of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) decay pathways. m6A acts as a destabilizing mark on mRNA.

"m6A in the coding sequence: linking deposition, translation and decay"
by Kathi Zarnack (@zarnack-group.bsky.social) & colleagues

"This review explores [m6A in] mRNA decay, with a focus on the newly discovered CDS–m6A decay (CMD) pathway..."

Read it here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Almost 80 but what an energy - Neil Young! I am so grateful to have seen him play with the Chrome Hearts yesterday 🤩 Rock 'n' roll will never die...

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Q for the hive-mind 🧠: What transfection reagents do people like for big constructs these days? (I am thinking #HSV encoding BACs, ~170 kb). We've recently had poor performance with Trans-IT LT1 and Lipofectamine 2000, our two go-tos. Target cells are U2OS. Suggestions or RTs greatly appreciated 🙏

Autophagy-lysosome pathways are known targets of intracellular bacteria – Ivan Đikić @idikic.bsky.social et al find Legionella uses phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination via SidE to alter autophagic SNAREs & create a bacteria-containing vacuole unable to fuse with lysosomes
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Registration is OPEN for the 28th Signal Transduction Society Meeting—first-ever #CellCommSummit!
🗓️ November 3–5, 2025, Leonardo Hotel, Weimar
Join us for talks, poster sessions, and networking. Travel grants for young researchers available.
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
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Interested in doing a postdoc in Germany, on a topic involving ADP-ribosylation of proteins or RNA? Or even the novel dual modification with ubiquitin attached to proteins via ADP-ribose?? If yes ➡️ do get in touch 😊