In vitro binding energies capture Klf4 occupancy across the human genome
DNA binding energies for full-length Klf4, with its 400+ residues IDR!
Sequence specificity sufficient to predict genome occupancy in human cells.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
🏆 𝐆𝐁𝐌 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢on 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝
With the award, the @gbmev.bsky.social recognizes young scientists developing methods in the fields of #biochemistry, #molecularbiology, and #signaltransduction.
🔬 Register for the #CellCommSummit until August 30.
We look forward to seeing your innovative methods!
Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 📣
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us!
🔎 Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4x9Edss
1/5 How much phosphorylation can a single kinase deposit? In our new study with @typaslab.bsky.social out in @nature.com, phage T7's kinase (T7K) modifies almost all the E. coli proteome + more densely than all ~500 kinases do our own proteomes 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Register now! CellCommSummit 2026 – 29th Meeting on Signal Transduction🧬
📍 Weimar, Germany | Nov 2–4, 2026
🏅 STS Honorary Medal: Sir Richard Treisman
Join us for inspiring science and interdisciplinary exchange!
👉 www.cellcommsummit.eu#STS2026@dgfi-yi.bsky.social@gbmev.bsky.social
Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The need for strong #ScientificSocieties has taken on a new urgency in the era of AI. It was a pleasure and an honor to deliver the #keynote lecture at the Polish Biochemical Society symposium on "New Perspectives in Biochemistry Research" at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.
Can a German scientist make science fun and understandable? I will be giving a #ScienceSlam at the Grand Finale of the Long Night of Sciences.
Join me for the
"Mission Invisible! Virale Tricks gegen das Immunsystem"
at TU Dresden. @tudresden.bsky.social@mpi-cbg.de#Immunology#Virology#SciComm
When:
Friday, 26th June, 22:30-00:00
Where:
Festival Stage behind the Lecture Hall Center (HSZ) at TU Dresden
How to get there: tinyurl.com/2hrvyhj9
More information: tinyurl.com/scienceslamtg
Had a fantastic EMBO|EMBL Symposium on "Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Phase Separation" and was delighted to present our perspective on biomolecular condensation in virus–host interactions. Congrats to our Predoc Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social on her poster prize! #2026PhaseSeparation@embl.org
As part of @sfb1638.bsky.social in 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, we are committed to developing computational tools that make complex membrane simulations more accessible, reproducible, and scalable for the scientific community.
Today, we are happy to share the public release of 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 v1.2.1
Safe to say that Day 1 of 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation' has been a success so far, with lots of great talks, including a keynote by Karla Neugebauer, and plenty of opportunities to socialise and get to know each other 🙌🏼 #EESPhaseSeparation@embo.org@embl.org
Did you know that most of our conferences are in a hybrid format? Even if you are unable to travel, you have a few more days to register to attend #EESPhaseSeparation virtually! 🧬🦠🧪
• Access talks at your convenience
• Ask questions
• Network
Register by 12 May: s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl
Cells are not just bags of molecules. Function depends on spatial interactions: RNAs and/or proteins come together with interaction partners to drive regulation and function.
In our new preprint, we introduce ProPER, a novel method for in situ proximity detection.
Preprint: tinyurl.com/muju86s6
1/ ProPER - Our novel ligation-free proximity detection method for efficient multiplexed imaging of molecular interactions in situ. Among other things we use it to image the life cycle of RNA molecules and resolve differential kinetics of gene expression steps. New preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our work is finally out in Science Immunology ! This was an Amazing collaborative work from all co-authors, in particular the two co-first authors James Curson and Syeda Farhana Afroz .
Never give up ! :)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited to share our paper on the NLRP3 inflammasome condensate at the Microtubule Organizing Center (MTOC) by "precise!" cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), in collaboration with Jue (phyllis) Wang in the labs of Grant Jensen (BYU) and Pete Dahlberg (Stanford)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A renaissance in targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
www.nature.com/articles/s41...rdcu.be/faYxr
This new Perspective discusses how advances in understanding of PI3K signalling in disease and novel pharmacological strategies are revitalizing interest in targeting the pathway
Welcome, Tony Hyman!
EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, as he takes up the mandate of leading EMBL's six sites.
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
Congratulations to Julia Mahamid @embl.org on receiving the #LeibnizPrize 2026 for her pioneering work in in situ #structural#biology and for advancing our understanding of molecular architecture and cellular dynamics.
Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏
Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin.
Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1
Here is a short video by @tudresden.bsky.social (in German) of me explaining what beta cells do and talking about our research on investigating the structural features of their function and dysfunction.
Wie wird #Insulin produziert? Was passiert bei #Diabetes im Körper? 🩸 In der »Kurzen Frage« spricht @andimicroscopy.bsky.social vom Paul Langerhans Institut von @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social & #TUDresden über seine Forschung an den Betazellen der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Zum Video ➡️ youtu.be/KAeSulc4Neo
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de#STS#CellCommSummit
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
🎉 Hao Wu received the STS Honorary Medal for her lifetime contributions to uncovering molecular details of innate immune signaling. The laudatio by Theresia Gutmann highlighted her impact as scientist and mentor. Prof. Wu: your brilliance, dedication, and humor made this evening unforgettable ! 🌟
We had a good line up of speakers at the 50 years anniversary meeting of the german society of cell biology @dgz.bsky.social in Heidelberg. Tony gave the plenary, Koichiro talked about spatial control of P granules and Silja received a price for her Master thesis and gave a talk. Congratulations!
Congratulations to our PhD student David @rnadavid.bsky.social for his successful defense of his PhD thesis! @mpi-cbg.deimprs.mpi-cbg.de
As you see the lab was very creative with his hat! David gave his insights on the nucleocapsid protein and even better arranged a great buffet for celebrations!
It was an honor to present the laudation for the 2025 STS Honorary Medal Awardee, Hao Wu (@harvardmed.bsky.social@bostonchildrens.bsky.social), at the 28th Signal Transduction Meeting. Her groundbreaking work has transformed our understanding of innate immune signaling.
@sigtrans.bsky.social#STS
Das erwartet euch bei der letzten #Beerology2025: Ich spreche über das #Immunsystem und #Viren – Wissenschaft ohne Fachchinesisch, auf Deutsch!
📅 12. November
📍 Mondpalast, Dresden
🎟️ Eintritt frei!
livesciencedresden.de#WissKomm#SciComm
Our PhD student Silja Zedlitz @hymanlab.bsky.social receives the #DGZ Master Thesis Award for her previous work!!! Looking forward to the meeting in Heidelberg and Silja's talk on "Minimal rhodamine probes for covalent protein labeling in live cells". Congrats to all awardees!
Very excited to announce the #DGZ awardees 2025. We look forward to welcoming all award winners to our meeting in Heidelberg, where they will present their work!
Abstract submission deadline for the #STS meeting on #SignalTransduction extended to 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. Great line-up of speakers with Hao Wu of Boston Children's Hospital delivering the #STS Honorary Medal: sigtrans.de/meeting-2025 | Weimar, 3-5 November
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!!!
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