Aritz Roa-Eguiara
@aritz-roa.bsky.social
Former PhD student at the Structural Biology of Molecular Machines group (a.k.a. Taylor group). Mostly bacteriophages and membrane proteins.
In situ #CryoEM structures of rice photosystem supercomplexes #photosynthesis #plants #StructuralBiology @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In situ structures of plant photosystem supercomplexes - Nature
The cryo‑EM structure of the Oryza sativa photosystem II–light harvesting complex II supercomplex in its native membrane reveals the intact plant photosystem architecture, retaining physiologically re...
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We are hosting candidates to apply for a PhD position with a full salary at University of Helsinki. This will be a co-supervised project with the group of Alexander Mühleip to study function, structures and draggability of ER protein translocation in different parasitic organisms.
RESDOC Project – Training Doctoral Excellence for Resilient and Just Future | University of Helsinki
RESDOC (Resilient and Just Systems Doctoral Project) is an international doctoral training project at the University of Helsinki in Finland. It brings together interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral res...
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The passing of Betty Kutter deeply saddens us. Her kindness, generosity, and passion for phages shaped generations of scientists and our entire community. Her legacy lives on through the collaborations and friendships she inspired. Thank you, Betty. We will miss you. 💙
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A receptor-centered approach identifies Lom as a LamB-bound superinfection exclusion factor in bacteriophage λ
Ge et al. develop a receptor-centered strategy to identify phage proteins that target host receptors during infection and discover the λ outer-membrane protein Lom. Lom binds and occludes LamB, blocki...
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@arturocdr.bsky.social always delivering top structural work! Checkout their preprint #phagesky #cryoem
Arturo Carabias@arturocdr.bsky.social · 3w ago🧬 Thrilled to share our latest @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint! Here we find that Retron-IX build crazy supramolecular rings scaffolded by DNA molecules that sense phage infection! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Read more below🧵! (1/X)
🧬 Thrilled to share our latest @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint! Here we find that Retron-IX build crazy supramolecular rings scaffolded by DNA molecules that sense phage infection! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Read more below🧵! (1/X)
1/10 🚨Preprint! One RING to rule them all (phages)👑💍⚔️ Bacteria build giant DNA-scaffolded RNase rings (larger than the ribosome!) to shut down viral infection🧬🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
One of the coolest structures presented at the recent SISB2026 meeting, great to see this story from @rafomics.bsky.social and @guillermo-montoya.bsky.social on a giant retron ring-shaped assembly now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join us in a fun, crazy and interesting interdisciplinary research project that combines protein biophysics, evolutionary genomics, biomolecular archaeology, and textile research to resolve species identity and post-translational modifications in the structural proteins collagen and keratin
Matthew Collins@matthewcollins.bsky.social · 3w agoCopenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31
New favorite mug - beautiful T4 phage infection design by James Hodgkinson-Bean / @virionapparel.bsky.social 😊☕️🧬
🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Research Technician (Osterman Group – Metabolism-driven immunity)
EMBL Hamburg / CSSB The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organization, with more than 110 independent research groups across Heidelberg, Hamburg, Grenobl...
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Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!
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🚨Preprint! Happy to share the research from my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We are presenting two posters today at #VOM2026 if you are around and interested: Poster #198: Understanding infection initiation in Burkholderia cenocepacia phage BcepIL02, a Lessievirus encoding multiple tail fibers, and Poster 209: The role of the sim locus in phage P1 superinfection exclusion
The #VOM2026 keynote from @epcrocha.bsky.social was so elegant. How prophages benefit their hosts, how T6SS which is so beneficial to bacteria, evolved from phages, and how most prophages are newcomers.
Interested in a PhD on bacteriophages? Check out www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3623... #phagesky if you are interested and also happen to be at #VOM2026, send me a dm
How do phages kill dormant bacteria
Are you excited about exploring the biology behind phages infecting dormant bacteria? Join forces to uncover fundamental biology with great potential for clinical impact. We offer a fully funded PhD p...
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Thank you to #VoM2026 and all the audience for the impressive setup and nice experience. It was so much fun!! Day one done, four to go!
So cool to see the final version of this manuscript! Big baseplate, complex rearrangement, and Gram-positive bacteria 🧫 fun to read! 🤓
cryoEM papers@cryoempapers.bsky.social · last mo.Conformational changes of the baseplate regulating tail contraction of Staphylococcus phage 812 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42350675/ #cryoEM
Conformational changes of the baseplate regulating tail contraction of Staphylococcus phage 812 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42350675/ #cryoEM
While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/
I see that the NNF Center for Protein Design has finally begun advertising some group leader positions. In case you did not already watch my short video with advice on the topic, here you have it: youtube.com/shorts/hkPxq...
NNF Center for Protein Design: a smart career choice for you? #shorts
YouTube video by Lars Juhl Jensen
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And this journey got to an end: PhD ✅ Thank you to everyone who took part on it along the way and to the committee (Tom Miller, Mark van Raaij and Michela Gambino) for the positive feedback and great discussion. Now time to get ready for VOM2026!!
Hey #TeamTomo, Ever been in need of a tutorial about the fundamentals of cryo-electron tomography? From preprocessing raw frames to high-res subtomogram averaging? That's why @florentwaltz.bsky.social and I made this website! tomoguide.github.io Follow the thread 1 /🧵 #CryoET #CryoEM 🔬🧪
Welcome to TomoGuide
A step-by-step Cryo-ET guide
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The "Research Day" at our department D-HEST is always caleidoscope of exciting science from food over health to medicine. Phage biotechnology was well represented with Dorentina @humollidorentina.bsky.social and Enea @phagemuffin.bsky.social from our group and the lab of Martin Loessner. 🧫🧬🍻
(1/6) Thrilled to share this story! In our preprint from my PhD in the @kranzuschlab.bsky.social, with help from the Hatfull lab and @soreklab.bsky.social, we discover RyDEP, a phage-encoded RyR-domain glycosidase that allows phages to evade Thoeris defense. Highlights below! doi.org/10.64898/202...
New preprint! 🚨 Phage proteins don't act alone. Phages rely on homooligomerisation to assemble identical protein subunits into functional forms. But figuring out those exact configurations experimentally is tough. Learn about our approach in our new preprint! 👇 (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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