It's been a wonderful 4 years and I couldn't have done this without you James! Onwards and upwards!

James Saenz@jamessaenz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations 🍾 to @anh-nhn.bsky.social on her successful PhD defense today: Deciphering the role of lipidome complexity using Mesoplasma florum!! Time to celebrate 🎉 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

What a journey! Thank you James for the support throughout the years!

James Saenz@jamessaenz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for submitting her PhD thesis, just in time for Christmas!! 🎄🦠

Attention colleagues! Interested in an interdisciplinary #PhD? 🧬 Apply now for one of 12 PhD positions exploring biomolecular #condensates! This program involves several PoL PIs, bridging the gap between physics and biology. Apply here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/ 🗓Deadline: 24. October

This is going to be fun - we are really pleased with the program - there is some really exciting science on the menu! Do sign up!

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Registration open: 77. Mosbacher Kolloquium "More than lipidic barriers - New horizons in membrane biology" from March 25-28, 2026 lnkd.in/dgsW4c3 Scientific Organizers: Britta Brügger, Robert Ernst, André Nadler, Christian Ungermann Early registration & poster abstracts until January 31, 2026

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀The #BiomembraneDays2025 concluded WE THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS & OUR SPONSORS🙏🙏🙏 @abberior.rocks Critical Insights in Biophysics Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation @dfg.de @jcellsci.bsky.social @lipotype.bsky.social @naniontech.bsky.social @picoquant.bsky.social Refeyn Ltd @biologists.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

I’m truly honored to have received the Poster Award at #BiomembraneDays! Huge thanks to the organizers for an excellent conference and to the Saenz Lab for their continuous support!

James Saenz@jamessaenz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for winning the @lipotype.bsky.social poster award at #BiomembraneDays Berlin! 🎉🔥 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

Thanks to Lipotype for the three poster awards at #Biomembranedays2025 to Jana Kroll @janakroll.bsky.social , Manpreet Kaur and Nguyen Ha Ngoc Anh and congratulations to the winners!

🌶️ Lipids bring the heat 🔥 Lipids don’t just shape membranes, they influence cellular metabolism. We show that tuning lipidome composition strongly alters metabolic heat flow in the minimal cell JCVI-Syn3B 🦠 Fantastic collaboration with Karim Fahmy’s lab (HZDR) 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metabolic heat flow from the minimal cell JCVI-Syn3B reveals the lipidome-dependence of growth and metabolism

The cell membrane facilitates interactions with the environment and serves as an organizational platform for coordinating cellular processes, with lipids playing a central role in determining membrane...

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Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology

An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

nature.com

Thank you all for coming to @bcube-tud.bsky.social and #Dresden last week. You all made Engineering Life 2025 #25EngLife a most interesting and fun event. #Mechanical #forces in Biology rule!!!

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The secret life of RNA and lipids

There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids? The discovery that RNA can catalyse reactions in addition to encoding information opened new directions for...

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🧬 Thrilled to share that our work is featured on the cover of @natnano.nature.com (May issue)! We genetically encoded RNA origami that self-assembles into cytoskeletal nanotubes inside synthetic cells. 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

Why are biological membranes asymmetric, with different lipids in the two bilayer leaflets? Discovered in the 70s, lipid asymmetry is linked to many cellular processes, but why the cell needs it is largely unclear. @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social addresses this question: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just published! 🎊 Effects of lipid membranes on RNA catalytic activity and stability 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @bcube-tud.bsky.social

Effects of lipid membranes on RNA catalytic activity and stability

This study explores how lipid membranes influence the activity and stability of natural ribozymes. We found that lipid membranes can both decrease and enhance ribozyme activity. We also observed that...

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James Saenz@jamessaenz.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥RNA & lipids in action 🧬! Our latest study reveals how lipid membranes affect the activity of catalytic RNAs...

Very happy to see our study "printed" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... We report how mechanics are related with DNA recombination efficiency. Great work by Kate @cmcb-tud.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social in collab with @celineloot.bsky.social and @amazeld.bsky.social @pasteur.fr . Synopsis 👇1/4