Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 6d ago

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Excited to announce I’m starting a new lab at @gmivienna.bsky.social (Vienna BioCentre) in Sept 2026 We study how carbon fixation is inherited and maintained in algae using cryo-ET, imaging, environmental sampling&more Looking for people who want to build the lab together, get in touch! #teamtomo

New publication by ISTA scientists @aliciakmichael.bsky.social, @paloha.bsky.social, and collaborators made it to @cp-molcell.bsky.social's cover. The study demonstrates the potential of modern cryo-ET techniques and open data sharing to empower visual proteomics. More: bit.ly/49wzHdr

Molecular Cell@cp-molcell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The latest issue is now online www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

This one was quite the journey! The paper describing the #ChlamyDataset is finally out and on the cover of Mol Cell! This beautiful rendering made by co-author @jessheebner.bsky.social and Holly Peterson shows an instance of mitochondrial fission found in the dataset 😍 [Maybe long thread ahead]

Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Using the latest advances in instrumentation and computational workflows, Kelley et al. present a large-scale annotated cryo-electron tomography dataset of the model green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhard...

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Molecular Cell@cp-molcell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The latest issue is now online www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Summer plans? Come join us in Crete to talk about “machines on genes” this June - what could be better?! ❤️ 🧬

Lori Passmore@lapassmore.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social, Dana Branzei and myself are co-organising the 2026 Machines on Genes meeting in beautiful Crete as the 94th Harden Conference hosted by @biochemsoc.bsky.social Register now - lots of opportunities for selected talks www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Happy New Year! Check out 👀our new protocol paper on the analysis of transcription factor-nucleosome interactions! Hope you find it useful 🔬🧬Was a pleasure to write up with you @wkobayashi.bsky.social and Kikuë Tachibana!

Wataru Kobayashi@wkobayashi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy to share a protocol for analysis of TF-nucleosome interactions and cryo-EM structure determination in STAR Protocols. I had a great opportunity to describe this protocol with @aliciakmichael.bsky.social. Thank you very much, all! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One month later and still thinking about the great science and conversations from the 8th Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium 🧊🔬 Huge thanks to all who joined - let’s make next year even bigger! cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/invited-spea...

Nominations for the June Almeida award for Mid/Senior-Career Women in Cryo-EM are now open! Submit your nomination via this link www.biophysics.org/awards-fundi... by November 14th to recognize an exceptional woman in our community.

Come join us! It’s a great place to be!

Florian Schur@schurlab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis! Please spread the word! ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...

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Tenure-based Research Staff Scientist Position in Computational Structural Biology

ISTA (www.ista.ac.at) is seeking a highly skilled Staff Scientist in Computational Structural Biology to support and advance the Institute’s structural biology research through the development and imp...

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Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium from Nov 11–12 at ISTA! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/ #cryoEM

We're hosting the 8th Austrian CryoEM symposium at ISTA Nov 11-12 @istaresearch.bsky.social this year - you don't want to miss! We have a fantastic lineup of invited speakers + selected talks from abstracts #cryoEM Deadline for abstracts Oct 15 Final deadline Oct 31 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at

A place with fantastic colleagues, excellent facilities, a stimulating scientific environment, and a very international and vibrant city - it's got it all!

Ben Engel@cellarchlab.com · last yr.

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium Nov 11–12 at @istaresearch.bsky.social! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at #cryoEM #teamtomo

This year’s Austrian CryoEM symposium (ACE2025) at ISTA November 11-13! Registration is open now - come along!

Jack Bravo@jpkbravo.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to announce the nexy Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium, taking place 11th-12th November at @istaresearch.bsky.social, with speakers inc. @grigoriefflab.bsky.social, @oliveiramann.bsky.social, @bjgreber.bsky.social @svenklumpe.bsky.social @sebastianglatt.bsky.social ‪‬https://tinyurl.com/cryo2025

Such an inspiring, thought-provoking and FUN time at #tcteac — amazing initiative - thanks to all the organisers! @svobodalab.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social and all for going all in

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last yr.

Alicia Michael at the Woodstock Night Science conference #TCTEAC @aliciakmichael.bsky.social

Come join us at ISTA! And if you have any questions regarding the position - please reach out!

Jack Bravo@jpkbravo.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 We're hiring! Join our excellent Electron Microscopy Facility at @istaresearch.bsky.social as an a Cryo-EM Specialist, providing support for groundbreaking research in a fantastic environment: ist.ac.at/en/job/?titl... #CryoEM #MicroscopyJobs #ScienceCareers

Very cool — thanks for the efforts @phaips.vd.st @florentwaltz.bsky.social ! Such a great resource for the community

Philippe Van der Stappen@phaips.vd.st · last yr.

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 🔬🧪

🔬Our @haselbachlab.bsky.social with Pavol Harar have developed ‘FakET’! The new method creates ‘fake’ electron microscopy images to train AI, reducing manual work in particle identification. Read the full story: www.imp.ac.at/news/article... @viennabiocenter.bsky.social #AI #cryoem #microscopy

I am happy to be a part of this effort and looking forward to the discoveries this dataset will enable! If you work with this dataset in the future, please add any annotations to the GitHub repository github.com/Chromatin-St... Thanks @paloha.bsky.social for spearheading the efforts with this!

GitHub - Chromatin-Structure-Rhythms-Lab/ChlamyAnnotations: Particle annotations for the large-scale cryo-ET dataset of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Particle annotations for the large-scale cryo-ET dataset of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - Chromatin-Structure-Rhythms-Lab/ChlamyAnnotations

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Ben Engel@cellarchlab.com · 2y ago

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!! 🤗 Excited to start our #ERC StG #ChromaChrono with my amazing 🌟team digging into mechanisms of circadian transcription factor interactions in chromatin ⏰🧬. See our freshly updated lab website: www.chromatin-structure-and-rhythms-lab.com

Hey #TeamTomo❄️🔬 computer wizards!👩‍💻🧙‍♂️ This is an amazing opportunity for a permanent position working alongside the fantastic Alicia Michael and Florian Schur, pushing #CryoET image analysis of chromatin and actin networks inside native cells!🧬🧶🧪 Vienna's not a bad place to be either.🍻😁

Alicia Michael@aliciakmichael.bsky.social · 3y ago

Interested in computation, cryoEM/ET, image analysis? How about working in a TT position at a cutting-edge institution just outside one of the most livable cities? Come join us at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria! More info here: ist.ac.at/en/job/staff... Reach out for more info!

Interested in computation, cryoEM/ET, image analysis? How about working in a TT position at a cutting-edge institution just outside one of the most livable cities? Come join us at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria! More info here: ist.ac.at/en/job/staff... Reach out for more info!

Staff Scientist – Computational Analysis of Cryo-Electron Microscopy / Electron Tomography Data

Staff Scientists at ISTA (www.ista.ac.at) pursue research projects with professors, serving as collaborators with expertise normally not present within research groups. We are searching for a Staff Sc...

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