Postdoc in Nuclear RNA Biology at Aarhus University! Interested in mammalian nuclear RNA production and turnover? Come join Torben Heick Jensen’s team in Aarhus 🇩🇰 www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Postdoc position in Nuclear RNA Biology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved RNA-biologi og -innovation, Aarhus Universitet

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A reminder to budding yeast researchers: if you use the "GAPDH" promoter to drive constitutive expression, please be careful about how you describe this. The gene GPD1 encodes glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, not Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The TDH3 promoter is probably what you use

Looking for a postdoc to join our project studying actin and membrane dynamics during cell migration. If interested, please reach out to me via email: rytis.prekeris@ucdenver.edu

Im looking for a postdoc to help with protein engineering efforts. If you know who could be a good fit send them my way! see details below:

There's not much to laugh about these days in the research enterprise. A few yrs ago I began performing science-themed parodies at the Annual Retreat of our Molecular Biology PhD Program @molbcu.bsky.social (I am Associate Director). I hope this one from 2024 makes you smile youtu.be/HqPldJ_OIZI

"Wanted": a PCR Parody from the CU Anschutz Molecular Biology PhD Program 2024 Annual Retreat

YouTube video by Michael McMurray

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One of my favorite parts of this paper full of beautiful experiments is the finding that phosphorylation of a regulatory helix switches the direction of transport. Imagine trying to figure this out using only in vitro reconstitution and recombinant proteins! No chance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A molecular switch for coordinating kinesin and dynein transport of mitochondrial cargo

The cellular distribution of mitochondria in response to stress and local energy needs is governed by the relative activities of the microtubule-based molecular motors kinesin and dynein. The mechanis...

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looks like “buffer” and “volume” were also mistranslated

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · 2w ago

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

This article includes an abstract in Brazilian Portuguese. It is our first article with an additional language abstract. For more details about this option: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/jo...

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Igor Bonacossa-Pereira, Dat Le, Sean Coakley @seancoakley.bsky.social and Massimo Hilliard discover that AGEF-1 modulates cross-tissue mechano-resilience of sensory axons. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...

Why do intrinsically disordered proteins behave so weirdly during SDS-PAGE? This is the question we aim to answer in our recent paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sequence determinants of the hypomobility of intrinsically disordered proteins in <fc>SDS</fc>‐<fc>PAGE</fc>

Proteins with intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) migrate at a higher apparent molecular weight in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, complicating their analysis and...

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I asked Google's chatbot, Gemini, to help me install & run an RNA structure/sequence analysis program on my Mac. It asked me to paste the sequence for analysis, and it would make the input file. Output looked a little funny… it had deleted one of the 29 nt from the middle of the pasted sequence!

Barack Obama's Confused Reaction

ALT: Barack Obama's Confused Reaction

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I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...

University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas

Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 3w ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

Job alert! I'm recruiting a new post-doc to work on mechanisms of co-translational quality control in the ER. Looking for expertise in ribosome biology and yeast genetics/cell biology. Please reach out to me with any questions. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336

Closing date: Thursday 27 August 2026, 23:59

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We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

Nature@nature.com · 3w ago

Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome go.nature.com/45fpXCZ

RNA-seq tells us how much RNA is present in the cell. But to understand gene regulation, we need to easily measure the synthesis and decay rates driving this abundance. We introduce AIR-seq: analog intrinsic recoding sequencing. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Analog intrinsic recoding measures RNA dynamics without chemical conversion

Steady-state RNA abundance measurements mask the synthesis and decay rates that shape gene expression. Analog intrinsic recoding sequencing (AIR-seq) repurposes the base-pairing properties of N4-hydro...

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Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

Any known examples of an RNA localization element in the 5’UTR?

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...

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 · last mo.

Copenhagen 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 paper from the @xionglab.bsky.social and Mogessie labs at Yale! We uncover the molecular architecture of mammalian oocyte cytoplasmic lattices (CPLs), revealing GTP-bound tubulin associated with a degradative protein complex. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cytoplasmic lattices store developmentally poised degradative and cytoskeletal complexes in mammalian eggs - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Li et al. obtain high-resolution, native structures revealing that cytoplasmic lattices in mammalian eggs organize and store degradative and cytoskeletal complexes for early embryonic development.

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Note septins at play here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Atonosomes, compartments involved in membrane tension decrease

To ensure survival, cells need to buffer the effects of environmental stress on their plasma membrane, yet the structural mechanisms by which this is acutely achieved remain largely unknown. Here, we ...

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A tenure-track research position is available for application at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute @westerdijkinst.bsky.social located in Utrecht Science Park in the Netherlands. Please share with colleagues and see the link below for more info: wi.knaw.nl/news/details...

“Flex fuel” helicases 💯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ATP is dispensable for E. coli DNA replication and eukaryotic helicase activity - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that replicative helicases from bacteria to humans can use dTTP instead of ATP for DNA unwinding, and that the E. coli replisome preferentially uses dTTP during DNA replication, ...

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The Kaplan Lab at the University of Pittsburgh has received funds to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to establish a multiplexed assay of variant effect for a disease gene. This relates to our studies on RNA Polymerase II. This project requires experience with human cell lines and genomics 1/

Since the 1960s, the genetic code has been used to predict protein sequences from DNA and mRNA sequences. Our @nature.com article demonstrates that these predictions miss thousands of protein sequences present in human tissues. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Nikolai Slavov@slavov-n.bsky.social · 2y ago

We report many proteins not predicted by the genetic code. They are stable & abundant O( 10³ ) copies / cell. Generative mechanisms include codon-anticodon mismatches & RNA modifications. Their abundance depends on codon frequency & protein stability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ Mitochondrial Na⁺ links metabolism, Ca2+ signaling and disease. We know how it gets in, how it gets out, and proteins that use it. But: we've never actually seen Na⁺ in single mitochondria in live cells. We started with an unusual observation, went down a rabbit hole & found some cool biology .