Join us today for our Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🤩 📢 "Identification and engineering of biochemical pathways in medicinally important plants" 👤 Prof. Kashmir Singh (Panjab University, India) 📅 September 28, 2026 | 🕘 12:00 PM 📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU)

That's a wrap on PMM 2026 in Poznań! 🌿🧬 Three fantastic days with 90+ plant meiosis researchers from 12 countries. Special thanks to Keynote Neil Hunter (UC Davis) and lead organizer Maja Szymańska-Lejman! 👏 Congrats to Nicola Gorringe (Best Talk 🏆) & Youngkyung Lee (Best Poster 🥇).

Join us for our Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🤩 📢 "Iron-sulfur clusters: An essential protein cofactor with complex biosynthesis and disease relevance" 👤 Prof. Roland Lill (Marburg University, Germany) 📅 September 17, 2026 | 🕘 3:00 PM 📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU)

Back from summer break! Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 📢 "RNA processing and quality control in health and disease" 👤 Prof. Yongsheng Shi (University of California, USA) 📅 September 4, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

FAMSA can now be used in a web browser: refresh-bio.github.io/tools/famsa/ It is compiled to WebAssembly, so all computations run locally on the device - your data never leaves your machine. Sample timings (workstation, 16 threads) for cys family (56k seqs): 150s (default) or 20s (with medoids).

Our second seminar this week will be on Friday! 📢 "Mechanisms controlling cellular plasticity in liver regeneration during chronic diseases" 👤 Prof. Ludovic Vallier (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany) 📅 July 10, 2026 | 🕘 12:00 PM 📍 Mała Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU)

Join us for our Thursday Institute Seminar! 📢 "Watch your step: antisense oligonucleotides acting outside of genes" 👤 Prof. @grzechnikpawel.bsky.social (University of Manchester, UK) 📅 July 9, 2026 | 🕘 10:00 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

🧬 New paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! @agatakstepien.bsky.social, Martyna Plens-Gałąska & @stoplab.bsky.social authored a News & Views piece on transcriptional readthrough, showing how this cellular process links to anti-cancer drugs & new therapies 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional readthrough progresses from incidental byproduct to therapeutic opportunity - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Several anti-cancer drugs delay transcription termination, triggering transcriptional readthrough. Readthrough has long been considered an incidental transcriptional byproduct, however a recent study ...

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Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 📢 "Shuffling the genetic deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis" 👤 Prof. Simone Köhler (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) 📅 July 3, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

⏳ Last days to register for the Plant Meiosis Meeting! Join us in Poznań for PMM 2026, with invited speakers Neil Hunter, Mathilde Grelon, André Marquez and Kyuha Choi. Raphaël Mercier, Chris Morgan, and many others also confirmed. 55 talk slots are waiting to be filled! Register: pmm.amu.edu.pl

New paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! Daria Niewiadomska and Krzysztof Sobczak have uncovered new molecular mechanisms in FXPAC (#RareDiseases). The study shows how FMR1 mRNA structure & CGG repeats control toxic FMRpolyG protein stability. Congrats! 👏 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

The role of FMR1 mRNA structure on the efficiency of non-canonical translation of toxic polyglycine protein

Abstract. Repeat-associated non-AUG (RAN) translation of mutant FMR1 messenger RNA (mRNA) containing CGG repeat expansions results in the production of a t

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Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 📢 " Plasmodiophora brassicae and Arabidopsis thaliana interaction" 👤 Prof. Robert Malinowski (@malinowskilab.bsky.social Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS) 📅 June 19, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you there! 🤩

Great news! Two @ncn.gov.pl OPUS grants for Katarzyna Blaszczyk and Tomasz Bieluszewski. Congratulations! 👏🎉 #IBMIB #AMU

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 📢 "To B or not to B in Nucleic Acids Chemistry" 👤 Prof. Naoki Sugimoto (Konan University, Japan) 📅 June 12, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

Next week, our institute seminar will be on Tuesday! 😀 📣 "Languages of the Non-coding Genome" 👤 Prof. Sebastian Marquardt (Lund University) 📅 June 9, 2026 | 🕘 10:00 📍 Paczoski Auditorium (Faculty of Biology) See you there! 🧬

Mushuvirus is the most widespread phage genus in the human gut. 🌍 Together with other family members, these viruses occur in 89% of humans worldwide, including the Iceman Ötzi! How is it possible that they were hidden in previous metagenomic analyses? [1/7] Read: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Membrane Labyrinths of Plant Plastids – From Geometry to Biological Function" 👤 Prof. @lucjakowalewska.bsky.social (Plastid Nanomorphology Group) 📅 May 15, 2026 | 🕘 11:00 AM 📍 Audytorium Paczoskiego (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "SNI1, a cold-sensitive regulator of meiotic recombination shaped by recent evolution in A. thaliana" 👤 Dr. Alexandre Pelé (IMBB, Genome Biology Research) 📅 May 8, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Paczoski Auditorium (Faculty of Biology) See you there! 👋

New week, insights! ✨ The team led by Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula (@stoplab.bsky.social) reveals in EMBO Reports how SETD2 acts as a genetic "traffic controller." A vital step in understanding cancer biology! Congrats to @michal-gdula.bsky.social, @agatakstepien.bsky.social, @mgkopczynska.bsky.social! 👏

SETD2 methyltransferase activity promotes correct transcription initiation and termination - EMBO Reports

SETD2 is a methyltransferase responsible for depositing histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation (H3K36me3). Loss of its enzymatic activity occurs in some cancers, including renal cell carcinoma. SETD2 mut...

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Great news! 🥳 A new study from the group of @piotraz.bsky.social shows that it is possible to precisely control where meiotic recombination occurs in plant genomes using the CRISPR/dCas9 system. Now published in Science Advances! Congratulations Maja Szymańska-Lejman, Piotr Ziolkowski and the crew!

Modifying meiotic recombination by targeting chromatin regulators to crossover hotspots in Arabidopsis

Targeting chromatin modifiers to DNA hotspots reveals causal link between histone marks, transcription, and meiotic recombination.

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Great news! 🥳 Dr. Anna Baud with Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak showed that insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) positively regulates the noncanonical translation of expanded CGG repeats and may be a promising target for clinical applications. Published in Nature Communications!

IGF2BPs directly regulate the noncanonical translation of toxic proteins from mutant FMR1 mRNA containing expanded CGG repeats - Nature Communications

Expanded FMR1 CGG repeats drive toxic FMRpolyG in premutation disorders. Here, the authors show that IGF2BP3 binds the FMR1 5’UTR to promote non-AUG translation of FMRpolyG and that its loss reduces t...

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Big news! 🥳 Joanna Szpotkowska, together with Prof. Malgorzata Borowiak, presents Glutathione Peroxidase 2 as a critical regulator of human posterior foregut differentiation, revealing oxidative stress as a key determinant of pancreatic versus non-pancreatic cell fate. Now in Nature Communications!

Oxidative stress and GPX2 control pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate in human endoderm - Nature Communications

The role of metabolic processes in endoderm differentiation remains elusive. Here, the authors discover that oxidative stress and GPX2 determine whether human stem cells differentiate into pancreatic ...

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Great news from our Institute! 🎉 Dr Katarzyna Taylor has received a 2026 Early Career Grant from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. Her research on MBNL1 and MBNL2 could help uncover new therapeutic targets in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Congratulations! myotonic.org/2026-grant-r...

🚀 New Job Alert: Postdoctoral Fellow at IMBB! Join the Lab of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at Adam Mickiewicz University! 🎓 🔬 Study T2D using pancreatic organoids & multi-omics. 📍 Poznań, Poland 📑 NCN-funded OPUS project Apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/428161

Andrzej Zieleziński (@uam-ibmib.bsky.social) with Sebastian Deorowicz (@sdeorowicz.bsky.social), Cedric Notredame, and Adam Gudyś present FAMSA2, enabling ultra-scale multiple protein sequence alignments. Now in Nature Biotechnology! Congrats to all authors! 🎉

Sebastian Deorowicz@sdeorowicz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

10 years after the first FAMSA paper, its successor is now published in Nat Biotech! We believe that FAMSA2 can enable analyses of large protein collections that were previously unattainable. Thank you, Andrzej and Cedric, for great collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Les liaisons dangereuses: who is the winner – plants or pathogens?" 👤 Prof. Magdalena Krzymowska (IBBPAS) 📅 April 17, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Paczoski Auditorium (Faculty of Biology) Don't miss it, see you there! 👋

Join us for our Friday Institute Seminar at IMBB! 🌱 "Seed molecular biology" 👤 Prof. Szymon Świeżewski (IBB PAS, Warsaw) 📅 April 10, 2026 | 🕘 9:15 AM 📍 Mala Aula (Faculty of Biology, AMU) See you all there! 🤩

This Friday at the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Katarzyna Klonowska from the Institute of Biooganic Chemistry PAS in Poznan will give a talk on mutation landscape in tumour suppressor gene syndromes - join us!

This Friday at the @uam-ibmib.bsky.social seminar: Urlike Topf from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS will give a talk on aging-dependent #oxidation of ribosomal proteins and its implications for organismal healthspan - join us!

Michal Gdula group leader at @uam-ibmib.bsky.social is saerching for a postdoc to work on the epigenetics of pancreatic cancer within colaborative OPUS-LAP funded by @ncn.gov.pl and @dfg.de - reach out! #3Dgenome #cancer #pancreas

Michal Gdula@michal-gdula.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re recruiting! Three-year, fully funded #postdoc opportunity: pancreatic cancer #epigenetics & potential new treatments (funded by @ncn.gov.pl & @dfg.de ). Collaboration with @akispapantonis.bsky.social, University of Göttingen (OPUS-LAP). See the ad & contact me! drive.google.com/file/d/1vrFd...