Guðjón Ólafsson
@godjohn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the BioMedical Center, University of Iceland
A fully funded PhD position is now open in my lab at the University of Iceland. We are looking for an ambitious researcher to join us in Reykjavik, Iceland to work on targeted protein degradation. Interested? You are welcome to contact me or check out: 🔗https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/452601
Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14
Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - Nature
Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...
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☕Zhou et al. design protein-based artificial #kinetochore constructs as decoys to prevent premature #chromosomal separation in aged #oocytes. These constructs compete with chromosomal kinetochores, reducing excessive bipolar #microtubule pulling forces. bit.ly/48g0oTa
Designing protein-based artificial kinetochores as decoys to prevent meiotic errors in oocytes - Nature Cell Biology
Zhou et al. design protein-based artificial kinetochore constructs as decoys to prevent premature chromosomal separation in aged oocytes. These constructs compete with chromosomal kinetochores, reduci...
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Bluesky is now the platform of choice for the scientific community. From @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social on @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
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The Truong lab @nyuniversity (Programmable Regenerative Immunity) has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work in Mammalian Synthetic Biology in human iPSCs: apply.interfolio.com/172424 This project uses large-scale human genome "rewriting" to build a Synthetic Thymus.
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Our department is advertising two academic positions. Come join us in beautiful Reykjavík. I can promise a very positive collegial atmosphere! #assistant_professor #physiology #cell_biology #physiology #neuroscience euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/368529
Assistant professor in life sciences at the Faculty of Medicine
Two full time assistant professor positions are open for applications at the Department of Life Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland.
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I´m very thankful for this award! Special thanks to my doctoral and postdoctoral mentors Peter Thorpe @thorpelab.bsky.social, Jef Boeke @jefboeke.bsky.social, and Eiríkur Steingrímsson english.hi.is/news/ui-scie...
UI Science and Innovation Prize awarded for new technology that will accelerate cancer drug development
The ProDiGY project, which is developing new technology that provides a systematic, rapid and cost-effective way to accelerate development of drugs to fight serious diseases such as cancer, has won th...
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It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered! “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres
The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...
biorxiv.org
‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond Earth, leading space scientist says www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
‘It’s human conceit to think we’re alone’: life must extend beyond Earth, leading space scientist says
Exclusive: It is imperative humans expand their understanding of space, argues Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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Is PubMed just down temporarily? I hope so just tried to access from UK. Is it down elsewhere? See below. In meantime go to @europepmc.org and use their resources which includes all current PMC records. Spread the word. #MedLibs
Hey! Any researchers out there that are visiting Iceland this spring (Feb-Jun) and would like to present their work at our weekly seminar series at the BioMedical Center (BMC) at the University of Iceland lifvisindi.hi.is Please let me know!
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Happy to share with you a new paper from Peter Thorpe´s lab, where I did my PhD. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Proteome-wide forced interactions reveal a functional map of cell-cycle phospho-regulation in S. cerevisiae
Dynamic protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation play an essential role in cell cycle progression. Kinases and phosphatases are generally highly conserved across eukaryotes, underlining their ...
tandfonline.com
I gladly bring this meeting to your attention so that you can mark dates in your calendar in case your are interest. Additional information will follow. Please circulate if possible.
