Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden
@lipid.bsky.social
Membrane lipids in health and disease, Structure Bio, Cell signaling, Cellular Metabolism
Otto Hahn Medal for three @mpi-cbg.de researchers: Kristin Böhlig in the group of André Nadler, Alison Kickuth in the group of Jan Brugués @poldresden.bsky.social, Giulio Zucal, from MPI-MiS in Leipzig and now mentored by Türkü Özlüm Çelik and @grill-lab.bsky.social. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Love it! Thanks Fabio👍👍
Fabio Lolicato@fabiololicato.com · 2mo agoAs part of @sfb1638.bsky.social in 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, we are committed to developing computational tools that make complex membrane simulations more accessible, reproducible, and scalable for the scientific community. Today, we are happy to share the public release of 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 v1.2.1
The ZMBH welcomes Dr. James Sáenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social as new Professor in Molecular Biology. James previously led a research group at B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering of Dresden University of Technology.
Dear Lipid and Membrane Enthusiasts, There is only one month!! left to register and submit your abstracts for the @embo.org Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, which will be held from September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, Germany. Workshop program and registration page: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
Lipid Code to Life
Modern lipid biology has evolved far beyond the traditional view of lipids as simple building blocks or energy substrates. Lipids are now recognised as dynamic regulators of biological structures and…
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For EMBO Young Investigator Erdinc Sezgin, being part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is a chance to connect with top scientists and build an international “#research ecosystem” to advance #biophysics in medicine. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/people/bridging-disciplines/ #LifeSciences #networking
"James' brain seemed to have had a little short-circuit when I asked him what kind of scientist he is." YES that our beloved #lipidlove @jamessaenz.bsky.social . Great interview and even better a fun old picture of him. I have a lot more, just in case 😂
Elise Cutts@elisecutts.bsky.social · 6mo agoLipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪
Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪
The origin of life wasn't fat-free
James Sáenz studies how fatty molecules might have helped life get started
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Just came again across the beautiful vesicle preparation and electron microscopy paper by J. L. Rubenstein and colleagues. It's amazing how easy and effective a good protocol can be! @jcb.org will always be a fantastic journal. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#chembio and #bioorganic crowd: Registration to ESBOC is open. Join us on 27th-29th May for the oldest meeting in chemical biology in Europe, at the awesome Schlosshotel Pillnitz in Dresden! Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!
European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry (ESBOC) 2026
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Ben Schumann@drglycoben.bsky.social · 7mo ago#chembio and #bioorganic crowd. Mark your calendars for ESBOC 2026, registration opens soon! www.esboc.org.uk ⏱️ 27th-30th May 2026 🏰 The beautiful Schlosshotel Pillnitz GmbH in Dresden/Germany
Dear Drosophila aficionados, such as fly god like@giorgio.gilest.ro and friends, I need your help. Is there any software tool (MacOs) that can quantify and track in a movie how many flies are on or at the red dot in the middle of each well, and how long they spend there? I am asking for a friend :)
A new paper by @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social reports photoswitchable ligands with wavelength-dependent, and concentration-independent, control of TRPC4/5 channels in live tissues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ideal efficacy photoswitching for chromocontrol of TRPC4/5 channel functions in live tissues - Nature Chemical Biology
Using chemical photoswitchable reagents to exert purely wavelength-dependent control over biological systems in deep tissue and in vivo requires a concentration-independent design paradigm. Here, such...
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Out now in @natchembio.nature.com: Xylosyltransferase engineering to manipulate proteoglycans in mammalian cells 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... check out the press release below! #glycotime
Xylosyltransferase engineering to manipulate proteoglycans in mammalian cells - Nature Chemical Biology
The xylosyltransferase isoenzymes XT1 and XT2 catalyze the first glycosylation step in the biosynthesis of proteoglycans. Now, bump-and-hole engineering of XT1 and XT2 enables substrate profiling and ...
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The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 7mo agoResearchers at the Crick, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @tudresden.bsky.social have worked out a method to track and analyse complex molecules that sense external messages crucial for cell growth and behaviour. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
We are online! Apply, repost, inform all your amazing colleagues and lets have a great #lipidlove time in Dresden meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
The lipid code to life
Modern lipid biology has evolved far beyond the traditional view of lipids as simple building blocks or energy substrates. Lipids are now recognised as dynamic regulators of biological structures and…
meetings.embo.org
Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden@lipid.bsky.social · 8mo agoUps we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove
Join us for the 2026 Glycolipid & Sphingolipid Biology Gordon Research Conference (GRC). 📍 Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco (Italy) 🗓️ March 22 - 27, 2026 Theme: "Molecular Codes of Cell Identity and Recognition" #LipidResearch #Sphingolipids #GRC2026 #ScienceConference #Lipidtime
Badabing Badaboooom from @merihuchlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and friends. This WILL change everything, not only for liver diseases. WOW!
Meri Huch Lab@merihuchlab.bsky.social · 8mo agoNice Xmas gift from and for the lab 🎁 🎄
Nice Xmas gift from and for the lab 🎁 🎄
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics@mpi-cbg.de · 8mo agoResearchers from @merihuchlab.bsky.social, together with colleagues from @labshevchenko.bsky.social and clinicians from Dresden and Leipzig developed a patient-specific human periportal liver assembloid. Publication in @nature.com. Full news: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove
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 agoRegistration 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
Ig NOBEL PRIZE for Dresden Scientists! What a brilliant example of science transfer. 🥳🎉🥳🍾 pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...
Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce
“Pasta alla Cacio e pepe” is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect
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This is just terrific, amazing biochemistry ever since. Kind of funny that the 1994 first author paper of Dirk Görlich included Ronald Alfred LASKEy 🤩 so after the Lasker the ALFRED N? All fingers crossed here in Dresden.
MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences@mpi-nat.bsky.social · 11mo agoDirk Görlich receives the prestigious #LaskerAward 2025! Congratulations!🍾 @laskerfdn.bsky.social honors him and Steven McKnight for discoveries exposing the structures and functions of protein sequences of low complexity. Read all about Görlich's research here 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5111108/pr_2...
Dirk Görlich receives the prestigious #LaskerAward 2025! Congratulations!🍾 @laskerfdn.bsky.social honors him and Steven McKnight for discoveries exposing the structures and functions of protein sequences of low complexity. Read all about Görlich's research here 👉 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5111108/pr_2...
Go for it! Ben is amazing 🔥
Ben Schumann@drglycoben.bsky.social · last yr.🔥 Job alert! We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate in the new Chemical Glycobiology Lab at @tudresden.bsky.social! Master in Chem or similar, experience in organic chem including chemoenzymatic, and most importantly: enthusiasm! Deadline 8th July: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity
Just got this very sad email from my ZML co-workers: Goodbye dear friend. After 12 years of relentless work our dear TLC companion made his last breath :(
Kedrov Lab @ HHU@kedrov-lab.bsky.social · last yr.Very special feelings to announce this one... A project that started like 10 years ago is reaching the finish line, ready to shine. In a dream-team with @beckmannlab.bsky.social we solved the long-chased structure of the active membrane protein insertase SecYEG-YidC www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work by @kedrov-lab.bsky.social of Uni Düsseldorf and friends! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Substrate-induced assembly and functional mechanism of the bacterial membrane protein insertase SecYEG-YidC
The universally conserved Sec translocon and the YidC/Oxa1-type insertases mediate biogenesis of α-helical membrane proteins, but the molecular basis of their cooperation has remained disputed over de...
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