Pablo Alcón

@palconh.bsky.social

Scientist. Molecular and structural biology of DNA repair 🧬 Aarhus University 🇩🇰🇪🇺 From Extremadura, Spain 🌍 https://sites.google.com/view/alconlab/home

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

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Join us! Postdoc position (2-3 years) in our lab @molbiolau.bsky.social Looking for candidates with experience in cell culture, genome editing, biochemistry, and/or structural biology. Application opens in August via AU's system but informal enquiries by email are welcome from now. (1/2)

🧬 Charlotte (Lotte) Auerbach, born on this day in 1899, was the 1st scientist to prove that chemicals could cause genetic mutations in living organisms. After fleeing Nazi Germany to Edinburgh, her work with fruit flies 🪰 & mustard gas ☢️ transformed modern genetics & cancer research. #WomenInSTEM

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Interested in molecular motors? Don’t miss this wonderful symposium in Salamanca on "The Structure and Workings of Molecular Machines" with an outstanding lineup of speakers. 📍 Salamanca, Spain 📅 Monday, June 22, 2026 🎟️ Attendance is free, but registration is required 👇👇👇

Poster for “The Structure and Workings of Molecular Machines” international symposium, taking place Monday, June 22, 2026, at the Centro Internacional del Español, CIE-USAL, in Salamanca, Spain. The poster shows a colorful molecular-structure background and lists invited speakers Carlos Bustamante, Adam Frost, Taekjip Ha, Fernando Moreno, Eva Nogales, Félix Ritort, José M. Valpuesta, and Elizabeth Villa. It includes a QR code for the full program and registration and notes that attendance is free but registration is required.

Paper alert 📣 Our group has just published a new review in Biochemical Society Transactions on emerging functions of STIM1, expanding its role beyond its classical function as an ER Ca2+ sensor. We discuss new insights into its involvement in key cellular processes portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

Unraveling new functions of the Ca2+ sensor STIM1 in cell signaling

Abstract. Calcium (Ca2+) signaling is a fundamental regulator of virtually all aspects of eukaryotic cell physiology, including gene expression, secretion, metabolism, motility, and cell fate decision...

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Wake up, kids We got the dreamers disease. ‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root." Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential. ‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

phd.nat.au.dk