We’re excited to share researchers from WEHI and global biopharmaceutical company MSD have been named finalists in the 2026 Eureka Prizes for their teamwork that has led to a new class of antimalarial treatment candidates 👏👏 Read the story: www.wehi.edu.au/news/from-la...

Very happy with this ERC Proof of Concept grant 😁. We get to test our new DENV prefusion stabilized E-dimers as immunogens. www.uu.nl/en/news/thre...

The CNRS has opened a Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) call in Parasitology, and the Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité (MFP, Bordeaux) laboratory is among the potential host institutions. More information: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... #Parasitology #Protozoology #ResearchJobs #CNRS

Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ) 2026 – CNRS Biology

CNRS Biology is recruiting researchers through its Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) program, subject to final approval by the French Ministry of Higher Ed

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Nanobodies against malaria parasite adhesins that block receptor engagement and invasion Lovely work by @jaisondsa.bsky.social and Jill Chmielewski on PfRh5, PfRh4 & PvRBP2b nanobodies + stabilized PfRh4 🦙🩸⛰️ Have a read, share widely and please give us feedback! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A year before he passed away, I interviewed Dr Paul Farmer @pih.org about his book on Ebola So relevant right now, especially the dangers of “control-over-care approach” - i.e. isolation & quarantine, but fails to ensure adequate clinical care to the sick www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Ebola, Covid-19 And The Elusive Quest For Global Health Equity

Published during this pandemic, Paul Farmer’s new book, “Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds,” is important, as it presents a critical dissection of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the lessons we can l...

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We’re excited to welcome Lina Pinto-García @linapintogarcia.bsky.social as our special guest speaker to discuss her recent book, Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia. Time: Thursday 28.05.2026 , 3 PM BST Location: Zoom (Link available after registration) forms.gle/cVADyb6F5Dmh...

Registration has been reopened to fill the last few remaining spots! Last chance to join us in Leiden this June!

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Explore #immunology, #virology, #microbiology and more at EMBO Workshop "Pathogen Immunity and Signalling" in Leiden, NL, 8–11 June 2026. Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 1 February/15 March https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-pathogen-immunity #EMBOpathogenSignalling #EMBOevents 🧪

Eli Lilly said on Monday it would buy privately held blood cancer treatment developer Ajax Therapeutics for up to $2.3 billion in cash.

Eli Lilly to buy Ajax Therapeutics for up to $2.3 billion

Eli Lilly said on Monday ‌it would buy privately held blood cancer treatment developer Ajax Therapeutics for up to $2.3 ​billion in cash.

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“Women today make up nearly a third of the global research workforce. But workforce representation does not automatically translate into senior or leadership positions” theconversation.com/women-in-sci...

Women in science – global study finds presence without power

Women make up one in three researchers worldwide, but they remain sidelined in scientific organisations.

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How does HPAI affect different animals? Here airway organoids from ten diverse wildlife + livestock. host-specific differences in infection rate + patho. Useful for receptor-binding, viral dynamics, early host adaptation in poorly characterized animals 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Glycogen is ubiquitinated in vivo! And there is a clever method to detect it. It had been a privilege seeing this story come together by my colleagues in the @komanderlab.bsky.social. This will no doubt have important implications for metabolism.

Marco Jochem@marcojochem.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interested in non-proteinaceous ubiquitination, induced proximity or glycogen? Then you should have a look at our newest article, “Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues”, just published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in non-proteinaceous ubiquitination, induced proximity or glycogen? Then you should have a look at our newest article, “Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues”, just published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling all xray structure folks that have worked with denovo proteins. Do you suffer from high rfactors? Myself, someone else I know and now multiple structures all seem to suffer from this. Assuming we all tried our best in model building, what could be some causes?

A huge congratulations to César de la Fuente who receives the Biochemical Society Award for Significant Breakthrough or Achievement for his pioneering research into AI-driven antibiotic discovery! With AMR an increasing threat, Cesar's work paves the way for new treatments.

Congratulations to Tom Deegan who receives the Colworth Medal in 2027! Pioneering work from the Deegan Lab has redefined our understanding of eukaryotic DNA replication and provided conceptual and technical frameworks that continue to drive new discoveries across molecular biology.

We open with @sheinerlab.bsky.social introducing a scientist who needs no introduction - Dominique Soldati-Favre. Dominique was awarded lifetime membership to the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for her immeasurable contributions to the field. #bsp #parasites #peoplemakeglasgow

We identified the maltoside detergent DM as an effective and easy solution to address preferred orientation in cryo-EM. Helped me switch from graphene grids. Special congrats to Maria Rafiq! @landerlab.bsky.social @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social @wisemanlab.bsky.social #cryoEM doi.org/10.64898/202...

Host cell remodeling via cyclin dependent kinases drives Ebola virus replication and transcription. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out our latest preprint. Great work by @tshamorkina.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors Danni Snikkers and @hecklab.bsky.social

Wild rice is a perennial, creeping plant. The secret to its perennial growth habit lies in a developmental reversal directed by small RNAs. This image illustrates how combining perennial genes with prostrate growth genes allows cultivated rice to mimic wild rice. Learn more: https://scim.ag/40GOjDb

Very excited that the first publication from my lab is now online! Thanks to @actacrystd.iucr.org editors and reviewers for the smooth publication process. And congratulations to first author, Jiayi Pan, who completed this work in her Master’s year! @biologyanu.bsky.social

Structural Biology@actacrystd.iucr.org · 5mo ago

Jiayi Pan et al.: Molecular structure and nickel-binding capacity of Proteus mirabilis UreE #Metalloproteins #NickelChaperones #ProteusMirabilis @ANUmedia...#IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798326001907

"bioRxiv is exactly the type of living experiment we all should be striving for, to achieve our shared goals of optimizing how research evidence is shared and used.” via @chrisnsimms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers

Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.

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Structures of Marburgvirus glycoprotein and its complex with NPC1 receptor doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Structures of Marburgvirus glycoprotein and its complex with NPC1 receptor - Nature

Marburgvirus glycoprotein binds to the endosomal receptor NPC1 in a distinct orientation with higher affinity compared with Ebola virus glycoprotein, accompanied by fusion-relevant rearrangements...

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These HTA proteases from archaea work great for mass spec-based antibody sequencing. Paper out now in final form at Cell Systems. Congrats to @tshamorkina.bsky.social @tkadava.bsky.social @lperezpaneda.bsky.social and @hecklab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to @jaisondsa.bsky.social who was awarded the JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator award from @asbmb.bsky.social 🎉 Awarded for Jaison’s PhD work on stabilized PvRBP2b variants using computational design for a better P. Vivax serological biomarker @wehi-research.bsky.social

Health and medical research is the only hope for so many health conditions, yet is chronically underfunded. Amazingly, a big part of the solution already exists. The money is literally in the bank, earmarked for health & medical research. It just has to be released. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Up to $1.4 billion in medical research remains unused under government cap

Researchers say securing funding has become increasingly tough, with many left with no choice but to spend a disproportionate amount of time applying for grants.

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IWD: somehow her name is less familiar, and yet, she actually received the Nobel: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Dorothy Hodgkin - Wikipedia

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Happy International Women’s Day #IWD2026 🤩🎉 To celebrate the day we present the first WiM sketch of the year, featuring Dr Katharine Collins, the co-inventor of the R21 malaria vaccine 👩🏻‍🔬💉

Introducing our new blood-stage malaria vaccine immunogen based on the essential invasion protein PfCyRPA. By understanding where on PfCyRPA the best antibodies bind, we used structure guided design to generate PfCyRPA-EM, which contains only the epitopes of the best antibodies.

In new study led by Brendan Larsen, we map functional constraint across the Nipah virus F protein to define constrained epitopes for antibody targeting and identify mutations that stabilize the prefusion conformation for vaccine immunogens. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Functional and antigenic constraints on the Nipah virus fusion protein | PNAS

Nipah virus is a highly pathogenic virus in the family Paramyxoviridae that utilizes two distinct surface glycoproteins to infect cells. The recept...

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We're hiring - looking for folks with experience designing and training foundation models from scratch, particularly biomolecular language models, GNNs, or vision models. Lots of room for creativity in this role. Contact me if you have any interest

Research Senior Scientist AI/ML Foundational Models at Takeda Pharmaceutical

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