🌱 Small Changes, Big Impact! 🌱 At yesterday’s Sustainability Lunch Talk of the @unicologne.bsky.social, CRC1218 PI and Sustainability Board member @valentinapiano.bsky.social shared insights into sustainable research practices, highlighting implemented measures, opportunities, and challenges.

Congrats @vcmentowski.bsky.social! Great work within @crc1430.bsky.social and well deserved!

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Bayer Pharmaceuticals #PhDAward of the #GBM is presented to Verena Cmentowski for her PhD thesis on the „Assembly principles of the kinetochore corona and their relevance for mitotic checkpoint signaling“. Congratulations, Verena! #MK2026

This is the last week to apply!

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Starting your own lab is exciting—but challenging. Join our GBM Young Investigator leadership workshop in Regensburg, April 13–16th, 2026. Professional coaching, peer networking & practical tips for new PIs. Apply by Nov 30, 2025. 👉 gbm-online.de/de/young-inv... Pls repost!

Kudos to our #CellularOrganelles enthusiasts that organised the 2nd meeting of the study group!@kondadilab.bsky.social

Kondadi Lab@kondadilab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It was wonderful to organize the @gbmev.bsky.social Cellular Organelles meeting in Düsseldorf along with Andreas Reichert at University of Düsseldorf. Leading Organelles biologists from Germany attended the 2025 meeting. Thanks to the constant support from Konstanze Winklhofer and Johannes Hermann

We’re thrilled to announce this workshop! 🌟 Are you a junior PI in the process of building your lab? Join us in Regensburg for an inspiring workshop where we’ll exchange ideas and strategies on how to develop a motivated and harmonious team. 👉 Check it out! There are sponsored spots available!

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Starting your own lab is exciting—but challenging. Join our GBM Young Investigator leadership workshop in Regensburg, April 13–16th, 2026. Professional coaching, peer networking & practical tips for new PIs. Apply by Nov 30, 2025. 👉 gbm-online.de/de/young-inv... Pls repost!

👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab! 👉 deadline 20/06 👇 check it out www.godinholab.com

Super excited to share my latest review! In this piece, I dive into how cells cleverly reuse proteins for mitosis-specific tasks — a fascinating and still underexplored area. There’s so much more to uncover, and I hope this review sparks new ideas and discussions! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Multitasking Proteins: Exploring Noncanonical Functions of Proteins during Mitosis

This review provides a comprehensive overview of how mitotic cells drive the repurposing of proteins to fulfill mitosis-specific functions. To ensure the successful completion of cell division, the cell strategically reallocates its “workforce” by assigning additional functions to available proteins. Protein repurposing occurs at multiple levels of cellular organization and involves diverse mechanisms. At the protein level, proteins may gain mitosis-specific functions through post-translational modifications. At the structural level, proteins that typically maintain cellular architecture in interphase are co-opted to participate in mitotic spindle formation, chromosome condensation, and kinetochore assembly. Furthermore, the dynamic reorganization of the nuclear envelope and other organelles relies on the temporary reassignment of enzymes, structural proteins, and motor proteins to facilitate these changes. These adaptive mechanisms underscore the remarkable versatility of the cellular proteome in responding to the stringent requirements of mitosis. By leveraging the existing proteome for dual or multiple specialized roles, cells optimize resource usage while maintaining the precision needed to preserve genomic integrity and ensure the survival of the next generation of cells.

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A new study from the @riemerlab.bsky.social and the bange lab. We found a new mode how specific degradation motifs become unmasked by DPP8/9. Really nice work by Kim, Konstantin and Franziska. As usual accompanied by a special graphical abstract. doi.org/10.1038/s443...

It is very hard to leave after such a great @embo.org meeting in such a great place! It was fantastic to meet many colleagues and friends and discuss exciting science! I am already looking forward to the next #chromoploidy meeting!

Bye Mosbach! I really enjoyed the last days of full immersion in protein prediction and design during the #MosbacherKolloquium76. I met great colleagues and had inspiring discussions. Thanks to the GBM for the great organisation and see you next year!

Food for thoughts before German elections: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

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Open positions for postdocs and engineers in biochemistry & neuroscience funded by ERC & DFG (www.leibniz-fmp.de/haucke; Rizalar et al (2023) Science; Lo et al (2022) Nat Struct Mol Biol). Apply before 1 April to haucke@fmp-berlin.de or short.sg/j/52345086; short.sg/j/53217124; short.sg/a/53216739

ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Positions in Molecular Neuroscience/Biochemistry in Berlin bei Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie

Wir suchen: ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Positions in Molecular Neuroscience/Biochemistry in Berlin (Vollzeit) • Berlin, Deutschland

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It was great to host you in Cologne and hear about the cool science happening in your lab 🧫 See you soon!

Hellerschmied Lab@hellerschmiedlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Had a great time in Cologne talking science with @trentini-lab.bsky.social @ulrichlab.bsky.social @riemerlab.bsky.social @marius-lemberg.bsky.social and many more! Thank you for the warm welcome! And for the invitation @valentinapiano.bsky.social

1) We have an exciting job opportunity in correlative bioimaging at B24 at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social applying cryo soft x-ray microscopy (cryoSXT) and super-resolution 3D structured illumination fluorescence Microscopy (CryoSIM)

Hi all, our lab will soon recruit a PhD student working within a very exciting MSCA Horizon Doctoral network working on ageing, UNION, which gathers some fantastic scientists. Please apply if your profile fits our project (see attached advert). Looking forward to working with you!

Happy new year 🎊 For the first time on this platform, I am happy to share the latest collections of papers @biomednews.bsky.social about mitotic cell signalling! Enjoy reading new cool methods and exciting findings about my favourite phase of the cell cycle! #mitosis #cellcycle #genomeinstability

❄️Happy holidays from the Piano lab and friends ❄️ 🎄2024 was a rollercoaster, but now we are looking forward to a 2025 of exciting science! 🎄

I have received a Wellcome Discovery Award to study the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication, with 8 years of funding at the Francis Crick Institute. Looking for a postdoc in molecular mechanisms, cryo-EM, cryo-FIB and in situ structure? Contact me now! 3 postdoc positions advertised soon.

Hi Everyone! I would like to introduce this amazing team of young scientists 🔥 we are in the university of Cologne and we have fun looking at how mitochondria move in dividing cells. We are in love with protein structures and how structures and interactions change upon PTMs! Happy to chat!