Feeling truly honored to receive the Otto Hahn Medal from the @maxplanck.de ! Huge thanks to my mentor @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social for his continuous guidance and support over the years. It has been a pleasure working with you.

Gina Simon, Doris Hellerschmied @hellerschmiedlab.bsky.social and colleagues @unidue-zmb.bsky.social dissect stress-induced proteome remodelling at the Golgi–endosome interface. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

And Zoë from our lab defended her PhD! 🎉 She’s been uncovering microtubule organization and mitotic spindle assembly using a little pet she created: the spider kinesin 🕷️ What, you’ve never heard of it? Stay tuned for what’s coming next! Congratulations Zoë!!! 👏🎓

Big thanks to Iva Tolić‬ @ivatolic.bsky.social and Nenad Pavin for once again organizing such a fantastic conference with inspiring science and great discussions in beautiful Croatia. #SpindleCroatia2026

Iva Tolić@ivatolic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Verena Cmentowski @vcmentowski.bsky.social explored the mechanism that triggers dynein activation at kinetochores. CENP‑E facilitates the recruitment of dynein-dynactin and cofactors to kinetochores and regulates dynein motility. #SpindleCroatia2026

Excellent talk by our @unidue-zmb.bsky.social colleague Pinki Galhot from @hemmo-lab.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social 👏 #MK2026 @gbmev.bsky.social

The 2026 Otto Warburg Medal winner Maya Schuldiner received the medal from @volkerhaucke-lab.bsky.social after a moving laudatio by Christian Ungermann Thanks to @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for the continuous support!

Big congrats to our SFB alumna @vcmentowski.bsky.social on receiving the Bayer Pharmaceuticals PhD Award! Her work (previously also conducted in @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social's lab) reveals how CENP-E orchestrates kinetochore corona assembly and links it to mitotic checkpoint signaling. 🎉

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 5mo 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

Congratulations @vcmentowski.bsky.social! Well-deserved award for an excellent PhD work performed in the @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social lab. @imprs-lm.bsky.social @crc1430.bsky.social

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 5mo 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

Honored to receive the Bayer Pharmaceuticals PhD Award of the @gbmev.bsky.social at this year’s Mosbach Symposium an inspiring meeting with great science and discussions. Very grateful to my PhD supervisor @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social for his excellent mentorship and support throughout the journey.

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 5mo 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

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...

nature.com

Excited to share our new paper! 🎉 The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Very thankful to @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social for his mentorship and support over the years.

The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona

The kinetochore fibrous corona docks on CENP-E and a second elusive receptor identified as the checkpoint protein BUB1.

science.org

Very happy to see our contribution to a better understanding of Hsp70/90 #chaperones online! Congrats and a big thank you to all co-authors, collaborators and reviewers! #proteostasis @poepsel-lab.bsky.social @crc1430.bsky.social @unidue-zmb.bsky.social

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology@natsmb.nature.com · last yr.

New online: Conformational plasticity of a BiP–GRP94 chaperone complex

Join us from Sept 22-25, 2025, to hear from: @marstonlab.bsky.social Anna Akhmanova @annestraube.bsky.social @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social Christopher Campbell @renemedema.bsky.social @mcclellandlab.bsky.social

Last chance to register for the 3rd DivIDE conference in sunny Barcelona @crg.eu! 🚨With 20+ selected talks and travel grants for three outstanding junior scientists a great opportunity for young researchers! 🔗 Learn more & register: www.divide-conference.com 📅 Registration Deadline: July 13, 2025

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

M18BP1 valency and a distributed interaction footprint determine epigenetic centromere specification in humans

Deposition of CENP-A, the histone H3 variant considered an epigenetic landmark of centromeres, reflects cell-cycle-regulated assembly of M18BP1, HJURP, and PLK1 on a divalent MIS18α/β scaffold. The lo...

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🚀 Registration is officially OPEN! 🚀 Join us for the 3rd DivIDE Conference from 22–25 September 2025 in sunny Barcelona ☀️. An inspiring line-up of speakers awaits — reserve your spot and help spread the word! Follow the link for early bird registration: forms.creacongresos.com/DivIDE/

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DivIDE conference@divide-conference.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Registration is officially OPEN! 🚀 Join us for the 3rd DivIDE Conference from 22–25 September 2025 in sunny Barcelona ☀️. An inspiring line-up of speakers awaits — reserve your spot and help spread the word! Follow the link for early bird registration: forms.creacongresos.com/DivIDE/

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DivIDE conference@divide-conference.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Registration is officially OPEN! 🚀 Join us for the 3rd DivIDE Conference from 22–25 September 2025 in sunny Barcelona ☀️. An inspiring line-up of speakers awaits — reserve your spot and help spread the word! Follow the link for early bird registration: forms.creacongresos.com/DivIDE/

We are delighted to announce that the 3rd DivIDE Conference will take place from 22–25 September 2025 with a fantastic lineup of speakers. Registration opens soon - stay tuned and help us spread the word! We are looking forward to meet many of you in Barcelona! ☀️

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