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Solver of GTPases molecular puzzles | Membranes | CRISPR | STED super-res |Accidental immunologist | Academic mother of 2 cheeky monkeys | Assistant prof at FU Berlin. | Head of the Nanoscale Membrane Dynamics Lab

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The application deadline for the 20th FEBS/EMBO Spetses meeting is extended to the 15th March! Please sign up at the link below, or encourage your PhDs and postdocs to come along for what is certain to be a wonderful week!

09.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine is so soft that can be squished into a tiny thing 😍

05.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fun survey: what you cannot do without when you travel for talks/meetings? I always bring my memory foam pillow with me! Particularly within Germany where they have these massive sink in big square pillows! #academictraveltipps

05.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯ΊπŸ₯ΊπŸ₯ΊπŸ₯ΊπŸ₯Ί but also lol and thank you Helge. You have been doing a great job in all fronts

04.03.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry if practicing my talk made you so emotional Helge 😭

03.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

26.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

This is happening tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing all the #membranes enthusiasts on zoom!

25.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please take a week off work to fill out all these forms and test all these possible WB conditions before we give you your money back. Signed #whosellsantibodies

24.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is happening in a few mins! Join us online!

24.02.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is happening tomorrow! Join us online 12 pm CET

23.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING | Membrane Trafficking

As usual all info on how to join the mailing list and zoom link on here felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf... @ishier.bsky.social @felixmendu.bsky.social

23.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#membrane seminars are back this week wirh Manu @deriverylab.bsky.social and Andela Šarić! Join us on Thursday at 5 pm CET spread the word!

23.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Please make sure to attend!

Zoom-ID: ID: 961 7810 6979
Passcode: DGZ_FW

I will present how we captured vesicle fusion in neurons using optogenetics for timed cryo-ET.

23.02.2026 10:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Registration for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Club Exocytose-Endocytose is open until April 15 !
πŸ‘‰ Register here: exoendo.org/en/evenement...
Please share widely!
@gdrimabio.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @embo.org @febsletters.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social

17.02.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You still have 3 days to apply to the postdoc positions available in my lab πŸ˜€
πŸ”¬Come and work with us πŸ”¬

20.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!!!

20.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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CALLING PHDs AND POSTDOCS! Apply for the 20th FEBS/EMBO summer school on Membranes lipids & proteins in organelle biogenesis! Spend a glorious week with leaders in the field on the beautiful island of Spetses in Greece this May. Registration: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl @embo.org @febspress.bsky.social

20.02.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

From the trafficking side Esther Ocket from the MatthÀus lab will talk about her beautiful work on Caveolin function in endosomal trafficking and @janakroll.bsky.social from @mdc-berlin.bsky.social will show some beautiful CLEM of synaptic vesicles 😍 not to be missed!

20.02.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us next Tuesday for the next @dgz.bsky.social workshop on #trafficking and EVs! Spread the word please!

20.02.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

Zotero so far seems much better! I cannot believe I stayed in this toxic relationship so long

18.02.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I broke up with Endnote and it feels liberating! I said β€žit was you, not meβ€œ

18.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hybrid endosomal coats contain different classes of sorting nexins - The EMBO Journal Endosomes are protein sorting stations, where multiple membrane coats form tubulovesicular carriers exporting proteins to the Golgi, the plasma membrane, or endo-lysosomal compartments. Distinct class...

Retromer recruits distinct sorting nexins SNX3 and SNX-BAR into hybrid endosomal coats to allow for flexible cargo sorting
Navin Gopaldass, Andreas Mayer et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

17.02.2026 10:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cells come in many shapes and sizes, with diverse physiological functions. But how do #organelles and their interaction networks remodel during #differentiation of stem cells into different cell types? Here’s what we discovered about neuronal differentiation: 1/13

16.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

New preprint from the lab together with @labvanni.bsky.social. We looked what happens to ER generated free very long chain fatty acids.. VLCFAs are partionig into lipid droplets and are extracted from the hydrophobic core by Fat1.
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

16.02.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
HEALTH + LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE | Interinstitutional Postdocs

@hanhtkvu.bsky.social @embl.org & we are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

16.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Also I live in Berlin so that may be different 🀣 I generally get angry and grumpy reactions to whatever I order/do/say but I know I do not have to take it personally

16.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting. I must say this is something I have not noticed. I thought Germans rather try to sneak out of the conversation 🀣

16.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Michaelβ€˜s lab. Iβ€˜ll be retired before any free edit button is added to a social media platform

16.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

While it may be raining in London I heard it is β˜€οΈ in Michael lab

16.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah I am wondering if it is the Septin scaffold that prevents Clathrin from binding? @stedhammer.bsky.social

16.02.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0