You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?
The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....
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📣 #ECCB2026 proceedings deadline extended to 16 March 13:00 CET
Submit to 1 of our 6️⃣ sessions:
🔹 Genomics
🔹 Transcriptomics & gene regulation
🔹 Proteins & structural biology
🔹 Systems biology
🔹 Environmental bioinformatics
🔹 ELIXIR Communities
👉 More info: eccb2026.org/call-proceedings
This has only possible thanks to the herculean work of Ella Livnah in @london_lab who led the work, and the contributions from our many colleagues at @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social and @biology-unige.bsky.social.
The image illustrates a principle by which homomers can be polymerized by mutations or by multivalent small molecules.
In 2017 we showed that homomers evolve on the edge of supramolecular self-assembly. Here we show how to exploit this vulnerability so that ALL homomers can become bona fide drug-🎯. Delighted that Aim 3 of our @erc.europa.eu finally polymerized! Manuscript: 👉 rdcu.be/e27bT
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
We’re excited to announce the opening of the Geneva Expansion Microscopy Facility (GenExM)!
GenExM is a full-service U-ExM platform (U-ExM, Cryo-ExM, iU-ExM), delivering nanoscale imaging.
Led by Dr. Olivier Mercey, GenExM welcomes academic & industrial collaborations.
👉 www.unige.ch/genexm/
Our Science paper is out!
Huge congratulations to @huabin-zhou.bsky.social, Mike Rosen, and the brilliant @janhuemar.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social and @kieran-russell.bsky.social from our group
News: bit.ly/4avnkAr and bit.ly/3XBGVHS
Great perspective by @vram142.bsky.social +K Zhang
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.
@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
Hot off the press! Our paper, “Global comparative structural analysis of responses to protein phosphorylation”, is now out in Nature Communications!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Molecular Armor: Simple Rules to Keep Proteins (Re)Soluble💧
Check our preview of a cool study on how proteins stay soluble (or not) after desiccation—from the labs of S. Fried, @alexholehouse.bsky.social and @shaharsu.bsky.social in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in #Quantitative #Cell #Biology at the ICB @unibern. Apply until 17 October. Combination of theory/computation and experiments particularly encouraged. Please repost!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch
Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
10/2025 Issue ➡️ www.embopress.org/toc/17444292...
reduced genomes, adaptive mutations under stress, xenobiotics and gut microbiome, DMS analysis, TF effector metabolites
Cover: proteins can agglomerate with limited impact on cell by @elevylab.bsky.social
This month's cover highlights the article Mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins are inert and non-toxic in a cellular system by Emmanuel Levy, Hector Garcia-Seisdedos and colleagues. Yeast cells harboring mutation-induced filaments of folded proteins or “agglomerates”. The filaments appear large and disruptive, but surprisingly, Levin et al. reveal they are largely inert and non-toxic, unlike aggregates of misfolded proteins.
@molsystbiol.org picked a neat cover for this month's issue 🙃 - Great work from Tal Levin, Hector Garcia-Seisdedos, many more colleagues (doi.org/10.1038/s443...) and great matching cover, too!
Nice to see Tal's work featured in biotech news !
www.genengnews.com/topics/biopr...
MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💿 mmseqs.com
And cool to see our work featured in the journal! doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Thanks Rui Sun and Yu Liu ☺️
This work has been a long and exciting journey, taking my lab into yeast proteomics and protein functions. All possible thanks to the great work of Tal Levin, Hector Garcia-Seisdedos and @arseniylobov.bsky.social in particular. Also big thanks to our collaborator Ohad Medalia at ZurichU.
The key experiments and findings of the paper are summarized in this graphical abstract:
Years ago we discovered that missense mutations in homomeric proteins often induces their supramolecular assembly, as in the 📽️👇 - Are such aberrant assemblies of *folded* proteins toxic? Surprisingly, NO. Cells are amazingly robust systems! Paper now online @molsystbiol.org doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Congratulations @elevylab.bsky.social and collaborators for your latest publication in Cell 👏 and welcome to BlueSky 🦋@mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
