Friedrich Förster

33 million euro investment for national electron microscope facility EMPower A major new national facility for electron microscopy, called EMPower, has been awarded to a consortium of Dutch universities and medical centers. EMPower aims to pave the way for major discoveries im...

Very happy that NWO supports this major upgrade of our national EM infrastructure. It is great that this initiative got broad support all over NL, and it will EMPower fantastic science - looking forward to that!
www.uu.nl/en/news/33-m...

Congratulations Marten! We hope this new version of pytom will be useful to many cryo-ET enthusiasts.

Exciting Bijvoet Seminar by Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam from @tudelft.bsky.social on the engineering of bioinspired and living materials!

wonderful work. Congratulations!

Structural mechanisms for centrosomal recruitment and organization of the microtubule nucleator γ-TuRC - Nature Communications The γ-TuRC plays a central role for nucleation of microtubules at the centrosome. Here, the authors dissect structural mechanisms for centrosomal recruitment and regulation of the γ-TuRC and identify ...

Online today at @naturecomms.bsky.social and a great opportunity for our first post @bsky.app: in a major team effort, we reveal the structural mechanisms for centrosomal recruitment and organization of the human microtubule nucleator γ-TuRC: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structure of an oxygen-induced tubular nanocompartment in Pyrococcus furiosus Reactive oxygen species (ROS) pose a significant threat to biological molecules, prompting organisms to develop systems that buffer oxidative stress and contain iron, which otherwise amplifies ROS pro...

And now to something completely different: the response of an anaerobic archaeon to oxidative stress. Tubular nanocompartments encapsulate virus-like particles! Great work by Wenfei Song and many colleagues from @bijvoet-centre.bsky.social and @mib-wur.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Center for Molecular Medicine

Center for Molecular Medicine at UMC Utrecht is looking for a Principal Investigator in the field of fundamental Cancer Biology! The vacancy states tenure track level, but also candidates with a more advanced career are very welcome to apply.
www.werkenbijumcutrecht.nl/vacatures/we...

I guess I should have posted a bit earlier, but I'm very excited that my #MSCA application got accepted! I'll be working at @fridof.bsky.social lab @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to develop my #teamtomo skills on my project: Protein ER-ways! Here's to gaining new insights on ER protein biogenesis!

Structural diversity of axonemes across mammalian motile cilia - Nature Cryoelectron microscopy, cryoelectron tomography and proteomics are used to resolve the 96-nm modular repeat of axonemal doublet microtubules from both sperm flagella and epithelial cilia of the ovidu...

In one of our first publications in 2025, with colleagues from St. Louis, Leiden and Boston, we shed light on the molecular mechanisms of motile cilia, structures used by cells to propel themselves through fluid or to move fluid across their surfaces. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Exploring the molecular composition of the multipass translocon in its native membrane environment bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

My new life in blue starts with sharing a preprint of amazing Max Gemmer’s ex vivo analysis that sheds light on the machinery responsible for inserting many multispanning transmembrane proteins into the ER membrane #teamtomo: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...