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Irene Beusch

@pauletteoctopus

junior group leader at University of WΓΌrzburg || RNA biologist with a πŸ–€ for splicing || science & 🎨, #firstgen www.beuschlab.org

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🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg)
Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached
πŸ“… Apply by March 30, 2026
πŸ“© stefan.grob@cnrs.fr
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

09.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Postdoc positions in Nuclear RNA Biology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus University

Postdoc positions available in my lab in Aarhus, Denmark on 'Mammalian Nuclear RNA Production and Turnover Systems'. Please get in touch for further information or simply apply here:
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

06.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Contact/Job - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - UNIGE

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....

Thanks for reposting!

03.03.2026 09:42 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

We are excited to share our new preprint: iCLIP3 β€” an improved protocol for transcriptome-wide mapping of protein–RNA interactions at single-nucleotide resolution.

04.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Exciting news:
Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow!

We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network.

Details & application πŸ‘‡

04.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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RNA Splicing Lab - JOIN US Are you interested in investigating basic mechanisms in splicing regulation and gene expression? Our research group was launched in September 2024 and is hosted at the Institute of Molecular Infection...

We have an open position for a #PhD student (last week to apply!) & a lab technician/TA. For more information see: www.beuschlab.org/join-us
Interested in understanding post-transcriptional regulation and how #RNA #splicing decisions are made? Then take a look or share with people who might be! πŸ§ͺ🧫

02.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Postdoctoral Researcher (ERC-funded project)

Our Lab is searching a postdoc for an exciting ERC-funded project that will start this summer. Apply if you’re passionate about multi-omics, cutting-edge computational approaches, and exploring biological questions across the animal πŸͺΌ πŸͺ± 🐞 🦎 πŸ¦‹ πŸ•·οΈ tree of life www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

02.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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23.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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PhD Position in Machine Learning for Single-Cell Genomics (f/m/x)

I am currently recruiting PhD students, both computational and experimental jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/qb2hm and jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/ut89o
Feel free to contact directly or share with anyone interested.

23.02.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to announce that I’ve just opened my research lab at @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.

06.02.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Do you want to understand how RNA #splicing decisions are made? Weβ€˜ve got a PhD position open for you (see πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡)!!
Please share #RNAsky and RT!

tinyurl.com/4ztu9cb9

11.02.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

mRNA is a key polymer of life. While its sequence is linear, its function requires its 3D organization. Yet what does a mRNA look like in 3D? In collaboration with the fbzt.bsky.social, we developed a method to visualize mRNA in 3D and at the nanoscale inside human cells. tinyurl.com/r858t6ff 1/3

06.02.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Webinar Graphic for Empowering New Transcriptomic Discoveries with Better Tools and Methods for RNA-Seq hosted on February 19, 2026, at 10 AM ET. Register Today.

Webinar Graphic for Empowering New Transcriptomic Discoveries with Better Tools and Methods for RNA-Seq hosted on February 19, 2026, at 10 AM ET. Register Today.

Methods and tools for RNA-seq are advancing rapidly. Are you aware of the drawbacks of historical methods and how you can improve resolution, reduce bias, and elevate confidence in your results?

Learn more as our speakers share data and discuss the latest methods for #RNAseq.

bit.ly/4rm6adZ

29.01.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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@iubmb.bsky.social event on careers outside academia:
Dr Freskida Goni, Founder (Venture Capital and Consultancy)
Dr Daniele Mazzoletti, Scientific Project Manager (IXTAL Srl - Protein Intelligence)
Juliana Spahr, Science Illustrator
πŸ“…22/01/26 ⌚5 PM (CET)
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

13.01.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Uropathogenic Escherichia coli invade luminal prostate cells via FimH–PPAP receptor binding - Nature Microbiology Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection of a murine prostate organoid model reveals a bacterial FimH–host prostatic acid phosphatase adhesin-receptor interaction enabling invasion and replication wit...

Our first paper is out today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!

We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. πŸŽ‰

#UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR

08.01.2026 11:12 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

New work from the Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis lab!

06.01.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

29.12.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

Excited for this work by Michael Cortazar, an @JagannathanLab Postdoc, to be out as a preprint.

So much hard work went into it, but it was well worth it πŸ€“

25.12.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intramacrophage RIL-seq uncovers an RNA antagonist of the Salmonella virulence-associated small RNA PinT Abstract. Salmonella virulence chiefly relies upon two major pathogenicity islands, SPI-1 and SPI-2, which enable host cell invasion and intracellular surv

RIL-seq boosts the study of sRNAs. Here comes its first application to intracellular bacteria. Plus, 10 years after its characterization, we now present an RNA sponge of Salmonella PinT.
Congrats to @kooshapour.bsky.social & great collaboration w/ @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

27.12.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Genomic stop codon scanning reveals quantitative principles of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) degrades transcripts containing premature termination codons (PTCs), critically shaping the disease outcomes of protein-truncating variants. While existing NMD rules...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

23.12.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Summer internships

Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!

17.12.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5
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Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.

19.12.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Franziska Faber and I are recruiting shared postdocs, PhD students to work on Fusobacterium & new BGCs. www.helmholtz-hiri.de/fileadmin/HI...

12.12.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Group Leader (f/m/d) at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging - WΓΌrzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with University of WΓΌrzburg - Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative a... The Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging (RVZ) ist now inviting applications for the position of Group Leader (f/m/d).

We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in WΓΌrzburg, Germany.

Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please spread the word.

21.11.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Job offer for a PhD student position at the Chair of Microbiology

πŸ”Š Interested in doing a PhD on RNA-binding proteins in an abundant microbiota species and becoming a member of the German Priority Programme β€œIlluminating Gene Functions in the Human Gut Microbiome”? Apply here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

01.12.2025 09:20 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the β€šwoman in CryoEMβ€˜ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

18.11.2025 10:18 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

07.11.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 289 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 12

It was a pleasure to have you here in WΓΌrzburg and to hear what 5p-seq can all do & show!

05.11.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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KATMAP infers splicing factor activity and regulatory targets from knockdown data - Nature Biotechnology A biophysical model uses knockdown or overexpression data to infer splicing factor activity.

KATMAP infers splicing factor activity and regulatory targets from knockdown data - @daspliceisright.bsky.social go.nature.com/47ycrMJ

04.11.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Excited to share my first PhD student’s @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!

Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules!

Check it out!

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

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