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Daniel Hurdiss @danielhurdiss.bsky.social · 20h

Thrilled, and admittedly relieved, to see this major investment in Dutch #cryoEM become reality! 🇳🇱🔬

Honoured to be a co-applicant on this national initiative and very excited for the opportunity to advance our work in cellular structural virology! 🦠

www.uu.nl/en/news/33-m...

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...

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 4d

Looking for an exciting #cryoEM postdoc position? 🤩 This one is highly recommended! 👇

Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 20d

We are looking for motivated #postdocs to join the lab! Biochemistry/microbiology/cryo-EM experience? Excited by #cryo-EM/ET, #chromatin? ❄️🧬🧫
Interdisciplinary projects, top EMBL facilities!
Email CV + short cover letter → [email protected]
Info about the group: www.embl.org/groups/dodon...

Dodonova Group – Organisational principles and 3D architecture of archaeal chromatin

www.embl.org

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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 6d

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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IUCrJ @iucrj.iucr.org · 7d

Lauren Alexandrescu et al.: `Mix-it-up': accessible time-resolved cryo-EM on the millisecond timescale ##ElectronMicroscopy ##CryoEM ##TimeResolvedStudies... ##IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2052252525008838

`Mix-it-up': accessible time-resolved cryo-EM on the millisecond timescale

The development of methods for low-cost time-resolved cryo-EM using an on-grid mixing strategy is described.

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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · 12d

Have you registered to the next EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET? 🧊 Join us in Frankfurt for hands-on training on cryo-techniques and networking with experts!

🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
📍 Frankfurt | 📆 April 12–20, 2026

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Chlanda lab @chlandalab.bsky.social · 11d

Mysteries of trafficking of the vRNP segmented genome and assembly of influenza A virus revealed by in situ cryo-ET!
🔗 rdcu.be/eMmct
We are very excited that our paper is finally out!
🎉 Big congratulations to Moritz Wachsmuth-Melm and to everyone involved.

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 12d

@mpibp.bsky.social’s handsome STEM scan of the day 🤩
Guess the crystal? Hint: S136

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Leiden Early Drug Discovery & Development (LED3) @led3hub.bsky.social · 18d

Are you interested in #StructuralBiology?
Register for the Kroese-Duijsters Symposium 2025 organized by our LED3 colleagues @steffenbruenle.bsky.social and Sebastian Geibel.
A great lineup of speakers including keynotes Ulrich Lorenz and Jörg Standfuss.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/kroese-du...

Kroese-Duijsters Symposium 2025

The Kroese-Duijsters Symposia aim to provide researchers from different fields and different career stages to meet in an informal setting, to stimulate discussions and to start new collaborations. The...

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 18d

Oh! Highly recommended, please consider applying! 👇🏻🤩

Florian Schur @schurlab.bsky.social · 19d

ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis!

Please spread the word!

ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...

Tenure-based Research Staff Scientist Position in Computational Structural Biology

ISTA (www.ista.ac.at) is seeking a highly skilled Staff Scientist in Computational Structural Biology to support and advance the Institute’s structural biology research through the development and imp...

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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 19d

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas

This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 22d

octagon pressure too high

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 28d

If I could ask all #cryoEM samples for one thing, it’d be to *please* behave like 1um TetraSpecks.

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · Oct 5

Only a few days left to apply for the great PhD Programme of @vbcscitraining.bsky.social 👇🏻

Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Oct 5

Our PhD program offers many training activities and courses for your future career. Check out the range of fully-funded PhD positions in our Autumn call before 10 October 2025: www.vbcphd.at

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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · Sep 19

Correlative MS Imaging for cellular identification and analysis of in situ cryo-ET www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676641v1 #cryoem

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Sep 29

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 29

I see at least 4 that I’d swear aren’t apo

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Lars-Anders Carlson @lacarlson.bsky.social · Sep 22

Since it was published at peak holiday season, I'm taking the liberty to re-introduce our recent review article. We hope it will be a useful overview of RNA virus replication strategies, and how in situ cryo-EM have helped us understand them:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Illuminating druggable dark matter in RNA virus replication using in situ cryo-EM

Viral proteins typically exist in the context of complex virions or in the even more complex host cells in which they replicate. Hence, meaningful ins…

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Shyamal @shyamalm.bsky.social · Sep 23

Ever wondered how to position organelles in bacteria? Wonder no more!
Happy to have contributed to this fantastic story from @cellforganized.bsky.social' lab.

The avenues this opens in the synthetic biology space are enormous!

Movie: Carboxysomes positioned in E. coli!

Preprint: shorturl.at/D6xVg

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IMPRS on Cellular Biophysics @imprs-cbp.bsky.social · Sep 22

We welcome our new faculty member Ramachandra Bhaskara! His group uses simulations and modeling to study complex biological systems at the interface of biology, physics, and data science.
#imprs #imprs_cbp @goetheuni.bsky.social

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IMPRS on Cellular Biophysics @imprs-cbp.bsky.social · Sep 18

We followed with a day packed with CryoEM! We heard about the cryoEM from Werner Kühlbrandt, STEM-EELs from Bonnie Murphy and CryoET from Martin Beck.

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IMPRS on Cellular Biophysics @imprs-cbp.bsky.social · Sep 17

A productive morning with Profs. Dötsch, García-Sáez and Helfrich! We learnt about transcription factors, cellular death and biosynthetic pathways. All before lunch time! #sciencemorning #gradschool @mpibp.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 16

At what number of hidden layers do shallow learning networks cross over to being deep learning? One? More? Depends?🤔

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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 16

I’d also throw “general problem solving skills” in the mix - and requirements for being good at problem solving might indeed change over time (as the nature of open questions tends to shift over time)?

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Wouter Van Putte @pxn001.bsky.social · Sep 16

First webinar on the kit this Thu Sep 18th. You can still register in one of the links below.

Wouter Van Putte @pxn001.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our aim was to create a kit to produce in-house 1.2 holey carbon cryoEM grids, in three simple steps, at less than half of the prize, and without due times. I think we are there. Academic teams that want to know more, receive training or order a kit, please contact [email protected].

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