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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)
@gbmev.bsky.social
German scientific society for all those interested in biochemistry, molecular biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, cell biology, genetics...
GBM Lunch on December 17, 12:30 PM (CET)
We’re excited to welcome Mikel Garcia-Marcos (Boston University) presenting: “The Secret Life of G Proteins”
Session chair: Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (@unituebingen.bsky.social)
Organized by the GBM Study Group Autophagy.
#GBMLunch #Autophagy #GProteins
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Trusted science starts with how we communicate it.

5 takeaways from our webinar with Sense about Science: context, transparency, peer review ≠ "truth", avoid hype, know your audience.

Read the summary: spkl.io/63329Agxjx
Rebuilding Trust in Science: Why Quality Communication Matters
Discover insights from leading experts on how rigorous research and clear communication can strengthen public trust and the real-world impact of science.
spkl.io
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!
Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a   Tenure Track Professors...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🚨 Fully funded PhD positions in #microbiology!
Join IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life in Marburg,Germany
🌱 Interdisciplinary research
🧬 World-class mentoring
🧪 State-of-the-art research infrastructure
🗓️ Apply until Jan 31, 2026
🔗 imprs-marburg.mpg.de/3197/JOIN-US
#PhDposition #WomenInSTEM
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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😊 We welcome you to the next Immune Alliance Seminar on Dec 17, 9 am (in Germany) / 5 pm (in Japan), via zoom. Registration is free: dgfi.org/immune-allia...

Organizers:
Christina Zielinski (Leibniz-HKI, Jena, Germany), @zielinskilab.bsky.social
Osamu Takeuchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🚀 We're hiring!
We are offering several exciting #PhD & #postdoc positions spanning a range of topics, from jumbo phage biology & phage therapy to programmable RNA therapeutics & Fusobacterium nucleatum research. The application deadline is Jan 11. Learn more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...
Working at HIRI
At the HIRI, we do not just value excellent research. Short distances, an open door policy, and a good working atmosphere—this is what distinguishes us from others. Have a look at our current job…
www.helmholtz-hiri.de
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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9️⃣2️⃣ Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social
(1970- ) 🇯🇵 #womeninSTEM Immunologist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as the role of autophagy during viral infections.

www.statnews.com/2020/10/27/a...
December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Please RT 📧
Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field !

▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Come and join us at @ceplas.bsky.social for a structured #PhD program

A new call for PhD students
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)

#highered #academicsky
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Hiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️

My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues.
More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-ma...
#histopathology #tissueclearing #lightsheetmicroscopy #postdoc #sciencecareers #munich | Ali Maximilian Ertürk
Hiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️ My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues. ...
www.linkedin.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Listen up folks 👇👇👇
Register now for a #webinar on 8 Dec at 14:30–15:30 IST where Karin Dumstrei, Head of the EMBO Fellowships Office, will introduce the EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowships, Scientific Exchange #Grants, eligibility and selection criteria: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cc6T61BgQQ22LMxyDFaHWg 🧪
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Simulations of Earth’s Archean Eon show that UV irradiation of planetary gas mixtures at ambient temperature and pressure can produce a variety of organosulfur molecules, such as cysteine, which are important to biological life. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/l9jw50XCZlN
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Weil es viele Meldungen verkürzt darstellen:
Die #Gentechnik -Regeln in der EU werden im Kern nicht geändert. Es wird lediglich eine Ausnahme-Regel für Pflanzen geschaffen, die mit neuen Techniken gezüchtet wurden, aber äquivalent zu konventionellen sind. Für alle anderen gelten die alten Regeln.
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Schnelles Update nach der Einigung in der letzten Nacht auf neue Regeln für NGT-Pflanzen. Kernpunkte: NGT1-Pflanzen im Kern wie konventionelle. Aber: Deutlich strengere Kriterien. Alle übrigen NGT-Pflanzen (NGT2) weiterhin wie GVO. www.transgen.de/aktuell/2880...
Einigung auf dem letzten Drücker: Die EU erleichtert den Umgang mit Pflanzen aus Neuen genomischen Techniken
(04. Dezember 2025) EU-Parlament und Rat haben sich doch noch auf einen gemeinsamen Kompromiss verständigt. Einfache genom-editierte Pflanzen (NGT1) werden künftig herkömmlichen weitgehend gleichgeste...
www.transgen.de
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Berufsbilder in Pharma: Online-Veranstaltung mit Dr. Nadine Leistner
Du möchtest in der Pharmawelt durchstarten, weißt aber noch nicht genau, welcher Job zu dir passt? Dann ist das Softskill Seminar des VBIO am 10. Dezember genau richtig für dich!
Zur Anmeldung:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Heute vor 77 Jahren griff Elisabeth Selbert zum Äußersten.
Nachdem ihr Formulierungsvorschlag "Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt." für Art. 3 Abs. 2 nach der 3. Lesung erneut durchgefallen war, mobilisierte sie weiblichen Widerstand.
1/3
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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"Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering our body's natural defense system – fever – powerless in fighting infection." Higher temperatures help the viruses replicate.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...

#H5N1 #BirdFlu
Bird flu has a heat-proof gene that protects it from our fever defenses
Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering our body's natural defense system – fever – powerless in fighting infection....
newatlas.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2

go.nature.com/44rM1di
AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Nature - Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
go.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I will be giving several talks this coming week at universities in Switzerland: Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Basel, and Bern. Hope to see some of you there!
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 2025! 🎉
At the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar Theresia Gutmann @thegutmann.bsky.social was honored with this award, which recognizes outstanding research by postdocs or junior PIs within the STS. Congratulations! @mpi-cbg.de #STS #CellCommSummit
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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"Neuer Influenza-Subtyp: Was in dieser Grippesaison zu erwarten ist"- dazu nehmen @klausueberla.bsky.social und @ulrike-protzer.bsky.social im folgenden Beitrag Stellung 👇
(HMB)

www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...
Neuer Influenza-Subtyp: Was in dieser Grippesaison zu erwarten ist
Ein neuer Influenza-Subtyp breitet sich derzeit in Europa aus. Die sogenannte Subklade K unterscheidet sich deutlich von den Viren, gegen die sich die aktuellen Grippe-Impfstoffe richten. Von F. Bäume...
www.tagesschau.de
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM