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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · 2h

Fair.
It is just easier for me to believe that someone tries to get away with something like this than someone actually getting away with it (for now at least). Mind boggling.

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · 4h

Whatever happened here cannot be called peer review imo. I don't know who did worse - the authors or the "reviewers". They even show the frickin map in a main figure.
Crazy that many excellent papers in Structure have to stand next to something like this.

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joe dobbs @joedobbs.bsky.social · 17h

Check out our preprint! With new molecular mechanisms, 140 subtomogram averages, and ~600 annotated cells under different conditions, we @embl.org were able to describe bacterial populations with in-cell #cryoET. And there’s a surprise at the end 🕵️

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#teamtomo

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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium from Nov 11–12 at ISTA! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/

#cryoEM

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · 4d

... or a 30S proteasome.

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · 4d

The last one looks like a 26S proteasome (~350Å long) to me. The one before that also seems to be a proteasomal assembly. Hard to say which one but could be a hybrid proteasome (19S one one side of the 20S and PA200 or PA28 on the other side).

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 8d

A good day to remember John Gurdon’s school report from his biology master at Eton

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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 23d

How are RNAs sorted for export vs. degradation in the nucleus? In collaboration with @heick.bsky.social’s lab we (@clemensplaschka.bsky.social and @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social labs) discovered a direct mechanistic link between the export and decay machineries: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/x)

Molecular basis of polyadenylated RNA fate determination in the nucleus

Eukaryotic genomes generate a plethora of polyadenylated (pA+) RNAs[1][1],[2][2], that are packaged into ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs). To ensure faithful gene expression, functional pA+ RNPs, in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · Sep 15

I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...

Laura Lorenzo Orts

IMB Mainz

www.imb.de

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation 🙂

Looking forward to play around with it once available on EMPIAR. It seems ideal to get a grasp on the processing of (pseudo)symmetric complexes with symmetrie breaking interaction partners.

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · Sep 1

I was surprised to see that the classification was that complicated. Did you try refinement and 3D classifications with or without image alignment in C1 before refining in C16?
Either way this is such a cool processing problem resulting in such a cool structure and story.
Much congrats!

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Dan Grabarczyk @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Glad to share the final version of our story about the UBR4 complex, an E4 ligase protein quality control hub @science.org. Now with more cryo-EM structures and a deeper dive into substrate recognition, especially escaped mitochondrial proteins @clausenlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dan Grabarczyk @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happy to share our work on the structure and function of the unusual E3 ligase ZNFX1 @cp-cell.bsky.social. It uses a nucleic acid-activated transthiolation mechanism, ubiquitinating and clustering RNA to protect cells in an immune response. @clausenlab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A split-site E3 ligase mechanism enables ZNFX1 to ubiquitinate and cluster single-stranded RNA into ubiquitin-coated nucleoprotein particles

Grabarczyk et al. show the structure and mechanism of a non-canonical ubiquitin ligase, which is activated through nucleic-acid-induced oligomerization and is critical for cell survival during immune ...

www.cell.com

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · Aug 27

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you are thinking about the future of structural biology, we are too! Our two cents (Jürgen Plitzko and I) just got published online here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · Aug 20

📄 New paper: 3DEM Structure Map Validation Recommendations

Two new metrics assess model-to-map fitness in cryo-EM:
🔹 Q_relative_all → compares avg Q-score across PDB/EMDB
🔹 Q_relative_resolution → compares within similar resolution

#3DEM #CryoEM #wwPDB

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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · Aug 18

We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

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Chi-Min Ho @cmholab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH

A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo

Integrated structural biology of the native malarial translation machinery and its inhibition by an antimalarial drug

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Integrated structural biology approach leveraging in situ cryo-electron tomography reveals molecular details of the native malarial translation...

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

Very nice, congratulations "Danger" Daniel 😆

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DjuranovicLab at Brown University RNA Center @djuranoviclab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions

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A rapid, simple, and economical method for the isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural and functional studies

Nature Communications - Here, the authors present a method to rapidly isolate actively translating ribosomes in a time- and cost-effective manner using poly-lysine. The method is compatible with a...

rdcu.be

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · Jul 27

Come join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium!

Jack Bravo @jpkbravo.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thrilled to announce the nexy Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium, taking place 11th-12th November at @istaresearch.bsky.social, with speakers inc. @grigoriefflab.bsky.social, @oliveiramann.bsky.social, @bjgreber.bsky.social @svenklumpe.bsky.social @sebastianglatt.bsky.social ‪‬https://tinyurl.com/cryo2025

Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium

cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at

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Miro Astore @miroastore.bsky.social · Jul 23

That's a wrap! The results of the first #cryoEM heterogeneity challenge are up on biorxiv!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110

biorxiv.org

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Lorenz Grundmann @lgrundmann.bsky.social · Jul 24

Very cool, congratulations! I was waiting for this 😄
Seems like I will have to compare my favorite methods 🎉

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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · May 15

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with
the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

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