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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📣 Congrats to the Stigler lab on their new publication! 👏 🥂 Their findings provide fascinating mechanistic insights into how the chromatin remodeler INO80 searches DNA and establishes chromatin organization at promoters and replication origins. Find the details here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Single-molecule imaging reveals DNA shape read-out by the INO80 chromatin remodeler - Nature Communications
How chromatin remodelers regulate nucleosome positioning remains poorly understood. Here, the authors use single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to reveal how read-out of DNA shape features regulates...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤩On Thursday, October 1, we are pleased to welcome Patrick Heun. He will be giving a talk entitled "Centromere Function - Unique Solutions for a Unique Genomic Region" 📅 October 1 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall We’re very much looking forward to welcoming him, everyone is invited!🤗 @tuda.bsky.social
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Hopfner Lab @hopfnerlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new member has arrived in the institute! 🎉🔬Our new Aquilos 2 cryo-FIB has made it to our cryoEM facility! We are very excited to add this powerful technology to our structural biology toolbox. 🧊#ElectronMicroscopy @katja-lammens.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social @nucleate-cluster.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing🤩 Congratulations, Jonathan!✨🚀 Prestigious early-career award for LMU molecular biologist Jonathan Bohlen www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social
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Prestigious early-career award for LMU molecular biologist Jonathan Bohlen
LMU molecular biologist Dr. Jonathan Bohlen has received the Life Sciences Bridge Award from the Aventis Foundation.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😃Great to welcome Matthias Peter @ethz.ch to to TODAY's Gene Center Seminar! Join us for his talk, "Protect and recycle: how cells regulate dormancy" 📅 September 21 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall We look forward to seeing you there!🤗
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Jonathan Bohlen @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🧬 New preprint: "Selection and surveillance of 5S ribosomal RNA genes in human populations." The 5S rRNA genes sit in a ~80-copy array on chromosome 1, one of the least-explored parts of the genome. We traced its variation from DNA to ribosome. 1/4🧵
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New preprint! 👀RNAse activity has to be tightly regulated.✂️🧬Here, we present the dynamic architecture of the conserved Rixosome complex – a major player in ribosome maturation and heterochromatin maintenance. Our results give insights into its mode of activation.👇 #cryoEM #Ribosome #RNA
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Hopfner Lab @hopfnerlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧵 We’re excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint on how INO80 reads promoter-proximal DNA sequence features to position +1 nucleosomes 🧬 Amazing work by Mariia, Annika, and others! 🤩 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ChromatinBiology #StructuralBiology #Nucleosome #INO80
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
‼️ 📣 The Fröhlich Lab at LAFUGA is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher: ✅ at the interface of proteomics, method development, and translational biomed research ✅ collaborate with outstanding researchers ✅ access to nano-HPLC systems + high-resolution mass spec job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)
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Max Planck School Matter to Life @mattertolife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The MtL Lecture Series is back from its summer break with MtL Fellow @lfmilles.bsky.social from @mpibiochem.bsky.social & @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social! Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... & join us on Sept 16th at 3 pm CEST! 📷️: MPI of Biochemistry/Magdalena Possert
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling male speaker promoting a lecture titled “Reconstructing biological function with deep learning–based de novo protein design,” with a yellow “Register Now!” badge and a #mtllectureseries tag.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 Next-generation Researchers in Munich and beyond: Join Future Skills 2026 and explore🤩: ✅Transfer ✅Empowerment & Transferable Skills ✅Artificial Intelligence 📅 Sept 22, 2026 | 1–6 PM 📍 BMC, LMU www.responsibleresearch.graduatecenter.uni-muenchen.de/future-skill...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🤩 New publication by the lab of Daniel Reichart in collaboration with the group of Jiangping Song at Fuwai Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing: Life-span–dependent transcriptional dynamics of the human heart www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Life-span–dependent transcriptional dynamics of the human heart
A human heart cell atlas reveals how transcription changes from development to aging, identifying a key driver of senescence.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🥳 Amazing publication from @jaelab.bsky.social: Mitochondria act as sensors for an essential iron-containing molecule. They uncovered a mechanism that has monitored cellular heme concentrations for more than 700 million years www.nature.com/articles/s41... The team clearly had fun along the way😉
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
‼️📢📣Only a few days left to apply - don't miss this opportunity!👇
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ignaziopiseddu.bsky.social @ignaziopiseddu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thrilled to see our paper on CAR-T cells and STING agonists in PDAC highlighted by @aga-gastro.bsky.social today! Very grateful to the brilliant and inspiring @v-hornung.bsky.social for his mentorship and scientific vision throughout this work. @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 The Cluster for Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies is seeking three independent group leaders - one of the positions will be based at the LMU Gene Center🤗 Apply now! ▶️ www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Independent Group Leader at NUCLEATE Excellence Cluster - Munich or Würzburg job with NUCLEATE Cluster | 12861192
Independent Group Leader in Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies within the NUCLEATE Cluster at LMU Munich, TU Munich or JMU Würzburg.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
😀We are delighted to announce a special lecture given by ⭐Nobel Prize Laureate⭐ Brian Kobilka ⭐(Stanford University) on Thursday, July 2 at 3:15 pm in the Lynen Lecture Hall: The role of protein dynamics in G protein coupled receptor signaling 🤗We warmly invite you to attend
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great to see the NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence now on bsky! 🚀 Bringing together leading researchers across disciplines to pioneer the future of nucleic acid science — 🎓🤝@lmu.de @tum.de @uni-wuerzburg.de Excited to follow the journey - make sure to connect 👇
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
TODAY👇 🕐 2:30 pm ➡️ Römer Lecture Hall, K00.015, BioSysM
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
TODAY 👇 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🤩 Another great event this Monday is a workshop on Research Integrity, presented by Inke Näthke. More info: www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... 📅 June 22 🕐 2:30 PM ➡️ Römer Lecture Hall, K00.015, BioSysM Everyone is welcome 🤗 @jp-lab.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Join us this Monday for a talk by Bill Earnshaw (University of Edinburgh): “Dis-solving the mechanisms of mitotic chromosome formation.” 📅 June 22 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall We’re very much looking forward to welcoming him — everyone is invited!🤗 @jp-lab.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We look forward to welcoming Jan-Michael Peters next Monday. Besides talking to our PIs, he will give a lecture entitled "How cohesin folds the genome by loop extrusion". 📅 June 15 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall 🤗 Join us for an inspiring talk! @jstingele.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
TODAY👇
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
📣Don't miss this job posting: The lab of Eckhard Wolf at the Gene Center @lmu.de is looking for a PhD student for the Molecular Characterisation of a Pathogenic KCNJ5 Mutation and its Effect on the Adrenal Gland www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/career/wolf_... #PhD #PhDcandidate #Phdjobs
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PhD position in Molecular Characterisation of a Pathogenic KCNJ5 Mutation and its Effect on the Adrenal Gland (f/m/x) - Gene Center Munich - LMU Munich
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🤗We're excited to host Agnel Sfeir next Monday! She will give a talk on “Two Genomes, One Balance: Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Stability” 📅 April 27 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Join us for an inspiring talk – see you there! @agnelsfeir.bsky.social @jstingele.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Two inspiring days at our Gene Center Retreat in Kloster Irsee! 🧐 Our PIs, PhD candidates and postdocs shared exciting insights into their latest research 🤩 Special highlight: talk by @hillermich.bsky.social, who gave a fascinating perspective on bats and their adaptations to a blood-based diet 🩸 🦇
Group picture of attendees at the 2026 Gene Center Retreat at Kloster Irsee
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LMU München @lmu.de · 26/03/2026
A huge success! 🏆 In the latest edition of the #QSWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject LMU Munich was recognized as one of the world’s leading universities for 36 subject areas and ranks first in Germany in #seven of them. Read more here: www.topuniversities.com/subject-rank...
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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Come and join Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, President @royalsociety.org, and philosopher Christof Rapp @caslmu.bsky.social @lmu.de in exploring one of the most fundamental questions in science: What is Life? Save the date: 17 April, 16:15📍LMU, main building register: info@cas.lmu.de, www.cas.lmu.de
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🥳 Karl-Peter Hopfner has been elected as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is among 13 newly elected scientists recognized for their outstanding research. 👏 😃 Congratulations! 👏 badw.de/die-akademie... @badw.de @hopfnerlab.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣Publication alert: Julian Stingele and his team show that the chemotherapeutic drug azacitidine damages RNA and reveal a possible approach to improve therapies🤩👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jstingele.bsky.social @lmu.de @shubozhao.bsky.social
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RNF25 confers mRNA damage tolerance by curbing activation of the integrated stress response
Excessive RNA damage activates cellular stress responses, triggering cell death. However, pathways that negatively regulate RNA damage responses are l…
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
LMU News about ERASE-ML @msubklewe.bsky.social New hope for people with leukemia and prostate cancer www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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New hope for people with leukemia and prostate cancer
Two Bavaria-wide studies are receiving millions in funding to enable cancer patients in Bavaria to get access to innovative diagnostic procedures and treatments at an early stage.
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LMU München @lmu.de · 11/03/2026
🏆 LMU Munich remains at the forefront: Status as #UniversityofExcellence confirmed – as decided by an international jury within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Read more here:
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LMU Munich remains at the forefront: Status as University of Excellence confirmed
Within the framework of the nationwide Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments, LMU has once again successfully asserted itself, further consolidating its status as one of Euro...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Congratulations, Jonathan!👏🥂
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📣Excited to share breakthrough work🚀 from @msubklewe.bsky.social and the LMU Hospital team: their bispecific antibody therapy targets disease-causing B cells, offering new hope for treatment-resistant ITP and APS—all without chemotherapy🤩 ➡️New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Blinatumomab in Combined Immune Thrombocytopenia and Antiphospholipid Syndrome | NEJM
A CD19-targeted therapy induced remission in a woman with refractory immune thrombocytopenia and antiphospholipid syndrome by stabilizing platelet counts, eliminating pathogenic antibodies, and ena...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📣 @msubklewe.bsky.social and Veit Bücklein lead EASE-AML, a novel cell therapy for aggressive leukemia👏 Funded with €3 million, ERASE-AML is one of the two newly launched clinical trials supported by the Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF). Congratulations, Marion!🥂🥳
The Bavarian State Minister for Science, Markus Blume, symbolically presents Prof. Marion Subklewe with a check for €3 million. The funding will support ERASE-ML, the first clinical trial financed by the Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF).
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🥳Big shout out to the @hopfnerlab.bsky.social, amazing paper!🤩
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
➡️In a recent interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, our PI Eckhard Wolf discusses the remarkable progress made in xenotransplantation. sz.de/li.3385188
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Xenotransplantation: Wann können Organe von Tieren Menschen retten?
Nach erfolgreichen Transplantationen von Schweineherzen, -nieren und -lungen gibt es neue Hoffnung für Patienten. Genetische Modifikationen und Forschung lösen alte Probleme.
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LMU München @lmu.de · 03/02/2026
🏛️ 200 Years of LMU in Munich 🎓 Founded in 1472, relocated from Landshut to Munich in 1826 — today LMU celebrates 200 years in Munich and inaugurates Prof. Dr. Matthias H. Tschöp as President.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🥳And here’s the next publication from the Bohlen Lab — congratulations!👏
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🌟Don' t miss this article about personalized cancer therapy featuring our PI, Marion Subklewe www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu... @msubklewe.bsky.social
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Cancer therapy made to measure
Marion Subklewe and Sebastian Kobold are getting the immune system to target tumors and opening up new perspectives for patient-specific treatments.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Congratulations to the whole team on this great publication!👏🥂🥳
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jaelab.bsky.social @jaelab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Big news this week: results of a very competitive @erc.europa.eu CoG call are in, and I’m happy that our project mitoSCALES (scales of mitochondrial stress response) is among the ~11% funded. Recruiting will begin soon—get in touch if you want to hop on board for the ride! #ERCCoG #Mitochondria #GCM
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🥳🥂Huge congratulations to Jonathan Bohlen on being awarded an Emmy Noether Grant by @dfg.de 😊🤩 His project addresses a central open question in immunology: how mRNA translation governs the function of T cells. www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
📣Publication alert! The Stigler lab deciphers why T7 RNA polymerase experiences premature stalls during RNA synthesis and identifies two distinct pausing mechanisms.👏👍 | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Heterogeneous template-dependent transcription dynamics of T7 RNAP revealed by single-molecule imaging | PNAS
Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP) is commonly used for large-scale RNA synthesis in science and industry. Although T7 RNAP exhibits high pr...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🤩What a year! Two of our PIs have already secured ERC grants — and today comes the third: Lucas Jae has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! Congratulations!🥂🎆 @jaelab.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Nature @nature.com · 09/12/2025
Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored go.nature.com/3YkIXfu
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How to get science back into policymaking
Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored.
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📣Publication alert! Collaboration between Bartholomew lab and @hopfnerlab.bsky.social shows that INO80 positions nucleosomes at specific genomic sites by sensing intranucleosomal DNA shape and stalling at rigid DNA via its Arp5 subunit. authors.elsevier.com/c/1m9kd3vVUP... @mdanderson.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
📣Publication alert! A team led by Roland Beckmann shows: Ribosome collisions activate the kinase ZAK and thus trigger the ribotoxic stress response — a key mechanism of the cellular stress defense. More about it here👇 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Colliding ribosomes signal cellular stress
LMU researchers uncover the mechanism by which ribosomes raise alarms in the cell.
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