Reposted by Julia MuenznerTraffic @traffic-journal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Happy 50th anniversary, Clathrin! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @effc.bsky.social 03621
Reposted by Julia MuenznerItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92 13533199
Reposted by Julia MuenznerToni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 10278135
Reposted by Julia MuenznerNana-Maria Grüning @nana-maria.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Schönes Interview vom Macher von #DasGewichtDerWelt youtu.be/booNG2ap-yA?...youtu.beDAS GEWICHT DER WELT | Film Talk | DOK.fest 2026YouTube video by DOK.fest München 11112
Julia Muenzner @juliamuenzner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Had a wonderful week at the #FEBS Human Fungal Pathogens meeting - great crowd, amazing talks (some real fun out-of-the-box ones!), cool posters, it had it all! Really well organized 😍 I'm hoping to return many times! There was even time for a quick dip in the sea one afternoon #hfp2026 140
Reposted by Julia MuenznerJo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · 14/05/2026An important Nature Outlook article from Nic Fleming on antifungal resistance: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAntifungal resistance is growing – will new treatments turn the tables?Trials of drugs to fight deadly resistant infections are advancing, but they might fall victim to overuse of agricultural fungicides just like their predecessors. 042
Reposted by Julia MuenznerRebecca Shapiro @shapirorebecca.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It's been a long time coming to finally see this in print! While not the first paper from my lab, it is one of the very first projects we started working on from day 1 links.springernature.com/f/a/1IP7gCfA...links.springernature.comPooled CRISPRi screening reveals fungal-specific drug target candidates - Nature MicrobiologyThis study presents a pooled CRISPRi screening approach in Candida albicans to investigate essential genes at scale, revealing environment- and strain-dependent gene sensitivities and conserved vulner... 23211
Reposted by Julia MuenznerStephen Graham's Lab @atomicvirology.bsky.social · 22/04/2026We did a thing: Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...cam.ac.ukScientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cellsAn international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells. 03918
Reposted by Julia MuenznerStuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Fantastic paper by Dalan Bailey and Stephen Graham’s labs and colleagues in Kenya. Bat alphaCoVs don’t use any of the previously known receptors, but some in Kenya can use human CEACAM6, a lung expressed adhesion factor, to enter human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comHeart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells - NatureHuman CEACAM6, which is widely expressed in the lung, is identified as a receptor used by the spike proteins of Cardioderma cor (heart-nosed bat) alphacoronaviruses to enter cells. 0179
Reposted by Julia MuenznerMelania D'Angiolo @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I am extremely happy to share that the final paper from my PhD in @litinice.bsky.social 's team at @ircan.bsky.social (Université Cote d'Azur, @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social) is now out in @natcomms.nature.com !!! 😁😁😁 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe adaptive molecular landscape of reprogrammed telomeric sequences - Nature CommunicationsThe molecular mechanisms allowing organisms to adapt to new telomeric sequences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors engineer multiple yeast lines with human-like telomeric repeats to unveil th... 2166
Reposted by Julia MuenznerSebastian Seiffert @sci-ffert.bsky.social · 09/04/2026#DasGewichtDerWelt Unsere KINOTOUR steht. In fast 30 Städten gibt es Filmgespräche mit Regisseur Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Glaziologin Maria Hörhold, Biologin Nana-Maria Grüning und Chemiker Sebastian Seiffert. Mehr Details sowie Links zum Ticketing gibt es hier: mindjazz-pictures.de/filme/das-ge... 21226126
Reposted by Julia Muenznertaz @taz.de · 07/04/2026Es ist eine große Schlappe für die Strafverfolgungsbehörden, die versuchen, die ehemalige Klimagruppe Letzte Generation nach Paragraf 129 zu einer kriminellen Vereinigung erklären zu lassen. 👉 taz.de/!6168839/ 331560485
Reposted by Julia MuenznerBen Heineike @heineikeb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Proud of our new paper just out in the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's #GENETICS journal academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...!academic.oup.comGenetic and environmental determinants of multicellular-like phenotypes in fission yeastAbstract. Multicellular fungi have repeatedly given rise to primarily unicellular yeast species. Some of these, including the fission yeast Schizosaccharom 286
Reposted by Julia MuenznerScientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Welche Verantwortung haben Wissenschaftler:innen in Zeiten der Klimakrise? Sollten wir uns in den Elfenbeinturm zurückziehen oder die Gesellschaft mit unseren Erkenntnissen konfrontieren? Neuer Trailer zum Dokumentarfilm "Das Gewicht der Welt" (Kinostart 7.5.2026) 👇 165
Reposted by Julia MuenznerTobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/nmy.corehr.comJob Details 292127
Reposted by Julia MuenznerPedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 04/03/2026We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations. www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...evocellnet.comMapping the yeast atructural interactome with AlphaFold3: an open call for collaborationWe are excited to announce the early-stage release of our S. cerevisiae structural interactome mapping project. Using AlphaFold3 (AF3), w... 69853
Julia Muenzner @juliamuenzner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026So honored to share that I've been awarded a scholarship by the Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard foundation 😀🎉 - supporting #WomenInScience who are raising kids! The invisible load of combining family and research career is real and rarely so directly acknowledged. Thank you, CNV foundation! 🦠💻👩🏼🔬🧒🏼🧒🏼👶🏼 030
Reposted by Julia MuenznerEmmottlab @emmottlab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Funded PhD studentship (UK students only) available on clinical proteomics, application deadline 22nd March for Oct 2026 start! This project seeks to understand treatment responses to exacerbations experienced by people with CF using proteomics. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comProteomic Signatures of Treatment Response During Pulmonary Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Proteomic Signatures of Treatment Response During Pulmonary Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com 023
Reposted by Julia MuenznerMatthias Trost @mtrost.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...trostlab.orgHome - Trost Lab 02628
Reposted by Julia MuenznerRachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🚨4-year fully funded PhD in the lab of @magicmicrobe.bsky.social (& collaborating with me!): How does iron availability shape the ability of pathogens to invade the gut microbiome? Apply by Jan 26th Advert: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste... How to apply: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...research.reading.ac.uk 01418
Reposted by Julia MuenznerGilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This work is the first paper issued from a fantastic collaboration with @litinice.bsky.social , Bertrand Llorente and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino aiming at revisiting the yeast life cycle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Hopefully more is coming soon :-)onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe budding yeast life cycle: More complex than anticipated?You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader. 083
Reposted by Julia MuenznerGilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Last work of the lab showing that Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 2249
Reposted by Julia MuenznerCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impactFrom floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo... 2215136
Reposted by Julia MuenznerJason Sheltzer @jsheltzer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I’m excited to share a new postdoctoral opportunity in my lab at Stanford to study the consequences of gene dosage alterations in iPS cells. Check out the posting below and shoot me an email if you’re interested - 125
Reposted by Julia MuenznerStephen Graham's Lab @atomicvirology.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Just published in JBC @asbmbjournals.bsky.social - HSV-1 pUL21 teaches us that the universe of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) binders may be much larger than previously recognised: www.jbc.org/article/S002... Bluetorial at bsky.app/profile/atom... Viruses - is there anything they can't do? 🦠💪jbc.orgAlphaherpesvirus pUL21 homologues use non-canonical sequences to compete with cellular adaptors for protein phosphatase 1 bindingProtein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is a key regulator of cellular phosphorylation and its activity is regulated via binding to cellular regulatory proteins via conserved short linear motifs (SLiMs). The herp... 1206
Reposted by Julia MuenznerThe Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 09/10/2025We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... 1134111
Julia Muenzner @juliamuenzner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025What a great conference #Candida2025 was! So happy about having met so many friendly new faces, and great to have had so much interest in how we do high throughput #proteomics with natural C albicans isolates. Looking forward to fun new collaborations! Thank you @microbiologysociety.org ❤️media.tenor.coma cat sitting on a couch using a laptop with the word research written on the screenALT: a cat sitting on a couch using a laptop with the word research written on the screen 031
Reposted by Julia MuenznerGilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025New preprint from the lab: we show that the ability to switch mating type was lost at least 13 times independently in the evolution of S. cerevisiae. At least 27% of isolates are heterothallic with a strong association with polyploidy and heterozygosity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgRepeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolutionEvolutionary transitions in mating strategy have profound consequences for genetic variation and adaptation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is a central feature of the life cycle t... 02212
Reposted by Julia Muenznerliti_nice @litinice.bsky.social · 03/07/2025how (yeast) cells re-climb the fitness landscape when they are reprogrammed to a different telomere DNA sequences (human-like)? read the latest from @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social etal , with great help and insights from Eric Gilson, Jonas Warringer and @juliamuenzner.bsky.social (& Ralser lab) 0158
Reposted by Julia MuenznerMelania D'Angiolo @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Superhappy to share the last paper from my PhD in @litinice.bsky.social lab. We evolved yeasts with humanized telomeric repeats and discovered that they adapt through amplification of telomere-binding proteins and inactivation of the DNA damage response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgThe adaptive molecular landscape of reprogrammed telomeric sequencesTelomeric sequences vary across the tree of life and intimately co-evolve with telomere-binding protein complexes. However, the molecular mechanisms allowing organisms to adapt to new telomeric sequen... 43513
Reposted by Julia MuenznerJan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · 10/06/2025New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...wwwfbm.unil.chDMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM 0110161
Reposted by Julia MuenznerHouseley Lab @houseleylab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Congratulations to our PhD student Amy Wolstenholme for winning the Poster Prize at the EMBL Drug Resistance meeting #EESDrugResistance this week Amy's poster showed that circular DNAs providing copper resistance can be stably transmitted for hundreds of generations in yeast 0142
Julia Muenzner @juliamuenzner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Goodbye to #EESDrugResistance @embo.org - what a fantastic conference it was! Really cool to see the overlaps between fungal, cancer, and bacterial biology. Thought I'd use the chance to say thank you to the organizers 🙏 and migrate from the evil place to #academic Bluesky at the same time. 1160