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Laura Lorenzo Orts

@lorenzoorts.bsky.social
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New PI @IMB in Mainz, Germany. Combining in vitro and in vivo approaches to study maternal mRNA regulation in 🐟 embryos.

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)
AI-generated illustration of the soma-to-germline transmission of retrotransposons described in our work
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026
Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)
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Hauke Hillen @haukehillen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy to share our new preprint on the structure of the human mitochondrial RNA degradosome, a central player in organellar RNA metabolism! Work led by graduate student @paulafprado.bsky.social in our group. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/9
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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Holy moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data?
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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Spatially varying mRNA decay contributes to sharpening the even-skipped expression pattern in the Drosophila embryo #Drosophila
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Spatially varying mRNA decay contributes to sharpening the even-skipped expression pattern in the Drosophila embryo #Drosophila
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“… The studies they were carrying out were full of underlying philosophical assumptions. (…) If your characterization of a term is wrong, you will ask the wrong questions, look in all the wrong places, and ultimately mischaracterize the world.”
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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‼️ Postdoc position open. We study how protein metabolism controls time. If you’re excited by this question, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative researcher with a strong track record. 📅 30 September 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇👇
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Babraham
The lab investigates the molecular mechanisms that control biological timing in mouse and human stem cells (Azzi & Rayon, Curr Opinions 2024; Nakanoh et al., Dev Cell 2026). The central aim of this ex...
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📰Happy to share our preprint.🥳Here we investigate🔬, the essential role of the conserved RNA helicase Drs1. We show that its engagement and activity license timely incorporation of 25S rRNA domain III into maturing nucleolar pre-60S subunits.👇 doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.05.749353 #cryoEM #ribosome #RNA
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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Did you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AlphaFold Server’s ligand menu just got a lot bigger and I almost missed it! You can now add any ligand from the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary. Just enter its CCD code 🥳
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are recruiting a PhD student 🥼🙋 Topic: how germ cells bend gene expression dogmas Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 info on the project and how to apply👇 mbg.au.dk/en/peter-and... I'd really appreciate it if you'd help spread the word. Thanks
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A transient RNP compartment boosts translation and growth of mammalian oocytes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A transient RNP compartment boosts translation and growth of mammalian oocytes
Mammalian oocytes undergo an extended growth phase, during which transcription gradually declines. To sustain meiotic divisions and early embryonic development, growing oocytes must accumulate materna...
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Green Lab JHMI @greenlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pre-print alert! SERBP1 regulates the interactions between ribosomes and different proteins. We find that it prevents interactions between ribosomes and RNF10/RIOK3 to protect ribosomes from selective 40S degradation. Congrats! @nicollearosa.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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SERBP1 is a master regulator of ribosome interactions
Ribosome function depends on interactions with diverse proteins whose activities determine translational efficiency, impose quality control and activate signaling pathways. These many competing activi...
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We watched piRNAs and transposons across development, saw them dance tightly and wrote a paper about it. It's so cool to see it online and we will make a thread about it all very soon. Stay tuned :-)
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you're looking for a REALLY active protein kinase, they found one. Crazy stuff www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defences - Nature
The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Foldseek-Interface enables fast search/clustering of the protein interface universe! We clustered 3.1M PDB dimers into 77,167 groups and found new interfaces keep appearing even as fold discovery plateaus. 🧵 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔎 search.foldseek.com/interface 🌐 interface.foldseek.com
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Katja Luck @katjaluck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In an amazing collaboration with the Steinegger lab we developed Foldseek-Interface and clustered the resolved protein interface universe revealing structural bias, pathogen mimicry and novel interface structures in predicted protein complexes. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Eugene Valkov @eugenevalkov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NIH Intramural Research Program is hiring via the Stadtman program. Prospective candidates should feel free to reach out to me, and I will be happy to share my experience both as an applicant and a panel member- we are looking for great new colleagues! irp.nih.gov/careers/nih-...
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Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigators | NIH Intramural Research Program
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Spanish dancer (Hexabranchus sanguineus) is a very large crimson to blood-red dorid nudibranch (sea slug) of the Indo-Pacific, named for the flamenco-like way it swims by undulating its flared mantle. That absolutely DOES look like a flamenco dancer's skirt!
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Kevin Thiessen, PhD @kevinthiessen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Finally caught a decent video of a comb jelly in action! This is Bob, the biggest one in our facility. Bob underwent reverse development due to stress & transitioned from an adult (lobate) back to a larva (cydippid). Now Bob is developing back into a lobate again! Science is so cool 🤩 #ctenophore
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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What happens when evolution adds an extra pair of eyes? Male mayflies evolve an extra pair of dorsal compound eyes, the Turbanate eyes, thought to help males detect females during mating swarms. we have investigate how this remarkable evolutionary novelty develops. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cornelia Schwayer @cschwayer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I will be opening my research group at the Max Delbrück Center later this year to unravel the principles governing the unique context sensing capacity of the liver www.mdc-berlin.de/schwayer and am looking for enthusiastic PhD applicants.
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Schwayer Lab
The mammalian liver possesses a regenerative capacity that is unmatched by any other organ. Following injury, liver epithelial cells can proliferate or even change their identity, enabling the organ t...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Did we say we really love this idea? Apply, if keen! #zebrafish
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
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David McQuarrie @davidmcquarrie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A multivalent RNA affinity tag enables selective purification of tagged RNAs and bound proteins doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
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A multivalent RNA affinity tag enables selective purification of tagged RNAs and bound proteins
Abstract. Efficient purification of specific RNAs from lysates remains a major challenge. Existing methods, such as MS2 tagging or oligonucleotide hybridiz
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Katja Luck @katjaluck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Check out our new article if you are interested in disorder-mediated protein interactions, AlphaFold-based structural modeling and variant characterization: rdcu.be/fw2oz Dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41594-026-01846-z
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Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Proteome-wide prediction and structural modeling of disordered protein interaction interfaces advance characterization of disease-associated variants in disordered protein regions.
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We should support junior scientists (the old ones too 😉) and not destroy their self esteem and their passion.
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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Registration for the 19th meeting of the #SEBD is now open! Please join us at El Rompido for 3 days full of excellent #DevBio and plenty of opportunities to present your work at #SEBD2026 share.google/2llY3VlS5fQA...
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New paper! 🚀 A high-affinity anti- #mNeonGreen #nanobody turns #mNG into a #multifunctional Tag. @nanotag.bsky.social decided to openly share the #nanobody for research use. Not common, but we strongly believe well-defined reagents are key for reproducible science. We hope you find it useful! 💚
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Mikko Taipale @miketilapia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our evil ORFeome paper is out! In collaboration with @alex-stark.bsky.social, we screened ~4,000 viral proteins and secreted effectors from bacteria and parasites, covering hundreds of diverse pathogens, for phenotypes in human cells.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ICYMI
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paulschanda.bsky.social @paulschanda.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Happy to see our paper out today: Guiding AlphaFold3 with experimental data. We are totally excited about the possibility to leverage the power of AlphaFold3 AND of experiments! www.nature.com/articles/s41... It has been a fantastic collaboration with great colleagues in the Bronstein team at ISTA.
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Experiment-guided AlphaFold3 resolves measurement-consistent protein ensembles - Nature Biotechnology
A generative model using AlphaFold3 as prior infers protein conformational ensembles consistent with measured experimental data.
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
7. For scientific progress and OUR understanding of the world this is of course very bad news. The only way to change this is to refocus on discovery NOT being prolific. In our days Galileo would have had not time to look at Jupiter, he would have reported telescopes in different colors instead.
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
That’s settled then 😂
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Isabella Backman @izzybackman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
For @science.org, I reported on fascinating research from @nuduncanlab.bsky.social that has found that the ovaries undergo a surprising transformation after menopause. www.science.org/content/arti...
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After menopause, ovaries may transform into organs with immune powers
Mouse and human data suggest ovaries develop a new function after reproductive duties end
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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Super cool to see the result of our collaborative work with @heick.bsky.social 's lab finally out! Shaped through many discussions with @abugai.bsky.social, @lorenzoana.bsky.social & @max2max.bsky.social, @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social & Clemens, trying to decipher LENG8's secrets!
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Cool new tool from Keir Balla Lab @czbiohub.bsky.social 🐟🧬 Give it a try: portal.rnaquarium.org
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RNAquarium Portal
Explore, visualize, and interact with RNAquarium project data.
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maxseidel.bsky.social @maxseidel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📢 (1/2) Excited to share the first preprint from my PostDoc! We developed UbSeRP to map co-translational ubiquitination in a translatome-wide, revealing thousands of quality control sites, and how they reshape with aging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #proteostasis #ribosomes #preprint
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Ubiquitin selective ribosome profiling reveals systematic principles of co-translational quality control
Protein biogenesis is a stress- and error-sensitive process that can lead to nascent protein misfolding and aggregation, challenging cellular proteostasis. Co-translational ubiquitination (CTU) is a c...
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Plaschka lab @plaschkalab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Now published! We investigated how polyadenylated RNAs are targeted for decay in the human nucleus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/5)
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Andrii Bugai @abugai.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Check out our latest research, just published in Nature @nature.com @molbiolau.bsky.social @au.dk Molecular basis of polyadenylated RNA fate determination in the nucleus www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Molecular basis of polyadenylated RNA fate determination in the nucleus - Nature
Biochemical, structural and cell biological analyses reveal that UAP56 (DDX39B) assembles with a TREX-2–like module that redirects non-functional polyadenylated RNAs from export to degradati...
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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How do cells distinguish functional genetic messages from molecular noise? Researchers in Clemens Plaschka's lab at IMP, together with Julius Brennecke's lab at IMBA and collaborators at Aarhus University, reveal a new principle of gene regulation: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-…
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Translating the neurodevelopmental trasncriptome www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Congrats @matthewkraushar.bsky.social
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The Translation of Genetic Information in Neurodevelopment
Neurodevelopment is the transformation of genetic information into diverse neuronal phenotypes. Developmental signals initiate patterns of gene transcription and translation that drive progenitors tow...
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Mario Del Rosario @mariodelr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations to Damián Martinez, Bruno Saraiva, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social, @wmarkbates.bsky.social, Dylan Owen, @christlet.bsky.social and @henriqueslab.bsky.social We hope VLab4Mic helps researchers design better experiments and ask better biological questions 💻 vlab4mic.henriqueslab.org
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VLab4Mic
A Virtual Laboratory for Microscopy — simulate fluorescence microscopy experiments before stepping into the microscope room.
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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Congrats to Jirka Peschek and team from @bzh-hd.bsky.social for this exciting story on the conserved function of eukaryotic tRNA ligases to mediate RNA break repair, on the ribosome and beyond! We were happy to help and be involved.
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Dearest shoalmates: Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation. 🔗 below ⬇️ 1/2
Image of racks of zebrafish tanks. Credit to NC3Rs. https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/events/guide-refinement-fish-species
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