Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Golgi-derived vesicles containing PI(3,4)P2 drive mitochondrial fusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgGolgi-derived vesicles containing PI(3,4)P2 drive mitochondrial fusionMitochondria are dynamic organelles that remodel their shape to regulate cell fate. Mitochondrial division involves interactions with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), lysosomes, and trans-Golgi network... 03115
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social 16120
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history* 8367122
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Annalisa Bellandi @annalisabellandi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Is your reporter dim or silenced, and you did not think about introns? Think again! 042
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 18/09/2026"How SCREW finds its NUT" rdcu.be/k8vBj18vix9a A News & Views on 3 complementary structural studies published together about SCREW/CTNIP–NUT/HSL3 signalling: rdcu.be/AY11kgcFgTia rdcu.be/S6g7YM6WPjTa rdcu.be/16bsh4fYzpna 01713
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 18/09/2026New OA Article: "REAP1/AtSWAP70 integrates RAB5 and ROP signalling during sexual reproduction" rdcu.be/kyZ4R2qBg9Da With News & Views: "ROP meets RAB at crossroads" rdcu.be/bqKfMzXQ26fa #PlantScience 075
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/ 215759
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The PP2A phosphatase associates with the Arabidopsis TRAPPII tethering complex and dephosphorylates a TRAPPII-derived phosphopeptide in vitro www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 044
maria voloshina 🌸 @marivol.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I went to my second ENPER meeting, this time in Sofia... @enper2026.bsky.social I had an amazing time there and huge thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster. And thanks to the people who make me conference-hopping possible (mostly @rople.bsky.social) 😎🌸 041
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Science Magazine @science.org · 10/08/2026"Our future here depends not only on me excelling as a researcher, but also on whether we can afford to remain in the U.K. legally." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4fZF1cM 0439
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Igor Yakunin, Sean Munro @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social and colleagues find that the Golgi vesicle tether p115 can bind directly to the ER exit site organiser Sec16A. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... 0126
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Antoine Taly @ataly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Latest preprint on AlphaFold potential and limitations. We look in particular at the addition of ions to models. 0117
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Joe Greener @jgreener64.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Now out as a perspective in PLOS Biology. Where next for structural bioinformatics? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...journals.plos.orgWhere next for structural bioinformatics?Structural bioinformatics aims to answer biological questions by considering biomolecular structures at scale. This Perspective argues that now that we have accurate predictions, we need to ask what w... 0258
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@wheelerlab.org is talking about his effort to build a resource for protein dynamics (PDB for MD). MDRepo is a repository to store simulation data. This is really needed to push the needle in design, function and more. Please help make it successful by sharing your MD data. #ismb2026 🌐 mdrepo.org 02110
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Plant actin networks are rapid mechano-adaptive scaffolds www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 072
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS @iebcas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026#newpaper: Root developmental zonation is independent of cell wall pH The paper shows that while on the organ level apoplast acidification promotes root growth, the cellular surface pH and strain rate profiles are largely independent of each other. @natplants.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...doi.orgRoot developmental zonation is independent of cell wall pH - Nature PlantsThe authors developed a cell wall-anchored pH sensor and found that the cell elongation profile does not correlate with cell wall acidification in Arabidopsis roots. At the same time, cell wall pH cha... 044
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Matyas Fendrych @matesf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We are convinced we have solved the mechanism of rapid auxin response in roots. @plantmorpho.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgHormone-dependent receptor docking controls calcium channel activity in plantsThe phytohormone auxin is a central coordinator of plant growth and development. Besides its canonical effect on gene transcription[1][1],[2][2], auxin triggers an ultra-rapid calcium ion influx that ... 0126
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In vivo imaging uncovers an abundant but rarely active pool of plant ARP2/3 complexes associated with exocyst complex subunit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 031
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A plasmodesmata-specific exocyst complex regulates symplastic connectivity by affecting callose turnover www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 053
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEvolutionarily conserved short linear motifs drive actin filament binding - Nature Cell BiologyParaschiakos, Yuan et al., using a computational pipeline, identify the short linear actin filament-binding motif (SFM) as an evolutionarily conserved actin filament-binding motif present in 103 human... 085
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Cryo-EM structure of the Arabidopsis thaliana V-type ATPase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735876v1 #cryoEM 035
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 26/06/2026How does the plasma #membrane preserve its #lipid identity under stress? The Baskin and Balla labs report a homeostatic circuit linking PI4P, phosphatidylserine, RhoB, and phospholipase D-driven phosphatidic acid. rupress.org/jcb/article/... @jeremybaskin.bsky.social 0157
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Michael Wrzaczek @mwrzaczek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Finally out. Congratulations Adam and thanks to all collaborators! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...academic.oup.comValidate User 054
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This story by the Reinisch, Vanni & De Camilli is among the most important membrane biology papers this year. Amazing work, Congratulations everyone!!! 1217
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comA Rab/Kinesin-12/kinase module couples vesicle delivery and phragmoplast dynamics during plant cell cytokinesis - The EMBO JournalCytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol... 15430
Reposted by maria voloshina 🌸bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The molecular architecture of the Arabidopsis callose synthase complex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 076