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Matthew L. Kraushar

@matthewkraushar.bsky.social
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eukaryote, scientist, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, here to support ideas and the people who have them www.molgen.mpg.de/kraushar-lab

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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another two years of the Berlin RNA Club funded 🤝 Thanks to the @rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen 🙏 Myself and co-organizers Tugce Aktas @aktast.bsky.social & Marina Chekulaeva look forward to exploring the wide and wild world of RNA with you 🤩 Check it out: www.chekulaevalab.org/rna-club-ber...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Register ✅ Then join our symposium: Molecular tempo ⏰ in the developing and aging brain 🧠 I'm co-organizing with the dream team @mambrozkiewicz.bsky.social, Magdalena Götz, @aleksandrapekowska.bsky.social, & Thomas McWilliams See you there 👋
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this next paper also made my week - it takes a helluva lot of courage to try to make a transgenic cephalopod, and @tessamontague.bsky.social did it! cheers to the whole team 🍻 would be awesome to take a deep dive into its nervous system development ... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Generation of a transgenic cephalopod
Coleoid cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus, and squid) are marine mollusks with elaborate nervous systems that support a diverse repertoire of complex behaviors. These include the neural control of the ...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
from our awesome collaborator Koshi @RIKEN! with Fumiaki Obata @obataf-lab.bsky.social they published a WILD mechanism early life dietary amino acids ➡️ late life ribosomal proteins & translation activity ➡️ prolong lifespan cheers to the team 🍻 see you in 🇯🇵 next year! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lsp2 links early-life diet to adult translation and lifespan in Drosophila - Nature
Isotope tracing is used to determine the fate of larval dietary amino acids in adult flies, and identifies Lsp2 as a key regulator of translation and lifespan that forms the molecular basis of the eff...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brandon McNulty winning the worlds gives all two-wheeled creatures wings 👏 Chapeau on the stripes 🌈 Brandon veloracycling.com/news/brandon...
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'Until the last 100 meters, I really didn’t even believe it' - How Brandon McNulty claimed the World Championships for the USA
Brandon McNulty won the 2026 Montréal road world title as US teammates covered attacks and the chase stalled. See how the tactics worked.
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RIP Ada Yonath, whose courage and brilliance solved the structure of life's exceptional complex - the ribosome. Her work in our institute, the MPI for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de, lives on in us - inspiring my lab in the ribosome tradition of Berlin 🫶 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome
Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals.
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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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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the ethos of our symposium @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social echoes in the words of the president of the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de 👏
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Preprint alert: a helicase watching the ribosomal A-site 👀🧬 Our cryo-EM structure reveals how yeast Dhx29 senses mRNA hairpins forming in the A-site and positions its helicase at the mRNA entry channel to resolve them during translation elongation: doi.org/10.64898/202... #cryoEM #ribosome #RNA
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
neuronal ribosomes again in the spotlight 🤩 Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social, Martin, Steward, & Holt launched the field of neuroscience towards the idea that translation near the synapse is fundamental to its function. local translation is central to what makes a neuron, a neuron 🧠💫
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking forward to sharing some scientific stories from our lab, and catching up with the awesome RNA community in Frankfurt : )) Thanks to Leo, Gabrijela, Christian, and Tobias for organizing! Register and come check it out - see you all soon 😎
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Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry @mpibiochem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#pictureofthemonth: A view of a neuronal environment showing several neurons and their dendrites and axons forming a densely connective network. 📸E.M. Schentarra, E. Unterauer More: www.nature.com/articles/s41... September – Calendar of @mpiforbi.bsky.social and @mpibiochem.bsky.social
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Sebastian Baumgarten @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The singular job of all known ribosomes: synthesizing protein. Enter the malaria parasite. In our new work, we show that Plasmodium evolved an entire new kind that does just the opposite - inhibit mRNA translation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PhIX-MS is out in Molecular Cell! Rapid in situ photo-crosslinking traps transient proteasome interactions before purification; crosslinking MS, cryo-EM and AlphaFold tell us where they bind. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo... Preview: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
driving up route 1 - california dreamin 😎 looking forward to giving a talk at Stanford tomorrow...working title: The garden in the machine: Neuronal diversity in the ribosome core
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The US Government aims to defund basic science, dismantle academia & intellectual freedom ➡️ in service of political ideology & corporate interest In its own words 🚨 Was chapters in Project2025 static.heritage.org/project2025/... 🚨 Now official blueprint published www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
length and weight on a birth announcement like they fished the baby 🎣
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
congrats to the new FKNE scholars! rock on Dafni @drosostalis.bsky.social 🤘 and Vanessa @avstempel.bsky.social 🤘
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
LOS 👏 GEHT'S 👏 Grand Départ 2029 - Tour de France in Mitteldeutschland granddepartallemagne.de/en/
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Grand Départ 2029 - Tour de France in Mitteldeutschland
We are bringing the Tour de France to Central Germany!
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We face great challenges, but our resolve is greater & vision clearer for the future of neuroscience. The @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social network is stronger than ever. Thanks co-organizers, speakers @tjryan.bsky.social, @drosostalis.bsky.social, @anne-schreiter.bsky.social, & our core ➡️ participants!
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
and the paper title-of-the-year award goes to www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Hours-Long Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel - Nature Communications
A wearable diving suit enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybri...
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Nikos Konstantinides @nkonst4.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So much looking forward to this!
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Young PI Neuroscience Symposium'26 @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎
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Silvia Viana da Silva @silviaviansilva.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨📢 New paper from the lab: Age-dependent vulnerability to spatial memory interference in APP/PS1 mice (a preclinical model of Alzheimer's disease) 🧵1/6 www.frontiersin.org/journals/agi...
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Frontiers | Age-dependent vulnerability to spatial memory interference in APP/PS1 mice
BackgroundWhile Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is well known for progressive memory impairment, less is understood about how amyloid pathology affects flexible upd...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hola 👋 On my way ✈️ Looking forward to seeing you there
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Silvia Viana da Silva @silviaviansilva.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On my way✈️
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
one of the best things about being a scientist is teaming up with your scientific heroes from across the globe 🌎 Judith Frydman (Stanford) & Elke Deuerling (Konstanz) 💫 the future is bright ☀️ stay tuned for some science! ✨
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
thanks for the shout out Dafni! i don't often tell this story in my current life as a scientist ... but this story is a big piece of who i am, and what i stand for 🤝
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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦠💫💫💫
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Antibiotics stimulate protein transfer to persister cells
The exchange of biological matter between bacterial cells drives adaptation and evolution. However, whether bacteria can exchange functional proteins remains unclear. In this work, we found that antib...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congrats 👏 to the newly minted Master's student Arie Maeve Brueckner in the Kraushar Lab @molgen.mpg.de, who defended her thesis with the highest honors 🤩 Arie is an exceptionally talented scientist with a bright future ☀️ Stay tuned for Arie's discoveries in the literature soon ...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Let's step inside a neuron together, and ask, "how did all this get here?" 🤔 In this review, I trace the history and transformations of a neuron's molecules, pay homage to major discoveries in brain development ... and make a call to action for neuroscience. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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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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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Kraushar lab open house: Berlin Long Night of Science 2026 🤩 A heartfelt thanks to the public - you make our research possible 🤝 Our visitors came full of enthusiasm for our research, especially those visitors who struggle with neurological diseases - we are working hard for you! @molgen.mpg.de
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 05/06/2026
Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - @martinsteinegger.bsky.social go.nature.com/4g8lCb0
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Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - Nature Biotechnology
Folddisco enables protein structural motif search in million scale databases.
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Max Planck Information & Technology @maxit.mpg.de · 03/06/2026
Build a smarter feed in 30 seconds ⏱️ At MaxIT, we’ve bundled 80+ Max Planck accounts into one handy link 🔗 Follow our Max Planck Starter Pack on Bluesky for scientific breakthroughs and better scrolling 🧠🚀🔬✨ bsky.app/starter-pack/maxit.mpg.de/…
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Tugce Aktas @aktast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Today, it was Lisa's turn to defend her PhD thesis and she did an absolutely fantastic job 😍 Especially going into full structure of the RNA Pol2 catalytic core and explaining the mutants. It was an outstanding discussion! I am really proud of her performance today 🥹
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
sunday evening, berlin (sound on)
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 20/05/2026
I finally got around to reading this piece by @mariafarrell.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com, and it's fantastic. Drawing comparisons to ecology, it's a superb manifesto for the open web.
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We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Puma Blue @ Gretchen 19/5/26 pure magic 🪄
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Ahmad Jomaa @jomaalab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Excited to share our work uncovering SNOR, a ribosome-associated factor that promotes translation restart after dormancy published in Nature!! This was, as usual, a wonderful collaborative effort between our group and the Mattei Lab @simonemattei.bsky.social @embl.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
1/9 New preprint from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with the Nishimasu Lab! We uncover how the DRT3 antiphage immune system pairs two reverse transcriptases, one RNA-templated and one protein-templated, to build a double-stranded DNA effector. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
spring in Neukölln
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niels-fischer.bsky.social @niels-fischer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How do mitochondrial ribosomes keep pace with membrane insertion? Now out in NSMB: We show that mitoribosomes slow down at defined positions linked to membrane insertion and protein topology: rdcu.be/fhqIT #Mitochondria #Ribosome #CryoEM
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Membrane insertion of mitochondrial-encoded proteins regulates ribosome decoding speed
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Schöndorf and Petrychenko et al. show that mitochondrial translation speed is coupled to OXA1L-mediated inner membrane insertion, with...
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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 30/04/2026
In our "Meet the first author" series we spoke with Lisa Martina and Michal Malszycki about their recent paper, their fascination with nuclear speckles, and how an unexpected discovery helped them gain insight into the functions of speckles. www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2026-mt... @aktast.bsky.social
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
a really cool molecular basis for memory, and its inheritance, in a really cool system 🤩 thought provoking for the origins of multicellular memory encoding in nervous systems
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Another of my Japan paintings. This is Kyoto though! Thought it would be calming for my Bluesky art friends! #oilpainting #primitiveart #artbrut #japanart
An oil painting of a doorway in Kyoto at night with lantrens and illuminated door. Mostly warm colors with blue relected light.
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