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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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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 16/10/2026
Wir freuen uns auf ein Heimspiel Wissenschaft mit Rene Buschow von unserer Mikroskopieservicegruppe! Im Rahmen der Initiative kehren Forschende, die in ländlichen Regionen aufgewachsen sind in ihre Heimat zurück und erzählen über Ihre Arbeit. @maxplanck.de heimspiel-wissenschaft.de/veranstaltun...
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Tugce Aktas @aktast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am thrilled to share our newest work in collaboration with Zack Smith’s lab. This is one of the 3 papers created by this fruitful partnership mainly driven by our star postdoc Yusuke Kijima. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Epigenetic regulators partition the genome by evolutionary and developmental constraint
Many epigenetic regulators play essential roles in animal development, but precisely how they function across different cell types without clear sequence preferences remains a foundational challenge. ...
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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
polysome
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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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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
christmas came early this year 🎁!
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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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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
curious about the many ways that translation makes a neuron? check this out! many mysteries remain, many discoveries yet to behold: 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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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 · 30/07/2026
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
indeed Carolyn! see here, and the thread above it! bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The time is ⏰ now ⏰ for advocacy from academic researchers This was the ethos of our recent neuroscience symposium, and this must be our mission ➡️ the future of science, and future generations of scientists, are at stake youngpisymposium2026.com
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Young PI Symposium 2026
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In these many pages: do not get lost ❌ in empty promises of grandeur ❌ or insincere pledges to embetter science and society The intention is crystal clear: starve academic research & strip it of its freedom ➡️ feed corporate profit with public funding if it aligns with political ideology
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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 · 14/07/2026
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
follow me here for this and other deep thoughts
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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
A special thanks to our hosts @adrianobolondi.bsky.social and the lovely @crg.eu Barcelona. This was an official @fens.org Satellite Event, and we thank our many sponsors: youngpisymposium2026.com
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Young PI Symposium 2026
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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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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social
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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 · 19/06/2026
sometimes things align
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Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am immensely grateful to Erin Schuman @erin-schuman.bsky.social @mpibrain.bsky.social and the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology @annualreviews.bsky.social for the opportunity 🤝 I hope it inspires future researchers to peer deep into the mystery of our mind
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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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