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Paula Prado

@paulafprado.bsky.social
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Enjoying the little things in life — like the first flowers of spring, a good cup of cafezinho, and amino acid side chains fitting perfectly into a nice map.

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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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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Structure of the human mitochondrial RNA degradosomereveals a distinct mode of helicase-nuclease coupling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.06.749684v1 #cryoEM
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Structure of the human mitochondrial RNA degradosomereveals a distinct mode of helicase-nuclease coupling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Structure of the human mitochondrial RNA degradosomereveals a distinct mode of helicase-nuclease coupling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
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Structura Biotechnology @structurabio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
When particles have orientation bias, the resulting maps are often streaked along the missing directions. In this case study, we cover why orientation bias produces anisotropic #cryoEM maps and how you may be able to recover from it! guide.cryosparc.com/processing-d...
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ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
MEU PROJETO VIROU LEI! PROTEÇÃO PARA AS MÃES CIENTISTAS 💖 Hoje tive a alegria de estar com o Presidente Lula para a sanção do meu Projeto que protege mães cientistas de discriminação na seleção de bolsas de estudo e de pesquisa. +👇🏽
Foto minha segurando, com Lula, o documento da sanção da Lei. Ao nosso lado está a Primeira-Dama Janja Lula da Silva.
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Hauke Hillen @haukehillen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy to share out latest collaborative work with the groups of Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein and Peter Rehling just out in @natcomms.nature.com. Great work led by two very talented PhD students - Franziska Finke (our lab) and Marleen Heinrichs (Richter-Dennerlein lab). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Coupling of ribosome biogenesis and translation initiation in human mitochondria - Nature Communications
Mitochondrial ribosome biogenesis requires the assistance of multiple assembly factors. Here, the authors provide insights into the essential role of the GTPase MTG3 during small subunit biogenesis an...
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Today in colonial Paleontology, German collectors illegally bought a Brazilian fossil but where duped into thinking it was rarer than it was, so they sent it to a Museum, which named it “Irritator” (cuz it’s irritating to be scammed in your illegal purchases). Now Germany refuses to repatriate it.
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Hauke Hillen @haukehillen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Press release in German by UMG: www.umg.eu/news-detail/... and in English by MPI-NAT: www.mpinat.mpg.de/4947945/pr_2... Short thread below.
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Molekulare 3D-Struktur viraler „Kopiermaschine“ entschlüsselt
Forschende der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG) und des Max-Planck-Instituts (MPI) für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften konnten erstmals zeigen, wie sich das Erbgut des Nipah-Virus in infizier...
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Hauke Hillen @haukehillen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The peer-revied version of our paper on the structure of the Nipah virus RNA polymerase in complex with RNA is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Congratulations to first-author @salafernanda.bsky.social and many thanks to the reviewers for their constructive comments! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural basis of Nipah virus RNA synthesis - Nature Communications
Sala et al. report the first structural snapshot of the Nipah virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the actively elongating state, uncovering key mechanisms of RNA synthesis by non-segmented negative ...
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Paula Prado @paulafprado.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Amazing work! So proud of @salafernanda.bsky.social ! 🔬❄️🦠 Congratulations Fer and @haukehillen.bsky.social!
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Sonja Welsch @sonjawelsch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In case you wondered what it looks like "in real life" when the FluScreen of a Krios cryoEM is retracted/inserted: here you go. ❄️🔬
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Science-wow @dr-jennifer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
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