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Susana Nunes

@susananunes.bsky.social
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MSc in IMPRS Molecular Biology program in Göttingen Previously at @MPI-CBG (Dr. Andre Nadler lab) and @ISTA (Dr. Alicia Michael Lab)

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Susana Nunes @susananunes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super excited to see this story out! Shout out to @mathilda95.bsky.social for her PhD work. I was lucky to have her and @sascha-kuhn.bsky.social as my bachelor's thesis supervisors.They helped me find and grow my excitement for science!Thanks to André @nadlerlab.bsky.social for having me in the lab!
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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A big shoutout to everyone who helped to make this study possible. First of all, the amazing second author @susananunes.bsky.social!, and all of the @nadlerlab.bsky.social, especially Kristin, @sascha-kuhn.bsky.social, @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social , and Juan for all their support.
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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stunning cryo-ET analysis from the Harrison Lab capturing every stage of how non-membrane viruses infect animal cells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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EMBL @embl.org · 09/09/2026
Congratulations, Julia Mahamid! The EMBL scientist has been elected to Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of structural cell biology. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fuck nazis and fuck the AfD. No pasarán
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mareikejordan.bsky.social @mareikejordan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Check out our preprint on the structural mechanisms of how LEM2 and ESCRTs seal the nuclear envelope. Awesome collaboration with @karenpalacior.bsky.social who brought my structures to life 💃🔬❄️🌀 @hummerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A good teaser for our recent story on lipid-protein interactions by @cookkate.bsky.social with really kind quotes by @jeremybaskin.bsky.social (Thanks!!)
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Christian Speck @speck-lab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🧬 How is MCM2-7 switched on? Our paper shows DDK phosphorylation exposes Sld3-binding sites on Mcm4/Mcm6. Sld3-Cdc45 then delivers Cdc45 to Mcm2/Mcm5, driving CMG assembly. In summary, our work explains why MCM2-7 phosphorylation is needed to turn on replication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural insights into Sld3-Sld7-dependent Cdc45 loading during replication initiation - Nature Communications
DNA replication depends on loading Cdc45 onto the MCM2-7 helicase to start DNA unwinding. Here, the authors use cryo-EM to show how phosphorylation enables Sld3-Sld7 to bind MCM2-7 and position Cdc45 ...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Two big protests happening today: one in Vienna, against the cuts in budget for science, and another one in Warsaw with petition to spend 3% of GDP on science. Scary to see that one has to fight for the science to survive&thrive but motivating to see many people who still care about it :)
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Helena Watson @helenawatson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Preprint 🧵! I’m really excited to introduce BIGSMALL, an interleaved multi-magnification cryo-ET scheme bridging molecular and cellular scales in a single acquisition! BIGSMALL = 𝐁road 𝐈nformation 𝐆athering 𝐒trategy by 𝐌ultiscale 𝐀cquisition of lame𝐋𝐋a www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)
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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I am extremely excited that my first first-author paper from my PhD is finally out 😆!! We developed a new CLEM workflow to measure lipid densities at the nanoscale. So if you are into lipids and super-resolution imaging approaches, this one is for you: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Visualizing suborganellar lipid distribution using correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Cell Biology
Lennartz et al. introduce a correlative light and electron microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively a...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/03/2026
"… watching these students, I am reminded how transformative that moment can be when someone finally sees in you what you could not yet see in yourself." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/46GFzAr
An illustration of scientists working in a field, with text: Why we should look beyond grades to spot potential in STEM
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.
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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We have wondered what a complex archaeal cell might look like ever since 2014. It’s been a long road (and the journey is far from over), but it’s a good time to pause for breath and look. These Asgard archaeal cells are a surprise! And that is the joy of being a cell biologist.
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Svetlana Dodonova @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2025
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Cryo-ET visualization of HTT bound to F-actin, highlighted in the yellow square on the left. On the right, a detailed zoom-in view of the molecular model of the HTT/F-actin complex is shown.
📷 © Florian Schur
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is absolutely a must read. We are in deep trouble and I am even less optimistic than the authors.
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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress! We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below. Read on for details... 1/x
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Bronwyn Lucas @bronwynalucas.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
First pre-print from the Lucas Lab led by Matthew Giammar and @joshdcryoem.bsky.social online today! We develop a new, extensible Python implementation of 2DTM and apply it to build pixel size optimization, constrained search and characterize molecular motions in situ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leopard-EM: An extensible 2DTM package to accelerate in situ structural biology
The ability to generate high-resolution views of cells with cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can reveal the molecular mechanisms of biological processes in their native cellular context. The re...
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Kyle Harrington @kyleharrington.com · 26/08/2025
Better ML for cryo-ET starts with better benchmarks. We built a phantom cryo-ET dataset (~500 tomograms) + hosted a Kaggle challenge. The result: community models beat expert tools. Read more in the @natmethods.nature.com article that just came out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A realistic phantom dataset for benchmarking cryo-ET data annotation - Nature Methods
A standardized, realistic phantom dataset consisting of ground-truth annotations for six diverse molecular species is provided as a community resource for cryo-electron-tomography algorithm benchmarki...
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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If you are thinking about the future of structural biology, we are too! Our two cents (Jürgen Plitzko and I) just got published online here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mario Livio @mariolivio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today is June 25. On this date in 1903 Marie Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, becoming 1st woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. Image shows the thesis cover.
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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry
This work challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid abundance asymmetry...
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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I am really excited that the second story of my PhD work is on biorxiv now. If you are into lipids, membrane trafficking and super resolution microscopy check it out! Big shout out also to our collaborators, the Honigmann lab and Modes lab.
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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density, which usually isn’t attainable. Lipid-CLEM brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'd like to draw your attention to this truly excellent paper from the Taraska lab on cryoET of plasma membrane associated proteins. Everyone who is thinking about probes in the cryoET space should also see what they could do with ferritag (fig 6) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a scientific figure from the paper mentioned in the post. It shows fluorescence and electron microscopy images and associated schematics for using the ferritag to image clathrin coated pit proteins.
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 21/01/2025
One of the Earth's greatest treasures of biodiversity is rapidly dying, ignored by politicians, hidden beneath the waves. It's painful, but we must bear witness. Don't look away. 🧪🌏🌊🪸
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 06/01/2025
The teams validated the potential of this dataset through subtomogram averaging of 7 macromolecules. All but one of these structures went to sub-nanometer resolution🔍🔬 Check out this nucleosome by @aliciakmichael.bsky.social and Ricardo. The alpha helices of the histones are clearly resolved! 🧪🧶🧬
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 06/01/2025
Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇
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Alicia Michael @aliciakmichael.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!! 🤗 Excited to start our #ERC StG #ChromaChrono with my amazing 🌟team digging into mechanisms of circadian transcription factor interactions in chromatin ⏰🧬. See our freshly updated lab website: www.chromatin-structure-and-rhythms-lab.com
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Philippe Van der Stappen @phaips.vd.st · 29/12/2024
More than 1'800 tomograms available for the community. Towards visual proteomics using our favorite organism Chlamy! Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Find it on EMPIAR (11830) and fully annotated on the CZI data portal: cryoetdataportal.czscience.com #TeamTomo
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Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
In situ cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as the method of choice to investigate structures of biomolecules in their native context. However, challenges remain in the efficient production...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.28.630444v1
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Lorena Benedetti @lorenabenedetti.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I am super excited to share our article addressing a longstanding question in neurobiology: how Ca²⁺ signaling cascades initiated at dendritic spines operate at a distance. Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @cp-cell.bsky.social.
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Yosef (Yossi) Buganim @yossibuganim.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n) Ever wonder how transcription factors locate, "invade," and activate their enhancers during cell fate acquisition? 🧬🚀 Check out our latest collaborative work with the Soufi lab, now published in @Nature
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Nucleosome fibre topology guides transcription factor binding to enhancers - Nature
Motif grammar on nucleosome fibres acts as signpost elements, directing TF combinatorial binding to enhancers.
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