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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Congratulations 🍾 to @anh-nhn.bsky.social on her successful PhD defense today: Deciphering the role of lipidome complexity using Mesoplasma florum!! Time to celebrate 🎉 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

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@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller) @kaytrue.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congratulations to @sciezgin.bsky.social for being honored with the 2026 Early Independent Career award from the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social!

A photo of Lynmarie Thompson, the president of the Biophysical Society, awarding a plaque to Erdinc Sezgin. They are both smiling.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪

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The origin of life wasn't fat-free

James Sáenz studies how fatty molecules might have helped life get started

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎉 Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for submitting her PhD thesis, just in time for Christmas!! 🎄🦠

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Dimova Lab @dimovalab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social 🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel) 🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) 🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social) 🚀Science rocks!

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for winning the @lipotype.bsky.social poster award at #BiomembraneDays Berlin! 🎉🔥 @bcube-tud.bsky.social

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Pit stop for clam chowder and lobster rolls 🦞 with the Dresden #lipidtime crew en route to Waterville Valley, NH for the Molecular & Cell Biology of Lipids meeting! @nadlerlab.bsky.social @tcjea.bsky.social @anh-nhn.bsky.social

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

How do lipids shape life? I explore this question in my recent talk for the Build-a-Cell 🦠 seminar series. Thanks to @kateadamala.bsky.social for hosting! Watch it here: youtu.be/JnF7hPCiSbI?...

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Build-a-Cell seminar James Saenz: Harnessing minimal cells to understand the living membranes

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The secret life of RNA and lipids

There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids? The discovery that RNA can catalyse reactions in addition to encoding information opened new directions for...

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We had a lively journal club today discussing this excellent paper about cell membrane adaptation in the deep sea www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ibudin.bsky.social

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