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Matthias Thoms

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Arnaud Vanden Broeck @avbroeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very happy to share the first paper from our lab, out now in Nature Communications!🎉🥳 Structural basis of step II Spliced Leader RNA trans-splicing in trypanosomatid parasites 🧬🔬 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com @universitedeliege.bsky.social @rockefeller.edu #cryoEM #cryo-EM
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EMBL @embl.org · 25/09/2026
🔬 A new study by EMBL researchers, published in @science.org, about the pre-ribosome assembly pathways inside intact human cells, reveals — at molecular resolution — in-cell structural snapshots of both ribosomal subunit precursors, the SSU processome and the pre-60S, and novel configurations.
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Frank Nijpels from VitriMatics paid us a visit today. Not only did he repair our broken VitroBot Mark IV and returned it in person, he also brought some extremely cool tools ❄️ for reliable cryo-EM grid freezing 🔬. Check out the VitriClip and the SupraBlot at vitrimatics.com. #cryoEM #cryoET
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Maria Hondele @mariahondele.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now on bioRxiv 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A bacterial nucleolus for cold adaptation
Compartmentalisation enables cells to spatially organise essential biochemical processes. This is exemplified by the eukaryotic nucleolus, which concentrates the machinery for ribosome biogenesis. Bac...
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Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Out now in Science: Two papers from our lab reveal VIPR, an RNA-guided DNA-targeting system in bacteriophages, providing clues to the origins of CRISPR www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to Peter Yoon, @kenjmloi.bsky.social @terryzzy.bsky.social, T.Docter & team
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A noncontiguous code for RNA-guided DNA recognition at the origin of CRISPR-Cas
CRISPR-Cas provides RNA-mediated adaptive immunity, but how its first RNA-guided effector arose is unclear. In this study, we report the discovery of Viral Interference Programmable Repeat (VIPR) syst...
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SchmitzStreitsLAB @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today in CellCellPress 🥂collaborating across 3 continents to study how organisms at the extremes use RNA modifications, discovered the first natural modification of the RNA backbone, phosphorothioates and their writers. @SchragaSchwartz & several archaeal labs-thanks for being part of the team !
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RNA & Ribosome Homeostasis Lab @École Polytechnique / @CNRS @aribio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PAPER ALERT!!! For over 20 years, circular pre-rRNA intermediates were thought to be a specific and universal requirement for archaeal ribosome biogenesis. doi.org/10.1261/rna.... #Archaea #Ribosome #RNAProcessing #Archaeasky #RNAsky
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New preprint! 👀RNAse activity has to be tightly regulated.✂️🧬Here, we present the dynamic architecture of the conserved Rixosome complex – a major player in ribosome maturation and heterochromatin maintenance. Our results give insights into its mode of activation.👇 #cryoEM #Ribosome #RNA
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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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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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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out
Study shows that the venerable device does not waft bacteria away from workbenches, as is often assumed.
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LMU München @lmu.de · 03/09/2026
🏅 ERC Grants: Sieben Forschungsprojekte der LMU ausgezeichnet 👏 Sieben Nachwuchsforschende haben je einen Starting Grant des European Research Council (ERC) für ihre Projekte eingeworben. Mehr dazu hier: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
Eine Collage der sieben Forschenden, die mit einem ERC STARTING Grants ausgezeichnet wurden.
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Hopfner Lab @hopfnerlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧵 We’re excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint on how INO80 reads promoter-proximal DNA sequence features to position +1 nucleosomes 🧬 Amazing work by Mariia, Annika, and others! 🤩 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ChromatinBiology #StructuralBiology #Nucleosome #INO80
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Jamie Cate @jhdcate.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And work from the labs of Nicolas Leulliot and Alexandre Smirnov here. 6/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Universally conserved isoasparylation sustains ribosome biogenesis and function
All living beings use ribosomes to synthesize proteins from α-amino acids. Inherited from our common ancestor, a few universally conserved ribosome biogenesis steps, introducing essential ribosomal RN...
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Jonathan Bohlen @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🧬 New preprint: "Selection and surveillance of 5S ribosomal RNA genes in human populations." The 5S rRNA genes sit in a ~80-copy array on chromosome 1, one of the least-explored parts of the genome. We traced its variation from DNA to ribosome. 1/4🧵
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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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Kedrov Lab @ HHU @kedrov-lab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Preprint🚨: Exopolysaccharide export complex PelBC of Pseudomonas aeruginosa attenuates the dynamics of the surrounding outer membrane. Longer in preparation than in actual making. Blame summer time and perfectionism 🫠 A brief tour, to keep the feed alive over the wknd www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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LMU München @lmu.de · 06/08/2026
Wie messen Zellen ihren Häm-Gehalt? 🦠 Forschende des @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social um Lucas Jae @jaelab.bsky.social haben entdeckt, dass #Mitochondrien als Sensor für Häm, eine bioaktive Form von Eisen, fungieren & so die Proteinproduktion an den Häm-Gehalt der Zelle anpassen.
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Mitochondrien als Sensor für lebenswichtiges Eisenmolekül entlarvt
LMU-Forschende haben einen Mechanismus aufgedeckt, der seit mehr als 700 Millionen Jahren die Konzentration von Häm in der Zelle überwacht.
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Jean-Paul Armache @valendraica.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We are sharing a tool developed initially for internal use called VOSE (Volume Operations Simplified Edition) today. It is written specifically to work in ChimeraX (version 1.5+), with no additional libraries necessary to be installed. github.com/jparmachelab...
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GitHub - jparmachelab/ChimeraX-VOSE: ChimeraX Volume Operations Simplified Edition
ChimeraX Volume Operations Simplified Edition . Contribute to jparmachelab/ChimeraX-VOSE development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tsai-Hsuan Weng @thweng.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It's finally out now in @natcomms.nature.com! We used cryo-EM + simulations to watch the Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter NhaA in action across a wide range of pH—and uncover how pH, Na⁺ binding, and structural changes are coupled. Read here 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Woodson Lab @woodsonlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🎉 We’re excited to officially kick off the ERC Synergy project, snoOPERA, with Anthony Henras, Brigitte Pertschy, and Roland Beckmann! 🎉 Bringing together labs across 3 European countries and the US, we aim to uncover hidden functions of snoRNPs in ribosome assembly. Go team! tinyurl.com/2e5r57b5
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Congratulations to Anthony Henras, winner of the ERC Synergy 2025 grant!
Parmi les 66 projets sélectionnés par le Conseil européen de la recherche, Anthony Henras et l’équipe EukaRiBio (MCD-CBI) sont lauréat d’un des 13 projets du
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Alisia Fadini @alisiafadini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
ROCKET 🚀 inference-time optimization of AlphaFold to fit structural data is published! rdcu.be/fa9YH Since our preprint, we’ve pushed it to regimes where other methods break: low resolution, weak signal, real experimental edge cases. Here’s what we learned: 1/15
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AlphaFold as a prior: experimental structure determination conditioned on a pretrained neural network
Nature Methods - ROCKET improves experimental structure elucidation by integrating implicit structural knowledge from OpenFold, a trainable reimplementation of AlphaFold2, with X-ray...
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣Publication alert: Julian Stingele and his team show that the chemotherapeutic drug azacitidine damages RNA and reveal a possible approach to improve therapies🤩👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jstingele.bsky.social @lmu.de @shubozhao.bsky.social
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RNF25 confers mRNA damage tolerance by curbing activation of the integrated stress response
Excessive RNA damage activates cellular stress responses, triggering cell death. However, pathways that negatively regulate RNA damage responses are l…
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Proud to share our latest preprint! 🥳 Using a multidisciplinary approach, we uncover a dual function of the snR37 H/ACA snoRNP - combining pseudouridylation with ribosome chaperone activity within a single RNP.🔬🧬 Challenging the traditional view of snoRNP function. 👇 #cryoEM #ribosome #RNA #snoRNA
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
How are histones acetylated as they emerge from the ribosome? We show that NAA40 cooperates with the NAC complex to enable co-translational acetylation of H2A/H4, revealing NAC as a coordinator of nascent protein modification. Read more about our collaboration with @kirmizislab.bsky.social #cryoEM
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NAA40 and NAC cooperate in co-translational histone acetylation in humans
Nature Communications - N-terminal histone acetylation by human NAA40 alters epigenetic signaling and affects gene regulation. Here, the authors combine biochemistry and cryo-EM to unravel the...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
NAA40 and NAC cooperate in co-translational histone acetylation in humans pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41820326/ #cryoEM
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 11/03/2026
Join #EMBOCryoEM to get a comprehensive foundation in advanced single-particle and cellular tomography techniques – we'll cover the entire workflow from sample preparation to data collection and image processing. s.embl.org/cry26-01-bl Apply by: 11 May 2026 @embo.org
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danielschraivogel.bsky.social @danielschraivogel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Very proud to see this work out on bioRxiv. Using genome-scale TAP/Perturb-seq we mapped the function of immune-disease variants to target genes and regulatory cascades. Have a look at the 🧵from @anniquec.bsky.social for more info!
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International Society for Protein Termini (ISPT) @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is how co-translational N-terminal myristoylation occurs on the ribosome. NMT1 acts together with NAC, but after the release of MetAP. Cryo-EM study by Timo Denk et al. @beckmannlab.bsky.social @giglionelab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Katharina Geißler @kgeissler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s out! Using cryo-ET in Dicty cells, we take a fresh in situ look at vaults. Surprisingly, we uncover vaults associated with ER and NE membranes, and find that many vaults enclose ribosomes in defined orientations, opening new avenues to their cellular function! www.biorxiv.org/lookup/conte...
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Green Lab JHMI @greenlab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out our latest work on how collided ribosomes activate the MAP3K ZAK! 💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41... A fun collaboration with @beckmannlab.bsky.social @doubleshuang.bsky.social
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ZAK activation at the collided ribosome - Nature
The kinase ZAK is activated at collided ribosomes to mediate the ribotoxic stress response.
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Beckmann Lab @beckmannlab.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
How does the kinase ZAK sense ribosome collisions? Find out in our latest collaboration with the @greenlab.bsky.social @doubleshuang.bsky.social @Vienna Huso: 1/4 rdcu.be/eRmJl #ribosome #cryoEM #LMU #JHMI
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