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Biochemistry/Structural Bio at Uni Jena and Cluster of Excellence 'Balance of the Microverse' (Membrane) protein dynamics admirer, parasite aficionado and coffee addict. Action against #NTDs! www.hellmich-group.de
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🧪Beyond cool! This has everything you need to sniff out a fabulous weekend read! 🐽😍 Moths in love, membrane receptors, hydrophobic pockets and covalent bonds! 🪰💕🪢 (also, we need more insect emoji...)

We are ready for the last and BEST session of the GRC Mechanism of Membrane Transport!!!! 😉 The secret dynamic lives of channels and transporters... with Benjamin Orlando, @delemottelab.bsky.social @popstarlab.bsky.social and our amazing chair Dimitrios Stamou!!!

Bonjour Genève! So looking forward to seeing all the membrane transport peeps again in a few hours at the GRC Mechanism of Membrane Transport! But first need ro get up that mountain to Les Diablerets 😅 🗻

Both Jena Clusters got funded!!!! 🥳 The emotions are overwhelming!!! Here's to amazing future science with this incredible team and the amazing people that made it possible!!!

We are ready.... 😬 2 Clusters, 1 community.... everyone on edge 😅 Go Jena!!!!! @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de

Very much enjoyed yesterday's Firmenlauf in Jena. Go Team @uni-jena.de and @microverse.bsky.social with @hellmichgroup.bsky.social Would be great to represent @leibnizfli.bsky.social next year

Meet GEQO: Genetically-encoded biosensors for absolute small-molecule quantification in single cells brought to you by @sascha-kuhn.bsky.social. For simple absolute quantification of your favourite small molecule or ion, head on over to @bioarxiv and read our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Sweeeeeet, the corresponding author is called 'Zuker' affiliated with the Zuckerman Institute!!!! 🧪 What else could they have worked on?!? 😂 First structures of human sweet receptor are mindblowingly beautiful!! 🍰🍭😍 And very inspired paper title... www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia. Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease? Find out more and apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Dear all, I am very excited about the upcoming 842 WE-Heraeus-Seminar #Cryo-EM on the Move. @djanuliene.bsky.social and I are looking forward to a great conference with many exciting speakers!

You thought Glu/Asp don't like RNA or DNA? Maybe you even introduced them into your protein to stop such interactions? 😱🧪 Think again! New paper @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with Wöhnert lab shows structural context matters for phosphodiester interactions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The 15th International ABPP Meeting will be happening in Leiden in 2027. While it is still a long way to go, if you enjoyed this year's edition or were sad that you missed out, make sure to already follow @abpp2027.bsky.social to receive all the information in the future!

Not the wurst case science bluesky scenario: This post inspired me to look up a few other papers by the 'brilliant hoot' Fred Menger and led me to this absolute beauty! 🧪 Certainly NO ONE should feel pity for the mundane phospholipid and its inferiority complex as a "sausage casing" 🌭😂 #LipidLove

Some bacteria use a chemical radar to protect themselves from predators: how this happens, was discovered by #UniJena, @leibniz-hki.de and @unibayreuth.bsky.social with our Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social, as they reported in "Cell". 🦠 ➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/307648/pr...

Amazing working with supportive, enthusiastic & brillant colleagues embracing teamwork! 🥰 This week brought us two new publications in Cell and Angewandte! So happy to be part of it! The 1st one is out (by the brillant P. Stallforth lab) @microverse.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🔬 New Lichtgedanken issue @uni-jena.de puts the Microverse in the spotlight! From gut microbes to bacteriophages, parasites & math-driven infection research—discover how our scientists explore microbial balance for health & environment. Read More: 👉 www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/en/3102/feat...

Excited about structural biology & chemical ecology?!? We are looking for PhD/PD researchers for two collaborative projects with @yukoulrich.bsky.social l & @oconnorlab.bsky.social 🦠🌱🐜🧪 The 2025 project call with the IMPRS of the @mpi-ce.bsky.social is out! www.ice.mpg.de/296548/curre...

Excited about structural biology & chemical ecology?!? We are looking for PhD/PD researchers for two collaborative projects with @yukoulrich.bsky.social l & @oconnorlab.bsky.social 🦠🌱🐜🧪 The 2025 project call with the IMPRS of the @mpi-ce.bsky.social is out! www.ice.mpg.de/296548/curre...

Don't say you know your transporter unless you've seen it in a dozen environments!🧪😍 Beautiful & important paper by @leahoffmann.bsky.social @anikabaier.bsky.social @dmitryshvarev.bsky.social @jhschaef.bsky.social @djanuliene.bsky.social @arnemoeller.bsky.social 🥳 www.cell.com/structure/fu...

We had an amazing time with the ABC family and already miss you all! Can’t wait to hear your exciting talks, have great discussions, and hit the slopes of the Alps again. #ABC2025 See you next time!🗻⛷️🚠🧬🧫🧪💙

"Perhaps the biggest shock was realizing we still live in history —and at the mercy of biology." 🧪 Analysis by the @nytimes.com on the consequences of the pandemic: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So proud that our very own Victor won a poster award for his amazing work on bidirectional coupling in an ABC transporter at #ABC2025! 😍🥳🥳🥳🥳 read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don‘t mix Jena with Vienna! Ute @hellmichgroup.bsky.social is revealing the mystery of allosteric nucleotide sensing in ABC transporters at #ABC2025

Both my scientific mentors at the same conference! 🥰 A great honor to be speaking after my postdoc supervisor @rachellegaudet.bsky.social at #ABC2025 and showing our new data on bidirectional transporter coupling, a journey Clemens Glaubitz originally started me on🧲🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Michael Gottesmann from NIH now presenting remotely at #ABC2025. We miss our friends from across the pond 😪🧪 Thank you to everyone in the science community who is doing their very best, in small and big ways to stand together 💔

The pink lady is back! Rocking it on and off the slopes with @djanuliene.bsky.social at #ABC2025! This is where we found great friends and some of the best collaboration partners! 🥰

Our paper on the dynamics of inhibitor-bound T. cruzi, L. pneumophila& B. pseudomallei virulence factors out in JMedChem! 🧪 Proteins can look alike but have very different dynamic profiles, plus the use of 19F NMR to probe drug interactions pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @microverse.bsky.social

First time ever riding Amtrak, now going from LA to San Diego to visit the Hibbs and Nguyen labs... And I gotta say, so far it's amazing! Train on time, super comfortable, wifi working AND a great beach sunset to boot 😍 So ready for that talk at UCSD tomorrow!

Funny to have seen the amazing talk by @ibudin.bsky.social on this just this morning at #BPS2025! Truly mindblowing stuff! 🤯 Imagine having to live under pressure ("like an elephant on a stamp" and you are the stamp) or all your membranes go bloooooop 🧪

OMG the feeling when someone shows a figure from a 2015 paper and says "In this decade old study..." 😭🧪

Now the #BPS2025 badge is complete, ✅️coffee spots ✅️colorfulness and ✅️hard-ass science 🤣

@renaeryan.bsky.social telling us who the three winners of the 2025 Cole Awards are! 🥳🥳🥳 #BPS2025

#BPS2025 Cole Award Dinner and they are serving.... Cs in bottles 😵‍💫 😅

The STARLING has landed - excited to share new work from @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social in what is also Borna's first Bluesky post! If you're at BPS, I'll be speaking about this this afternoon in IDP SG, and Borna and Jeff both have posters (Sunday B112 and Wed B152).

From snow in St Louis to downpours in LA... ☃️⛈️ But the important part is the science! Can't wait to continue the discussions started at WUSTL and more at #BPS2025! 🥳 Also, check out our posters on a REALLY strong H-bond in a bacterial virulence factor & ABC Transporter allostery Monday afternoon!

Despite the snow we found it! Thank you @dastvanlab.bsky.social for going up the Arch with me!