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hervecelia.bsky.social
Structural biologist, mostly cryoEM, mostly working on the Ton membrane motor protein, father of two
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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Have called the cops about this, and they're on their way.

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

What's easier to learn: cryo-EM or MD simulations? Ben Orlando and I couldn't decide, so we are accepting post-doc applications from both fields! Come work with us to explore the intersection between cryo-EM and MD at Michigan State! careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

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Iron overload meets stress tolerance in #tuberculosis! New study uncovers how PhoP and Lsr2 team up to fine-tune bacterioferritin expression, shaping survival inside the host. #TBResearch #MicroSky ✍️ Dibyendu Sarkar and coll. CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology shorturl.at/MRKJK

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

Very exciting to talk at the OxBacNet meeting held at @dunnschool.bsky.social Summarising mine and @sykhalid.bsky.social collaboration with @augustsilale.bsky.social to investigate a new ExbBD motor structure using molecular dynamics (foreshadowing the manuscript in preparation)

On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.

This study was key to establishing #cryoCLEM and #cryoET in Bordeaux. It is an important milestone. @davidp-bdx.bsky.social, Étienne Herzog and @paulosh.bsky.social took the risk to be the first to use this approach with us. 🙏🙏🙏

CryoVIA: An image analysis toolkit for the quantification of membrane structures from cryo-EM micrographs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39919734/ #cryoEM

RNA structures are built from cryogenic electron microscopy maps using deep learning and backbone tracing go.nature.com/3URIilo rdcu.be/d8LZg

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1/ The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has multiple surveillance systems to monitor vaccine safety & efficacy post-market. These systems work together to detect, investigate, & respond to potential safety concerns. 🧵👇

We reviewed recent pulsed EPR Spectroscopy (PELDOR/DEER/PDS) applications on integral membrane proteins, enabled through Spin Labelling. Great to see the field moving forward! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very pleased to share our latest preprint on the architecture of the membrane complex of the type 7 secretion system involved in bacterial competition in B. subtilis. #CryoEM #microsky

Common sense, right?

Our 🔥 brand-new PhD program IMPRS-EBM at the intersection of #Epigenetics, #Biophysics & #Metabolism is open for applications📢. Looking for a fully-funded #PhDposition at Max Planck? Here is your chance: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

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Anybody still looking for their friends on this site? 🧪 If membranes or the molecules therein are your thing, please check out these TWO starter packs on membrane proteins, lipids and transport processes! With many new arrivals since the last post! go.bsky.app/AEeXh86 go.bsky.app/PnXecJZ

@kostchristian.bsky.social this might be relevant for your starvation experiments to induce selective cell death in clusters

Le wombat ne se contente pas de "laisser sa trace" comme tout le monde. Il le fait en cubes ! ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/iTw

DC area friends, I’m giving a book talk at Because Science on the 25th! Kid-friendly, with book sales and signings to follow!

It's been 20 years since my first paper on ubiquitin: Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics I remember simultaneously being met with comments that this was obvious and that it must be wrong because surely the core of a protein couldn't be that dynamic doi.org/10.1038/natu...

replicationists take note 👇 #MicroSky

En Antarctique, un forage atteint de la glace datant de plus de 1 million d’années

@naturesmb.bsky.social ☺️

Dans Charlie cette semaine 😂

Molecular Microbiology (Wiley) is now on BlueSky! We have 9 academic editors including four on BlueSky: @johnhelmann.bsky.social (EIC) @kimingeneva.bsky.social @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social and... Jim Imlay Steve Harris Natacha Ruiz Ute Romling Jacomine Locker

The 22nd European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins, ETOX 2025, will be held in Spain, June 29 - July 3, 2025. Registration opens tomorrow. Apply here etox-meetings.org and join us for a great meeting!

Blasphème du dimanche matin: baguettes faites maison

"Finally, we present a scientifically optimized recipe based on our findings, enabling a consistently flawless execution of this classic dish."

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

1/Interested in biomolecular condensates? If yes, check 10.1073/pnas.2419610121 where we describe the in situ architecture of the PomXYZ co-condensate using cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy & in situ cryo-ET Wonderful coll/w Baumeister lab @madic.bsky.social‬ #teamtomo #cryoET #cryoEM

The Institute of Biology Valrose is recruiting an engineer for its communal microscopy facility. The candidate will work together with an imaging engineer to develop and apply light microscopy approaches across scales to address a range of scientific questions. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation by Knut Drescher & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

condensates as 'tumbleweed' 😉 highly recommended 🧵as another mindboggling start into 2025 this time 𝘔𝘺𝘹𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴, not 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 #MicroSky

Il y a des aurores boréales au nord de l'Autriche, sans doute des chances d'en photographier en France aussi!

Bonne année à tout les européens!!!

Wow, I never knew he said this. Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time—a man of unmatched kindness and integrity. Truly, he was too good for us.

The FDA has classified its recall of eggs sold under Costco's Kirkland brand as a Class I recall, a designation reserved for instances of the highest potential health risk — including death.