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RNA Biology group at Würzburg University (@uni-wue). Previously at IMB in Mainz. We work on #RNAmodifications #splicing #decay #translation #RBP #iClip

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A new postdoc position in our group will open early next year — looking for candidates with a proven track record & relevant experience.

If #CRISPRscreens, #syntheticlethality, #smallmolecules & #celldeath excite you, let’s talk! DMs welcome.

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04.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Hey blueskiers! We are looking for examples of "microRNAs" that you came across in your studies that seemed weird or behaving unexpectedly.

04.08.2025 14:54 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Explore RNA's role in epigenetics, DNA repair, transcription & genome organisation - directly with leaders from academia & industry at #GenReg26!

Remaining talks to be filled from submissions - register & submit by 04 Sep 2025 to join us in Mexico.

Speakers, details & registration➡️ bit.ly/46JQbze

17.07.2025 12:12 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Research Group Leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/r... ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

14.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 23    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 4
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DOC Fellowships awarded to numerous Vienna BioCenter Phd Students The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)’s DOC Fellowship program supports outstanding PhD students by funding their innovative research projects. This year, no less than 13 talented PhD Students at the...

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)’s DOC Fellowship program supports outstanding PhD students by funding their innovative research projects. This year no less than 13 talented PhD Students at the Vienna BioCenter received this highly competitive fellowship
www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/d...

04.08.2025 07:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
three scientists discuss. Text: "MDC Global Fellow postdoctoral program"

three scientists discuss. Text: "MDC Global Fellow postdoctoral program"

Lead your independent research project as a #postdoc in our 3-year #fellowship.

The program includes full-time employment with competitive salary, budget, structured co-supervision, mentoring and advanced training

Apply from August 4 to August 28
👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...

Please share!

04.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
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EMBO Reports is 25! @emboreports.org publishes both long- and short-format papers that communicate major findings in all areas of molecular, cell and developmental #biology, offering novel physiological, functional insight robustly documented by evidence. 🧪 #LifeSciences #research #publishing

30.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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5th Fall Meeting Registration - DGMS Young Scientists Registration will be open until the 31st of July. Detailed information and a preliminary schedule will be announced in due time. There is no registration fee for the conference. Room reservations at t...

🧪To all junior mass spectrometrists 🚨: The Fall Meeting of the DGMS Young Scientists will be held at monastery Hünfeld, September 17-19, 2025. Great chance to exchange with other students so don’t miss out! 🧪#teammassspec
#AcademicSky #ChemSky
Register here:👇🏼
youngscientists.dgms.eu/5th-fall-mee...

30.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

30.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 160    🔁 192    💬 0    📌 7
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Introducing... Jernej Ule and Ben Blencowe We spoke to Jernej Ule and Ben Blencowe, who recently set up the Brain RNA Regulatory Networks satellite lab here at the Crick.

Meet Jernej Ule (@ulelab.bsky.social) and Ben Blencowe, who set up the Brain RNA Regulatory Networks satellite lab here at the Crick.

We spoke to Ben and Jernej about their research into RNA auto-gated vectors and their potential applications in gene therapy.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

29.07.2025 12:44 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function - Nature Biotechnology RNA-binding motifs in eukaryotic proteins are presented in a comprehensive resource.

New in @natbiotech.nature.com: a team led by scientists at MSK and ‪University of Toronto have developed a new platform to facilitate the study of RNA-biding proteins (RBPs) across hundreds of species of plants, insects, and animals.

28.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 34    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 3
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Das Doktorandenkolleg RNAmed erhält bis 2030 eine weitere Förderung vom Elitenetzwerk Bayern – Forschende in frühen Karrierestadien entwickeln darin neue #RNA-Therapien und knüpfen internationale Kontakte. (📷 Luisa Härtig / HIRI) ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

29.07.2025 07:59 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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tRNA modification profiling reveals epitranscriptome regulatory networks in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Abstract. Transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications have emerged as critical post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression affecting diverse biological and di

⭐NAR Breakthrough!⭐
🧬 Sun et al. just dropped a high-throughput method to track all #tRNA #modifications across cells & tissues using #massspec.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
#NARBreakthrough #RNA #tRNA #epitranscriptomics #systemsbiology #therapeuticdiscovery.

28.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 24    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1

Reminder for the Rhineland RNA Club this Friday (1st AUG)

28.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Rapid depletion and super-resolution microscopy reveal dual roles of SRSF5 in coordinating nuclear speckle–paraspeckle crosstalk during cellular stress Abstract. Nuclear speckles (NS) and paraspeckles (PS) are adjacent yet distinct nuclear condensates that undergo stress-induced reorganization. Here, we id

👏Congratulations to @mixmue.bsky.social, @heilemannlab.bsky.social, and all co-authors on their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research!
Proud to see this work arise from the collaborative efforts of SCALE faculty, including Stefan Müller and Dorothee Dormann.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

28.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Identification of conserved RNA regulatory switches in living cells using RNA secondary structure ensemble mapping and covariation analysis - Nature Biotechnology Transcriptome-scale maps of RNA secondary structure ensembles in living cells detect candidate RNA structural switches.

I am so incredibly excited to share our latest work, on the exploration of #RNA secondary structure ensembles and discovery of RNA regulatory structural switches in bacteria and human cells, just out in
@natbiotech.nature.com: nature.com/articles/s41.... A short tread! (1/n)

27.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 84    🔁 44    💬 5    📌 6
FlyBase Homepage FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology

FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.

25.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

23.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 35    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 2
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A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function - Nature Biotechnology RNA-binding motifs in eukaryotic proteins are presented in a comprehensive resource.

A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function go.nature.com/4mc1SmQ

25.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 46    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 1
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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/3yn883b8

07.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 15    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 2
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The #6mA reader YTHDF3 recruits ssDNA-specific #ALKBH1 demethylase to genomic DNA and allows it to remove 6mA from double-stranded DNA regions
Guang-Rong Yan, Xiao-Feng Gu and coworkers
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

25.07.2025 10:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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U-rich elements drive pervasive cryptic splicing in 3’ UTR massively parallel reporter assays - Nature Communications Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) are powerful technologies for measuring the impact of non-coding sequences on gene expression. Here, the authors demonstrate that MPRA reporters often underg...

Our collaboration with Tony Mustoe's lab us out today. MPRA libraries and possible cryptic splicing in MPRA reporters, or reporters in general. The additional novelty here is that such events are controlled or influenced by AU-rich sequences.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25.07.2025 10:17 — 👍 27    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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1st Workshop of the Human RNome Project - Scientific Revolution Begins in Frankfurt! #HRP2025 @goetheuni.bsky.social
10 days to go!

25.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications!

We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology.

Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community!

aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

23.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 83    🔁 68    💬 1    📌 1
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I am super excited to announce that I will be starting my lab at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland next year!

25.07.2025 07:48 — 👍 216    🔁 39    💬 23    📌 5
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

25.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 263    🔁 263    💬 1    📌 14

Thrilled to co-advertise this postdoc or PhD position with @erhardtlab.bsky.social!
Join us, if RNP assembly on centromeres, RNA modifications, & bioinformatics are your thing.
More info also on modiclab.org.

23.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Human CCR4 deadenylase homolog Angel1 along with endonuclease N4BP2 and the SKI-exosome complex promotes degradation of aberrant mRNAs that lack stop codons causing ribosome stalling at the poly(A)-tail bit.ly/4lsYWC6

23.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Fun news: I'm starting my research group at @rti-umasschan.bsky.social as the inaugural Maraganore Fellow! Our lab will focus on the RNA sequence-structure-function relationship in the cellular environment.

Visit our website to explore open positions: schaerfenlab.com

#RNA #Hiring #PostbacJobs

22.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
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SPIDR enables multiplexed mapping of RNA-protein interactions and uncovers a mechanism for selective translational suppression upon cell stress SPIDR, a massively multiplexed method that simultaneously maps dozens of RNA-binding proteins to their RNA targets at single-nucleotide resolution, uncovers new RNA-protein interactions and provides c...

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

22.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 28    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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