Maja Klevanski

The gray planet symbolizes a cell that appears lifeless at first glance. Lectins, depicted as a UFO, illuminate and reveal its glycans, transforming it into a vibrant molecular landscape and highlighting the hidden complexity and biological significance of cellular nanoarchitecture.

Our Glyco-STORM paper is officially out in the 23 Feb 2026 issue of #AdvancedScience: doi.org/10.1002/advs....
Celebrating with the cover artwork🎉.
What looks gray and lifeless at first glance unfolds into complex molecular landscapes when revealed with lectin probes & super-resolution microscopy.

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If you have a favorite, I’d love to hear it!🩷

Curious about the minute sugar landscape within our cells?🍭Discover it in our recent article in #AdvancedScience, where we map subcellular glycosylation using super-resolution microscopy.🔬

Glycan Atlassing – another exciting work on the nanoscale organization of the glycocalyx! This approach enables the distinction of different cancer states.

It was an amazing meeting! Thank you Ulrike (@uendesfelder.bsky.social), Mike (@heilemannlab.bsky.social), Ulrich and all! I’m still under the spell of the scientific insights and the warm, encouraging spirit of this community.💖

Next on stage is Eduard Unterauer @eduardunterauer.bsky.social from @jungmannlab.bsky.social reporting spatial proteomics with DNA PAINT #SMLMS2025

A special week: 🎉Honored to receive the Waltrude & Friedrich Liebau Prize de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebau-Preis for promoting interdisciplinary crystallography with my ‘Protein Art’. I never dreamed my art would find its way into the hearts of distinguished scientists.

Absolutely! Really great to see how glycan tracking is possible at high resolution and in multiplex mode.

Super-resolution imaging of #glycans is on the rise! It's amazing to see how the difficult task of tracking sugars is being tackled.

We've just published a new scientific preprint that dives into the spatial glycome using super-resolution microscopy.
Discover the critical role of sugars and take a look at our visualizations revealing their cell-wide presence. -> www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#dSTORM #SMLM #glycobiology

Follow the link to discover protein-inspired drawings on my Protein Art account: bsky.app/profile/prot...

Imaging the cell's sugar coat with an incredibly high precision👏.

This work was inspired by a tweet from Prof. Gordan Lauc, a distinguished biochemist and molecular biologist, emphasizing the significance of glycobiology.
-> x.com/GordanLauc/s...

Concanavalin A shows low IC50 values (half maximal inhibitory concentration) against various SARS-CoV-2 variants.
This work was made possible through a great collaboration with Dr. Heeyoung Kim and Prof. Ralf Bartenschlager.

Concanavalin A binding #SARS-CoV-2 virions.

Lectins, which are sugar-binding proteins, possess antiviral and virucidal properties. The aim is to preserve these beneficial effects while reducing their cytotoxic and mitogenic impacts. -> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Automated highly multiplexed super-resolution imaging of protein nano-architecture in cells and tissues - Nature Communications Super-resolution imaging of multiple target proteins in the same sample can provide important information of cellular nanostructure, but has not been routinely achieved. Here, the authors present a fu...

Multiplexed super-resolution microscopy: dSTORM and robot-aided re-staining (2020) -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...