Kedrov Lab @ HHU

Congrats, Micha & Co.! Best wishes for many successful developments! 🔬

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE!

The 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting will be held 22nd - 23rd of June at @wwiem-qub.bsky.social in Belfast.

Researchers from the UK and beyond are invited to share exciting work on the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions.

Follow us to stay tuned! www.ukcellmicro.org

Structure of a distinct β-barrel assembly machinery complex in the Bacteroidota - Nature Microbiology Structural and functional characterization of the β-barrel assembly machinery complex in Bacteroidota reveals a distinct, seven-component complex with a large extracellular domain that may enable β-barrel–surface lipoprotein complex assembly.

Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social

We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧵How does a pathogen know it has entered its host?

New preprint!🎉It’s a pleasure to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD journey!
We uncover a novel co-evolved peptide–GPCR system in the fungus Ustilago maydis that senses host entry and triggers infection (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)
(1/5)

Congrats to Volker Haucke, Director at the Leibniz-FMP on being awarded the Ernst Schering Prize 2025 for his pioneering work on the function of signaling lipids that control how cells respond to hormones, nutrients and messengers.

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

DFG muss Kürzungen vornehmen Inflation und steigende Kosten zwingen die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft zum Sparen. Die Mittelaufwüchse kompensierten die Preissteigerungen nicht.

Kürzungen. Kürzungen everywhere.

www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/df...

Our call for PhD students within our International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology is open! Apply until October 28th. We are looking forward hearing from you! imprs.mpi-cbg.de

Really sad development, to my view...

Structure and substrate recognition by the Twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway core complex The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system is a mechanistically unique protein transport pathway moving folded proteins across membranes (1-4). It is found in all domains of life and is essential fo...

Hah, one more story on Tat machinery detected! ❤️‍🔥 Congratulations to the authors, teams of @smlea.bsky.social @pstansfeld.bsky.social and Ben Berks!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Seems to be a hot topic - apparently, 2nd time Ig-Noble prize 🏆!!

Very nice!!! 👏 Congrats to all the teams involved - and Khaled for bringing the efforts together!

Library-free data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry enables comprehensive coverage of the cyanobacterial proteome Single-pot solid phase-enhanced sample preparation (SP3) and trifluoroacetic acid workflows open the door to high-throughput quantitative proteomics in cya

Very proud to share the latest development on our (w/ @synbiojazz.bsky.social) mission to bring fast and accessible methods to cyanobacterial proteomics.

Major highlight: 85% Synechococcus proteome coverage in a single shotgun experiment.

Out now in Plant Physiology!

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Congratulations!!! Totally thrilled to read! 🤩

Incredible and LOUD!!! 🌟🤓👇

How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint!
t.co/962Kj9pt6F

Molecular structure of the ESCRT III-based archaeal CdvAB cell division machinery www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676241v1 #cryoEM

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

And a Big Applause to the Organizers! 👏🍻

4 days left to apply for this #PhD position on #nanopore trapping at @unibas.ch in Switzerland🇨🇭:

Happy to share the molecular mechanism of activation of kainate-subtype ionotropic glutamate receptor GluK2 in complex with auxiliary subunits Neto2. In both closed/apo and open states, ligand-binding domain (LBD) layer has 2-fold rotational symmetry!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Kai Simons, one of our founding directors, for receiving the Cothenius-Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina @leopoldina.org for his insights into the function of cell membranes. 🎉 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses
Kerwyn Huang, @typaslab.bsky.social et al find that E. coli outer-membrane protein RcsF senses reduced periplasm thickness due to increased cell width, & activates Rcs signaling
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Gegen den russländischen Imperialismus - gegen das russländische Mörderregime: Düsseldorf, 6. September 2025

Hörsaalfoto mit dem Logo von Türen auf mit der Maus 2025

🐭 3. Oktober: Türen auf mit der Maus
Am 03.10.2025 findet wieder der Mausöffnertag statt! Daran teil nimmt auch die HHU: Um 11:00 Uhr können bis zu 150 Teilnehmende eine Experimentalvorlesung zum Thema "Seltene Erden" besuchen. 1/2
@daumannl.bsky.social

Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.

Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

DeFrND: detergent-free reconstitution into native nanodiscs with designer membrane scaffold peptides - Nature Communications To bypass the limitations of detergents, Ren et al. developed peptide scaffolds that extract membrane proteins directly into lipid nanodiscs, preserving the native environment for structural and funct...

Interesting read, with so many bright names in the co-author list!❤️‍🔥 And once again, the Transparent Peer Review file is worthy reading too... ⚔️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DeFrND: detergent-free reconstitution into native nanodiscs with designer membrane scaffold peptides pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40858559/ #cryoEM