Victor Dubach

Photo of Sergio Cruz and text: Sergio Cruz-León receives the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award

🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.

Visualizing the Main Gate into Mitochondria

🔬 Check out our new article on the mitochondrial TOM complex! Researchers from the Structural Biology Department have resolved a high-resolution structure of the main entry point for proteins into mitochondria. 🚪 🤩
Read more: www.biophys.mpg.de/2876415/tom-main-gate-into-mitochondria?c=2011019

Proud to share our first lab pre-print: “SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon” where @tzujingyang.bsky.social solved the structure of a ribosome-associated SND3-translocon complex involved in ER membrane protein insertion ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663624v1

🎉We’re celebrating the #SCALE-it-Best-PhD-Awards-2025, honoring exceptional researchers! 🎓 This year, three remarkable dissertations were recognized, selected from a highly competitive and multidisciplinary pool of candidates. 🧵

Looking for a tool to measure membrane thicknesses in tomograms (#TeamTomo)? Or curious about thickness differences within and across organelles? Check out my fellow @becklab.bsky.social PhD student @deglushk.bsky.social's excellent preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇

Get yourself a supervisor with whom you can laugh!
…So this happened two days ago… Incredibly grateful for all the fun and support over the years with @bjmurphylab.bsky.social and all the great people at @mpibp.bsky.social 🎓

Happy International Women and Girls in STEM Day! Every mentor and act makes a difference - when we support a girl's curiosity or champion a female colleague, we inspire the next generation and one another. Let’s make STEM a place where all women & girls can thrive 🔬👩🏼‍🔬#WomenInSTEM

In case you wondered what it looks like "in real life" when the FluScreen of a Krios cryoEM is retracted/inserted: here you go. ❄️🔬

Exciting green news! 🦠 Do you know how certain microorganisms make a living by transforming CO2 into useful molecules? Check out our new work on the molecular choreography behind acetyl-CoA synthesis in the CODH/ACS protein complex. 👩‍🔬 🔗 www.biophys.mpg.de/2844976/micr...

Congrats, Max! And big thanks and congratulations to our coauthors at MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, MPI-CBG in Dresden, and in-house at the MPI of Biophysics! It's been great working with you all! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social, @mpicbg.bsky.social sky.social, @hummerlab.bsky.social

Cryo-EM structure of the NDH–PSI–LHCI supercomplex from Spinacia oleracea - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Here, the authors report the structure of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate dehydrogenase–photosystem I–light-harvesting complex I supercomplex, providing insights into subunit interacti...

I am very happy to share our latest work on the detailed cryo-EM structure of the NDH-PSI supercomplex of spinach. Thanks to Werner Kühlbrandt, Alex Hahn and @mpibp.bsky.social ! 🍃❄️🔬
You can find the paper in open access in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phase separation of initiation hubs on cargo is a trigger switch for selective autophagy - Nature Cell Biology Licheva, Pflaum, Babic, Mancilla et al. show that low-affinity cargo–receptor interactions promote autophagy receptor mobility and condensation of the scaffold protein Atg11 to trigger initiation hub ...

Check out our latest publication in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social on the role of phase separation in selective autophagy initiation! This was done in a fantastic collaboration with
‪@kraftlabfr.bsky.social‬

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

Short teaser below 👇👇👇

Two-stage binding of mitochondrial ferredoxin-2 to the core iron-sulfur cluster assembly complex - Nature Communications De novo [2Fe-2S] cluster synthesis by the mitochondrial ISC complex requires electrons from ferredoxin-2 (FDX2). The authors map FDX2 binding to the core ISC complex, showing that FDX2 can bind in two...

Hello bluesky, we’re excited to be here! To start off, we want to share our latest work on the FDX2-bound core ISC complex, which is now published in Nature Comms.

Congrats to @ralfsteinhilper.bsky.social and everyone else involved! 🎉

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

Congratulations Bis!!🎉

It's awesome that most of the coauthors are on Bluesky! 🤩

I had so much fun learning, collaborating with @amardeeep.bsky.social from @kevincorbett.bsky.social lab.

Thanks to @jessicakoenig.bsky.social and Martin Baaske from @eugenekimlab.bsky.social