SFB Targeted Protein Degradation

Opportunity for skilled hands and sharp minds - at any career stage! 💪 The Köhler Lab is seeking a full-time lab technician to support their research on nuclear envelope biology, chromatin regulation, and cellular stress resilience - apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfy3w2h

Congrats to all scientists! 👏 The @versteegga.bsky.social lab has long collaborated with the Clausen lab, and this new study once again highlights the collaborative spirit of the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social ⤵️

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery - Nature Cell Biology Adriaenssens et al. show that unlike soluble cargo receptors, transmembrane cargo receptors initiate autophagosome biogenesis by recruiting the FIP200/ULK1 or WIPI–ATG13 complex, revealing unexpected ...

🍹@martenslab.bsky.social @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & co show that, unlike soluble, transmembrane cargo receptors initiate autophagosome biogenesis by recruiting the FIP200/ULK1 or WIPI–ATG13 complex, revealing unexpected flexibility in the selective #autophagy machinery.
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Ready to launch🚀 your own lab? @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social are looking for a #tenure-track Assistant Professor👇👇 Supportive, collaborative institute embedded @viennabiocenter.bsky.social with strong infrastructure and excellent training programs.
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🚀Great work led by @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social in the Martens lab @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social shows a new mechanism for #mitophagy initiation, revealing unexpected flexibility in the assembly& activation of the #autophagy machinery👇
Check it out 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting findings, out now @natcellbio.nature.com 👇👇
Congratulations Elias & all co-authors!

❗Exciting #PhD opportunity in the Piazza Lab 👇 @iplab.bsky.social @scilifelab.se

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Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease - Vienna BioCenter, Austria job with Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna | 12841053 Join theMax Perutz Labs as Full Professor to unravel disease mechanisms—from metabolism and stress to RNA regulation, epigenetics, and immunity.

Exciting and rare opportunity to join the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social as a Full Professor!
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The @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PostDoc Program call is now open! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.

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👏 Big CONGRATS to @sramundo.bsky.social for receiving an FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social ASTRA Award 🌠✨
See all about it 👇

Excellent news ✨Congratulations to Alwin Köhler 👏👏👏@maxperutzlabs.bsky.social
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🙏Thank you for joining!

Last but not least, THANKS to our awesome #ubfriends2025 organizing team 🙌 – these brilliant✨ #ECRs:
@lilliebell.bsky.social(Clausen lab)
Milica Mihailovic (Karagöz lab)
@berndbauer.bsky.social (Martens lab)
Chrysanthi Kagiou (Winter lab)
@carlabrillada.bsky.social & Xavier St John (Ramundo lab)

Thank you for coming! And CONGRATS for presenting one of the BEST POSTERS 🏅👏

Thank you for coming! It was great having you here ☺️
And congrats again for the Best Short Talk 🏆

…and the #ubfriends2025 Travel Grants go to:

@emmafink.bsky.social (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Eirini Kalogerakou (Univ. of Helsinki)
Leah Erwin (Univ. College Cork)
Julia Chastel (Univ. of Montreal)
Tom Eisenack (Univ. of Cologne)
Amy Ponsford (Univ. of Liverpool)
Mathilde Vincent (ETH Zurich)

...AND THE #ubfriends2025 WINNERS ARE 👏

Best Short Talk:
@leokiss.bsky.social (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)

Best Posters:
Irene Schwartz (lab of @versteegga.bsky.social),
@julianvangerwen.bsky.social (@imsb-eth.bsky.social),
Tom Eisenack (lab @trentini-lab.bsky.social), and
@berndbauer.bsky.social!

Thanks to our supporters & sponsors @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social, @impvienna.bsky.social, @imbavienna.bsky.social, @gmivienna.bsky.social, @cemm-vienna.bsky.social, @promegagermany.bsky.social & MedChemExpress, we had Travel Grants, Poster Prizes & a Best Short Talk Prize to award🏆
Award winners 🧵⏬

A special THANK YOU to our fantastic guest speakers #ubfriends2025!
@delladavid-lab.bsky.social, Virginia De Cesare, Judith Frydman, Manu Hegde, @landerlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social, @thewittysquare.bsky.social, Hidde Ploegh, @spoel-lab.bsky.social & Sylvie Urbe!

After all the (re-)connections on day 1, day 2 of #ubfriends2025 even more fabulous for us 🤩
BIG THANKS to all the speakers & poster presenters for sharing their exciting research, and to EVERYONE who joined us!
It was a true pleasure to host this amazing community👇

...and we ended the day on a cozy note in a traditional Viennese Heurigen 🍇🍷 on the outskirts of Vienna #ubfriends2025

Day 1 one #ubfriends2025 was full of great 🎤talks, creative elevator pitches, lively poster sessions and stimulating discussions...

@martenslab.bsky.social kicking off the #ubiquitin&friends symposium @sfb-tpd-vienna.bsky.social

...starting with the first Guest Talk by the one and only Manu Hegde @mrclmb.bsky.social
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Ready & EXCITED to kick off two exciting days of #Ubiquitin & Friends! #ubfriends2025

📑 New study! Why would cells invest in a protein that degrades within minutes? TRIM52 is one of the most unstable proteins in the human proteome. Research by @versteegga.bsky.social in Nature Communications reveals its advantageous role ➡️ tinyurl.com/yw6wtzkc

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