George Ghanim

Now out in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

😍😍😍

Excited to share our latest work with @simonbullock11.bsky.social! We looked at how diverse mRNAs get selected for subcellular localization and it turns out that a single protein can recognize different RNA elements using shared features that weren’t apparent before.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Attendees of the recent bacteriorhopsin symposium, photographed from above.

Balsawood model of bacteriorhodopsin

Black and white photograph of Nigel Unwin and Richard Henderson sitting outside the LMB, 1991

Symposium attendees applauding in the LMB's Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

The LMB recently hosted a symposium to mark 50 years since Richard Henderson and Nigel Unwin published the structure of bacteriorhodopsin, the first 3D structure of a protein determined by #cryoEM.

Read about the event and find more photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-structur...

#LMBNews 🧪🔬

Jonathan St. Ange Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2025-2026 Jonathan St. Ange, a Ph.D. Student in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to conduct research in Molecular Biology in France for the 2025-202...

I somehow missed this piece about Jon in my lab: molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/jo...

Yes! ... but what's a semi-autoloader?

I just got it. This is great.

Aedes albopictus (asian tiger mosquito)

🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics

At Darwin College: Richard Henderson Jacqueline Milne Sriram Subramanian Nigel Unwin David Barford Da-neng Wang John Rubinstein

John ring's the LMB seminar bell to call the audience back in after a coffee break.

Returned from a wonderful symposium in honour of the 50th anniversary of Richard Henderson's and Nigel Unwin's 1975 paper on the structure of bacteriorhodopsin - the paper that started the field of membrane protein structural biology.
Also fulfilled my dream of ringing the LMB seminar bell.

Highly collaborative efforts that involved 6 lab members and the labs of @yiliangding.bsky.social and @rdaslab.bsky.social. We uncovered a telomerase dimer and its potential role in telomere maintenance.

Hurray! 🥳🎉🥂

I wish I could bookmark this thread 1) as a reference and 2) to look at every now and again.

The town of Barga in Italy illuminated by the evening sun.

Goodbye Nucleic Acids GRC, goodbye Tuscany - this was great! Thanks to Jane Jackman and Brandt Eichman for organising this fantastic conference!

Calling all structural biologists in the NYC metro area! The nysbdg.bsky.social is back for in-person events!

Register here 👉🏼 buff.ly/dGmJeau

I look forward to seeing you there! 😎

#structuralbiology #cyrstallography #cryoEM #NMR
#chromatography #proteinpurification #AKTAsystems

Congratulations to Dirk Hockemeyer on his promotion to MCB Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology! 👏🎉
mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

In Barbara we trust!

🧬Happy Transposon Day!

🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).

#TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal

Keeping the dream alive.

🎉🥳🎉🎉

MolBio Faculty Promotions: Adamson, Mallarino, and Petry The MolBio faculty assembled on Wednesday, May 28 to congratulate the department's newest tenured faculty: Brittany Adamson and Ricardo Mallarino, and our newest full professor: Sabine Petry

Well deserved! 🥂🥂🥂 MolBio's newest tenured faculty: Adamson & Mallarino; and newest full professor: Petry. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/mo...

Faculty members receive President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching Professors Rebecca Carey, Gabriel Crouch, Danelle Devenport and Nathaniel Fisch received the President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies May 27.

Devenport receives President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. “She is inspiring, visionary, charismatic, relatable, empathetic, hardworking and organized. Having even a few of these traits is a hallmark of a good teacher, but she embodies all of them.” www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05...

Scientist and Lab Operations Coordinator - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Job Summary: The Wayment-Steele Lab seeks a Research Scientist to lead experimental operations within our highly interdisciplinary team, integrating both computational "dry" and experimental "wet" l...

The W-S lab is seeking to hire a research scientist!

This person will lead wet-lab innovations in our team as we combine AI and experiments to understand and design dynamics!

Thanks for sharing/RTs!

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/scienti...

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with
the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

@science.org 🧫🧬❄️🔬 Molecular basis of influenza ribonucleoprotein complex assembly and processive RNA synthesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@yiweichang.bsky.social www.yiweichanglab.org @jiwasa.bsky.social #virology #Influenza #Cryo-EM #StructuralBiology #RNA #polymerase

😊 Thanks Kelly! It was great to catch up!

For the record this was all Siggi Thorkelsson.

RCSB PDB - 4GQB: Crystal Structure of the human PRMT5:MEP50 Complex Crystal Structure of the human PRMT5:MEP50 Complex

It was www.rcsb.org/structure/4GQB

Could it be this thing? This was from someones dataset at the LMB, also by FLAG. I don’t we ever identified what it was, but my guess was aldolase.

As a scientist, this post was an emotional roller coaster.

My official stance this year is that no one should fool anyone on April Fools. The universe has already been messing with us all year.