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#C.elegans is about to join the 'centriolar satellites' club. Check out our new preprint #centriolarsatellites: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

CHLOROPLAST LIPID-REMODELING PROTEIN 23 functions during cold acclimation in Arabidopsis url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Finally out now. Thx Serena & team from @lmu.de & @lifescimunich.bsky.social for resolving this conundrum. The inner not the outer envelope is the home of this protein.

Photosynthesis: new insights into mineral homeostasis of chloroplasts LMU biologists decipher the ionome of chloroplasts and create the foundations for new biotech strategies.

#Photosynthesis 🌿: A team led by #LMU biologist Hans-Henning Kunz has now deciphered the chloroplast ionome of various plant species. Their findings form an important basis for elucidating the regulation of mineral homeostasis in chloroplasts & developing new biotech strategies.

🧬 Introducing the #mtDNA Lab Intel Pipeline!

Our system daily scans PubMed and bioRxiv to bring you: 📄 #Gemini generated Daily Dossiers (PDF) and 🎙️ #NotebookLM generated Podcasts with a focus on #mtDNA-QC and #mtDNA-copy-number

📂 Full Archive:
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The chloroplast ionome shines light on the dynamics of organellar iron homeostasis Loss of chloroplast iron (Fe) ferritin storage leads to Fe re-shuttling into the vacuole and reduced leaf tissue Fe content.

Plz read our study by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social PhD cand. Lorenz. He describes chloroplast ionomes for several 🌱species & shows how plastid iron can be massively increased. Terrific help by peers from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, @mizzouid.bsky.social and @uni-saarland.de academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number Abstract. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number regulation remains incompletely understood, despite its importance in cellular function. In Saccharomyces c

Our new paper is out 🎉 in @narjournal.bsky.social
A fascinating complex composed of Mrx6, Mam33, and Pim1 controls #mtDNA copy number by regulating Lon-dependent substrate turnover in #yeast.
Congrats to @simonrecyclable.bsky.social, all co-authors and collaborators!
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The program for the 2026 Lecture Series "Was Wissen Schafft" is now out !
📆: First lecture by Stefan Stricker is on the 3rd of February
👉: Details www.bi.mpg.de/wws

#WasWissenSchafft #ScienceForAll #SciComm #PublicLecture #MunichEvents
@mpibiochem.bsky.social

Plz check out our preprint in which we investigate the role of KEA1 in #chlamy, a monoplastid algae. KO mutant vs WT comparison across the green linage reveals conserved but also novel insights in part linked to the mono plastid bottleneck. Thx to many terrific collabs 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Christmas Lecture on Night Science the creative side of the scientific process with Martin Lercher. Afterwards Glühwein and Cookies from the Student Council of the Faculty of Biology

Super excited that @nightsciencepod.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social presenter M. Lercher @martinlercher.bsky.social from @hhu.de will present this year's Xmas lecture @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. More info here 👇. Please join us if you can. www.bio.lmu.de/en/latest-ne...

Congratulations Alina and the team!🥳✨️

Just out! Andre Amaral´s latest paper "First fossil mosquito larva in 99-million-year-old amber with a modern type of morphology sheds light on the evolutionary history of mosquitoes" is now published 🎉
Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔝 Im renommierten Hochschulranking #TimesHigherEducation (THE) World University Ranking 2026 gehört die LMU mit #Platz 34 erneut zur internationalen #Spitze und verbessert sich um vier Plätze. Im EU-weiten Vergleich behauptet sie zudem ihre starke Position mit Rang 2. 🥈 #LMUMuenchen #THERanking #LMU

Graduate School Life Science Munich LSM YouTube video by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Please repost: Do you want to be part of the LSM Graduate school? Apply now for projects in Bioinformatics, Cell and Molecular Biology, Neurosciences, Genetics, Plant Sciences & Microbiology at www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/lsm
🗓️Deadline: 24.10.2025, 12:00 CET noon !
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Repost: 2 fully funded PhD positions in Bacteriology available in the Unterweger Lab @ LMU Biocenter in Munich
Great opportunity to join an exciting research environment! More info & how to apply:
1. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
2. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...

#PhDposition #Bacteriology

Last week was our LSM AGM!
Shalini kicked off the event with the Student Council intro & survey results(mental health,PhD rights,job support)
🎤 “Voices of LSM” tackled key issues in small groups
🧠 Inspiring talk by Dr. Kitashova
🌞 Ended with a BBQ in the Munich sun
Big thanks to our Student Council❤️

We had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Tamara Mikeladze-Dvali as a part of our Insight series - In Conversation with the Experts!✨️ Tamara works on how molecular mechanisms coordinate for the development of a multicellular organism using C. elegans as the model🐛
#DevelopmentalBiology #C.elegans

🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🎉 50 years of the Faculty of #Biology - and 20 years of interdisciplinary work at the #Biocenter! “Biology today is a big data science,” says Professor Stibor. AI, biodiversity loss & synthetic biology will be key topics of the future.📖 To the interview: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

The Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Parthenogenesis: Insights from Stick Insects Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwander (Lausanne) | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Axel Imhof (LMU)

Don't miss Tanja Schwander's talk @dee-unil.bsky.social‬ today @4pm @LMU-Biocenter ‘The Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Parthenogenesis: Insights from Stick Insects’.

#CASResearchFocus ‘Speciation’

For more information and registration, visit: www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

Join us this Wednesday, 14.05 at 5 PM CET for the LSM Lecture with Andrea Rentmeister in G00.031, LMU Biocenter!
Everyone is welcome — details in the poster below 👇
Talk Title: Expanding the scope of mRNA by non-natural modifications

The Sustainability of Science Molecular Biology student Stella Chroni supports the Green Office on Martinsried Campus, promoting sustainable lab practices and raising awareness among scientists and peers.

🔬🌱 Master’s student Stella Chroni promotes #sustainability in science at LMU’s Martinsried Campus. Through the #GreenOffice, she supports research labs in reducing resource consumption & helps implementing more sustainable practices. More about Stella an her work for the Green Office at #LMU here:

Join us Today at 5 PM CET for the LSM Lecture with Annika Guse in G00.031, LMU Biocenter!
Everyone is welcome — details in the poster below 👇
Talk Title: Adaptation to the environment: a model systems’ approach

European potato genome: small gene pool with large differences A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

🥔 European potato genetics decoded!
A team led by Korbinian Schneeberger (LMU & @mpipz.bsky.social) found that just 10 old varieties hold 85% of the genetic diversity in today’s cultivated potatoes. Surprising chromosome variation + a new method for faster analysis = big step for future breeding.👉

As part of The Insight Series – Conversations with the Experts we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Silke Robatzek who is an ERC Grant holder and a leading researcher in the Genetics Dept at the LMU Biocenter
We hope she motivates you as much as she has inspired us!
#WomenInScience #Plants #Biol

How do plants survive in the desert? 🌵☀️ @juliabechteler.bsky.social, new to #LMU, is researching the genetic adaptations of mosses and desert plants to extreme drought - with exciting findings for biodiversity and climate research. 🌍🌱 #Biology #Research Read more here: 🔗 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🤩The advantages of being in the ♥️of the Lifescience Campus Grosshadern/Martinsried are obvious:
▶️All research facilities are within a 20-minute walk🚶‍♀️
▶️Close connections foster networking — even over lunch😋😀
▶️Close to the Innovation Center for spin-offs
▶️Easy U6 access to Munich city center

Yesterday, we did a quick spot check, asking our colleagues if they were concerned about current events affecting research freedom. The response was huge-most passers-by expressed their solidarity with the global scientific community 🧪 Imagine if we'd asked more...
#StandUpForScience #ScienceMatters

Älteste hochauflösende Larvenaugen bei fossilen Insekten 100 Millionen Jahre alte Bernstein-Fossilien zeigen: Netzflügler der Kreidezeit besaßen hochentwickelte Larvenaugen.

Oldest high-resolution larval eyes of fossil insects identified. 100-million-year-old amber fossils show that Cretaceous reticulate larvae developed specialized imaging systems - a significant contribution to the evolution of sensory structures. #palaeontology #evolution Read more here:

How plants epigenetically regulate their chemical defences A new study demonstrates how plants of the nightshade family produce pharmaceutically valuable compounds and how this biosynthesis is epigenetically regulated.

Plants epigenetically control the production of pharmaceutically relevant active ingredients!🌿 #LMU Researchers led by Claude Becker have discovered a #genecluster that regulates the biosynthesis of withanolides in Physalis grisea - with important implications for alternative pesticides & drugs.

#ClickChemistry meets living cells: 🔬 Andrea Rentmeister at LMU Munich makes the invisible visible: her research on mRNA therapies & epitranscriptomics combines chemistry & biology - for the medicine of tomorrow. 🔐 #LMUMunich #chemistry #research Find out more: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...