Julia Muenzner

I’m excited to share a new postdoctoral opportunity in my lab at Stanford to study the consequences of gene dosage alterations in iPS cells. Check out the posting below and shoot me an email if you’re interested -

Just published in JBC @asbmbjournals.bsky.social - HSV-1 pUL21 teaches us that the universe of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) binders may be much larger than previously recognised: www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Bluetorial at bsky.app/profile/atom...

Viruses - is there anything they can't do? 🦠💪

Absolute gem of a town! Used to visit Český Krumlov every year with my parents as a kid - it's been ages since I was there...

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What a great conference #Candida2025 was! So happy about having met so many friendly new faces, and great to have had so much interest in how we do high throughput #proteomics with natural C albicans isolates. Looking forward to fun new collaborations! Thank you @microbiologysociety.org ❤️

Amazing! Congrats Rachel 🎉🎉🎉

Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution Evolutionary transitions in mating strategy have profound consequences for genetic variation and adaptation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is a central feature of the life cycle t...

New preprint from the lab: we show that the ability to switch mating type was lost at least 13 times independently in the evolution of S. cerevisiae. At least 27% of isolates are heterothallic with a strong association with polyploidy and heterozygosity
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

how (yeast) cells re-climb the fitness landscape when they are reprogrammed to a different telomere DNA sequences (human-like)? read the latest from @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social etal , with great help and insights from Eric Gilson, Jonas Warringer and @juliamuenzner.bsky.social (& Ralser lab)

The adaptive molecular landscape of reprogrammed telomeric sequences Telomeric sequences vary across the tree of life and intimately co-evolve with telomere-binding protein complexes. However, the molecular mechanisms allowing organisms to adapt to new telomeric sequen...

Superhappy to share the last paper from my PhD in @litinice.bsky.social lab. We evolved yeasts with humanized telomeric repeats and discovered that they adapt through amplification of telomere-binding proteins and inactivation of the DNA damage response.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Congratulations to our PhD student Amy Wolstenholme for winning the Poster Prize at the EMBL Drug Resistance meeting #EESDrugResistance this week

Amy's poster showed that circular DNAs providing copper resistance can be stably transmitted for hundreds of generations in yeast

We only managed to snap a picture last minute when leaving the conference - the amazing talks and super friendly and thought-provoking chats during the breaks kept me busy for sure! Really looking forward to the next installment 😁🦠🧫👩🏼‍🔬

Goodbye to #EESDrugResistance @embo.org - what a fantastic conference it was! Really cool to see the overlaps between fungal, cancer, and bacterial biology. Thought I'd use the chance to say thank you to the organizers 🙏 and migrate from the evil place to #academic Bluesky at the same time.