Markku Hakala

Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇

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#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social

Early bird deadline in 10 days!! This is going to be amazing!

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year.
- One image analyst
- one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!

Reach out if you are interested 👍

copyright Palina Nepachalovich of ZML Dresden

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

💥I am excited to present our first research paper from the lab about caveolae lipid trafficking 🎉 Led by my fantastic PhD candidate @estherocket.bsky.social

Here we looked into caveolae mediated dietary lipid uptake and how this process is mechanistically facilitated 👇 1/n

Molecular basis for cellular compartmentalization by an ancient membrane fission mechanism The emergence of cell compartmentalization depends on membrane fission to create the endomembrane compartments. In eukaryotes, membrane fission is commonly executed by ESCRT-III, a protein complex con...

New preprint from the lab!!🎉
We show that Asgard archaea ESCRT-III proteins can trigger membrane fission and reveal its molecular mechanism, offering clues to how these cells may have built internal compartments. But do these organisms even have these compartments?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Launching celldynamicslab.com, the homepage of our new group at EPFL working on cell fragmentation, membrane and cortex mechanics, FLIM imaging, and microfluidics tools. MSc/PhD or postdocs interested in quantitative cell biology are welcome to reach out. We're also hiring a lab manager in 2026!

Watch out folks, I don’t wanna alarm anyone, but good news is possible!!

📢Electron Microscopy Unit, Helsinki BioImaging, and ZEISS are organizing a symposium "Frontiers in Imaging: celebrating the EMBI-ZEISS partnership on volumeEM"
🗓️December 2-3, 2025
📍Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
🔗Program and registration link⤵️
www.helsinki.fi/en/infrastru...

Just published! We share an open-source workflow to measure membrane thickness from tomograms, including a tutorial with 3D visualizations. We analyze thickness variations across organelles and reflect on where to define a membrane boundary. @becklab.bsky.social #teamtomo rupress.org/jcb/article/...

If you are planning to do Flipper-TR experiments or FLIM imaging in general, I strongly recommend reading this beautiful method paper first! Lots of information about optimal data acquisition for reliable data analysis! Nice work from Tithi, @rouxlab.bsky.social and @juanmagararc.bsky.social !

🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉

🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Join us for the first @embo.org meeting on Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology! Registrations are open, submit your abstract by November 14: we have plenty of slots for short talks! #EMBOMechanobio

Research Assistant or Master Thesis worker, group Hakala Research Assistant or Master Thesis worker, group Hakala

Undergraduate/internship/master's thesis position: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/4...

Doctoral Researcher, group Hakala Doctoral Researcher, group Hakala

PhD student position: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/4...

I have a PhD student and an undergrad student positions open at the Institute of Biotechnology @helsinki.fi We are using reconstitution, cell and structural biology to study protein-membrane interactions and membrane microdomain formation. Links to calls below! Feel free to drop a message and share!

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.

If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life | Quanta Magazine Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.

Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
Thanks to all interviewees🎤

For all of you #Actin folks ... It's out !
Happy to help at anypoint

A new #UExM probe for #Actin!

Fun times thinking/developing/testing with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @lreymond.bsky.social !

Congrats to all !

If interested in #UExM, or #HAK-Actin, feel free to reach out !

Soon available at @spirochrome.com

#Expansion #Microscopy #ProtistsOnSky

Postdoc program at the MDC in Berlin, @mdc-berlin.bsky.social : take a look 👇👇

For this call, collaborative projects between two groups will be funded. Take a look at the call and the groups and drop me an email if interested. Share with colleagues too!

www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...

Suomen Akatemian LinkedIn-päivitys: The Research Council of Finland firmly condemns the harassment and hate speech that RCF-funded researchers have recently faced online.   This kind of targeting behaviour is highly inappropriate and dangerous. It threatens academic freedom, narrows public debate, and undermines trust in science and the people behind it.   𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly. The RCF funds research through open competition and international peer review, and our staff work to ensure the 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 of the process.   Debate and disagreement are part of a healthy democracy. But there is a line that is crossed when the conversation turns into personal attacks or intimidation.   We call on everyone to help keep that line clear. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, and the people who make it possible. In 2023, we released a statement on the online targeting of researchers: https://lnkd.in/dbRrUDBu

Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen.

”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.”

”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a Research Assistant – no PhD needed!
Join us to explore the molecular mechanisms of receptor sorting in endosomes.
Experience in protein expression/purification, cloning & cell culture desired 🧫🔬
Apply now 👉 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#STEMCareers #ResearchJobs

The EMBO workshop on ESCRT proteins is up and running at Caux Palace. The view from the hotel room to Lac Leman is rather amazing!

RCF winter call results: funding decisions in biosciences, health and environmental research The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has granted funding for 38 Academy Research Fellowships, 12 Clinical Researchers and 76 Academy P...

I'm grateful for the Research Council of Finland for granting me the Academy Research fellowship! After getting over the shock I will soon move back to Finland to start as a group leader at the Institute of Biotechnology @helsinki.fi. Looking for a PhD student soon! www.aka.fi/en/about-us/...

An illustration showing a set of lines of different colors labeled library of oligos and a broken circle labeled backbone. Then an arrow with a question mark and ligase polymerase and on the other side a sect of circles with the colored lines added into the gap labeled library of plasmids.

🧪Hey Sciencers,

We're looking to make a library of 50-100 plasmids that differ in ~60bp stretch. The differences will be designed (not random). The library will then be screened for a phenotype.

What is the best way to do this?

Cost is an issue.

It's fellowship season in the EU. If you want to talk and join our group at the amazing MDC in Berlin on a fellowship, please write me an email.

We do cryo-EM/ET, membrane proteins, data science/AI, our work: scholar.google.com/citations?so...

Fellowships: Marie Curie, EMBO, HFSP, Humboldt...

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Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy: Recent Innovations in Commercial Instruments Abstract. Super-resolution microscopy techniques have accelerated scientific progress, enabling researchers to explore cellular structures and dynamics wit

We have a new review out! In this Microscopy & Microanalysis piece, Louisa Mezache and I survey some of the latest commercially available microscope technologies: Nikon NSPARC, Re-scan Gaia, CSR Biotech MI-SIM, refinements to STED, SMLM from Bruker and Abbelight… Check it out with free access: