Anay Kumar Maurya

Thanks, Gautam. This helps students reducing their level of demoralisation.😊

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Interesting!!❤️

Out today: New nucleus-encoded component of the endosymbiont division machinery identified in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei.
Congrats @anaymaurya.bsky.social and @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social!!!🎉🎉🎉 1/2
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congratulations everyone 👏👏

In Angomonas, the host and endosymbiont divide in sync. We discovered that ETP2 helps recruit the dynamin-like protein ETP9 to the symbiont division site, revealing a new piece of the host-encoded machinery controlling endosymbiont division.
Beautiful artwork by @anaymaurya.bsky.social 2/2

Seconded! And if you can't review please suggest alternates. Early career folks are always welcome and lots of journals make it easy to co-review with a trainee.

If you're new and want reviewing opportunities make sure your Google Scholar, Scopus and ORCID etc are up to date so we can find you!

A black and white illustration depicting the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age. There are blank labels 1–10 throughout the illustration.

An illustration depicting the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age.

Can you can identify these 10 components featured on our Evolving Immunity special issue cover? 🔎

Drop your guesses in the comments. We’ll reveal the answers next week, so stay tuned!

Discover more about the special issue here: https://scim.ag/3JdpWYj

Congratulations, Daniel 💐

Discover more about our dear Daniel: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
His paper can be found here
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for giving visibility to young scientists!

Congratulations to Megan Sørensen on receiving an FWF-ASTRA Award! We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded a prestigious FWF-ASTRA grant to investigate at CeMESS how microbial partnerships have shaped evolution.

We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded an FWF-ASTRA for her upcoming research at #CeMESS on microbial partnerships and evolution!

Read more about the grant and project 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Congratulations Megan💐👏

Congratulations Daniel and Philippe💐

Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀

Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de

A gatekeeper for gene transfers - Nature Plants Large-scale genetic screening for plastid-to-nucleus gene transfers identifies that fast double-strand break repair functions as a key barrier for nuclear integration of organellar DNA and provides in...

With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

T7 RNA polymerase-based gene expression from a transcriptionally silent rDNA spacer in the endosymbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei Eukaryotic life has been shaped fundamentally by the integration of bacterial endosymbionts. The trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei that contains a β-proteobacterial endosymbiont, represents an emerging ...

Excited to share that our T7 RNA polymerase-based expression system brings a new level of versatility to Angomonas deanei as a model for studying endosymbiosis!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Frontiers | The Mycotoxin Beauvericin Exhibits Immunostimulatory Effects on Dendritic Cells via Activating the TLR4 Signaling Pathway Beauvericin (BEA), a mycotoxin of the enniatin family produced by various toxigenic fungi, has been attributed multiple biological activities such as anti-ca...

..building on our previous Frontiers in Immunology paper 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fimm...

#Immunology #CathepsinB #Mycotoxins #ProteinScience #Beauvericin

📖 Have a look and feel free to share!

The mycotoxin Beauvericin is an uncompetitive inhibitor of Cathepsin B Beauvericin (BEA), a cyclic depsipeptide, is a mycotoxin of the enniatin family and the secondary metabolite of various toxigenic fungi. Multiple biological functions of BEA have been well investigat....

🚨 Our new publication out now
🍄☠️“The mycotoxin Beauvericin is an uncompetitive inhibitor of Cathepsin B”
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pro....
👏Congrats to first authors Xiaoli Yang & Pablo Cea-Medina @dfg.de #RTG2158 & thnx to Holger Gohlke for the great collaboration!
@hhu.de #RostockUniversityMedicalCenter

An Essential Adaptor for Apicoplast Fission and Inheritance in Malaria Parasites Blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites rely on a non-photosynthetic plastid, the apicoplast, for survival, making it an attractive target for antimalarial intervention. Like the mitochondrion, th...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
We’ve uncovered a key player in malaria parasite cell division—meet PfAnchor, the first apicoplast-specific dynamin adaptor protein! Check the thread below 🧵for more details. #U_ExM #Malaria #Apicoplast
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Angomonas deanei with flourescent-labeled nucleus and endosymbiont. ETP9 localizes at the endosymbiont division site.

Out today: Exciting intermediate between endosymbiont and organelle identified! Endosymbionts in Angomonas deanei lost nearly all bacterial cell division genes. Instead, we identified a host-encoded protein, ETP9, that became specialized for endosymbiont division. 1/2
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...