Tamara Basta

Our work on ribosome hibernation in archaea is out!
We identified Hib, a new hibernation factor broadly distributed across archaea.
Check out the preprint 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.676729v1
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ribosomologists take note 👇

archaeal ribosome hibernation factors aRDF, Dri, ...and now: Hib (see ALT)
#Archaea #ArchaeaSky

Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Du 2 au 5 décembre 2025, Université Paris-Cité
Congrès « Enzymes, Proteolysis & Metabolism at the crossroads of Biochemistry », premier congrès commun de trois Groupes Thématiques de la SFBBM.

gts-sfbbm-2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

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#BioPhyChrom25 gala dinner at the 14th century #Hospitium venue in York, and @agnesnoy.bsky.social talk. Lots of discussion and ideas for BioPhyChrom2027… Great vibes and atmosphere!
@biophychrom.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social 🧬

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That’s a wrap for The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII 2025. A big thank you to all those who attended 🧪 #BioPhyChrom2025 #BiochemEvents

#Biophychrom2025 is over, but we spent four exciting days discussing the biology and physics of prokaryotic chromosomes. Congratulations to all the attendees for making this conference a success.
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
@danielabarilla.bsky.social
@graingerlab.bsky.social
@damelab.bsky.social

With evidence attached 😊
#BioPhyChrom2025
@biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social
@damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social @tamarabasta.bsky.social

Front entrance to York Minster cathedral with a blue sky background.

The countdown for #BioPhyChrom2025 is nearly over: -2 days to go… What a fête of chromosome biology & physics!🧬

Safe journey everyone! ✈️🚂
@vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

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Tomorrow is the start of Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII. Great speakers and participants. Excellent support by the Biochem. Society. @biochemsoc.bsky.social
@danielabarilla.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social
@graingerlab.bsky.social
@damelab.bsky.social
#BioPhyChrom2025

Thank you Naomichi, it was great having you with us !

Dear Naomichi, sorry I just saw your email. Does this work?

York calling! 📣 🧬🧬🧬

Join us at www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

⏳⏰ Early bird deadline approaching soon, 16 July! Do not miss out! Half of the talks selected from abstracts.
@damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.

🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

Flyer advertising The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosome conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.

Chromosome Enthusiasts, join us at The Biology & Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes 🧬! Friendly community, fantastic speakers line-up, grant writing session for ECRs. Early-bird deadline approaching soon.
@damelab.bsky.social @vslioy.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

JAMSTEC Young Research Fellow (JYRF) | JAMSTEC - JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JAMSTEC Young Research Fellow (JYRF)

Would you like to work with us?
At JAMSTEC, we are recruiting postdoctoral researchers through the Young Research Fellow program.
This program allows fellows to independently pursue their own research projects.
www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/jy...

Friendly reminder for all people who love their thermophilic microbe friends: early bird registration for the Thermophiles conference in Münster/GER in September is open until June 1st. Don't miss out www.uni-muenster.de/Thermophiles...

#ArchaeaSky #MicroSky

And big thanks of course to all involved: the Quail lab @embl.org, and the @damelab.bsky.social

Come on! You still have time to register!

Think you're under pressure? Marion Illartin will close out our last APH session of the semester by telling us about her multidisciplinary approach to characterize how pressure regulates the SurR transcription factor in everyone's favorite barophile, Thermococcus barophilus!! Zoom in on May 14th!

In just 2 days on WEDNESDAY, May 14th at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET, @fabaiwu.bsky.social will kick off our last spring APH session by telling us about his new research investigating the evolution of DNA replication machineries from Archaea to Eukaryotes!!! Visit our website (link in bio) for more info!

Excited to announce the EMBO Conference: Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!
Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated entirely to Archaea.

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

Join us in Catalonia to discuss chromatin evolution across the tree of life and from all angles (metabolism, synthetic chromatin, you name it!) meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

🚨 Tune in this Wednesday for more exciting archaea science!

Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky

Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A funded PhD studentship is available for a joint project between my lab and @andreashaag.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social