Tamara Basta

Open FSEP position in our team 📣
Nous recrutons un/e Ingénieur/e d’étude en biologie.
Profil : être titulaire d’un poste permanent au CNRS (IE) et avoir envie d’étudier la chromatine bactérienne 😉
Date limite : jeudi 15 janvier.
Détails et candidature ici :
mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr/ords/afip/ow...

Last chance to apply for one of the LSI PhD projects intake Sept 2026! Deadline tomorrow, 26.11.2025, noon. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... @exeter.ac.uk @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Archaeal cells whose DNA has been stained with a blue dye. Zoomed-in images of mutant cells that display chromosome segregation defects.

High-resolution images of DNA-protein complexes obtained with atomic force microscopy. Upon binding, the protein bridges distant sites, forming loops.

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!

Congratulations Olivier !

The Thermococcales as a model system: historical perspectives and emerging tools | Journal of Bacteriology The exploration of life in extreme environments gained prominence with Thomas Brock’s “Life at High Temperatures” (1), and his subsequent isolation of Thermus aquaticus with Hudson Freeze in 1969 (2) ...

A very nice review on my favorite archaea. The Thermococcales as a model system: historical perspectives and emerging tools | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Modulation of archaeal hypernucleosome structure and stability by Mg2+ DNA-wrapping histone proteins play a central role in chromatin organization, gene expression and regulation in most eukaryotes and archaea. While the …

New article online: Modulation of archaeal hypernucleosome structure and stability by Mg2+

In this work, we dissect the effects of Mg2+ on hypernucleosomes formed by the canonical histones from M. fervidus (HMfA and HMfB) and T. kodakarensis (HTkA and HTkB).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Thermococcales as a model system: historical perspectives and emerging tools | Journal of Bacteriology The exploration of life in extreme environments gained prominence with Thomas Brock’s “Life at High Temperatures” (1), and his subsequent isolation of Thermus aquaticus with Hudson Freeze in 1969 (2) ...

The Thermococcales as a model system: historical perspectives and emerging tools | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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
(1/🧵)

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

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

#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 🧬

Group photo

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

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

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!