Maria Polychronidou

Greece Records Second-Warmest Winter Since 1960 - tovima.com

Preliminary data show the 2025–2026 winter was unusually warm, with most days above normal temperatures and reduced snowfall despite significant rainfall.

Really grateful for the opportunity to be part of this workshop, thank you @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @pioneercampus.bsky.social for the great collaboration! #Bioengineering #SciencePolicy #BiomedicalEngineering #LifeSciences

Registration is now open for the EMBO Workshop "#Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in health and disease" in #Monopoli, Italy, 28 Sep–2 Oct 2026.

Registration deadline: 31 May
Abstract submission deadline: 15 Jun

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-ubiquitin
#EMBOubiquitin #EMBOevents 🧪

Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

GLP-1 medications might help people avoid becoming addicted to drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, and opioids

go.nature.com/3N5l49Z

Discuss advances in #epigenetics, #immunity and more in the EMBO Workshop "Aged #hematopoiesis & myeloid #leukemia: Molecular medicine insights" in #Kolkata, India, 16–19 Nov 2026.

Deadline: 15 July

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-hematopoiesis
#EMBOAgedHematopoiesis #EMBOevents 🧪

Do you have a great idea for starting a company? Would you like advice on how to pitch to potential investors? Join us for the EMBO #webinar on 1 April at 16–17:00 CET. 🧪

Register here:
https://embo-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7SLofSfuTPewgC2VZQVIUw#/registration #startup

March is #Endometriosis Awareness Month, and this Editorial by Alex Tosun (@atosun.bsky.social) discusses why greater awareness, education, funding and research for this systemic condition is imperative to redefining pain, equity, and investment in women’s health 🧪🌻 #Medsky
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We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Why We Must Act Now in Biomedical Engineering Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos explains how this can be achieved using three key levers.

A comment by Vasilis Ntziachristos @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

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Editorial by me, in our March issue!

Negative results are a thorny issue in essentially all fields of scientific research, and deserve a renewed look by authors and editors 👇

Now published! www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Benchmarking EGF signaling pathway inference using phosphoproteomics and kinase-substrate interactions - Nature Communications To what extent can large-scale approaches accurately reconstruct classic signaling pathways? Here, authors revisit the EGF pathway using phosphoproteomics and kinase-substrate interactions

Interested in kinase-driven signaling interactions? Check out our (now peer-reviewed) paper together with @savitski-lab.bsky.social on reconstructing signaling networks from phosphoproteomics data and prior knowledge:
➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Tryptophanase disruption promotes insect–bacterium mutualism - Nature Microbiology Disruption of a single gene encoding tryptophanase makes Escherichia coli mutualistic in a stinkbug model owing to the accumulation of tryptophan and a reduction in toxic indole. This gene is typicall...

Disruption of a single gene, tnaA, encoding tryptophanase makes E. coli mutualistic to stinkbug, resulting in the accumulation of tryptophan and the reduction of toxic indole. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And just like that, #EESCollectivity is done! These last four days just flew by and we want to thank every participant, speaker, and organiser for making the first edition of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Collectivity in living systems' such a success. We hope to see you at another event soon! 👋

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts.
Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia Adam Levy investigates why researchers are sometimes reluctant to disclose their plans to colleagues.

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia

go.nature.com/4kYCu4G

It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense.

An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and
@reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

Don't miss the EMBO Global Lecture "Building a minimal DNA segregation system for synthetic cells" by EMBO Global Investigator Prof. Marileen Dogterom (TU Delft, Universiteit Leiden) in #Bengaluru, India, 6 March 2026. 🧪

🚨 New paper out today in Nature Microbiology! During my postdoc we explored how the gut microbiome of people living with HIV impacts immune function and susceptibility to opportunistic infections.

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Restoring the tumour mechanophenotype of vocal fold cancer reverts its malignant properties - Nature Materials Vocal fold cancer tumours lose some of their malignant traits when mechanically stimulated by physiological stretch or vibrations, mimicking the opening and closing of vocal folds and phonation.

What music should we play to our cells? This was the start of an amazing journey from @ivaskalab.bsky.social at @turkubioscience.bsky.social with Jasmin Kaivola and collaborators @sarawickstrom.bsky.social and others to explore larynx cancer mechanosensitivity!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The allosteric landscape of the Src kinase Comprehensive allosteric mapping prioritizes all possible druggable surface pockets in the Src kinase for allosteric inhibition.

The allosteric landscape of the Src kinase
by Toni Beltran, @ajfaure.bsky.social , @crg.eu @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @alloxbio.bsky.social
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“If you removed all people from the planet, Hawaii would be on a completely different evolutionary ecological trajectory". This article by @interspecies.agency explains how Hawaii's so-called ‘freakosystems’ offer an unsettling glimpse of the future. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"We are now in a period with much more scepticism about science," says David Pellman, EMBO Associate Member at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 🧪

Read more:
https://www.embo.org/people/cancer-communication-and-connecting-continents/
#LifeSciences #science #research

This will feature an #EPIC scientific program. Something you have not seen before. Trust me 😉 CBG Alumni of all nations, unite!

Calling scientists based in the #Americas, it's not too late to register for the @embo.org Lab #Leadership live online course spread over 4 days between 9am – 3:30pm NY time on 17-20 March. Sign up now to avoid disappointment: www.embolableadership.org/course/embol... #EMBOLabLead

Missed the abstract deadline for 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation'? You now have some extra time so make sure to send it over by 22 Feb! Together, we can address the open challenges in cellular organisation, adaptation, and robustness. 🧬🦠 #EESPhaseSeparation
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This is figure 1, which shose psychedelics induce brain desynchronization.

A Review in Nature Medicine outlines the science behind psychedelic medicine and integrates mechanistic knowledge with clinical evidence across neuropsychiatric indications, highlighting challenges, controversies and opportunities. go.nature.com/4amcefC #medsky #Neuroskyence 🧪

Explore the 10 winning books from a decade of the International Booker Prize | The Booker Prizes As the International Booker celebrates 10 years in its current form, we look back on a decade of powerful prize winners, translated from 10 different languages

This year, we're celebrating a decade of the International Booker Prize in its current form. Ten books, authors and translators who have carved a route into a world where boundaries are permeable and magical things happen.

Tap the link to discover every International Booker Prize winner since 2016: