Reminder for our GBM Lunch Seminar tomorrow, April 22 at 12:30!

Dear Lipid and Membrane Enthusiasts,

There is only one month!! left to register and submit your abstracts for the @embo.org Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, which will be held from September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, Germany.

Workshop program and registration page: meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...

It’s Monday morning….Have a great start into this week with this very nice Mito rap.

10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

Happy Golgi Day

Tanja Kortemme | I, biochemist: Automation & AI in the lab YouTube video by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Tanja Kortemme's lab at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social focuses on AI and machine learning to engineer de novo proteins.

⏯️ Watch her #ASBMB26 talk, "I, biochemist: Automation & AI in the lab": youtu.be/uLQbaiTYIQY.
#AI #MachineLearning #ASBMB26

This is figure 1, which shows immune cellular dynamics through the lifespan differ between male and female donors.

An analysis in Nature Aging identifies sex-specific changes in inflammation, autoimmunity and disease risk over the adult lifespan, with more widespread age-related immune remodeling in females. go.nature.com/4mwYVyJ #medsky 🧪

„Der Ärztin war längst klar, dass es sich um Brustkrebs handelt. Mir aber nicht.“ Cindy Körner ist Molekularbiologin und erforscht Brustkrebs – bis sie selbst die Diagnose erhält. Heute nutzt sie ihre doppelte Perspektive, um auf LinkedIn aufzuklären und sich für eine bessere Kommu...

Cindy Körner forscht zu Brustkrebs – dann erhält sie selbst die Diagnose. Heute nutzt sie ihre doppelte Perspektive, um aufzuklären und sich für eine bessere Kommunikation zwischen Ärzt*innen und Patient*innen einzusetzen. Ein Gespräch über sehr persönliche #Wisskomm 👇

@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social

Congratulations, Yue! This was an impressive PhD Defence and this fantastic doctoral hat is well-deserved! I particularly love the „citrus-cycle“, from seed to fruit 😂

I am very excited about this seminar next week: no science this time, but a discussion on combining parenthood with a job in science.

If you have specific questions --> let me know, and I'll make sure we discuss them!

Not restricted to GBM members only, feel free to join!

Next GBM Lunch on April 22 (12:30)

Speaker: Lena Eckert (Netzwerk Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft)

Join us for an introduction & discussion on topics of "Parenthood in Science".

Chair: @kfeijszaja.bsky.social
Organized by: GBM Young Investigators
#GBMLunch

Job offer for a junior group leader position 👇👇👇

Welcome back!

PhD student or postdoc in microbiology? 🔬🦠
We are opening a new round of our career orientation program VAAMentoring – Get matched with an experienced scientist 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 to help you find your direction🎯

Apply by May 15, 2026
More info🔗 t1p.de/2iamo

#microbiology #mentoring #VAAM #PhDlife #Postdoc

Happy to present our latest story: the BCRII complex with the Boll and @cellarchlab.com . Months of processing by @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. Also @tomaspascoa.bsky.social and @tamb-o.bsky.social managed an in-situ tour de force. And Lena Appel did amazing biochemistry. This story has it all. Enjoy it.

Congratulations, Franziska! Although this had been a sad day for Heidelberg, it is comforting to know that Marie Luise will be remembered through this award.

Zeckenbisse: 24 Menschen starben 2024 an FSME oder Borreliose Mit den steigenden Temperaturen in Deutschland werden Zecken wieder aktiver. Für 2024 hat das Statistische Bundesamt nun neue Erkenntnisse vorgelegt.

Lasst euch impfen.

Pfizer und Valneva sollen mal in die Pötte kommen mit der Borelliose-Impfung. Die kleinen Beißer breiten sich von Jahr zu Jahr mehr aus.

"Die Zahl der Krankenhausbehandlungen wegen FSME stieg demnach deutlich. 2024 mussten deshalb knapp 850 Menschen stationär behandelt werden."

This is figure 1, which shows clinical course and treatments administered to the Oslo patient from HIV diagnosis to 48 months post HSCT.

Long-term HIV remission has been achieved in a patient following a stem cell transplant from a sibling carrying a certain genetic mutation, according to research in Nature Microbiology. go.nature.com/4dLAj2L #medsky 🧪

Phase-III-Studie: Impfstoffkandidat gegen Borreliose zeigt gute Wirksamkeit Die Unternehmen Pfizer und Valneva gaben bekannt, dass ihr experimenteller Impfstoff gegen Lyme-Borreliose in einer Phase-III-Studie eine Wirksamkeit von &...

#Lyme-Borreliose breitet sich geografisch aus, da steigende Temperaturen Lebensräume von Zecken erweitern. Der Bedarf eines Impfstoff ist dringlich. Nun zeigt ein Impfstoff gute Wirksamkeit & könnte bald zugelassen werden. via @pharmazeitung.bsky.social www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/impfstoffkan...

🏆 Der Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften 2026 ist ausgeschrieben. 4 Kategorien, je 5.000 €. Die GDCh ist Mitausloberin. Eigenbewerbungen möglich. Frist: 4. Mai 2026.
Jetzt nominieren oder bewerben: www.stifterverband.org/ars-legendi-mn
#ArsLegendi #Hochschullehre #Chemie

The turning point for rare diseases, which affect >300 million people around the world.
A call to get rid of its many structural obstacles, to consider it as molecular surgery unlike drug treatments
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

PhD Project

PhD Project "Inferring circadian dynamics in mRNA dynamics during aging" (Computing-Rhythms) - #Heidelberg University.

#science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch
#phd #phdposition

www.science.hr/jobs/226965/...

Research professor - open to all scientific fields (Open BOFZAP) (ref. BZI-2026-21)

New position: Research professor - open to all scientific fields (Open BOFZAP).

#science #career #jobs #sciencejobs #job #jobsearch
#professor

www.science.hr/jobs/226838/...

One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio Nature - Fourteen months after treatment with engineered immune cells, the recipient has no symptoms and doesn’t need to take medication.

A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three autoimmune diseases has had no symptoms since receiving a single dose of engineered immune cells

go.nature.com/4c2dZRh

Interesting #lipidtime food science: eating melted cheese increases your triglycerides and cholesterol more than eating the *exact same cheese* unmelted — possibly due to changes at the molecular level in a phospholipid *trilayer* that encapsulates fat in dairy products!

Am kommenden Mittwoch findet eine Anhörung zum Wissenschaftsfreiheitsgesetz statt!

Hintergrund ist das laufende Gesetzgebungsverfahren zur Änderung des Wissenschaftsfreiheitsgesetz. Es ist geplant, das sogenannte Besserstellungsverbot zu lockern.

Mehr Infos: www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/...

There's a strange myth about science: that theory comes first, and that data cannot show anything new. But anyone who's ever done science knows the truth that there's a long conversation between data & hypotheses. Back & forth.. until the discovery. And if you think about it, it has to be this way!

The era of viewing the tumor in isolation is over. We are now looking at a multidimensional ecosystem where metabolic cues define cancer cell plasticity and therapy resistance.

Open Access
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #ResearchPublishing #Academicsky 🧪

If journals shape scientific #careers, shouldn’t we evaluate their quality more rigorously? 🧪

A Science & Society article explores why it may be time to rethink how we assess the quality and impact of journals: link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-0...

#LifeSciences #publishing