A photo of Lynmarie Thompson, the president of the Biophysical Society, awarding a plaque to Erdinc Sezgin. They are both smiling.
Congratulations to @sciezgin.bsky.social for being honored with the 2026 Early Independent Career award from the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social!
Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too!
This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪
🎉 Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for submitting her PhD thesis, just in time for Christmas!! 🎄🦠
🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Best Poster Awards at #BiomembraneDays2025 sponsored by @lipotype.bsky.social
🏆Manpreet Kaur (with @fabiololicato.com &W. Nickel)
🏆Jana Kroll (@janakroll.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social)
🏆Ha Ngoc Anh Nguyen (with @jamessaenz.bsky.social)
🚀Science rocks!
Congratulations to @anh-nhn.bsky.social for winning the @lipotype.bsky.social poster award at #BiomembraneDays Berlin! 🎉🔥 @bcube-tud.bsky.social
Pit stop for clam chowder and lobster rolls 🦞 with the Dresden #lipidtime crew en route to Waterville Valley, NH for the Molecular & Cell Biology of Lipids meeting! @nadlerlab.bsky.social @tcjea.bsky.social @anh-nhn.bsky.social
How do lipids shape life? I explore this question in my recent talk for the Build-a-Cell 🦠 seminar series. Thanks to @kateadamala.bsky.social for hosting! Watch it here: youtu.be/JnF7hPCiSbI?...
Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social
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Cheers!
We had a lively journal club today discussing this excellent paper about cell membrane adaptation in the deep sea www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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