Generously funded by: EMBO and our sponsors: Frontiers - Microbiology, The Genetics Society, Nikon, ogibiotec, Microbiology Society, Mlife (Wiley) and New England Biolabs

📍 Cambridge, UK
📅 Don’t miss the deadline, submit your abstract and register now!
Ps: if you cannot travel, there is an option to join online!

More info here: lnkd.in/erx7jAGv

🎉 This is also a symbolic moment for the field: around 50 years since Carl Woese and colleagues first recognised Archaea as a distinct domain of life, fundamentally changing our understanding of evolution.

🏛️ A truly iconic setting:
Participants will stay in the beautiful Fitwilliam College and meet at the world-renowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), home to groundbreaking discoveries that shaped modern molecular biology.

✨ Why you shouldn’t miss it:
• A fantastic line-up of speakers.
• An interdisciplinary programme, from fundamental biology to emerging applications
• A chance to connect with a vibrant and collaborative international community
• A tailored pre-event session dedicated to Early Career Researcher

The event brings together an exceptional variety of Archaea-related topics, spanning molecular biology, evolution, biochemistry, structural biology, biophysics, and ecology, reflecting the incredible breadth of archaeal research today.

🧬 Last call to join us in Cambridge for #EMBOMBoA26 (July 6th-10th)!

We are just one week away from the registration and abstract submission deadline for the EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea!

It’s on again tonight! You can listen live! 11pm uk time.

The leafless flower in my office shot up, looked out of the window for signs of spring, then bloomed!

Have you tried the bbc website?

I think it’s goes worldwide soon!

And thanks to the amazing team at the BBC, Misha, Simon, Martha, Victoria, Eliane, and all those working behind the scenes for putting their spotlight on archaea, and for the tea.

Thanks Christa and Thorsten

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaea How a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth.

Archaea hit prime time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing work by Kris and gang! For the first time we have been able to image division ring components live in Sulfolobus. And guess what - CdvA is asymmetrically inherited.

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Jan Lowe, LMB director, first author! Wow!

New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

There are also EMBO travel grants available

july 10th > I expect frenzied arm-waving at this event...

Note for those interested in Asgard archaea - please join us on the morning of July 10th for a ‘building a community’ discussion!

Extremophile alert!

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 EMBO Archaeal workshop in Cambridge.

Spaces are limited, so register soon with an abstract if you’d like to give a talk.

If you can’t come in person, we are welcoming virtual attendees. So join us online where all talks will be screened!

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊

At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us!

🔎 Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

Thanks!

Stay strong. We understand.

#LivingArchitectures

Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.

Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful

#LivingArchitectures Brought further to life by the stunning music of Alexandre Desplat, Philippe Hersant, and Kaija Saariaho

Using micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!

#LivingArchitectures is a glorious convergence of science and art.
@manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab turn the Orsay into a living canvas - its walls and ceilings pulsating with life. Cytoskeletal asters bloom. Cells stream, pause and surge. Magnifique!