Save the date! 🗓️ On October 3, we invite you to the #OpenHouse at the #Garching research campus. ⚗️🧬 Experience research up close with talks, hands-on activities, tours & more: www.tum.de/en/open-day

#OpenCampus #HigherEducation

📹Forschungscampus Garching

“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.”

John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

Celebrating the 1st anniversary of the Höpfler lab! 🎂 🥂
The cactus-ribosome translating this special message now decorating my office... Thanks Stefania, Laia & Mariana for the creative surprise!

Molecular mapping in DNA-PAINT via modified Gaussian Mixture Modeling - Nature Communications Standard algorithms fail to fully exploit the spatial information in DNA-PAINT. Here, the authors present G5M, an algorithm providing molecular maps by accurately inferring biomolecule positions at di...

In DNA-PAINT, nearby proteins create overlapping localizations. You may see two by eye, but analysis often misses them, wasting precious precision. G5M solves this. Now in @natcomms.nature.com. doi.org/10.1038/s414.... 1/7

Fantastic news! 🙌 The Perutz is excited to welcome Danny Nedialkova as a new group leader starting this April! 🎉 She will strengthen the institute's research on the fundamental mechanisms that shape cellular physiology and disease ➡️ www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/res...

Designing proteins for targeted cell activation Prof. Thomas Schlichthärle spricht über seine Arbeit als Professor für AI-guided Protein Design.

Get to know Thomas Schlichthärle, our newly appointed professor of #AI-guided #ProteinDesign, in the latest NewIn episode. He wants to use custom-designed #proteins to advance the development of new #medicines: go.tum.de/484027

#HightechAgendaBayern

▶️ youtu.be/G-pt28HJpA8

📹& 📷ProLehre

Please join Andreas Ladurner and me for the GRC Chromatin Structure and Function conference to be held near Barcelona Spain from May 31-June 5! We accepting abstracts for posters and talks. The meeting is preceded by an awesome GRS. Learn more in our video below and apply www.grc.org/chromatin-st...

🧪🧬New preprint We present cryo-EM structures of reconstituted CTCF–nucleosome complexes, showing CTCF dimerization drives nucleosome oligomerization into defined higher-order assemblies. Disrupting CTCF–CTCF interfaces in mESCs reduces looping and impairs differentiation. tinyurl.com/CTCF-nucleos...

Dynamic Binder Exchange Improves Protein Labeling Efficiency in DNA‐PAINT up to 15‐Fold Dynamic Binder Exchange (DyBE) leverages transient binder–target interactions to enhance labeling efficiency by up to 15-fold in super-resolution microscopy. DyBE maps nanoscale receptor tyrosine kin...

Up to 15-fold improvement in protein labeling for DNA-PAINT 🧬🔬. We are excited to present our latest work published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to share our perspective on the DNA translocation mechanism by the CMG helicase.

DNA translocation by the CMG helicase: the helical inchworm model url: portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

Presenting our research tomorrow @aicc-ireland.bsky.social Please join via Zoom!

Single-molecule tracking of RNA-DNA hybrid removal enzymes important for lagging-strand replication The formation of RNA-DNA hybrid (RDH) primers by primase is an essential step in the recruitment of DNA polymerase during replication initiation and for the synthesis of each Okazaki fragment on the l...

Single-molecule tracking of RNA-DNA hybrid removal enzymes important for lagging-strand replication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Six ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to TUM researchers Six additional researchers at TUM will receive funding through the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.

Six scientists, including Karen Alim (pictured), receive new ERC Consolidator Grants supporting projects in #biotechnology, #medicine and #physics, ranging from adaptive matter to cancer signaling and dark matter detection. Congrats! 👏 go.tum.de/402398

#ERCCoG
@erc.europa.eu
📷A.Heddergott

Thrilled to announce some big news!

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award to establish my research as a Group Leader in the Glycosciences Program at the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, beginning in early 2026.

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

RNA polymerase II is a polar roadblock to a progressing DNA fork Nature Communications - Transcription–replication conflicts can threaten genome stability. Here, the authors show that RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is a stronger roadblock to a DNA fork in the...

Great work from Michelle Wang’s group at Cornell exploring how RNAP II and associated R-loops act as intrinsic roadblocks during mechanical DNA unzipping. These findings have mechanistic implications for transcription–replication conflict.

rdcu.be/eILVd

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When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety

Who knows what will happen now

Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )

Our Wadjet-II paper by @roisnehamelinf.bsky.social is out in polished form: www.cell.com/structure/fu...

With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:

Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.

www.cell.com/structure/fu...

🚨 2 × PhD positions @EPFL! 🚨
Help us push the boundaries of fluorescence microscopy - DNA nanotech, custom optics & spatial omics in Lausanne 🇨🇭. Start Jan 2026. Send CV + motivation + 2 refs → fschueder@ethz.ch
#PhD #Hiring #microscopy #SuperResolution #SpatialOmics #DNAPAINT #FLASHPAINT

Now peer reviewed and in its final form @natcomms.nature.com

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

Postdoctoral Fellow - Costa Lab Salary for this Role: From £45,500 with benefits, subject to skills and experience. Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Costa Lab Reports to: Alessandro Costa Closing Date: 03/Aug/2025 23.59 GMT Job Desc...

Less than two weeks left to apply!

Postdoc positions in my lab to study

1. initiation of DNA replication.

2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.

Great for biochemists, biophysicists & structural biologists.

Deadline 3 August 2025.

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Nanoscale 3D DNA tracing in non-denatured cells resolves the Cohesin-dependent loop architecture of the genome in situ - Nature Communications A nanoscale 3D DNA tracing workflow visualizes Cohesin-dependent loops in single, structurally well-preserved cells. Computer simulations based on the tracing data give further insight into how Cohesi...

Our new non-denaturing nanoscale 3D DNA tracing technology provides single-cell (and sister-chromatid specific!) readout of chromatin structure with 10kb genomic resolution - Check it out!

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

Congratulations to Kai and Oyvind!!

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor - Nature Microbiology Sequence and structural analyses reveal a divergent peptidyl transferase centre and a hibernation factor in archaea.

Out now:

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor

@jhdcate.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social @diptinayak.bsky.social & co

#microsky

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

Very exciting new technology manuscript from @alicepyne.bsky.social lab!
High-res AFM + AI pipeline quantifies complex DNA topology. t.co/qxD7o7ASl6
Very happy to contribute with @singlemoleculenev.bsky.social plasmids replicating past barriers in Xenopus egg extract.
Congratulation everyone!

#pictureofthemonth: Illustration of the read-write mechanism by which ubiquitin tags are placed on histone H2A along genes to influence their expression. More: www.biochem.mpg.de/painting-gen...

July – institute calendar of @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @mpiforbi.bsky.social

Image by Tamara Bäßler

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Innate immune system: How modified RNA tricks the immune system Researchers at LMU have elucidated why certain RNA modifications do not trigger an immune response—a key mechanism for RNA therapeutics.

🥳Amazing publication from the Hornung lab, in collab. with the Carell lab, on the innate immune system: how modified RNA tricks the immune system. Big shout-out to the two first authors, Marleen Bérouti and Mirko Wagner! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@v-hornung.bsky.social @m-berouti.bsky.social

It also has devastating cuts to virtually everything I want my taxes to support: science, a safety net, conservation, etc. Call your Senator today--30 seconds will work. Tell them to vote NO on this bill. Tillis is at: (202) 224-6342 3/n

Will the Senate Save NIH? Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.

The proposed budget slashes NIH by ~40%, devastating medical research, clinical trials, treatment breakthroughs—life-saving work.

Thousands of lives at risk for tax cuts for the rich? NO THANKS.

Tell your senators to oppose the cuts HERE:
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#CutsCostLives

new preprint alert from the lab: bringing some order into the wide and wild diversity of archaeal histones. Who has acidic histones? who has multiple histones? what histone combinations do archaea employ and why? find all of this and more here
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...