Happy Hi from the 2026 Rothenfels Meeting - the 29. Symposium „Infection and Immune Defense“ of the @dgfi-org.bsky.social and #DGHM
🦠🧫🔬 - always a great opportunity for networking for the community and esp. our aspiring junior researchers👩🏻🔬🧑🏽🔬👨🏼🔬 for presenting and discussing their projects.
Special thanks to our keynote speakers Claudia Kemper from the NIH and Christoph Wilhelm @labwilhelm.bsky.social from Bonn University - inspiring talks 👏🏼👏🏼 about the cell autonomous function of the complement system and about how nutrition impacts our barrier immunity& immune metabolism!!
Ha ha ha, you took my job.😄😄👏👏
Congratulations 🥳
Short graphical abstract summarizing key facts about Angomonas: its habitat in the digestive tract of insects; the cellular organization of the flagellate containing a single cytoplasmic endsymbiont with associated glycosomes; synchronized cell cycles of host and endosymbiont; the discovery of endosymbiont-targeted host proteins (ETPs) by mass spectrometry; differential subcellular localization of the ETPs; and the endosymbiont division machinery of dual genetic origin.
The symbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei is Parasite of the Month. 🙂
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✨ I am thrilled to share ✨ that our paper on computational biosensor design has just been published!
Huge thanks to all co-authors and collaborators for the great teamwork and dedication throughout this journey! 🙌
📄 Read the paper here:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
On this day in 2021, I landed in a snowy, lockdown-silenced Heidelberg to start my lab. 5 years later we are a force to reckon with in our field, and the first generation are striking out on their own. I couldn’t be more proud, & grateful to them and our wonderful collaborators around the world 🌍 🧪
Congratulations💐, Christine. Well deserved 👏
Finally out – It is all about cholesterol
Thanks to all for this excellent collaboration
Thanks for sharing Philippe, nice to see Julius there.😊
The exceptional Julius Lukes gave a great talk @pasteur.fr today making sense of non-sense #parasites!
📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬
Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions.
Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a....
Please help us get the word out!
Applause to Victoria Klimenko and huge thanks to @sander1507.bsky.social and the whole HHU Center for Structural Studies team for an amazing collaboration!🥳🥳🥳 (2/2)
crTP X-ray structure
✨X-ray crystallography reveals surprising twist in how proteins enter the unique photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella. The chromatophore targeting peptide (crTP) folds into a 3D structure, hinting that folded proteins cross peptidoglycan and inner membrane. (1/2)
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Great issue! Bonus: includes Daniel's work on incorporation of tagged tubulin in flagella!
Thanks, Gautam. This helps students reducing their level of demoralisation.😊
If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.
I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
Interesting!!❤️
Out today: New nucleus-encoded component of the endosymbiont division machinery identified in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei.
Congrats @anaymaurya.bsky.social and @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social!!!🎉🎉🎉 1/2
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Congratulations everyone 👏👏
In Angomonas, the host and endosymbiont divide in sync. We discovered that ETP2 helps recruit the dynamin-like protein ETP9 to the symbiont division site, revealing a new piece of the host-encoded machinery controlling endosymbiont division.
Beautiful artwork by @anaymaurya.bsky.social 2/2
Seconded! And if you can't review please suggest alternates. Early career folks are always welcome and lots of journals make it easy to co-review with a trainee.
If you're new and want reviewing opportunities make sure your Google Scholar, Scopus and ORCID etc are up to date so we can find you!
A black and white illustration depicting the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age. There are blank labels 1–10 throughout the illustration.
An illustration depicting the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age.
Can you can identify these 10 components featured on our Evolving Immunity special issue cover? 🔎
Drop your guesses in the comments. We’ll reveal the answers next week, so stay tuned!
Discover more about the special issue here: https://scim.ag/3JdpWYj
Congratulations, Daniel 💐
Discover more about our dear Daniel: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
His paper can be found here
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for giving visibility to young scientists!
We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded an FWF-ASTRA for her upcoming research at #CeMESS on microbial partnerships and evolution!
Read more about the grant and project 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Congratulations Megan💐👏
Congratulations Daniel and Philippe💐
Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀
Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de