Very happy to share our new paper describing the structure of the catalytic core of the Integrator complex, published today in Molecular Cell . Fantastic work of Moritz Pfleiderer the first PhD student in my group EMBL Grenoble! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…

Hello Zurich, hello 🇨🇭! actuallly the 5th country I will be living in after 🇮🇹🇦🇹🇬🇧🇩🇪..science is global! 🌐🌍 many thanks to my new collegues D-CHAB ETH Zurich for the warm welcome! 😊 We are excited to be part of the LOC and look forward to great times and science together!

Thanks to everyone The Francis Crick Institute for the last four years, it has been awesome! Now on to the next exciting adventure Københavns Uni. Denmark here I come!

We are really excited to share our new preprint & first contribution to the natural transformation field! Well done & thanks to @SebastianBraus, the whole lab, and our wonderful collaborators, Francesca Short & Alvar Gossert, for making this happen! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm very saddened by the news of Jane's death. You will be so sorely missed 😢

Very excited to share that we've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the mechanisms of natural transformation😀👩‍🔬🧬! Thanks a lot to my team and the ERC/SERI for their support and congratulations to all other awardees! ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Molecular Biologist Manuela Hospenthal: In my research I want to understand how bacteria exchange DNA with each other. hospenthalgroup.ethz.ch #WomenInScience Life Science Zurich D-BIOL @ ETH Zurich

FimT is a novel DNA receptor. A study by the Manuela Hospenthal group in collaboration with the Gossert (ETH) and Francesca Short (Monash, Australia) groups shows how FimT’s ability to bind DNA is crucial for bacterial natural transformation. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Cool science alert! Otago biochemists led by Prof Day have just published in Nature Communications. They reveal the exact mechanism of how ubiquitin regulates the activity of an E3 ligase. rdcu.be/cIdRR Though small, #ubiquitin is profoundly important to multi-cellular life.1/4

Can't wait to see you at your lecture tomorrow!

Congratulations to the Waksman lab and collaborators for the beautiful work on the T4SS! I know how hard you worked on this and it's an amazing achievement. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🎉 Welcome our 24 new Young Investigators joining the EMBO YIP network! The new YIPs will receive financial and practical support for a period of four years, starting in January 2023 – congratulations! ➡️ Read more in the press release here: embo.org/press-releases…

1/9 Our manuscript on type 1 pilus stability is finally out in @naturecomms! Our study reveals how bacteria assemble their highly stable type 1 pili. We show pili formed in vivo via the chaperone-usher pathway are up to 1000x more stable than those assembled in vitro.

9/9 This work was completed through excellent collaboration with Manuela Hospenthal, Gabriel Waksman, Thomas Wiegand, and Beat Meier, with support from Paul Bachmann, Rafal Zdanowicz, and Christoph Giese. The manuscript is available in open access here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Check out our new paper on a previously unknown function of the type 1 pilus assembly platform FimD! Many thanks to everybody involved in this terrific collaboration with the labs of Gabriel Waksman, Manuela Hospenthal, Beat Meier and Thomas Wiegand. rdcu.be/dD7C6

Check out rdcu.be/dD7C6. FimD is needed for type 1 pili to assemble to their most stable quaternary structure. Thanks to all who were involved Dawid Zyla, Thomas Wiegand, Paul Bachmann, Rafał Zdanowicz, Christoph Giese, Beat Meier, Gabriel Waksman & Glockshuber group

Dear bacterial transformation community 🧪🧫🦠 We are delighted to announce this year's Griffith's Legacy meeting, which will take place as a Zoom webinar on 5-6 June. To register, click here: forms.gle/2qstbhBJc369Ud…. Please also spread the word

Dear bacterial transformation community, This is a reminder to register for the upcoming Griffith's Legacy meeting, which will take place as a Zoom webinar on 5-6th of June. Use this link to register: forms.gle/2qstbhBJc369Ud… Please also spread the word🙂