COMMENTARY: Lighting the way: Compelling open questions in photosynthesis research (Nancy A Eckardt, Yagut Allahverdiyeva, Clarisa E Alvarez, Claudia Büchel, Adrien Burlacot, Tanai Cardona, et. al.) buff.ly/46gHDxw Nan Eckardt MaurinoLab Ben Engel ASPB #PlantSci

HS-AFM revealed the filament flow in the spiral: counterclockwise (CCW) from a central polymerization hub.

Swirly🌀 high-speed AFM of the Very Important Protein (protector of photosynthetic membranes everywhere)!Rings, Rods, Spirals, Polygons… I’m continually amazed by the range of shapes VIPP1 adopts. ESCRT-III proteins are crazy🤩. Pleasure collaborating with you, Simon & Sichen!🤝

Super stoked to have Moritz Hunkeler in da house Biozentrum, University of Basel

The Biozentrum, University of Basel retreat was really a blast. Such a curious, smart, passionate, creative, fun, and caring community. It's a family, and I'm home🤗

This looks great for all you planty peeps out there!🌱 UNIGE is an awesome spot, with cool colleagues, good resources/infrastructure, and a long tradition of plant biology. Who will join our SwissPLANT crew?🇨🇭🌴

Take a look at our Spatial Transcriptomics and single-cell Multiomics papers. We visualize more than 20,000 genes and 200,000 accessible chromatin regions in whole embryos. x.com/biorxiv_devbio… x.com/biorxiv_devbio….

Bravo!! Amazing work from my colleague on the organization and structure of respiratory complexes in native chlamy mitochondria using cryo-ET

In-situ Visual Proteomics of Chlamydomonas. Beautiful work Florent Waltz Ben Engel Abhay Kotecha and team. Congratulations 🎉🎉👏👏🎉

These EM Tomogram segmentations always give me goosebumps. These are the very machines which power our cells, laid out in not regimented but far from random ways - and just appreciate the detail here. You have millions of billions of these machines whirring away right now

YAY!!🙌🙌🙌 Former postdoc and now amazing new PI Alicia K. Michael just got an European Research Council (ERC) starting grant! Party hard, Alicia!🪩💃🦓

Wonderful fusion of single particle cryo-EM and in situ cryo-ET to unveil respiratory complex organisation in mitochondria. Knockout stuff from Ben Engel and team 👏

Feeling very honored to receive #ERCStG #ChromaChrono ⏱️🧬alongside fantastic colleagues & excited to launch this next chapter ISTAustria together with my new team Onkar Ghuge Darina Barkhatova Deepthi Joseph and others to come! A big thank you to all those for their support!

I also would like to say that none of this would have been possible without the amazing people developing the cryo-ET software. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have been working with Ricardo Righetto in our team, he made sure all the software were properly working.

Our paper on the pyrenoid-localized ion channel BST4 has been published! Following advice from reviewers, we've now discovered that BST4 is involved in acclimation to fluctuating light 👀 Next job is to figure out how... academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Lift-out Biozentrum, University of Basel confirmed! 🥢👍

The call to start a structural biology / biophysics / advanced imaging group here at the Biozentrum, University of Basel closes SEPTEMBER 30! Love exploring biology w/ superresolution imaging and/or integrated structural biology (NMR, XRay, cryoEM, cryoET, XLMS, structure prediction)? Please apply!

Houston, we have lift-out 🚀