SAVE THE DATE: 10-14 May 2025 CONFERENCE: 2nd Recombination Mechanisms WHERE: Chania, Crete 🌞 Check out the incredible speaker line up for our 2nd Recombination Mechanisms conference in sunny Crete next year!🌞 ⚠ Early Bird and Talk Submission deadline is 28th November 2024.

Our story on RNA-templated gene synthesis in antiviral immunity is out today in Science Magazine! We discovered a cryptic gene, neo, that is created de novo by infected cells in a remarkable feat of molecular gymnastics🤸 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Any ideas what this particle could be? Isolated from HEK293T cells.

I wish I was a chemist to attend this symposium.

Recently, many animal antiviral genes have been shown to have bacterial origins. Although we did not find true Mx orthologs in any bacterial species, there are suggestions that Dynamin-like proteins might have independently converged for antiviral function in bacteria as well. 4/

It’s out! Our first B. subtilis paper, published at Nature Communications Translation in Bacillus subtilis is spatially and temporally coordinated during sporulation. #subtiwiki #bacillus rdcu.be/dRBF4 Performed at Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS Funded by FNP Foundation for Polish Science EMBO YIP

Excited to share the revised version with a new title "CDCA7 is an evolutionarily conserved hemimethylated DNA sensor in eukaryotes" now published Science Advances! Congrats Isabel Wassing, Anna Jia, Atsuya Nishiyama, Kyohei Arita! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In this review, I discuss the origin of the name LUCA in 1996. I answer the question; was LUCA an individual? And I disuses its position in the tree of life based on the pattern of ribosomal protein distribution pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158619/

How about this: Eliminate the job "post-doc". After a PhD you are a "researcher", and no punishment for multiple stops. At any point (age blind) you can apply for starting grant funds. You apply for consolidator funds w/in 7 years of starting lab (unlinked to PhD date).

Killer moment of the debate: Moderator: so just to be clear, you still don’t have a plan. Trump: I have concepts of a plan. … (I have sat through enough qualifying exams to know that is not the answer you want to hear from someone running for the toughest job in the world)

Shiny new project. Do you have the time? No: --> Don't do it. Yes: --> No you don't.

I already got a 2.1 A structure with cryo-EM, which is better than any crystal structures I ever got 😮. The hard part is starting now, with 3D classifications...

1. Today, Governor Beshear of Kentucky signed an EO banning conversion therapy. He did this despite millions in anti-trans ads being spent against him in 2023. It even punches back at an anti-trans talking point featured in the NY Times. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Our latest work on structures of translation initiation complexes trapped by natural product inhibitors kasugamycin, edeine and GE81112 is out in the Biorxiv…biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is eugenics. As President of the American Genetics Association and a human, I reject this. We are better than this. cnn.com/2024/10/07/pol…

I will gladly use bsky from now on.