Just dynamin making extracellular vesicles in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.. 😎 embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

🎉 Our CRC 1552 'Defects and Defect Engineering in Soft Matter' will be funded by DFG public | @[email protected] and kick off at Universität Mainz & Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung soon, led by spokesperson Sebastian Seiffert. It will make defects new function givers in superb soft materials. Thanks to all who made this possible!🍾

A nice review by Marc Bramkamp @BramkampLab and Dirk-Jan Scheffers @DirkScheffers about membrane dynamics in bacteria and the proteins involved. Highly recommended! Bacterial membrane dynamics: Compartmentalization and repair pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37243899/

Check out our latest pre-print, a lot of hard work from Yaping has gone in to developing and optimising this! Hope it will be useful for the community. Big thanks to Ian Collinson and for sharing constructs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

See the new joint statement from professional societies in biomedicine and biology spearheaded by GBM on the planned amendment of the German Act on Temporary Scientific Contracts! Postdocs need 4 years or more to complete their work and another 6 for an academic career path!

Available now - the Review "Conserved structures of #ESCRTIII superfamily members across domains of life" from Lukas Schlosser Sachse Group Harry Low’s Lab Dirk Schneider They also propose a unified numbering convention/nomenclature for these structures. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hm4u3S6GfMm…

The missing piece in the bacterial #ESCRT-III story.. #Vipp1 forms dynamic spiral filaments on membrane! Spirals are springs that drive 3D ring formation in the spiral centre! 😎😵‍💫 Wonderful collaboration with A_Colom Roux Lab… 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Starting our Winter School second day #CellularSignaling with the Signaling Across Membranes session. Happy to share the stage with Dirk Schneider FORTHEM Alliance Superb organisation by Benoit Poinssot @univbourgogne

More bacterial ESCRT-III structures: A total of 61 cryo-EM structures of PspA reveal the molecular basis of plasticity of ESCRT-III assemblies under different conditions. Great collaboration with Dirk Schneider. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

More on bacterial ESCRT-III: a total 30 cryo-EM structures of Vipp1 organized in membrane-bound coats, carpets, ring complexes, stacked-ring assemblies, and helical tubes inducing high membrane curvature. Great collaboration with Dirk Schneider! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great GBM e.V. talk given by Oliver Daumke from Max Delbrück Center about Structural Insights into Mitochondrial Crista Junction Architecture. Thank you Oli for the visit! You brought perfect weather with you, and we had a nice evening on the terrace of the restaurant.

Very cool! ESCRT-III is the PDB "molecule of the month"! pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/296

Again other fantastic talks by Annegret Wilde & Dirk Schneider @ Twitter-less Rakefet Schwartz & Yulia Yuzenkova

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

And we are live from our Annual Retreat! It's really great to witness polymer and life scientists together sharing their science! Mainz University Universität Mainz IMB Mainz Universitätsmedizin Mainz Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Uni Stuttgart Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung

Day 2 of our annual retreat has ended, and we are grateful for the fruitful scientific discussions. It’s inspiring to see the complementary perspectives of polymer and life scientists coming together! Universität Mainz IMB Mainz Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Universitätsmedizin Mainz Uni Stuttgart