Happy to share our 📖 chapter on cellulose secretion! It took too long in press so it doesn't include our latest work on pEtN-cellulose secretion (doi.org/10.1038/s41467…), which settled many open questions but nevertheless, hope you enjoy the read 🤓! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

It's a great pleasure to share our latest collaborative work detailing the composition and structure of the highly rRNA-fragmented mitoribosome from Apicomplexa, such as Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii, now out in Nature Communications rdcu.be/d3R8C

Join us next week on Friday the 7th, at 11 am, in our IECB amphitheater to learn a whole lot on the design and applications of enzyme cascades for organic synthesis 🤓🧪👩‍🔬⚗️! Guest speaker Sabine Flitsch from the University of Manchester 🤩!!! Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie

Has been a while since we bothered to set up crystal trays, cryo-EM got us so spoiled 😄.. Not bad data either, home source dataset at 1.7 Å courtesy of our Xtal guru Brice Kauffmann at our Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie 🤓🙏💠..

And another one bites the flux 🤘🤘🤘! Molecular replacement was tricky mostly because of Alphafold lacking imagination 😅! Beautiful home source data at 1.9 Å courtesy again of Xtal master Brice Kauffmann at our Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie 🙏

I am not a chemist and must be brain-dead after prolonged ogling of electron density clouds but how TF is this cellopentaose 🤔?

Check our study in press J. Am. Chem. Soc. on the use of solid-state #NMR to investigate polysaccharides in encapsulated pathogens, demonstrated on #Cryptococcus neoformans. Congrats to the main contributor Alons and all coworkers Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie CNRS Chimie pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Super stoked that this study is finally out Heroic effort from several people and of course #cryoem #MicroED #FIB 👍👍 Structure of the lens MP20 mediated adhesive junction | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fellow ladies in science, as part of the disappearing species of international female scientists in France and perhaps every/elsewhere, I want to bring your attention to our institute's open call for group leaders 👩‍🔬🦠🧪🔬🤓!!! Come join me in doing some coolicious science here!

Facing a scarcity of pollen, bumblebees will nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants, causing intentional damage in a way that speeds up the production of flowers, according to a Science study from 2020. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4klrIEB

Exciting news! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. Nature Microbiology We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Someone posted this and I have been back to the original on repeat since 😄.. Captures perfectly the current mood, Imma losin' m'self in the sciencccccce 🤓🤓🤓🤓 youtu.be/xYtaBfwpg_k?si…

Out Now! West African–South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae encodes multiple distinct phage defence systems bit.ly/4jie4Rg #VibrioCholerae #PhageDefense #PandemicResearch

🫴 c-di-AMP is synthesized in eukaryotes: The second messenger activates the NLRP3 inflammasome! nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158… #cdiAMP Nature Chemical Biology

MAAAAASSIVE NEWS!!!! Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes are announced! The proposal structure is changing in 2026 and... drumroll... eligibility windows are extended from 2027!!! erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne… European Research Council (ERC)

We have a preprint for you EHD2 forms rings on caveolae necks, in contrast to most EHDs forming helices. We determined its structure on membranes and show that N-term acts as a spacer By Elena Vazquez-Sarandeses, Vasya Vasilii Mikirtumov Jeff Noel&Oli Daumke biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

When it's so hot that your car catches fire on the road and you almost explode a gas station🔥🔥🔥

The interactions of c-di-GMP with the acidic residues seen in the MshEN domain could be quite widespread onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Protonated Glutamate and Aspartate Side Chains Can Recognize Phosphodiester Groups via Strong and Short Hydrogen Bonds in Biomacromolecular Complexes

Preprint from our collaboration with the labs of Gerry Wright and Shura Mankin Mankin_Vazquez_Lab identifying the first translation inhibitor binding to the E-site of the bacterial ribosome… researchsquare.com/article/rs-692…