“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.” - 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.

In a major scientific breakthrough, the latest version of #AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to one of biology's grand challenges - the “protein folding problem”. It was validated today at #CASP14, the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (1/3)

People should stop calling SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines a ‘miracle’. These vaccine are not miracles—they did not drop out of the sky. These vaccine are the result of decades of basic research. Everyone who likes the idea of vaccine miracles should support funding for basic research.

He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!

Interview with Virologist Christian Drosten: "I Am Quite Apprehensive about What Might Otherwise Happen in Spring and Summer" spiegel.de/international/…

Internationally, we the Dutch are seen to be direct and blunt. Our checklist for travel to the Netherlands lives up to that reputation.

Excited to share the inaugural lab paper. Thanks to @AutomneNine Das Lab Ramya Rangan and Twitter-less Marike, Adam and Kathy, also The Nogales Lab. We not only obtained an atomic structure of human telomerase but also discovered histones bound to telomerase RNA.

My Emmy Noether Program funded research group is starting this summer at the Institute of Virology, TU München! Thanks to DFG public | @[email protected], I am now looking for PhD students interested in antiviral immunity and NTase enzymatic mechanisms! Please RT web.med.tum.de/fileadmin/w00b…

Very shocking numbers, but hardly surprising :( #AcademicMentalHealth

Today we released a preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… where we take a step towards the next challenge: building a nanopore single-molecule PROTEIN sequencer! 😳 Awesome experiments by postdoc Henry Brinkerhoff of our #CDlab, augmented with MD simulations of AksimentievLab 1/x

Today with EMBL-EBI, we're launching the #AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures - for free: dpmd.ai/alphafolddb 1/

Transcription-coupled DNA repair: After a long journey, we can now see how CSA, CSB, UVSSA and CRL4 remodel the transcribing Pol II complex for ubiquitination and DNA repair. Masterpiece by Goran Kokic. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hello to all the postdocs in Munich! We are now on your favorite social media site 😎

We are thrilled to share more information about our speakers for the #Postdoc Meet & Mingle on June 29th next week!😍 Dr. Christian Linke-Winnebeck, Principal Scientist ChromoTek will open the evening program with a talk about his career path & #alpacas:

Excited to share our new study with the Müller and SchullerJM labs, online @nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of the enzyme HDCR 🍩 1/🧵