Changing careers is challenging. We need to set the new direction to go🧭, plan a strategy📝 and start creating a new and unique path-our path 🌟 Here Joana C. Carvalho, Philipp Dexheimer and I share our stories about how we became scientific artists. 🎨🔬 biologenkompass.de/scientific-ill…

Let's go Bananas, our delicious 60 second explainer of endothelial cell aging, is featured in the Science-in-Shorts spotlight 🍌🍌🍌

Science in Shorts Spotlight: Laura de Rooij Philipp Dexheimer explain the research on rejuvenating endothelial cells lining blood vessels, which age and cause cardiovascular issues. go.nature.com/3SH7KYR

New WormBook.org chapter! With Nuria Flames Lab and Richard Poole we wrote Neurogenesis in C. elegans, now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/geneti… We discuss neuron development specifically, but do have a look if you think about acquisition of cell identity more generally

Our new study together with the Bergler lab on inhibition of ribosome biogenesis is now out. Big shout out to co-first author Lorenz Grundmann for amazing in depth cryo EM analysis

Very excited that my first paper found its home in Nature Communications, where we show that usnic acid inhibits the nucleolar pre-60S biogenesis in yeast. Here the link to the full publication: nature.com/articles/s4146….