If you're considering or recently started postdoc training NIH Intramural, apply to the #NIGMSPRAT Program @NIGMS! Application similar to F32, and fellows receive top-notch professional development and support network! Join us for an informational webinar on Tues, June 22 at 2 PM ET!

A great story from Nora Vazquez-Laslop Mankin_Vazquez_Lab , Ronald Micura and Yury Polikanov labs explains the specificity of chloramphenicol-mediated PTC inhibition: 'Structural basis for the context-specific action of classic peptidyl transferase inhibitors' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I repeat- I haven’t been this excited about a discovery since CRISPR. We found something enigmatic that, like CRISPR, is associated with microbial genomes. We have named these unique entities #BORGs

Thanks to @NIGMS for highlighting my career ❤️. These moments are always a reminder of the hard work and a great time to thank every person who has made a better person and scientist. Full article available: biobeat.nigms.nih.gov/2021/09/resear…

Our terrific Dorota Klepacki has contributed to this beautiful study of the ribosome targeting antibiotic for Lyme disease. A selective antibiotic for Lyme disease: Cell disq.us/t/41pm65h

When Human Genome Project researchers announced they had successfully completed sequencing the human genome, it was actually only about 92% complete. Now, researchers have finally got that last 8%! bit.ly/3lyp5Ue #ASHG21 #SoFetch

Congrats to Eva Schöller,Marchand Virginie Chris Mutti C.Powell & many more! Molecular Cell The role of METTL8/m3C in mito. translation sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A great collaboration with G.Meister lab Universität Regensburg Brenda Helm Markus Hafner et al. THX for getting us involved!

Two years ago we lost a friend and a colleague, an incredible cell biologist and microscopist. This award is a wonderful way to remember her and her endless passion for scientific discovery ISM #microscopy ismicroscopy.org.il/ism2022/mutsaf…

Thanks to Nature Chemical Biology for highlighting our collab METTL8 paper! “EPIGENETICS: Meddlesome METTL8” Chris Mutti James Marks Marchand Virginie Meister lab Brenda Helm Markus Hafner et al. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Please have a look into our pre-print: A Curated Collection of Human Mitochondrial Proteins— the Integrated Mitochondrial Protein Index (IMPI) - great work by Alan Robinson et al. MRC MBU Cell Press Sneak Peek papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Hey #RNA2022 tweeps. Are you interested in RNA modifications and metabolism and cancer? Come check out my poster (#274) on some of my work in the Pedro Batista lab!

Hey #RNA22 attendees. Tonight I’ll be sharing my research into the mechanisms of mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics at poster 353. Feel free to stop by. Markus Hafner

Hey #RNA2022 attendees! Come check out my poster tonight to learn about regulation of ribosome stalling and collisions during oxidative stress (#358). It is a collaboration of Nick Guydosh and Silva Lab at Duke - @thesilvalab.bsky.social

A new study by Leroy Elodie, Thomas Perry and Thibaud Renault shows how the antibiotic Tetracenomycin X (TcmX) blocks translation of QK motifs by sequestering peptidyl-tRNA. European Research Council (ERC) Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie ARNA lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eugenics is an immoral and inaccurate theory that the genomics community is continuously working to debunk. Let’s break down how it came to be in the first place. (Thread)

Now more than ever, scientists and scholars must understand the unethical misuse of social genomics and its connections with white supremacy and extreme violence. This understanding is key for human health and safety.

Glad to share our new cryo-ET work biorxiv.org/content/10.110… I resolved ribosomes to sub-3 Å in cells, realizing the potential we demonstrated. In PTC core where our interested drug Chloramphenicol binds, the local res. hit 2.7 Å, enabling deciphering its MOAs in atomic details.

The Maltez Lab website is live and I am so proud!! I chose to invest some time to design it myself and honestly it was pretty fun 🤩 Enjoy and spread the word- we are hiring and always looking for talented and fun people to join our team! maltezlab.com

Online Now: Nuclear PKM2 binds pre-mRNA at folded G-quadruplexes and reveals their gene regulatory role dlvr.it/TC0fcw

Determining the off-target activity of antibiotics and novel translation initiation sites in mitochondria biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biochem