Extremophile alert!
Registration is OPEN for the 2026 EMBO Archaeal workshop in Cambridge.
Spaces are limited, so register soon with an abstract if you’d like to give a talk.
If you can’t come in person, we are welcoming virtual attendees. So join us online where all talks will be screened!
Today the very first PhD student of Dodonova Lab has successfully defended his PhD Thesis!!🥳🥳🥳 And that with Honours, so well deserved!! Huge congratulation, dear @harshranawat.bsky.social !!!👏 Awesome PhD and awesome Defense!! Very happy and proud! And brilliant future ahead!👨🎓🎓🥳
Thanks Ricardo 🤗! Love this type of article as well!
Love seeing the archaeal work at EMBL highlighted! 🥰 Feels great to be part of a growing community pushing this fascinating biology forward! #teamArchaea #EMBL 🧫🤓🧪🌏
EMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
Thank you so much for inviting me! Had a fantastic day full of science!😊
Calling all archaeal enthusiasts! 🔬🔥 From molecular machines to microbial communities, Archaea never fail to surprise us!
We are excited to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea, 6–10 July in Cambridge, UK!
Sign up here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc...
#ArchaeaSky
What a wonderful week at the #EMBOevoChromo25! ☺️ ✨ Excellent talks, posters, and fantastic discussions about all angles of chromatin! Huge kudos to @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social and @arnausebe.bsky.social for putting together such a special meeting — all in a stunning location!
Are you ready for the 17th edition of 'Transcription and chromatin'? Our conference remains a must-attend event for anyone engaged in the forefront of transcription research and we hope you can join us! 🧬
25 – 28 August 2026
Submit your abstract by 25 May: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl
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Thank you, Daniela, @danielabarilla.bsky.social, for a wonderful commentary! 🤗🤗 More spotlight on the Asgards and their chromatin! ❤️ #archaea #chromatin
Happy to see our recent Asgard chromatin structures shown in a new light! 🤩👩🏻🎨 - thanks to a beautiful design by @leonoramartinez.bsky.social
Wooooow 🤩
Are you just about to start a lab? 🤓👩🔬👨🔬Then sign up for this GBM Workshop for new PIs! Great program and great org team! #workshops #academic #leadership #GBM
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Thank you, Naomichi! ☺️
EMBL scientists have new detailed info about Asgard archaea DNA structures offering important clues to more complex cell evolution.
With #cryoEM, scientists found both open and closed chomatin structures with a possible role in regulating chromatin.
doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
Thank you, Ben! Very kind! 🤗🤗
Thank you, Ken! 😊
We just chose an Asgard with good genome completeness, encoding several histones ☺️ It’s been a while since we chose it for this project 👵🏻😊
Thank you, Sonja!🤗
Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
We are looking for motivated #postdocs to join the lab! Biochemistry/microbiology/cryo-EM experience? Excited by #cryo-EM/ET, #chromatin? ❄️🧬🧫
Interdisciplinary projects, top EMBL facilities!
Email CV + short cover letter → svetlana.dodonova@embl.de
Info about the group: www.embl.org/groups/dodon...
A comparison of the structures of dArc1 (capsid: 6TAP; pentamer: 6TAR), the retrovirus HIV (capsid: 3J3Q; pentamer: 7URN), and the retrotransposon Ty3 (6R24). Pentamers are shown in orange, and hexamers in yellow in the upper panel. In the lower panel, pentamers are shown with monomers colored in different shades of orange.
How did a brain gene end up behaving like a virus? Research has shown that there is an evolutionary connection between Arc, retroviruses, and virus-like genetic elements called retrotransposons.
More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...
🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
Beautiful work! 🤩
Thank you!
Thank you! 🙏☺️
Thank you, Hauke! ☺️☺️
Thank you, Naomichi! 😊
Thank you, Ben!! Very kind!☺️🤗🤗
