@sramundo
Curious scientist leading a research team mainly working on organelle biology and biotechnology: we study -and often “torture”- chloroplasts to understand how they do their magic ;) https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research/research-groups/silvia-ramundo
Interested in the most recent developments in plant science? Join the Mendel Early Career Symposium on May 21-22 at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to exchange with experts about their science and career trajectories. Register by March 13th for a talk. More here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Apply now! @vbcscitraining.bsky.social offers more than 25 fully-funded PhD positions! GMI group leaders are also recruiting new students.
Join us in beautiful Portugal for the best & most comprehensive meeting on RNA localization and local translation! > 30 talks will be selected from abstracts. Held for over 30 years, this meeting is small enough to meet leaders in the field, yet big enough to cover a breadth of cutting-edge science.
Mitochondria can indeed be inherited from the father! 🍀
In this new study, we uncovered the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial inheritance in Nicotiana tabacum. @natplants.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
A glimmer sparked by electrical fields has been detected in nature for the first time.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OGhOlM
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow!
Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon!
www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...
New preprint on Detectrons from @jihoon-han.bsky.social! These are programmable biosensors for RNA that produce DNA barcodes in the presence of their target RNA. Check out Jihoon's quoted thread and the preprint for more:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Plants are amazing chemists", absolutely! That is probably why I studied Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and ended up falling in love with plants 💚
She is an amazing skier but also a beautiful and brilliant woman! Just watch how she responded to the journalist who told her, "Two silver medals also mean two lost gold medals…”
Eukaryogenesis in light of an expanded catalogue of Asgard genomes. a, Simplified, scaled timeline spanning from before the Last Asgard archaea Common Ancestor (LAsCA) to today. Thin bands mark predicted time ranges of relevant events (for example, GOE), thicker bands represent processes (for example, eukaryogenesis), and brackets indicate the period shown in b. The timeline further highlights milestones, including potential early eukaryotic fossils60 and the modern-day co-occurrence of Heimdallarchaeia and Alphaproteobacteria observed in this study (interaction likely originated earlier).
Fig. 1 | Expanded genomic diversity of Asgard archaea. a, Maximum-likelihood phylogeny based on 47 non-ribosomal markers (NM47)using the WAG + C10 + R4 model with 100 nonparametric bootstrap pseudoreplicates, including 869 Asgardarchaeota MAGs and 309 outgroup genomes. The blue branches (lower right) indicate the new Asgardarchaeota classes, Ranarchaeia, and the recently proposed Asgardarchaeia4. The concentric rings denote (in to out): the predicted genome size, metabolic guilds based on Pfam clustering, sampling locations, and black stars on the outside mark MAGs added by this study. Asgard, Asgardarchaeia; Atabey, Atabeyarchaeia; Baldr, Baldrarchaeia; Frey/Jord, Frey/Jordarchaeia; Gerd, Gerdarchaeales; Heimdall, Heimdallarchaeaceae; Hel, Helarchaeales; Hermod, Hermodarchaeia; Hod, Hodarchaeales; Kari, Kariarchaeaceae; Loki, Lokiarchaeales; Njord, Njordarchaeales; Odin, Odinarchaeia; Ran, Ranarchaeia; Sif, Sifarchaeia; Thor, Thorarchaeia; Wukong, Wukongarchaeia. b, SR4-recoded phylogeny of the same genome set inferred with the model GTR + C60 + G and 100 nonparametric bootstrap pseudoreplicates (Methods). This updated catalogue constitutes a large increase in the medium- to high-quality publicly available genomes (completeness >50% and contamination and redundancy <10%) with 65.3% from the Guaymas Basin and 34.7% from the Bohai Sea. The encircled numbers represent MAGS added by this study. The scale bars in bothsubpanels represent the average number of substitutions per site.Map created in BioRender; Appler, K. https://biorender.com/147ieoc(2025).
Our work is published today: ‘Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor’. This was a huge effort lead by @katyappler.bsky.social. Extremely grateful to have been a part of this amazing project! 😊🦠🧬
Links: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists
(see more in thread below)
Registration
Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026.
Regular Monday 10th August 2026.
There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...
Short graphical abstract summarizing key facts about Angomonas: its habitat in the digestive tract of insects; the cellular organization of the flagellate containing a single cytoplasmic endsymbiont with associated glycosomes; synchronized cell cycles of host and endosymbiont; the discovery of endosymbiont-targeted host proteins (ETPs) by mass spectrometry; differential subcellular localization of the ETPs; and the endosymbiont division machinery of dual genetic origin.
The symbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei is Parasite of the Month. 🙂
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
This is why I love watching Olympic sport - a mom got to win gold at home with her son watching, on her 35th birthday (she wasn't expected to win any medal, and upset the heavily favored Dutch skater). Pure joy!!
Of course I’m biased because I’m Italian, but it’s incredible that Federica Brignone, “la tigre”, won TWO Olympic gold medals about 10 months after a terrible injury that for many would mean never walking again. This is one of the biggest comebacks in professional skiing. 🇮🇹
Francesca Lollobrigida smiles widely while hugging her son. Quote reads: "It's not that easy to combine being a skater and a mom." Attribution reads: Italian speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida, who took time off after the 2022 Beijing Games to have her son. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
From @theathletic.com: In her fourth Olympics, Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida said that she was proud of herself for not giving up and for believing she could have a family and be an Olympic champion. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics. nyti.ms/4ajyEiY
Francesca Lollobrigida in a blue suit holds an Italian flag above her head with a wide smile. Text reads: Italian Speed Skater and 'Super Mom' Claims Second Gold Medal
From @theathletic.com: This is turning out to be a magnificent Winter Olympics on home soil for Italy.
They now have six gold medals and two of them belong to the incredible Francesca Lollobrigida, who has become one of the titans of these Games. nyti.ms/4asQ7E7
E brava Federica ❣️
I'm super happy to share my new preprint reporting a study in collaboration with the Seebeck (Basel) and Sasso (Leipzig) labs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We discovered that ovothiol A, a thiohistidine, is a major antioxidant in the green alga Chlamydomonas. (1/4)
Congratulations R. Loewith'Lab for your latest publication in @natsmb.nature.com: Structure and function of the yeast amino acid-sensing SEAC–EGOC supercomplex @mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social Illustration: @analudelsolart.bsky.social
👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-026-01746-2
🧬 Molecular glue discovery at scale
CeMM, @aithyra.bsky.social & @scripps.edu have developed a scalable method for molecular glue discovery. Their approach identified a selective degrader of ENL, a key driver of aggressive #leukemia.
➡️ More: bit.ly/4re95Wu
📄 Paper: bit.ly/4r404iy
Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.
Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis!
Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form
📅 22–24 Sept 2026
In-person + livestream
Limited fee waivers
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls
#plantsi
Pls RT‼️ @hanhtkvu.bsky.social lab @embl.org & we @cosheidelberg.bsky.social are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life.
www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested.
@hanhtkvu.bsky.social @embl.org & we are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome!
Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins.
bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG
This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected!
1/n 🧵
@lorenzoorts.bsky.social previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at @impvienna.bsky.social in Austria. She will establish a new lab at IMB to investigate how mRNA translation is activated in the early embryo. Welcome to IMB Laura! 💐
Read more here: www.imb.de/about-imb/ne...
EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis
📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026
A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics.
⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026
🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr...
📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl
🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬
Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application.
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