Martina Schroeder

Next Friday, Oct 3rd, we host an absolute heavyweight of RNA Biology, Prof Gerald Joyce, Salk Institute director and honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. Don't miss it! If you are not on our mailing list, contact martina.schroeder@mu.ie for the Teams link. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNASalon

Who can work in science, EVERYONE #pride

We look forward to once more host researchers from all over Ireland who share our interest in RNA! See you Friday!!

Final call to register (for free) for our scientific meeting on the 13th of June @maynoothuniversity.ie! All Ireland-based researchers with an interest in RNA are welcome to join us. Late abstracts for posters can be accepted. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNAsalon

Dynamic regulation of neuronal Vault trafficking and RNA cargo by the noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5 Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein complexes of unknown function in neurons. Here, we report that the Vault-associated noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5, is highly enriched at the synapse and is required for ac...

Every hear of Vaults? If not, read this preprint! New from the lab, exploring novel mechanisms of RNA trafficking in neurons and what they might mean for memory. Led by stellar PhD student Mason Musgrove. #RNAsky

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Our annual meeting will be held at Maynooth University on the 13th of June, registration is still possible through the link below. If you are an RNA researcher based on the island of Ireland, consider joining us!

Prof. Wagner and Team are developing nice games to teach immunology.
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Check it out: 😀👍
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#immunosky

A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA.

Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells

Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Haven’t cycled in town in ages but really hadn’t geared myself up again for the lack of space for cycling. The city REALLY needs to improve for road users other than cars, buses & trucks. Most of my headspace was taken up hoping I’d make it home to my kids in one piece! Do better DCC… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴‍♂️🚑

Very few Dutch cyclists wear helmets. Yet theirs are among the safest streets on earth. Why?

They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up.

youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA

We now accept applications for our PhD and MD-PhD programs! We’re based in Basel, Europe’s life-science hub, and offer research projects in neuroscience, genome regulation, as well as molecular, cell and developmental biology : www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Geht’s raus und geht’s wählen! ⚽️🗳️

Mapping the nanoscale organization of the human cell surface proteome reveals new functional associations and surface antigen clusters The cell surface is a dynamic interface that controls cell-cell communication and signal transduction relevant to organ development, homeostasis and repair, immune reactivity, and pathologies driven b...

Excited to share this new work led by postdoc Brendan Floyd, deep mapping of cell-surface protein interactomes of T and B cells reveals maverick mitochondrial proteins and immune modulatory complexes.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer YouTube video by Association of American Universities

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social

Please share widely!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

Homepage of the new Ensembl website (https://beta.ensembl.org/)

No worries if you missed our #webinar on 'Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser' because the recording is now available on the @training.ebi.embl.org site: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at helpdesk@ensembl.org 📧

‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.

Small RNAs - history. Now its small proteins, dark matter all around us!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to host Dr Kasia Whysall for the first online seminar of the All-Ireland RNA club this Friday, 31st of January, 1-2pm.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes - Nature Reviews Genetics In this Review, Dowdle and Lykke-Andersen discuss advances in our understanding of the machinery and mechanisms involved in the control of cytoplasmic mRNA decay and comment on implications for the de...

Review @naturerevgenet.bsky.social
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond

To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)

‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce ...

The Guardian has reproduced the full text of Bishop Budde's sermon. It's a compelling read. Available here:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Very scary.
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Calling all #MaynoothUniversity Academics. Did you know the RDO is planning enhanced support for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellows applying this year? If interested as a supervisor, please attend our webinar on February 12th (2pm) and encourage your candidate(s) to attend also. Contact RDO for details.

Highlight of the week: a visit to @maynoothuni.bsky.social Russell library and introductions to some maths and physics books. Amazing history and stories attached to these books.

This is an important shift - the long awaited new Ensembl web site is ready for beta testing - is smooth, scrollable genome loveliness +clean views of the complex information - but @ensembl.bsky.social needs your help to get all the use cases out. Come to the webinar, and check out beta.ensembl.org

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

The mechanism of mRNA cap recognition - Nature Allosteric communication between the eIF4F subunits drives mRNA cap-recognition and subsequent activation of the message.

Amazing single molecule biochemistry on mRNA cap recognition! Surprising results for eIF4A and 4E/4G that motivate reinterpretation of prior work.

Congrats to the authors for a thorough & exciting paper. I struggled w papers from 2002 being called “early work” tho 😩👴🏻

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A visit to beautiful Queen's University Belfast for the All-Ireland RNA club autumn meeting. Fantastic talks, RNA chats over coffee, a career session, and helpful conversations with sponsors. Many thanks to the organisers!

A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking - Nature Communications Studying RNA dynamics in vivo often relies on fluorogenic approaches, but these can be hampered by factors such as limited sensitivity and sample autofluorescence. Here, the authors describe an ultras...

Cool new work from Jenn Prescher and coworkers @ucirvine.bsky.social, “RNA lantern” technology for bioluminescence imaging of RNA transcripts

www.nature.com/articles/s41...