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🛠️New Method available An image processing pipeline for electron cryo-tomography in RELION-5 🔓buff.ly/4dRmNHz 🥼Alister Burt Bogdan Toader Tanmay Bharat Sjors Scheres #OpenSoftware #CryoET #StructuralBiology #ElectronTomography #Microscopy

We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology

It's out in Cell!!! Super proud bug- and structural virologist moment; my paper about using CryoEM to discover, diagnose, characterize, and mitigate a nationwide agricultural pandemic is now published online 😄🐛🪲 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

All what you wanted to know about using flipper probes Spirochrome The Matile Group for cell biology and didn’t dare asking is in: rdcu.be/dSmET Thanks to all co-authors and colleagues, thanks to Chloé Roffay & vincent mercier for their great work!

PhD position in my lab! Exciting structural biology, cool viruses, and of course nanobodies. Excellent supervisor team, and Stockholm is also not too bad. Apply here: kidoktorand.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

AlphaFold3 reproduced and params/code released. 🤩

HIV: how close are we to a vaccine — or a cure? nature.com/articles/d4158…

We have a new paper for you: “Structure of tetrameric forms of the serotonin-gated 5-HT3A receptor ion channel”. Here we found that the prototypical pentameric ligand gated ion channel can form stable tetramers and characterized it with cryo-EM/ET and molecular simulations.

1/8 ❄️🔬Excited to share our latest work published in Nature Communications! Led by Kaitlyn Abe and in colab with Tim Grant, we've discovered a simple, cost-effective way to mitigate sample damage at the air-water interface during grid preparation. #CryoEM rdcu.be/dSWfn

Very happy to have this one published in nature today!! 🤩🤩 Can we dig deeper into the intricate and ancient evolutionary history of the flaviviridae by comparing not only genetic sequence but also protein structure? answer is yes!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳 Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!  biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big news on an important virus! 👇

Two Umeå University researchers are awarded ERC Starting Grants, for young researchers at the beginning of their careers. They are Iker Valle Aramburu, a new MIMS group leader, and Gerard Rocher-Ros at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science. umu.se/en/news/two-yo…

Antonio Rodríguez Blázquez started his postdoctoral fellowship at Umeå university in January. With growing interest in structural biology, he is studying the mode of action of a potential effective drug against the parasitic genus https://Cryptospodirium.umu.se/en/news/invest…

Tired of same-old papers? Read this one!

Building on the work of Richard and Chris, here is our latest work showcasing the potential of the 100 keV #Tundra microscope with the Ceta F and Falcon C. We achieved high-resolution structures for a variety of protein complexes🧵.🔬#100keV #CryoEM. Movie by lingboyu

Grateful that we could contribute to this amazing work from the Rappsilber laboratory with Robert Warneke and other team members! Read about new ways for protein structure prediction by integrating AI and experimental results! #subtiwiki Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Kaitlyn Abe Ci Ji Lim show that stress-response proteins from dehydration-tolerant organisms can be used as a simple sample additive to mitigate the sample damage problem in cryo-EM. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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