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Hellerschmied Lab
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Biochemistry and cell biology lab @unidue-zmb.bsky.social
Excited about secretory pathway and #Golgi #proteostasis mechanisms

funded by AvHStiftung, part of @crc1430.bsky.social
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Very happy to share our recent preprint describing #Golgi protein quality control #PQC in mammalian cells. #proteasome #ubiquitin #ChemBio Fantastic work by @joaodiamantino.bsky.social and team! #proudPI @unidue-zmb.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social
Selective proteasomal degradation from the Golgi apparatus membrane https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703791v1
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Our cluster of Excellence GreenRobust is looking for a scientific coordinator located at Heidelberg University. Please spread the word!
www.academics.com/jobs/scienti...
Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg
Universität Heidelberg looks for Scientific coordinator at the GreenRobust location Heidelberg (f/m/d) in Heidelberg - apply now!
www.academics.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#JobOffer

💼 Postdoctoral position in membrane trafficking and collagen secretion (M/F)
📍Institut Jacques Monod / @ishier.bsky.social Raote's Lab
📆 May 15th

Apply on the CNRS job portal before February 27 th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
February 6, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Very happy to share our recent preprint describing #Golgi protein quality control #PQC in mammalian cells. #proteasome #ubiquitin #ChemBio Fantastic work by @joaodiamantino.bsky.social and team! #proudPI @unidue-zmb.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social
Selective proteasomal degradation from the Golgi apparatus membrane https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703791v1
February 6, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Excited to share our latest work on dissecting the mechanism of processive telomeric DNA synthesis by telomerase. Led by amazing PhD student Sebastian Balch in collaboration with lab members,@automnenine.bsky.social @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social,@rdaslab.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structures of nucleotide-bound human telomerase at several steps of its telomeric DNA repeat addition cycle - Nature Communications
To maintain genome stability, the specialised reverse transcriptase telomerase processively adds telomeric DNA repeats to chromosome ends. Here the authors reported structures of human telomerase at t...
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Turns out that if you use a broom to scratch yourself everyone thinks you're a weirdo but if a cow does it they end up in the cover of Current Biology
January 22, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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I’ll soon share a call for a postdoc at Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on fundamental mechanisms of membrane traffic and protein/collagen secretion in health and disease. Please get in touch if interested.
January 23, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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📢 Next up in our 'Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences' series!
🗓️ Jan 20 | ⏰ 4 PM
🎙️ @luanacolloca.bsky.social on “Sex Effects in Placebo Studies”
Hosted by @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

➡️ udue.de/sexgenderude
#SexGenderUDE #sexandgendersensitive
January 19, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Modern lipid biology has grown far beyond its roots. Advanced technologies offer novel opportunities to unravel the role of lipids in the organization of biological systems. Build on this momentum and join The EMBO Workshop "The Lipid Code to Life" Sept 7-11, 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
January 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Happy that we could contribute to this exciting paper from the @spanglab.bsky.social!
Exciting preprint from @franbottanelli.bsky.social and @annespang.bsky.social! ARF-1 regulates FERARI-mediated endosomal kiss-and-run recycling by controlling selective cargo loading into vesicles.
ARF-1 Coordinates Cargo Sorting at FERARI Endosomal Recycling Hubs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Join us for the #Ubiquitin & Friends Symposium 2026, April 29-30, in Vienna!
Fantastic guest speakers👇 & many slots for talks from abstracts, flash-talks & posters. Lots of opportunities to network. Register now to save your spot!
➡️ www.protein-degradation.org/symposium/
#ubfriends2026
January 10, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Fun preprint from @marius-lemberg.bsky.social! TMED9 drives Golgi-bypass secretion of proTGFα via a RHBDL4-independent pathway requiring GRASP65, autophagy machinery and ALIX.
A Golgi-bypass secretion mechanism for proTGFα involving TMED9 and GRASP65
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
New research group leader for functional genomics
Molecular biologist Matthias Muhar becomes part of the MPI-CBG faculty
www.mpi-cbg.de
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Please repost - position of Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs available at our Institute in the heart of Europe (Basel, Switzerland) 👇
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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SAVE THE DATE!
The EMBO workshop "Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like proteins in Health and Disease" will be on September 2026.
Exciting line up of talks and an amazing location!
Organised by @kulathu.bsky.social, @merbllab.bsky.social, @simonapolo.bsky.social, Claudio Joazeiro.
Registration open soon.
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Please share and spread the word!
Save the Date for the 34th GP2A 2026 & SIGMA-1 Europe Conference on Medicinal Chemistry in Gothenburg, Sweden at 26th- 28th of August 2026. Registration open in January 2026. Speakers will be announced soon. #MedChem #ChemBio #youngresearcher @naturvetenskap.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Thrilled to be selected as one of the 28 EMBO Young Investigators for 2026! It is an incredible honor, and I am especially proud to be the second scientist from Czechia chosen since the programme began in 2001. Happy to join Tomas Pluskal in representing our country in the EMBO YIP.
embo.org EMBO @embo.org · Dec 2
Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome!

Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I am delighted to share that our new manuscript is published as an online Pre-proof at the Journal of Biological Chemistry!! 🎉
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Seeding biosensor cell line that reproduces the Alzheimer tau fold
The assembly of tau protein into amyloid filaments through templated seeding is believed to underlie the propagation of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and ot...
www.jbc.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Join us in Lunteren, the Netherlands on March 5 & 6, 2026 for the 32nd Dutch Cancer Biology meeting. We have two fantastic keynote speakers: @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and @colindascheele.bsky.social and the rest of the program will be by early-career scientists. Info: www.dutchcancerbiology.nl
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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It was wonderful to organize the @gbmev.bsky.social Cellular Organelles meeting in Düsseldorf along with Andreas Reichert at University of Düsseldorf. Leading Organelles biologists from Germany attended the 2025 meeting. Thanks to the constant support from Konstanze Winklhofer and Johannes Hermann
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM