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Phillip Grote
@phillipgrote.bsky.social
Scientist, mostly interested in genetics, lncRNAs and .... well, in everything that I deem relevant. (he/him), find me at https://georg-speyer-haus.de/en/
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1 Milliarde Euro gehen der Allgemeinheit jedes Jahr durch Steueroasen verloren. Mit dem @zdfmagaz.in haben wir Gemeinden in Deutschland ausfindig gemacht, in denen Konzerne & Promis von einem extrem niedrigen Gewerbesteuerhebesatz profitieren. Klickt euch durch auf steueroasen.watch!
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Regulated decay of microRNAs plays a critical role in controlling body size in mammals! Check out our new paper in @genesdev.bsky.social and see thread previously posted with our pre-print 👇 for more info. Congrats to Collette LaVigne, Jaeil Han, and all authors!
genesdev.cshlp.org/cgi/content/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🧬Science Minister Timon Gremmels today presents the 🆕funding notification to @loewe-fci.bsky.sociall, which will continue to receive state funding in 2026+2027 – a recognition of the outstanding achievements of the LOEWE Center!💪🏼🔬➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/goethe...
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Our latest paper has just been published in Cell!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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📢 Paper Alert: tinyurl.com/yzy2d864. We characterized tRNA-overlapping lncRNA loci = tROLs! tROL perturbations silence
codon-biased genes in inter-chromosomal proximity. tROLs bridge the non-coding
and coding genomes. @sickkidsto.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social
tRNA-overlapping long non-coding RNA loci repress codon-biased genes
Ahmed et al. define tRNA-overlapping lncRNAs (tROLs). tROLs in gene-dense regions interact between chromosomes and depend on each other’s transcription. tROL perturbations silence codon-biased genes i...
tinyurl.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪
October 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Integrated prediction of RNA secondary structure jointly with 3D motifs and pseudoknots guided by evolutionary information.
@aakaran31.bsky.social and @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
All-at-once RNA folding with 3D motif prediction framed by evolutionary information - Nature Methods
Structural RNAs exhibit a vast array of recurrent short three-dimensional (3D) elements found in loop regions involving non-Watson–Crick interactions that help arrange canonical double helices into tertiary structures. Here we present CaCoFold-R3D, a probabilistic grammar that predicts these RNA 3D motifs (also termed modules) jointly with RNA secondary structure over a sequence or alignment. CaCoFold-R3D uses evolutionary information present in an RNA alignment to reliably identify canonical helices (including pseudoknots) by covariation. Here we further introduce the R3D grammars, which also exploit helix covariation that constrains the positioning of the mostly noncovarying RNA 3D motifs. Our method runs predictions over an almost-exhaustive list of over 50 known RNA motifs (‘everything’). Motifs can appear in any nonhelical loop region (including three-way, four-way and higher junctions) (‘everywhere’). All structural motifs as well as the canonical helices are arranged into one single structure predicted by one single joint probabilistic grammar (‘all-at-once’). Our results demonstrate that CaCoFold-R3D is a valid alternative for predicting the all-residue interactions present in a RNA 3D structure. CaCoFold-R3D is fast and easily customizable for novel motif discovery and shows promising value both as a strong input for deep learning approaches to all-atom structure prediction as well as toward guiding RNA design as drug targets for therapeutic small molecules.
link.springer.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Excited to share our first preprint! We developed an image-based pooled screen to uncover regulators of HP1 condensates and discovered a link with intronic RNA and RNA processing. 👏 Congrats to all authors, especially Matthew, Shaopu & Chris!
An image-based CRISPR screen reveals splicing-mediated control of HP1α condensates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.676939v1
September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
September 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
QKI ensures splicing fidelity during cardiogenesis by engaging the U6 tri-snRNP to activate splicing at weak 5ʹ splice sites
During organogenesis, precise pre-mRNA splicing is essential to assemble tissue architecture. Many developmentally essential exons bear weak 5'splice sites (5'SS) yet are spliced with high precision, ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Very excited to see the first Beisaw lab publication out in its final form 🥳🥳 rdcu.be/ei1I7 if you’re interested in zebrafish heart regeneration and how cardiomyocytes replace the fibrotic injured tissue (spoiler alert: macrophages play an important role), then read it here 👇
Border-zone cardiomyocytes and macrophages regulate extracellular matrix remodeling to promote cardiomyocyte protrusion during cardiac regeneration
Nature Communications - Adult zebrafish are capable of heart regeneration, but how the collagenous injury site is replaced remains unclear. Here they provide an in-depth analysis of cardiomyocyte...
rdcu.be
April 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sehr zu empfehlender Podcast; nicht nur weil ich mich selbst mit Genetik befasse. Wie wichtig ist doch die Grundlagenforschung …
Die 82-jährige Genforscherin und Entwicklungsbiologin wurde 1942 in Heyrothsberge in der Nähe von Magdeburg geboren und ist später in Frankfurt am Main aufgewachsen. Sie studierte in Tübingen, forschte in Basel, Freiburg und Heidelberg.
August 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is always great to visit Lausanne and even better for such an interesting event. I am looking forward to some great discussions with PhD student generegulationworkshop.ch#home
Gene Regulation Workshop 2025
generegulationworkshop.ch
August 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
ki.se
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This is it. The act of science -like art- is not the output, it is the interaction and the process. What makes us the kind of scientists we are is how we approach the problem 🧪
It’s a common complaint to spend an afternoon reading papers in search of something that turns into half a sentence (that you delete next week) – I’d argue that the “foraging” benefits are real, only pay off if you’re engaging with the actual material, & worth the “inefficiency” to learn more.
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Sky poetry
August 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Join us in person or online for the 24th edition of the Gene Regulation Workshop at Uni Lausanne on Sept 1st, with an again fantastic group of speakers 🥳
Edouard Bertrand
Antonio Giraldez
Phillip Grote @phillipgrote.bsky.social
Susan Mango
Danny Nedialkova
Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in @cp-cell.bsky.social identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. Learn more @ucdgenomecenter.bsky.social @ucdavismind.bsky.social
www.ucdavis.edu/news/finding...
Finding Human Brain Genes in Duplicated DNA
What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead...
www.ucdavis.edu
July 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Publication rates before and after tenure: clear decline post-tenure in non-lab-based fields and sustained in lab-based fields. Super interesting.
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10575
July 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A study in Nature reports on the development of a method to trace intercellular transfer of mitochondria and demonstrates that cancer cells that receive mitochondria from neurons have enhanced metastatic capabilities. go.nature.com/4l2J2yh #medsky 🧪
June 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM