Ronnie Berntsson
@rberntsson.bsky.social
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine @UmeaUniversity, Associate Professor. Type 4 Secretion Systems #T4SS. Chair of SFBBM (www.sfbbm.se). Science policy. Views my own. https://www.biostruct.umu.se/principal-investigators/ronnie-berntsson/
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Ronnie Berntsson
@rberntsson.bsky.social
· Mar 14
Postdoctoral position to study Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems - Umeå, Sweden job with Umeå University | 12837918
A two-year Postdoctoral position for studies of Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems that facilitate the spread of antibiotic resistance
www.nature.com
We are looking for a postdoc!
Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria!
Please share!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria!
Please share!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson
Skrattade högt.
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Skrattade högt.
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.
This is really cool! If you want to get a card game that explains microorganisms - now's your chance!
www.umu.se/en/news/rese...
www.umu.se/en/news/rese...
Researchers' card game teaches children about microorganisms
Hope to spark curiosity about life beneath the water’s surface – with playful game cards.
www.umu.se
October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is really cool! If you want to get a card game that explains microorganisms - now's your chance!
www.umu.se/en/news/rese...
www.umu.se/en/news/rese...
Seems like a very handy tool!
New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Seems like a very handy tool!
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Visit PDB-101 to learn more about Antimicrobial Resistance
PDB101: Global Health: Antimicrobial Resistance: About: Bacteria and Antibiotics
PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB
pdb101.rcsb.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Visit PDB-101 to learn more about Antimicrobial Resistance
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Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria
Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...
journals.plos.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Interesting that they could put a number on it. And yes, that's a reindeer seeking shade behind a concrete wall. Not their usual place to hang out...
Climate change made the relentless heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland about 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely. Our latest study was published this morning.
“This event should be taken as another reminder that no country is safe from climate change” - @frediotto.bsky.social
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“This event should be taken as another reminder that no country is safe from climate change” - @frediotto.bsky.social
🧵
August 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Interesting that they could put a number on it. And yes, that's a reindeer seeking shade behind a concrete wall. Not their usual place to hang out...
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Cryo-EM ligand building using AlphaFold3-like model and molecular dynamics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40788932/ #cryoem
August 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Cryo-EM ligand building using AlphaFold3-like model and molecular dynamics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40788932/ #cryoem
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Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
July 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.
Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/n
Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/n
July 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.
Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/n
Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵 1/n
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😳😱 not a smart move…🧬🧶
Exclusive: An international scientific competition widely credited with spurring the development of artificial intelligence for biology appears to be on its deathbed. scim.ag/44ukS90
Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out
Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold
scim.ag
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
😳😱 not a smart move…🧬🧶
I'm today starting as pro-dean at the medical faculty at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years ahead, together with the new dean Katrine Riklund and the others in the faculty leadership!
July 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I'm today starting as pro-dean at the medical faculty at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years ahead, together with the new dean Katrine Riklund and the others in the faculty leadership!
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Finally! ERC is reducing the length of part II of their application form.
'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'
'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Finally! ERC is reducing the length of part II of their application form.
'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'
'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'
Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂
sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
Åtta nya toppforskare till Sveriges unga akademi - Sveriges Unga Akademi
Den 23 maj tar Sveriges unga akademi emot åtta nya ledamöter – framstående yngre forskare från fält som datadriven biovetenskap, historia och hållbarhetsvetenskap. Med sina olika perspektiv stärker de...
sverigesungaakademi.se
May 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂
sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
Bra tråd om man är intresserad av skog!
I början på april deltog jag i ett webbinarium om skogen och klimatpolitiken som Klimatsossarna ordnade. Det spelades in, så den nyfikne kan kolla på det, men jag tänkte också dela några av mina reflektioner i en tråd.
klimatsossarna.se/innehall/sem...
klimatsossarna.se/innehall/sem...
Webbinarium: Skogen och klimatklimatpolitiken, del 2/2 — Klimatsossarna
Inspelat webbinarium om skogens roll i klimatpolitiken. Del 2 av 2.
klimatsossarna.se
May 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Bra tråd om man är intresserad av skog!
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"Science is an investment.
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
May 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Science is an investment.
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."
— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
Only 5 more days left to apply. Take the chance and join us trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, in beautiful Umeå, Sweden. We are extremely well equipped, and are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! 😀
We are looking for a postdoc!
Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria!
Please share!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria!
Please share!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Postdoctoral position to study Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems - Umeå, Sweden job with Umeå University | 12837918
A two-year Postdoctoral position for studies of Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems that facilitate the spread of antibiotic resistance
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Only 5 more days left to apply. Take the chance and join us trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, in beautiful Umeå, Sweden. We are extremely well equipped, and are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! 😀
This is cool stuff, will be interesting to try out!
AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊
In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃
Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃
Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
April 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This is cool stuff, will be interesting to try out!
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These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves
April 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves
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HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.
Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.
Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Maybe not completely research related, but if you do apply and end up getting the position, you can look forward to great displays of northern lights, like this one yesterday (taken from my yard with my cell phone camera..)
March 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Maybe not completely research related, but if you do apply and end up getting the position, you can look forward to great displays of northern lights, like this one yesterday (taken from my yard with my cell phone camera..)
If having a negative personal opinion of the policies that are now severely affecting researchers in the US is grounds for not being let in the country, it seems like I'll be skipping any US conferences the coming years...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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March 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If having a negative personal opinion of the policies that are now severely affecting researchers in the US is grounds for not being let in the country, it seems like I'll be skipping any US conferences the coming years...
www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog/internationa...
www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog/internationa...