Herve Celia
@hervecelia.bsky.social
Structural biologist, mostly cryoEM, mostly working on the Ton membrane motor protein, father of two
Specialized shuttle proteins recognize Type IX secretion signals and target effectors to their final destination in Flavobacetrium
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Specialized shuttle proteins recognize Type IX secretion signals and target effectors to their final destinations in Flavobacterium johnsoniae - Communications Biology
Bacteroidota use the Type IX secretion system to secrete proteins with a conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) secretion signal domain. Type B CTDs require specific shuttle proteins for secretion and targ...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Specialized shuttle proteins recognize Type IX secretion signals and target effectors to their final destination in Flavobacetrium
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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150 of the children at my daughter's school in Durham (she teaches 2nd grade) were out yesterday because their parents are afraid to bring them to school. Are you OK with that?
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
150 of the children at my daughter's school in Durham (she teaches 2nd grade) were out yesterday because their parents are afraid to bring them to school. Are you OK with that?
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Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Surface layers (S-layers) are ubiquitous protein assemblies that coat prokaryotic cells, with their functional roles increasingly coming into focus. In this Review, Isbilir and colleagues discuss rece...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MPI–Weizmann Postdoc (4-year, co-mentored)
Together with Ori Avinoam (Weizmann), we’re recruiting a postdoc to uncover membrane remodelling mechanisms in muscle development using cryo-EM of recombinant proteins, and cell imaging/CLEM. Apply here by 21.11.25 forms.gle/ZtDWUjcTBu4d...
Together with Ori Avinoam (Weizmann), we’re recruiting a postdoc to uncover membrane remodelling mechanisms in muscle development using cryo-EM of recombinant proteins, and cell imaging/CLEM. Apply here by 21.11.25 forms.gle/ZtDWUjcTBu4d...
MPI-WIS postdoc application
Max-Planck–Weizmann Postdoc (4-year, co-mentored)
Together with Ori Avinoam (Weizmann), we’re recruiting a postdoc to uncover membrane remodelling mechanisms in muscle development using recombinant pr...
forms.gle
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
MPI–Weizmann Postdoc (4-year, co-mentored)
Together with Ori Avinoam (Weizmann), we’re recruiting a postdoc to uncover membrane remodelling mechanisms in muscle development using cryo-EM of recombinant proteins, and cell imaging/CLEM. Apply here by 21.11.25 forms.gle/ZtDWUjcTBu4d...
Together with Ori Avinoam (Weizmann), we’re recruiting a postdoc to uncover membrane remodelling mechanisms in muscle development using cryo-EM of recombinant proteins, and cell imaging/CLEM. Apply here by 21.11.25 forms.gle/ZtDWUjcTBu4d...
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In related news, Jeff Bezos.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In related news, Jeff Bezos.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Never attended? Are you a regular?
Join us tomorrow, Saturday 10am, at the NIH Vigils.
There's an associated food drive.
Join us tomorrow, Saturday 10am, at the NIH Vigils.
There's an associated food drive.
No matter how your week is going, we’ll save a spot for you at NIH Vigils.
Laugh, cry, renew your oath of office.
Then get honks from cars and the occasional bus.
Saturdays at 10 am
Medical Center Metro Station
Laugh, cry, renew your oath of office.
Then get honks from cars and the occasional bus.
Saturdays at 10 am
Medical Center Metro Station
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Never attended? Are you a regular?
Join us tomorrow, Saturday 10am, at the NIH Vigils.
There's an associated food drive.
Join us tomorrow, Saturday 10am, at the NIH Vigils.
There's an associated food drive.
Reposted by Herve Celia
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky
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Nature research paper: Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology
go.nature.com/43fXQmn
go.nature.com/43fXQmn
Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology - Nature
Synthetic fibril strain 1B is a pathogen that is capable of self-replication and inducing glial cytoplasmic inclusions in vivo in mice, and the structural features of 1B may underlie the pathology of individuals with multiple-system atrophy.
go.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nature research paper: Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology
go.nature.com/43fXQmn
go.nature.com/43fXQmn
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We have two job openings for computational strain design in our group! Please retweet 🧪
PhD student and postdoc!
Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt.
The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany.
I highly recommend applying!
PhD student and postdoc!
Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt.
The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany.
I highly recommend applying!
Doctoral (PhD) and postdoctoral position (m/f/d) in Computational Biology / Biomathematics / Biosystems Engineering
jobs.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We have two job openings for computational strain design in our group! Please retweet 🧪
PhD student and postdoc!
Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt.
The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany.
I highly recommend applying!
PhD student and postdoc!
Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt.
The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany.
I highly recommend applying!
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Our diatom paper walks in the footsteps of giants :) Meet the mother paper also out today from the @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social on a full catalogue of 200 microeuks... 3/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes
An imaging resource of over 200 microbial eukaryotic species provides a glimpse into
the remarkable universe of cytoskeletal diversity.
www.cell.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Good news from Netherlands. By no means a great victory -- a small one, incomplete -- but a step in the right direction at a time when the wrong direction exerts so much gravity. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Good news from Netherlands. By no means a great victory -- a small one, incomplete -- but a step in the right direction at a time when the wrong direction exerts so much gravity. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Chicken Salad Chick has announced that children will receive free meals at their southwest Florida locations, with the Bradenton, Florida location making a post on Facebook to get the word out for those impacted by SNAP benefits not being sent out in November.
#Pinks
#Pinks
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Chicken Salad Chick has announced that children will receive free meals at their southwest Florida locations, with the Bradenton, Florida location making a post on Facebook to get the word out for those impacted by SNAP benefits not being sent out in November.
#Pinks
#Pinks
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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-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 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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#ACSChemBio and #Biochemistry invite submissions to a special issue on Lipids and Lipidation guest edited by @chembiobryan.bsky.social and me! Find details in the #CallforPapers and submit your exciting findings to one of these journals by May 31, 2026. axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... #lipidtime
Call for Papers: Lipids and Lipidation | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
This Special Issue in _ACS Chemical Biology_ will highlight the latest advancements and perspectives in the chemical biology of lipids and lipidation. Submit your manuscript by May 31, 2026.
axial.acs.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#ACSChemBio and #Biochemistry invite submissions to a special issue on Lipids and Lipidation guest edited by @chembiobryan.bsky.social and me! Find details in the #CallforPapers and submit your exciting findings to one of these journals by May 31, 2026. axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... #lipidtime
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Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Biochemical Society's Membrane Protein Conference
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
7–9 April 2026
Birmingham, UK | Leonardo Royal Hotel
- Abstracts welcome for talks & posters
- Bursaries available!
- Register & submit here:
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
#MembraneProteins #CallForAbstracts @biochemsoc.bsky.social
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First time posting on Bluesky! 🥳 We discovered a new pilus family in cyanobacteria. The pilin has a novel protein fold that forms a super-tight double-layer tube. Similar gene clusters exist in a few cyanobacterial orders. A great collaboration with John and others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A family of tubular pili from harmful algal bloom forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Ricca et al discover a new family of tubular pili in Microcystis aeruginosa, a harmful algal bloom-forming cyanobacterium. These pili are crucial for buoyancy by forming cell micro-colonies, which inc...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
First time posting on Bluesky! 🥳 We discovered a new pilus family in cyanobacteria. The pilin has a novel protein fold that forms a super-tight double-layer tube. Similar gene clusters exist in a few cyanobacterial orders. A great collaboration with John and others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Perspective from Richard McIntosh describing the history of research on #microtubule polymerization in terms of the ideas, technologies, and observations that have emerged as countless researchers have studied the dynamics of these essential cytoskeletal polymers. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Missed this at the time, super cool. Domes & capsules everywhere it seems..
Thanks! The dome is definitely intriguing, and happily I can point you to this nice recent preprint by my colleague @rasmusjensen.bsky.social about that exactly www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In-cell discovery and characterization of a non-canonical bacterial protein translocation-folding complex
Cryo-electron tomography has emerged as powerful technology for in-cell structural biology, and in combination with breakthroughs in protein structure prediction, offers a unique opportunity for illum...
www.biorxiv.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Missed this at the time, super cool. Domes & capsules everywhere it seems..
