Martina Schroeder
@martinaschroeder.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Head of Host-Pathogen Interaction Lab at Maynooth University Ireland, interested in innate immune signalling pathways, DEAD-box helicases, Virus-Host interactions. Also a mother, cyclist, and cat person.
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Next Friday, Oct 3rd, we host an absolute heavyweight of RNA Biology, Prof Gerald Joyce, Salk Institute director and honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. Don't miss it! If you are not on our mailing list, contact martina.schroeder@mu.ie for the Teams link. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNASalon
September 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Next Friday, Oct 3rd, we host an absolute heavyweight of RNA Biology, Prof Gerald Joyce, Salk Institute director and honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. Don't miss it! If you are not on our mailing list, contact martina.schroeder@mu.ie for the Teams link. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNASalon
We look forward to once more host researchers from all over Ireland who share our interest in RNA! See you Friday!!
Only 2 more sleeps until our annual All-Ireland RNA club meeting! We can't wait to welcome to Irish RNA researcher community back to @maynoothuniversity.ie. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNASalon @martinaschroeder.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
June 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We look forward to once more host researchers from all over Ireland who share our interest in RNA! See you Friday!!
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Final call to register (for free) for our scientific meeting on the 13th of June @maynoothuniversity.ie! All Ireland-based researchers with an interest in RNA are welcome to join us. Late abstracts for posters can be accepted. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNAsalon
June 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Final call to register (for free) for our scientific meeting on the 13th of June @maynoothuniversity.ie! All Ireland-based researchers with an interest in RNA are welcome to join us. Late abstracts for posters can be accepted. @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNAsalon
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Every hear of Vaults? If not, read this preprint! New from the lab, exploring novel mechanisms of RNA trafficking in neurons and what they might mean for memory. Led by stellar PhD student Mason Musgrove. #RNAsky
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Dynamic regulation of neuronal Vault trafficking and RNA cargo by the noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5
Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein complexes of unknown function in neurons. Here, we report that the Vault-associated noncoding RNA, Vaultrc5, is highly enriched at the synapse and is required for ac...
www.biorxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Every hear of Vaults? If not, read this preprint! New from the lab, exploring novel mechanisms of RNA trafficking in neurons and what they might mean for memory. Led by stellar PhD student Mason Musgrove. #RNAsky
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Our annual meeting will be held at Maynooth University on the 13th of June, registration is still possible through the link below. If you are an RNA researcher based on the island of Ireland, consider joining us!
May 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our annual meeting will be held at Maynooth University on the 13th of June, registration is still possible through the link below. If you are an RNA researcher based on the island of Ireland, consider joining us!
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Prof. Wagner and Team are developing nice games to teach immunology.
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Check it out: 😀👍
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#immunosky
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Check it out: 😀👍
lnkd.in/eHPRakb7
#immunosky
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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April 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Prof. Wagner and Team are developing nice games to teach immunology.
lnkd.in/e5AKif6w
Check it out: 😀👍
lnkd.in/eHPRakb7
#immunosky
lnkd.in/e5AKif6w
Check it out: 😀👍
lnkd.in/eHPRakb7
#immunosky
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A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA.
Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells
Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells
Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A nearly 9 year effort to design and implement new CLIP-based technologies to define multimeric protein assemblies on RNA.
Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells
Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enables ‘watching’ of RNP assemblies inside living cells
Special congrats to Luca Ducoli, Brian Zarnegar, and Paul Khavari @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Haven’t cycled in town in ages but really hadn’t geared myself up again for the lack of space for cycling. The city REALLY needs to improve for road users other than cars, buses & trucks. Most of my headspace was taken up hoping I’d make it home to my kids in one piece! Do better DCC… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴♂️🚑
March 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Haven’t cycled in town in ages but really hadn’t geared myself up again for the lack of space for cycling. The city REALLY needs to improve for road users other than cars, buses & trucks. Most of my headspace was taken up hoping I’d make it home to my kids in one piece! Do better DCC… 🛻🚙🚚🚛🚌🚴♂️🚑
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Very few Dutch cyclists wear helmets. Yet theirs are among the safest streets on earth. Why?
They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up.
youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA
They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up.
youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA
March 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Very few Dutch cyclists wear helmets. Yet theirs are among the safest streets on earth. Why?
They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up.
youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA
They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up.
youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA
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We now accept applications for our PhD and MD-PhD programs! We’re based in Basel, Europe’s life-science hub, and offer research projects in neuroscience, genome regulation, as well as molecular, cell and developmental biology : www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
FMI - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research - PhD and MD-PhD Programs
PhD and MD-PhD Programs
www.fmi.ch
March 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
We now accept applications for our PhD and MD-PhD programs! We’re based in Basel, Europe’s life-science hub, and offer research projects in neuroscience, genome regulation, as well as molecular, cell and developmental biology : www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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Geht’s raus und geht’s wählen! ⚽️🗳️
February 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Geht’s raus und geht’s wählen! ⚽️🗳️
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Excited to share this new work led by postdoc Brendan Floyd, deep mapping of cell-surface protein interactomes of T and B cells reveals maverick mitochondrial proteins and immune modulatory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the human cell surface proteome reveals new functional associations and surface antigen clusters
The cell surface is a dynamic interface that controls cell-cell communication and signal transduction relevant to organ development, homeostasis and repair, immune reactivity, and pathologies driven b...
www.biorxiv.org
February 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Excited to share this new work led by postdoc Brendan Floyd, deep mapping of cell-surface protein interactomes of T and B cells reveals maverick mitochondrial proteins and immune modulatory complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Please share widely!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
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No worries if you missed our #webinar on 'Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser' because the recording is now available on the @training.ebi.embl.org site: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at helpdesk@ensembl.org 📧
Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at helpdesk@ensembl.org 📧
February 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
No worries if you missed our #webinar on 'Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser' because the recording is now available on the @training.ebi.embl.org site: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at helpdesk@ensembl.org 📧
Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at helpdesk@ensembl.org 📧
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Small RNAs - history. Now its small proteins, dark matter all around us!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Small RNAs - history. Now its small proteins, dark matter all around us!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Excited to host Dr Kasia Whysall for the first online seminar of the All-Ireland RNA club this Friday, 31st of January, 1-2pm.
January 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Excited to host Dr Kasia Whysall for the first online seminar of the All-Ireland RNA club this Friday, 31st of January, 1-2pm.
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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
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Review @naturerevgenet.bsky.social
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Dowdle and Lykke-Andersen discuss advances in our understanding of the machinery and mechanisms involved in the control of cytoplasmic mRNA decay and comment on implications for the de...
www.nature.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Review @naturerevgenet.bsky.social
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay and quality control machineries in eukaryotes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond
To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)
To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)
January 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond
To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)
To me, the most important are:
Read often, read broadly (incl. older papers and outside your field), and learn to read some papers in detail and others more superficially (and quickly)
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The Guardian has reproduced the full text of Bishop Budde's sermon. It's a compelling read. Available here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde
This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce ...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Guardian has reproduced the full text of Bishop Budde's sermon. It's a compelling read. Available here:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Calling all #MaynoothUniversity Academics. Did you know the RDO is planning enhanced support for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellows applying this year? If interested as a supervisor, please attend our webinar on February 12th (2pm) and encourage your candidate(s) to attend also. Contact RDO for details.
January 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Calling all #MaynoothUniversity Academics. Did you know the RDO is planning enhanced support for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellows applying this year? If interested as a supervisor, please attend our webinar on February 12th (2pm) and encourage your candidate(s) to attend also. Contact RDO for details.
Highlight of the week: a visit to @maynoothuni.bsky.social Russell library and introductions to some maths and physics books. Amazing history and stories attached to these books.
January 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Highlight of the week: a visit to @maynoothuni.bsky.social Russell library and introductions to some maths and physics books. Amazing history and stories attached to these books.