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SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab
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Sample Preparation & Characterisation Facility at EMBL Hamburg: Integrative Structural Biology, Microbiology & Biotechnology.
New paper from our postdoc @fedevignale.bsky.social, et.al!

Studying microbialites in Argentina 🇦🇷, they show how extreme, early Earth-like conditions shape microbes, minerals & biosignatures- insights for Earth’s past and life beyond 🌎 🧬.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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September 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We’re looking for a GL!

Join us at EMBL Hamburg! 🧫🦠🧬

The position will be based at CSSB @cssbhamburg.bsky.social , an interdisciplinary research centre focused on infection biology, and will be integrated into EMBL's research programme. @embl.org

Find out more and apply here: lnkd.in/dJU9pee7
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Congrats to the Grünewald, Topf groups & et. al @cssbhamburg.bsky.social on their Nature paper! 📃 🍾

Trapping and resolving the elusive prefusion form of HSV gB - neutralizing HSV-1 & HSV-2 with a single nanobody is no small feat!🦙

Glad that our SPC facility have contributed to this work!@embl.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Exciting to be with part of my group at the 15th European Biophysics Congress (EBSA) in beautiful Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

If you are around, join my talk today about tools for the analysis of biophysical data 💡🧩

Check our posters for open discussion and networking !📃🖇️

@embl.org
@cssbhamburg.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
KinGenie, an online tool for the analysis of kinetics data, has been introduced on the 4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference in Paris, France 🇫🇷

A great addition to our eSPC web server💡🚀

Reach out to us for further input!

@osvalb.bsky.social
@mosbri.bsky.social
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@cssbhamburg.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference starts today 📍in beautiful Paris, France 🇫🇷

Excited to see familiar and new faces from our TNA site, network and continue collaborating on research infrastructures projects in molecular biophysics 🧬🧫 🤝

@mosbri.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Our latest research is out 📄 !

This study provides an interaction map of Sla2 & the regulatory proteins Sla1 & Pan1, predicted by AI modeling & confirmed by molecular biophysics.

@lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @meytallandau.bsky.social
@emilgustavsson.bsky.social
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@cssbhamburg.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🔊 Thrilled to share our latest work, just published in NAR! 📃

We present ChiraKit, open-source tool to process raw CD data and perform advanced analysis!

Access via our eSPC web-server!

➡️ spc.embl-hamburg.de
@osvalb.bsky.social @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations to George who had his PhD defense today! 🥂🍾🥳🎉 @uni-hamburg.de @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨 New preprint alert 🚨!

👉🏼 @fedevignale.bsky.social

🏔️ Our latest study explores seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef at Laguna Pozo Bravo 🇦🇷 - a site with conditions reminiscent of early Earth 🌍🦠

📖 Read here : doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today,on #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate the contributions of women in structural biology & biophysics!

As an international team of women scientists 🇦🇷 🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🇻🇪 , we’re proud to push the boundaries of discovery 🧬🦠

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceForAll

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🔊 Our latest biophysical tool for circular dichroism analysis, ChiraKit, is out 🔍

To read more about it, visit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ChiraKit can be accessed at spc.embl-hamburg.de

@osvalb.bsky.social @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
@mosbri.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Happy holidays! Best wishes from the SPC Facility & EMBL HH @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Our SPC core facility at EMBL Hamburg has been awarded the Bronze level on sustainability and efficiency as part of the LEAF programme 🏆 !

We’re committed to engage in our lab work while reducing waste, recycling ♻️ , saving energy 🔌 and help our planet 🌏 !

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Congratulations to our SPC facility user, Karthi Dhamotharan and the Schlundt Lab, for such an achievement on SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein and RNA binding 🦠🧬

Well done ! 👍

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM
🔊 I am delighted to share our latest paper “Subtleties in Clathrin heavy chain binding boxes provide selectivity among adaptor proteins of budding yeast”

Our publication ⬇️

rdcu.be/dZujI
November 17, 2024 at 8:49 PM