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Ben Engel
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cellarchlab.com Univ. of Basel Biozentrum🇨🇭. Exploring molecular architecture inside cells with #CryoEM #TeamTomo. Plants and algae in a changing climate. ❄🔬 OF 🌿 4THE 🌍!
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#MicroSky#ProtistsOnSky#CryoEM from diagram to detailed anatomy...

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Cell biology textbooks are full of imaginary images of cellular architecture, due to the gap between our ability to resolve structure of individual proteins by X-ray crystallography & see cellular compartments by light microscopy. Cryo-Electron microscopy and tomography are changing that 🧪

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Opening for an awesome group leader to join our community on the 5th/6th floor of the @biozentrum. We're looking for someone who brings an exiting biological program using a combo of structural biology, cellular imaging, and biophysics. Come join us!!🧪🧶🧬🔬👩‍🔬 www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

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yes it’s because you associate fruit = sweet. which of course is often not true, but certainly overrepresented in the fruits that humans have domesticated and selectively bred over thousands of years to be sweet 😉

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Well… I know we have too much of it these days, but we do need radiative heating from many of those “wasted” photons ♨️

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DPANN archaea are enigmatic, hard to cultivate and rely on an ectosymbiotic lifestyle (from Pilhofer lab on X). Cool cryoET work we could contribute to: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... 🦠🧫🔬

Distinct life cycle stages of an ectosymbiotic DPANN archaeon
Distinct life cycle stages of an ectosymbiotic DPANN archaeon

Abstract. DPANN archaea are a diverse group of microorganisms that are thought to rely on an ectosymbiotic lifestyle; however, the cell biology of these ce

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yeah very cool! (inserts “why not both” meme)

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Yep the multimerization (will it cluster targets?) and non-direct attachment (are all labels bound to targets?) are challenges. But I like the size of this one 🥰. I wonder if a “keystone” fusion protein could be made so the tag only oligomerizes on the target?🤔

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Ben Engel
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cellarchlab.com Univ. of Basel Biozentrum🇨🇭. Exploring molecular architecture inside cells with #CryoEM #TeamTomo. Plants and algae in a changing climate. ❄🔬 OF 🌿 4THE 🌍!
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