My babies are on the cover of The EMBO Journal! I couldn't be happier and prouder of this journey alongside with my colleagues and collaborators, which has led to this amazing publication. Enjoy it once again!😌 Misha Kudryashev 🔬 ❄🕊️ Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Well, great 😠. Years of #cryoEM have wired my 🧠 to pay excess attention to detail & pattern recognition. Now this upside-down programmed Autoloader panel makes me unnecessarily mad. Who does this?? #FIBSEM

We have exciting news to share! Abhay Kotecha (Abhay Kotecha) is joining us as Senior Director of Technologies for Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET. We're thrilled to have him continue his great work in #CryoET, building on his innovation at Microscopy & Spectroscopy. Welcome to St. Jude Research, Abhay!

Much of the success of breakthroughs, such as AlphaFold, is thanks to a database of protein structures dreamed up in the 1960s by Helen Berman go.nature.com/4hp4UCP

Four weeks left to apply for this great practical course! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Our work presents the first cryo-ET image of the authentic #Mpox virus and its 3D reconstruction. It's a huge virus. Details in: rdcu.be/dXFp2

The General Assembly of Max Planck BioImaging Core Unit Network at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences in #Göttingen started with exciting talks by Constantin Pape Mostafa Aakhte Liran Fu Julia Preobraschenski Niels Fischer Frauke Alves Stefan W. Hell on #bioimaging related topics, framed by Core Facility tours & networking.

2nd day of Max Planck BioImaging Core Unit Network (MaxBI) General Assembly with more exciting talks by Ida Marie Astad Jentoft (alumni Schuh Lab MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences) Julian Kunkel GWDG Followed by core facility tours at MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences & factory tours at ZEISS Microscopy, a lot of discussions & steering committee elections.

Our elemental mapping work, combining cryo-EM and EELS to REEL analysis, is now also published on Nature Methods: nature.com/articles/s4159… For a highlight “reel”, see here 👇

😐When you upgrade the automated acquisition software of your new plasma #FIBSEM - and the database does not preserve user templates: #cryoEM setback or clean slate?

A multidisciplinary team around Ram Bhaskara from IBC2 Goethe-Universität provides fresh insights into the role of intrinsic disorder in large-scale membrane shaping during ER-phagy. Hummer Lab Dikic lab Enable Cluster in Frankfurt SFB 1177 SCALE@Uni-Frankfurt

There we go🤷. We have #alphafold3, Alex J Noble's VirtualIce, a plethora of (nearly) automated 3D reconstruction tools, #ModelAngelo... and AIs that can generate hypotheses, test them and write papers. #cryoEM can go home I guess.

Amazing work by Olivia Pfeil-Gardiner Olivia Pfeil-Gardiner et al. from the Murphy Lab! Using STEM-EELS, they mapped specific elements within protein structures, demonstrating the power of *reconstructed electron energy-loss (REEL)* analysis. 👀👉nature.com/articles/s4159…

Scientists... safety second.😁

Linda Sandblad, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Prize. She receives the award for her outstanding contributions to the establishment of the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy. umu.se/en/news/resear…

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Our team in Ghent wants to grow!! If you would be interested in doing electron microscopy with us, please check out the job posted below. Come join a great team VIB Technologies! Trust me - it is really a great place to work! jobs.vib.be/j/94535/electr…

Apply! Two positions in our lab 🐸🐛🔬 #malaria #xenopus #microtubules #biophysics #imaging #PhDlife

📢 A team led by Seigo Shima has revealed that #methane producing #microbes can reduce their need for #nickel when levels are low. The study sheds new light on the ecology of #methanogens and their impact on #climatechange. s.gwdg.de/qAOd9Cho s.gwdg.de/qAOd9C

We’re hosting the EMBO Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026.❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗Apply by Dec 8 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-si…