Congratulations, Julia Mahamid!
Julia Mahamid receives the @dfg.de Leibniz Prize for her work on structural cell biology!
#LeibnizPreis
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Super cool cryo-ET work from my colleague Xiaohan resolving a ton of ribosome assembly intermediates in the nuclei of human cells!
And also a similar microscope from Falckenhayn et al. in the Kaufmann group last week:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Really excellent work by the bluesky-less Marie and Sara +coauthors in our lab @embl.org! Check it out for cool combinations of light microscopy and #cryoET, and if you're interested in how yeasts reorganize structurally in response to stressors. #teamtomo
People interested in the VPP aspects should also see a recent paper (from the people at Biohub) showing that tilt-series alignments can be improved with phase plate usage.
journals.iucr.org/m/issues/202...
We @embl.org wrote a short preprint about optimizing for maximum completeness in #cryoet analysis. We looked at template matching, VPP imaging, and tilt-series refinement parameters, and why averaging ribosomes helps even if you aren’t interested in their biology 🏭
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
See also our preprint about the microscope itself, which went up earlier this afternoon!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Big news for correlative cryogenic SMLM/ET! With my colleague Soheil, we (Mahamid and @jonasries.bsky.social labs) indicate lamella-specific illumination can allow 500-1500x higher laser intensities, opening massive new possibilities for correlative imaging #teamtomo
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Check out our preprint! With new molecular mechanisms, 140 subtomogram averages, and ~600 annotated cells under different conditions, we @embl.org were able to describe bacterial populations with in-cell #cryoET. And there’s a surprise at the end 🕵️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#teamtomo
We're super excited to share MissAlignment: a new ML-based approach to reference-free tilt series alignment, spearheaded by @martenchaillet.bsky.social. We think it's going to make your cryo-ET life a lot better.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Code: github.com/warpem/miss-...
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Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏
Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin.
Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1
We use sub-2 Å single-particle analysis and analytical contrast transfer function modeling to show that the Volta phase plate (VPP) boosts low-frequency signal relevant for cryo-electron tomography (c...
