MPI Dortmund

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - New publication by the labs of Andrea Musacchio @maxplanckpress & Jef Boeke @nyuniversity published in @Nature - congrats to Max Haase et al. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Two new papers from the Musacchio lab published in The EMBO Journal! link.springer.com/article/10.1..… Kai Walstein, Louisa Hill & others – On role of M18BP1 in CENP-A loading link.springer.com/article/10.1..… Arianna Esposito Verza and others – On mechanism of activation of PLK1

We warmly welcome our new #LiseMeitner Group Leader Katerina Naydenova. Her group will investigate cellular defence mechanisms and develop novel methods in the field of cryogenic electron microscopy. Learn more about Katerina and click on the link 🔗 mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/katerina-…

We warmly welcome our new independent @maxplanckpress Group Leader Andrija Sente. His group will investigate the molecular mechanisms of neuronal communication. Learn more about Andrija and his work and click on the link🔗 mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/new-maxpl…

Monovalent pseudo-natural products supercharge degradation of IDO1 by its native E3 KLHDC3 - Published by the groups of Herbert Waldmann, Slava Ziegler and Georg Winter @CeMM_News in @NatureChemistry nature.com/articles/s4155…

paper alert🚨 CUL4A-DDB1-DCAF10 is an N-recognin for N-terminally acetylated Src kinases - published by the groups of Tanja Bange @LMU_Muenchen & Andrea Musacchio in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Paper Alert 🚨 Design, Synthesis, and Structural Evolution of Pseudo-Natural Product IDO1 Inhibitors and Degraders - published in @angew_chem by the Waldmann group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Pseudo-Natural Products Inspired by Aspidospermidine-, Strychnos-, and Koumine Monoterpene Indole Alkaloids Reveal Pyrimidine Biosynthesis Inhibitors (Herbert Waldmann and co-workers) • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hl…

Pseudo-Natural Products Inspired by Aspidospermidine-,Strychnos-, and Koumine Monoterpene Indole AlkaloidsReveal Pyrimidine Biosynthesis Inhibitors - published by Waldmann lab in @HelvChimActa dedicated to Armido Studer @uni_muenster onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Researchers led by Stefan Raunser have redefined the function & role of key factors in actin filament disassembly. "We uncovered a dance between proteins - a molecular choreography.” Congrats to @WoutOosterheert et al. @CellPressNews ➡️mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/dancing-p…

"My time at the MPI Dortmund has been amazing! Not only have I made many friends, but I've also gained the required skills that laid the foundation for the next step in my career. " Congrats to @WoutOosterheert on his new group leader position at the the @NKI_nl 👏

Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, the @Intein laboratory uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments. Congrats to @WoutOosterheert et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are happy to announce that we will have two new scientific groups led by Andrija Sente and Katerina Naydenova soon! If you are interested to join their lab as a PhD Student apply at our IMPRS! ➡️imprs-lm.mpg.de

paper alert🚨 Harnessing indole scaffolds to identify small-molecule IRE1α inhibitors modulating XBP1 mRNA splicing - Published by the Laboratory of Peng Wu in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats to our former group leader Charles Loh on winning the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award 2025. "My time at the MPI was a truly defining moment in my career! The excellent institutional support and the unparalleled freedom was pivotal to our discoveries!“

paper alert 🚨🔬🧊 Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps - published by @Intein lab & Zychlinski lab @mpiib_berlin nature.com/articles/s4158…

Max Planck researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the ‘crown’ of #celldivision . They showed how the corona, an important component of the #kinetochore is constructed and how this guarantees the error-free distribution of #chromosomes mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/crown-of-…

We want you! Join the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology @MoCel_Geneva at the University of Geneva @unige_en @UNIGEnews @sciences_UNIGE and become our new colleague! Assistant (tenure-track) Professor or Associate Professor! Please RT - thanks jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.…

🧬paper alert 🚨 The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona | published in @ScienceAdvances by the Musacchio Lab Congratulations to Verena Cmentwoski for solving a remarkably challenging molecular puzzle science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

One lamella, one tomogram! Excited to share our preprint on streamlining montage cryo-tomogram generation including the use of our software tool MontageMaker! Big thanks to @maikaboiero, @adriana_prajica, @GavinRice20, @Intein, and the team at @mpimoph! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…