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Congratulations to Claudia Pachinger PhD (@DammermannLab), who recently defended her thesis: 'Novel insights into centriolar satellites as regulators of centrosome and cilium function' - Well done Claudia! 🥂🍾 @univienna @IMPvienna @IMBA_Vienna @gmivienna @MaxPerutzLabs

Yesterday, Claudia successfully defended her PhD thesis on centriolar satellites. It was an amazing defense, we are proud of you. Congratulations, Claudia. Much more success for your future projects!!! Thanks also to Fanni Gergely for joining for the defense. 🥂🎊

So inspiring to see Clem, the first PhD student of the lab, talking about her career path!

That’s a wrap for #JCSevocellbio! Thanks to the organisers, @Dey_Gautam, @FritzLaylin, @alebenoit, Meg Titus and @DrMichaelWay, and all the participants for making it such a fantastic meeting.

Happy that last week we went to Vienna's vineyards and got some much needed vitamin D! 🌞

Happy to be part of it! Looking forward to next time 🙌

Meet us & Pim Huis in ’t Veld @APieFrmScratch next week on Friday for this year's Long Night of Research - Learn about the exciting science behind cell division 🥳🔬

Excited to see our latest #biomaterials publication online in @NatureComms revealing mechanistic details of a “biological 3D-printer” in bristleworms that produces chitin bristles with micro- to nanometric precision! Pub: https://t.co/KqchARzzsa

Really cool! We are looking forward to try it in the lab 🔬

1. My top imaging trick to trainees is that before they spend any time taking pictures of the data they just sit there for a while & look at the stuff. Like seriously, sit back, crank some tunes, get cozy & spend some quality time with your slides.

Congrats Christa & Sascha!!

Centrosomes, C. elegans and Cryo-ET - what's not to like! Amazing work!

Check out this awesome opportunity to live in a beautiful city work at an exquisite insitute be mentored by a terrific group leader have inspiring trainee colleagues!

We are hiring !!! Are you interested in cell biology, microscopy and lab management? Come join us! 🧑‍🔬🔬😃

Already missing Porto... It was a pleasure attending such a great conference, thank you everyone for the fruitful feedback and discussions and to the organizers for putting together an incredible meeting, we really enjoyed the science and the social program #FAS2024

7/7 Our new model: Satellites facilitate the coordinate translation of centrosomal/ciliary proteins. Their concentration near centrosomes in vertebrates is a byproduct of co-translation targeting and incidental to their core function.

6/7 And in vertebrates? Puromycin treatment abolished cytoplasmic signal for centrosomal/ciliary clients, suggesting they are newly synthesized. smFISH further showed an association of PCM1 with centrosomal mRNA independent of the cognate protein.

5/7 So what do they do? TurboID revealed a striking enrichment of RNA-binding proteins, translation factors and PQC components. We hypothesized that CS may be associated with protein synthesis and, indeed, puromycin labeling in S2 cells shows that translation occurs at CS.