Buzz Baum

We are recruiting!! EU-funded PhD position to study the evolution of small proteins - from noise to function Apply before Oct 22 albagroup.researchmar.net/positions www.orfeus-dn.eu @grib-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @researchmar.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social @sciencehr.bsky.social

Excited to share our preprint on Ignicoccus cell divison: only the inner membrane divides, progeny cells accumulate in cell clusters and pop-out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work with the labs: @buzzbaum.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social

We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...

Applications are now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution, organised by Snezhana Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social & Cunqi Ye. Find out more and apply www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-tribu... A beautiful tribute to a the first biochemist in my family. The brilliant Harold Baum.

The brilliant Kris Kuo, with help from Fabian and the Werner lab, has identified a key driver of cyclic gene expression in Sulfolobus, which has a cell cycle but no CDK/cyclins. Amazingly, TFB2 has a cyclin box that regulates its degradation as cells exit division. Another reason to love archaea!

If you thought you understood how one cell becomes two (and imagined studying the problem using an organism that lives in deep sea volcanic vents was impossible), read Florian’s paper and think again!

It’s a beautiful summer morning in Cambridge, but it’s quiet. The birds are silent. Last night we found a bedraggled wren in our garden desperate, I think, for water. Nature seems to be on the brink. This morning I made a bird bath. I hope it’s not too late for the wren.

Super excited to launch this search for a new endowed professor at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch! Join us to build a research cluster in Climate Biophysics! 🌍🌊🌾🔬🧪 This is a unique opportunity to create a community in Basel🇨🇭working together on this timely topic! ⏳🌡️ Questions? Please reach out! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Archaeaophiles! Last chance to sign up as a virtual attendee for MBoA2026. It’s cheap and you will have access to all the talks include our archaea@50 celebration with a special guest: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc...

Register now for the EMBO Workshop "The cell cycle: Exploring conservation and divergence in life's engine" in #Lisbon, Portugal, 5–7 October 2026. Registration by 31 May Abstract submission by 15 June https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cell-cycle #EMBOCellCycleEvolution #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

Keep an eye out for this book. Coming soon by the brilliant @buzzbaum.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/I-Biography-...

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

bbc.com/audio/brand/... Now free for all archaea lovers to hear!

The leafless flower in my office shot up, looked out of the window for signs of spring, then bloomed!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing work by Kris and gang! For the first time we have been able to image division ring components live in Sulfolobus. And guess what - CdvA is asymmetrically inherited.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

july 10th > I expect frenzied arm-waving at this event...

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more here: tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

#LivingArchitectures Congratulations @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social and all Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab for their poetic vision of the microscopic level.

Huge congrats to @manuelthery.bsky.social and all the Cytomorpho lab. The "Living Architectures" performance at @museeorsay.bsky.social was breathtakingly beautiful

#LivingArchitectures Brought further to life by the stunning music of Alexandre Desplat, Philippe Hersant, and Kaija Saariaho

Using micropatterning & thousands of hours on the microscope @manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab reimagined the Musée D’Orsay. Accompanied by an orchestra and poet, their images transported us into the cellular universe. I remembered why I am a cell biologist. All of this is in us. Wow!

#LivingArchitectures is a glorious convergence of science and art. @manuelthery.bsky.social and the #CytoMorphoLab turn the Orsay into a living canvas - its walls and ceilings pulsating with life. Cytoskeletal asters bloom. Cells stream, pause and surge. Magnifique!

A reminder to sign up for the 2026 EMBO archaeal meeting im Cambridge: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc.... Registration is open. We are looking forward to hosting you!

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...