Ronnie Berntsson
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine @UmeaUniversity, Professor. Type 4 Secretion Systems #T4SS. Chair of SFBBM (www.sfbbm.se). Science policy. Views my own. biostruct.umu.se/principal-investiga…
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonMartin Peterson doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
- Ending the year with a new preprint out from our lab. We show that Type 4 Secretion Systems in Gram-positive bacteria use pili in conjugation. For a full recap, check out the thread from the lead author @josyterbeek.bsky.social here below ⬇️ Hope y’all get a nice end to 2025!
- 📣New preprint with @rberntsson.bsky.social👇We overturn the long-standing view that Gram-positive bacteria lack conjugative pili! We identify pili-forming proteins in a wide range of bacteria and show they're essential for the spread of #antibioticresistance #AMR 🧵1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonIt burns. It burns. My eyes.
- Any climate researchers I know that can corroborate this article? Is this really where we’re going right now? worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
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- This is on several levels pretty amazing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Today I’m starting a new position as Professor in Molecular Medicine at Umeå University I’m happy and proud, but also extremely thankful to all people in the group, both current and past members!
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- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonPlease RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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- This is really cool! If you want to get a card game that explains microorganisms - now's your chance! www.umu.se/en/news/rese...
- Seems like a very handy tool!
- New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com
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- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonExciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonArchaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it? Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonHere's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
- Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n
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- I'm today starting as pro-dean at the medical faculty at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years ahead, together with the new dean Katrine Riklund and the others in the faculty leadership!
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- Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂 sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
- Bra tråd om man är intresserad av skog!
- Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
- What can one say.. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Only 5 more days left to apply. Take the chance and join us trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, in beautiful Umeå, Sweden. We are extremely well equipped, and are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! 😀
- We are looking for a postdoc! Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria! Please share! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- This is cool stuff, will be interesting to try out!
- AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊 In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃 Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/... Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
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- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonHULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES. Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
- Maybe not completely research related, but if you do apply and end up getting the position, you can look forward to great displays of northern lights, like this one yesterday (taken from my yard with my cell phone camera..)
- We are looking for a postdoc! Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria! Please share! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- If having a negative personal opinion of the policies that are now severely affecting researchers in the US is grounds for not being let in the country, it seems like I'll be skipping any US conferences the coming years... www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog/internationa...
- Well written!
- Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- We are looking for a postdoc! Join us to work in an exciting integrated structural biology project, focusing on understanding how Type 4 Secretion System facilitate horizontal gene transfer in bacteria! Please share! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonBig news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
- A bizarre new development that even further decreases academic freedom in the US! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonUkraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
- Current policy in the US is bad for science in the US, but also globally, on a whole multitude of levels. Even if one politically wants to decrease national funding on research, then this is clearly not the smart way of going about doing that. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Come join us here in the north! Remarkably good research climate, infrastructure and colleagues. Further, the Swedish government is doing a reasonably good job of putting money into research funding instead of cutting it as is happening in some other places!
- We are incredibly happy for @endymiomatic.bsky.social who managed to secure a Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions postdoc grant for further work in our group! Congrats Kieran!
- Sveriges unga akademi lanserar Forskningsfyren - pris för forskningskommunikation. Känner ni någon yngre forskare som har gjort bra insatser för att kommunicera forskning så håll koll på detta, det är möjligt att nominera från 10 februari! sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...
- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonFoldseek-Multimer—now published in @naturemethods.bsky.social—our fast multimer search tool, enables complex comparisons against the full PDB in seconds. It comes with BFMD, a collection of 300K+ predictions gathered from community projects. 📄 nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐 search.foldseek.com
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- 7 days left to apply!
- Interested in structural biology, biochemistry and Type 4 Secretion Systems? 🦠 🧬 🧪 We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow! - Deadline 28th of January, 2025 - 2 year fellowship - Details and application link: tinyurl.com/48djw6k3 - Contact me for questions! Please repost! 💙
- Reposted by Ronnie Berntsson2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency
- I am happy and honored to have been entrusted with the role of Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University, starting July 1, 2025. It will be extremely interesting to take on this new role, together with the incoming Dean, Katrine Riklund!
- It’s not that often that one publishes an article on New Year’s Eve! Enjoy reading about Gram-positive Type 4 Secretion Systems, and Happy New Year! 🎆🎊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Just got an early Christmas present as our recently resubmitted article just got accepted! 🙂
- Fully agree!
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- Reposted by Ronnie BerntssonWe updated our BindCraft preprint with lots of new exciting results! We release all our binder sequences and models, include more in silico analysis, novel design targets, and present AAV retargeting to specific cell types using de novo binders! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Well, this is silly. Clarivate won’t give @elife.bsky.social an impact factor, citing quality concerns with their model, but happily does so for partially predatory journals like those within MDPI? www.science.org/content/arti...
- Interested in structural biology, biochemistry and Type 4 Secretion Systems? 🦠 🧬 🧪 We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow! - Deadline 28th of January, 2025 - 2 year fellowship - Details and application link: tinyurl.com/48djw6k3 - Contact me for questions! Please repost! 💙
- Exciting stuff! will be interesting to test this on our own favourite protein ensembles!
- Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Our lab was just awarded funding from hashtag#Kempestiftelserna 🎉🍾 Thank you for this!
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- We had a lot of fun taking a new group picture (supposed to be in a Xmas tree form) last week. Have to make use of half a meter of powder snow 😀
- Sveriges unga akademi söker nya ledamöter! Få tillgång till ett forum där ett urval av Sveriges ledande yngre forskare möts för att diskutera och driva frågor som i vid mening berör forskning och vetenskap. Ansök senast den 10 januari: sverigesungaakademi.se/inval
- Jag är ärligt talat chockerad över vad mitt gamla lärosäte håller på med. Förutom att forska och utbilda studenter i sina respektive ämnen, bör universitet också bidra med bildning och demokrati. Det beslut som Chalmers nu tagit går helt emot detta, och det behöver rivas upp!
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