Ulrich Eckhard Lab (IBMB-CSIC)

Ramon y Cajal Research Investigator, Group Leader
IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona. @[email protected]

[Ulrich Eckhard Lab (IBMB-CSIC) @EckhardLab]

Proud PI moment: our lab's first poster award! Amazing job by Eva at the "Jornada de Biologia Molecular de la SCB & CATCAT Day." Guess it is time now to turn the data into a paper and get it published! 😅
@SCB_iec @CATCATbiolog @IBMB_CSIC

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

(2/2) Beyond our research, we explored what’s coming with ALBA II: 4th-gen beamlines, serial crystallography & Cryo-EM at JEMCA (@PabloGuerra316 )!

👏🏽 Congrats to ALBA Director Caterina Biscari on receiving the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya!

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

(1/2) IBMB-CSIC at the VII ALBA Synchrotron User Meeting

Structural biology groups presented key contributions: 🔹De novo protein design & nanomachines. 🔹Bacterial immune evasion.
🔹Massive 5.6 MDa protein cages

🔗 https://t.co/vDUs8l9MSK

@ALBAsynchrotron

[IBEC @IBECBarcelona]

🧬 #IBEC's group leader Benedetta Bolognesi joins philosopher Begoña Román at CCCB to discuss the science of aging, from neurodegenerative disease research to the ethics of living longer.

📅 15 Sept · CCCB, Barcelona
🎟️ https://t.co/Yjp1Aq7Rya

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

🗞️A new review by F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth (IBMB-CSIC) and Walter Stöcker () covers the evolution of #metzincins, from early structural discovery to modern biology.

🔗 https://t.co/sDxwprpM13...

📸 Source: Gomis-Rüth & Stöcker (2026), Biol. Chem.

[Gonzalo Parra @GonzaParra_]

On my way to visit @MFreiberge & @LaineElodie in Paris at Sorbonne University to discuss about proteins, ongoing collaborations & to give a talk about local frustration! ⭐️🙌🏿🎉 Looking forward! If you're around, my talk is on Friday! 🇦🇷🇪🇸🇫🇷👨🏽‍🔬

[Kevin A. Scott @Sculpturatus]

we teach and are taught that proteins fold to their lowest energy state. but this cannot be true, otherwise they wouldnt do anything. protein features have evolved to be "frustrated", which enables functionality through conservation of structural meta-stability.

https://t.co/P5jVRUVqQL

[rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠 @buildmodels]

Try this new online training game from Leandro F. Estrozi designed for newcomers in structural biology, with a focus on cryo-EM and cryo-ET map interpretation: https://t.co/gxhQXmRPWL

[Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia @IQAC_CSIC]

🆕Una nueva estrategia permite eliminar proteínas implicadas en procesos patológicos.

El estudio propone un mecanismo que dirige proteínas diana directamente al proteasoma, evitando ubiquitinación.

Los resultados abren nuevas vías en oncología.

👉 https://t.co/6632PAHxq5

[Cristina Muñoz Pinedo @crismunozp]

Aviso a los IPs del Plan Nacional, MICIN, MINECO, PID Retos/Excelencia etc

Nunca, nunca nunca aceptéis ir de colaboradores en un proyecto FIS (ISCIII).

No tendréis opción ni de subsanarlo cuando la @AgEInves os elimine el proyecto durante la evaluación

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

IBMB Seminar, Monday February 23rd. 14:30h

Speaker: Dr. Xavier Salvatella. Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona

Title: "Sequence-Encoded Determinants of Condensate Kinetic Stability"

Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

[Sergio Juarez-Carreño @SJuarezCarreno]

Buscamos candidato para prácticas “JAE Intro ICU 2026” para mi grupo en el @CABD_UPO_CSIC. @CSIC
RT para difusión

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

***JOB OFFER***
We are seeking a research technician/lab manager to join the Epigenetics and Single-Cell Dynamics Lab at
IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona (https://t.co/BPETXQH3Ka).
https://t.co/xoV57shQDb

[Israel Fernandez @IsraelF96135088]

What a day for The RNA Pirate Republic!
Along with:
Chase Beisel (BBIE, Basel)
Sam Sternberg (Columbia Uni, NYC) and
Raul Perez-Jimenez (BioGune, Bilbao)
We have been awarded an ERC Synergy grant to explore the ancestry and evolution of RNA-guided nucleases!
Yey! 🎉
#ERCSyG

[Martin Pacesa @MartinPacesa]

In addition to that, we had the amazing opportunity to speak with Lennart in Zacatecas along the whole Mexican biochemistry community, such an incredible venue and great community of scientists. Thanks to @josearkanos for inviting us!!!

[Martin Pacesa @MartinPacesa]

We were so excited to meet and discuss with the protein community in Mexico, it was a great experience and we saw many great BindCraft designs generated in just one day session! Thanks to @aaronmring’s amazing @AriaxBio platform that made running it easier with so many teams

[Lukas Jarosch @LukasJarosch_]

Excited to open this up and get community feedback on OF3-preview!

We’ve worked hard to be the first to reproduce AF3’s full training setup + synthetic data, and it’s been quite interesting (and humbling) to see how sensitive these models can be to even small variations.

For now AF3 reigns supreme over open source co-folding, but we're hard at work trying to cook up the secret sauce - stay tuned for our full release! 🧑‍🍳

[Georgia Channing @cgeorgiaw]

🔥 It's here: OpenFold3 is now live.

THE open-source foundation model for predicting 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids & small molecules. This is where the future of drug discovery and biomolecular AI lives.

Built by @open_fold. Hosted on @huggingface.
👇 more

[IBMB @IBMB_CSIC]

We are excited to share our latest publication! 🎉

The group led by Héctor García Seisdedos, in colaboration with scientists of the University of Geneva and the Weizmann Institute of Science, has published an article featured on the cover of Molecular Systems Biology.

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

A mysterious new protein complex has been identified.

This 1 MDa complex is a hollow, elliptical protein cage.

The authors speculate on potential roles as a chaperone, container, or protease trap, but the biological function of the CAGE complex has yet to be determined.

[Georg Hochberg @KaHochberg]

A new preprint from the lab. I won't do a tweetorial until this is peer reviewed, but I think it's a banger, led by @JedNzy. It's about Rubisco and what chaperones are really for. He's on the market, get him while you can.
https://t.co/1nnCjqfce1