Wereszczynski Lab

We're a biophysics group at @illinoistech studying proteins, DNA, and whatever else we find interesting with the help of computers, coffee, and a little physics

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

The Wereszczynski Lab is having a great time at #BPS2023. They even got to meet BPS President Dr. Gail Robertson! Thank you BPS for making such an inclusive and welcoming environment for the current and next generation of Biophysicists! @hERGologie @BiophysicalSoc

[Musselman Lab @MusselmanLab]

Career panel tomorrow morning (Monday) 8am at #BPS2023. This panel is hosted by @MGO_BPS and sponsored by @NSF . Open to all trainees! @EAMorrisonLab, @chud8 and Dr. Salie from
@LoxoLillyOnc will share their advice on careers and career development. Join us! 👇

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Very excited for this career panel next week at #BPS2023! The panel is organized by @MGO_BPS and @NSF sponsored. It's open to ALL students and postdocs attending the annual meeting, whether you are in MGO or not, so make time to come by and interact with our excellent speakers!

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Come to our MGO career panel during the #bps2023 meeting! Panelists from academia and industry will discuss their careers and answer audience-generated questions in a relaxed setting.

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

This is a great opportunity for students and postdocs to attend the BPS meeting! The deadline is this Friday, so please apply soon!

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Correction! US citizenship is not required to apply for this travel award. You just need to be a member of the U.S. scientific community!

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

We are pleased to announce the first MGO BPS poster competition. To participate, send your extended abstract along with your CV to Alexey Onufriev ([email protected]) and Bin Zhang ([email protected]) by November 15, 2022. The subject line should say "MGO poster prize competition 2023".

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Gear up for our next MGO faculty webinar, featuring Prof. Lucy Bai @BaiLab_PSU and Prof. Pratyush Tiwary @tiwarylab: Wednesday, Sep 21th, 11 am ET. Register for zoom link here: https://t.co/u3lbeqtrYv

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Excited to announce that we will offer travel awards for poster presentations at our subgroup section of the Biophysical Society Meeting https://t.co/9PfW8ac3fu. Grateful to our sponsors: @genentech, @OxInst, @JMolBiol, @CellPressNews. More detail to follow, stay tuned!

[Pablo D. Dans @DansPablo]

The registration for the next Ascona B-DNA Consortium is opened. Spread the news. See you in 🇨🇭 in April 2023!

https://t.co/4GIJwiuqyy

[Voth Group @VothGroup]

🚨Apply Today🚨

The Theory & Computation @BiophysicalSoc SubGroup has 2 new awards for Early Career Scientists & for Mid-Career Scientists.

https://t.co/Y5aogLXKsT

🚨Deadline August 1st🚨

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Should be a great series of talks!

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Happy to share our new preprint! We looked at the dynamics of the ENL YEATS domain, and showed how mutations affect its binding and selectivity for different histone acetylation marks. Nice work by @lokesh_baweja!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Conformational and Thermodynamic Differences Underlying Wild-type and Mutant YEATS Domain Specificity for Epigenetic Marks https://t.co/2gp0lq7DJe #bioRxiv

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Happy to share our latest preprint! We used simulations to explore how the structures and dynamics of RNA.DNA-DNA triple helices and nucleosomes are interconnected and affect one another.

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

The Effects of RNA.DNA-DNA Triple Helices on Nucleosome Structures and Dynamics https://t.co/SJerb091ae #bioRxiv

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Mark your calendars! The next MGO webinar is on Wednesday, May 25 at 11am ET with speakers @taekjip and Aleksei Aksimentiev. Catch our last grad student/postdoc webinar here: https://t.co/7KpG5DuvuV.

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Very happy to see this out, and what a great collaboration this has been! Congrats @kzcody, @MagdaGebala, @KousikSun, and @DustinCWoods!

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Congratulations to Dr. Havva (Eve) Kohestani for the excellent defense of her thesis "Structure and Dynamics of Modified Nucleosomes Under Epigenetic Regulation." Well done Eve!

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Don't forget to register for the Multiscale Genome Organisation seminar on 6th April, 11 am EST:
https://t.co/u3lbeqsU8X

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Save the date!!!
The MGO Webinar series is back with its first postdoc/grad student session on 6th April, 11 am EST! Virtual coffee and discussion with the speakers afterwards. So gear up for some exciting work at the chromatin front!
https://t.co/u3lbeqKv0v

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Congratulations to Dr. @DustinCWoods for an excellent defense of his thesis “An Exploration into the Effects of Chromatin Structural Proteins on the Dynamics and Energetic Landscape of Nucleosome Architectures." Well done Dustin!

[Multiscale Genome Organisation @MGO_BPS]

Happening Today! The symposium of the Multiscale Genome Organisation subgroup of @BiophysicalSoc. This is part of the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2022 in San Francisco. All times are in PST.
CC @tamar_schlick @BishopTomC @JW_Lab @AnnaPanchenko13 @NCIYaminiDalal @TeifLab

[Wereszczynski Lab @JW_Lab]

Happy to share our latest work! In another really fun collaboration with the Clubb group, we used simulations, Markov modeling, and measurements of heme transfer kinetics to show how inter-domain dynamics control heme extraction in S. aureus' IsdH protein. Nice work by all!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Directed inter-domain motions enable the IsdH Staphylococcus aureus receptor to rapidly extract heme from human hemoglobin https://t.co/GbgZk14cbB #bioRxiv