Konstantin Bikbaev

PhD student at @SpanLabFAU
Using protein crystallography to study the FeFe hydrogenase catalytic cycle

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Look at this beautiful copper protein crystal. Looking forward to collecting data from it 🤓 #crystallography #proteins

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@stripp_lab That’s for sure 😅

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And this is what our hydrogenase looks like, protected from the destructive effect of oxygen in the air. Also quite colourful!

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Got some new colourful material to crystallise. I love metalloproteins 😊

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@SpanLabFAU Sure 😅

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@JamesBirrell86 @desy His name is Ray, and he’s the mascot of our lab 😅

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Producing high impact data at @desy 😎
#DESY #crystallography #hydrogenase

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@HebeisMara

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@SpanLabFAU @KasanmascheffL @UniFAU @TU_Dortmund I hope you guys had fun! So sad I couldn’t join

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@SpanLabFAU @NicolasPlumere @TU_Muenchen @UniFAU @TobiasHarand

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@SpanLabFAU in Hamburg! Luis, @TobiasHarand, our new chipmunk mascot Ray and myself went to @desy to do some exciting research on hydrogenase. Thanks to the CEFL and the P11 beamline team for the support! Next stop is @esrfsynchrotron :)

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@SpanLabFAU in Hamburg! Luis, @TobiasHarand, our new chipmunk mascot Ray and myself went to @desy to do some exciting research on hydrogenase. Thanks to the CEFL and the P11 beamline team for the support! Next stop is @esrfsynchrotron :)

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@_PatriRM @JamesBirrell86 @MariaAleMartini @SpanLabFAU @RagnarBj @mpicec_press I am very happy to be part of the team and contribute to the publication (this is my first one on hydrogenase!). Thank you, Patricia and everyone :)

[Patricia Rodriguez Macia @_PatriRM]

Very happy to share our new paper on the binding of exogenous cyanide to [FeFe] hydrogenases! Check it out 👉👉 Huge thanks to all the team involved @JamesBirrell86 @MariaAleMartini @SpanLabFAU @RagnarBj @KonstantinBikb2 @mpicec_press (1/4) https://t.co/6SQSgF92um

[David Dranow 🇮🇱 @GntlmnScientist]

When your students ask why finding precipitation is important in #crystallization trials, you can show them this. #Crystallography #StructuralBiology #XrayCrystallography #biotech #protein #science

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Found a Schlenk eppi from the previous group in our new lab at @UniFAU So cute! 😅

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@MoritzSenger @SpanLabFAU @MariaAleMartini @JamesBirrell86 @stripp_lab @UniFAU Hi Moritz. You mean dithionite? I didn’t look mega closely at that structure yet, to be honest. But I can say for sure that it doesn’t bind to [4Fe–4S]- and H-clusters.

[Konstantin Bikbaev @KonstantinBikb2]

First time at a beamline, it was so exciting! #desy

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Gorgeous crystals of the hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. They remind me of Drosophila flies 😁

#crystals #hydrogenase #biochemistry