We have postdoc positions at the The Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology to work closely with scientists at @Georgetown and NIST on soft matter, broadly defined, including single molecule biophysics. Apply here https://t.co/UqaBIU1pKG by November 7!
Come to work with us! The Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology @Georgetown is looking for Post-Doctoral Research Fellows to work closely with scientists at Georgetown and NIST on soft matter, broadly defined.
Apply here https://t.co/2ldSsGUZtT
by November 7!
New paper alert! We used optical tweezers to resolve heterogenous folding/unfolding pathways of repeat expanded huntingtin mRNA, revealing how hairpin slippage can seed inter-strand base pairing and promote aggregation. Congrats @NothinBut_Brett! 👏👏 https://t.co/BrpwY4dUFk
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Many thanks to Prof. Rodrigo Maillard @LabMaillard@GUChemistry for a great seminar on using single molecule methods to study allostery in protein kinases at our seminar series.
Starting the semester strong with a hike with my graduate students at Great Falls, VA! It doesn't hurt, also, that BSF (@usisraelbsf) is funding our project on PKA RIbeta in collaboration with the Ilouz lab @RIlouz
Congratulations to Dr. Ronit Ilouz from our Faculty for winning a research grant from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF).
The laboratory led by Dr. Ronit Ilouz investigates mechanisms for the formation of a unique inherited neurodegenerative disease, and gave it the name: NLPD-PKA. The disease develops in patients with a specific genetic mutation in the protein, which leads to the formation of protein clusters in the brain, similar to other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The grant is in collaboration with Dr. Rodrigo Maillard from Georgetown University in the USA. The two laboratories will combine knowledge and focus on the cellular and molecular effects of the mutation on the brain, while discovering the mechanisms leading to the disease, with the aim of developing innovative and useful solutions, offering a tremendous advantage in promoting promising and applied research directions.
@RIlouz@Bar_ilan
Save the date for Single Molecule Biophysics 2025 (SMB 2025) to be held over January 5-10, 2025 (inclusive) at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado. To get your name on our emailing list, contact [email protected]. Please RT.
https://t.co/SZ2d0iRun7
A few years old, but worth a read (perhaps in particular to those who do ML in BIO or take biological databases for granted)
"How Margaret Dayhoff Brought Modern Computing to Biology"
https://t.co/XL9YfbiaVI