Sayan Das

Coffee mug humorist | Dog Parent| #scicomm enthusiast| @UMN_BMBB grad student| Hafenstein Lab| Cryo-EM ❄️ | Structural virology 🦠 | Opinions of my own| He/Him

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

🚨 New paper in @ScienceMagazine! 🚨
We built a safe, atomic-resolution version of Powassan virus, a deadly tick-borne flavivirus with no vaccine or treatment.
✅ First structure ever
✅ BSL-2 safe
✅ Vaccine & antiviral potential
Let me show you🧵(1/5)

https://t.co/NBKlt6vS0b

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@rborza_ @ScienceMagazine Thanks! 😄

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

🚨 New paper in @ScienceMagazine! 🚨
We built a safe, atomic-resolution version of Powassan virus, a deadly tick-borne flavivirus with no vaccine or treatment.
✅ First structure ever
✅ BSL-2 safe
✅ Vaccine & antiviral potential
Let me show you🧵(1/5)

https://t.co/NBKlt6vS0b

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

Huge thanks to the amazing @joselab_psu @BMB_PSU , my advisor @suhafenstein @UMN_BMBB , and Dana Mitzel (USDA) for their support, insight, and collaboration throughout this project.
So grateful for this team and what we’ve built. Excited for what’s next. 💥 (5/5)

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

This is the first-ever structure of Powassan virus.
It’s basic science, but it opens the door to safer virus research, new vaccines, and antiviral strategies.
Proud to call this the first chapter of my PhD. (4/5)
#CryoEM #ScienceAdvances #Flavivirus #virology

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@luizammend Structural virology starter pack
https://t.co/w7SIsnJFui

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@O_PreciousOrji @SuHafenstein Lol I tried not to the responsibility this time, but it was pushed to me later on 😅

But good news- all the posters are safe and secure 😅 @SuHafenstein

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

Graduated with MS from @PSUScience @BMB_PSU 🎉

[Susan Hafenstein @SuHafenstein]

The lab in front of the Krios.

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

Couldn’t agree more.

[Matthew Belousoff @bluesocks81]

Forget about the contrast transfer function... this is mostly #cryoem

[Susan Hafenstein @SuHafenstein]

UMN-UW Virology Training Grant Symposium. The Hafenstein Lab at our first meeting representing our new home: University of Minnesota, Hormel Institute

[Jose Lab @joselab_psu]

We are hiring! Come and join an enthusiastic team of virologists!
Jose Lab is looking to recruit four postdoctoral researchers to work on flavivirus and alphavirus assembly and virus-host-vector interactions. Please apply using the link below.
https://t.co/4lD2lSlUEb

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@DaynaCPatterson @HHMINEWS @LabWeinert @RosenzweigLab @BookerMan_PSU That is so exciting, Dayna! Congratulations 🎉

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@joselab_psu That’s so exciting! Congratulations @joselab_psu 😁

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Saturn's north pole is a hexagon. 🤯

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

The first book of his that I read was Laughable Loves. It was when I was madly and deeply in love with someone- hah! The irony! And I instantly fell in love with his writing. Such wittiness while dealing with such a sensitive topic. A generational talent. RIP

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Milan Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and a Communist Party outcast in Czechoslovakia, died at 94.
https://t.co/AvQasG7PO9

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@joselab_psu Congratulations to the entire team! 😁

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

Hafenstein Lab all set to go to #ASV2023

[Sayan Das @S4yanDas]

@kaustavchem @SaraSkrabalak @Swagata_Bio Congratulations 🥳 🎉