Ben Allwein

PhD student at @weillcornellGS and @sloan_kettering in the @hitelabmskcc. Former @Fulbrightprgrm researcher, @UrsinusCollege alumnus. Big fan of birds. he/him

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

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[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Announcing AlphaFold 3: our state-of-the-art AI model for predicting the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules. 🧬

Here’s how we built it with @IsomorphicLabs and what it means for biology. 🧵 https://t.co/gjw6Ip4F2M

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Honestly being a PhD student at a conference can feel like this sometimes

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

Beautiful work of the human mitochondrial uncoupling protein. The first in this family with a substrate bound (and also the first without)!

[Lei Chen@PKU @Chen_Lei_Lab]

We determined the structures of human UCP1 in apo, ATP-bound, and DNP-bound states. (https://t.co/D5BavNmElI) Congratulations to Yunlu on another two-author paper!

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@JohannaMellis @AcademicChatter like I don't have much of a choice. My SLAC opened up my life but it's demoralizing to realize that after 10+ years of training as a professional scientist, I would make less as a professor there than I do currently as a high school tutor.

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@JohannaMellis @AcademicChatter family are always shocked to hear how little TT faculty at non-R1 schools actually make, especially knowing how many years of training and work are required for getting the position (and the price of tuition!). I don't really want to leave academia, but I honestly feel

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@NickPoulton6 @HoorayForZinder Every time I do a giga prep, I find a new way to botch it

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@gramnegativity Could you stick them in the incubator for the night? This is what I usually do to dry my plates (and also tells you if any contamination crept in during pouring)

[Lydia Finley @lydfinley]

Our new work describing a “non-canonical” TCA cycle that is engaged in a cell-state dependent manner is out today in @Nature https://t.co/BqaDhp9YRO. Congratulations to lead authors @paigearnold2 @__btjackson @GSKGradSchool @MSKCancerCenter. A few highlights:

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@bakermind @sciliz @sebatlab I've heard this a lot and I'm not sure I agree with it. Maybe I am biased by being surrounded by smart people all day, but I really don't think what I do is all that complex, and requires a huge amount of training. It just takes better teaching than most people ever really get.

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

Modelling (the nerdy kind) with a view earlier this week from @WeillCornellGS

[Hite Lab @HiteLabMSKCC]

Excited to share another collaborative effort with the Huang lab at @WeillCornell. Outstanding work by Shian and @labnavid reveal how LPA and S1P receptors discriminate between similar lipids. Congratulations to everyone! https://t.co/FImxTv35Mi

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@erin_allwein Pigeons - only once, and it wasn't their fault.

Rats - every single time I walk out of my apartment building. They're monsters. I've seen rats here that are bigger than dogs.

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

Perhaps New York City's most iconic bird. I think these birds are way more than just "rats with wings" and as I've learned recently, have played a big part in our scientific understanding of metabolism!

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

@erin_allwein These pigeons have more personality than most people I know

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Nature does open access

[Adam J Calhoun @neuroecology]

This post from a NYC high schooler about the covid situation right now is wild https://t.co/iefprZq2fy

[Chelsea Watson @chelsea_wats]

THREAD: As #Omicron surges and our systems strain, I wanted to share my #COVID19 experience in NYC last month. It was actually a hopeful window into what a society where we look out for one another and a government that is set up to truly care for us could look like.

[Ben Allwein @ben_allwein]

My first work during graduate school at @WeillCornellGS! Proud to have played a small part in this incredible effort with our collaborators. More to come in the future from the @HiteLabMSKCC.

[George Caputa @curiousdrgeorge]

An IMPORTant (sorry, I had to) paper in @nature from the @KivancBirsoy lab identifying SLC25A39 as necessary for mitochondrial glutathione import. Congrats to the team and all their hard work!

https://t.co/pjIfB1gcNF