Pranas Grigaitis

biochemist (PhD) behind a computer at KIT | notorious metalhead | prev @VUamsterdam, @UniHeidelberg & @VU_LT | rookie bassist, former saxophonist

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

An early Valentine's present for you from the Systems Biology Lab @ALIFE_VU. Sweet dreams... and genome-scale models are made of this.
We have collected our best (and worst) practices into a practical guide on the art of genome-scale modeling.

[bioRxiv SysBio @biorxiv_sysbio]

Mitochondrial efficiency determines Crabtree effect across yeasts https://t.co/esYlT53cea #biorxiv_sysbio

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

And a shameless plug - if you are reading this, and feel like you should be a part of this community (especially the informal part of it) please have a look and let us/me know: https://t.co/2z9mue8ken

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

Finally putting some of the recent adventures on display. On the 8-11th July, we held the 3rd summer school of Economic Principles in Cell Biology @economic_cell. Together with @daja_sz we gave a lecture on our chapter "An inventory of cell components".

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

It was a cozy, interdisciplinary, and jolly symposium, meeting a lot of fellow colleagues (some of them - after 4 years of Zooming). We hope to revamp the program and also change the venue for the next year - Vienna, we kindly ask to unveil your hospitality in all of its beauty!

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Are you interested in mutualisms?
Have you always wondered how these cooperative interactions emerge and coevolve?

If the answer to these questions is YES, then please consider joining my vibrant group as a PhD student.

Please RT.

More details👇
https://t.co/gdMbN1ItJi

[FrezzaLab @FrezzaLab]

Presenting metabolomics analyses: what is in a number? https://t.co/FtrIm8FNtm

@JohannesMeiser and I wrote this short piece to raise awareness about how present metabolomics data. We hope you will find it useful. Any comment is welcome! thanks @DanielKlimmeck for the support!

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

@Caroline_Bartma Not a concrete reference, but (at least in microbes) rRNA abundance correlates well with the (mass) fraction of ribosomal proteins in proteome (e.g. Metzl-Raz 2017 eLife). Might be worth surveying some quant proteomics datasets!

[Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull_]

Happy Val-ant-ine's Day!

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

Please spread the love* (St. Valentine's around, after all), and please get in touch if you are interested in contributing!

*CC-BY-NC

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

Today we present the first public version of what we call a 'GEM handbook', and invite you to have a look on the lab's website: https://t.co/A51K2MpgE9
Thanks to all the contributors! Couple of them still have Twitter (@morofrancesco17, @Afrikanerd1993, @JuliusBattjes )

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

An early Valentine's present for you from the Systems Biology Lab @ALIFE_VU. Sweet dreams... and genome-scale models are made of this.
We have collected our best (and worst) practices into a practical guide on the art of genome-scale modeling.

[good papers @paperperday]

A fast method to distinguish between fermentative and respiratory metabolisms in single yeast cells

"Respiratory cells, pulsed with a respiration blocker, show reduced ATP levels detected by ATP sensor, while fermentative cells maintain their ATP values."
https://t.co/I1zNsSx2u7

[Herwig Bachmann @HerwigBachmann]

If you are interested how preculture conditions prepare Lactococcus cremoris for future sugar consumption have a look at a proteome study by S. Douwenga, Berdien van Olst, Michiel Kleerebezem, @BasTeusink ..@JournalSpectrum

https://t.co/mSk2WsKVDk

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New preprint! 📰

Using metabolic pathway analysis, we enumerated metabolite exchanges in microbial metabolic models and found a surprising hierarchy of formal pathway definitions.

Amazing job by Ylva Wedmark getting to the bottom of all this 😀

https://t.co/D7DdtNGA1I

[Matti Gralka @MattiGralka]

Please share!

I am looking for a PhD student in Amsterdam, together with @MullaYuval, to study phages in microbial communities.

Interested? Check the job ad to apply or contact me with questions! MSc required, deadline Sept 30.

https://t.co/ZbLapQcKt7

[Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag]

@LukasFrank91 @DKFZ @KarstenRippe Congrats!

[Bas Teusink @BasTeusink]

our @AIMMS1 festival @VUamsterdam was such a great success! Thanks to all our researchers, from PhD to prof, our sponsors and external partners. We will continue to build interdisciplinary connections to accelerate molecular research

[Chentomology @czbugsart]

Ant character design chart 🐜

[Daran-Lapujade @PascaleDL]

If you are interested in Synthetic Genomics and Synthetic Cells and have experience in (yeast) molecular biology, you might want to check the post-doctoral position now available at IMB.

Check it out at
#genomics #syntheticbiolog…https://t.co/dLyNWbqce7 https://t.co/2FEdNgm9fP