Romain La Rocca

29 y.o - Stuctural biochemistry researcher - Assistant professor at @okayama_uni #crystallography #cryoEM #structuralbiology #proteinfolding #biophysics

[Romain La Rocca @romain_larocca]

I am so THRILLED to announce that I am joining the Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science in Okayama for the next two years as an assistant professor 🎉 I will study the structure of the PSII, can’t wait to start experiments 😬 #crystallography #cryoEM

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First congress in Japan, I’m going to present some new photosystem cryo-em structures 🌱🔬

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Nouvel article sur mon site, ça faisait un moment mais j’ai trouvé un peu de temps récemment, j’essaie d’expliquer le processus pour obtenir une structure de protéine par microscopie cryo-électronique https://t.co/YFpVsksF0V

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Nouveau journal de labo, des semaines chargées en remises en question mais finalement payantes https://t.co/DwLMLkh0sk

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Nouvel épisode du journal de labo dispo, changement radical d’approche qui a l’air de payer ! https://t.co/iTbsj21LAo

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Homemade micro dialysis tube ! Really crazy the amount of things that we can make by ourselves in the lab to avoid buying super expensive stuff

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Nouveau billet sur mon site, j’essaie d’expliquer de façon simple l’électrophorèse SDS-PAGE https://t.co/46mK5RX58C

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Nouvel épisode du journal de labo disponible ici, c’est beau la microscopie mais encore faut-il pouvoir purifier correctement la protéine en question ! https://t.co/hC8bzB1tUf

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Nouvel épisode du journal de labo disponible ! On continue d’avancer sur cette purification, doucement mais sûrement 💪 https://t.co/X0eXdxfSXk

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J’essaie de vulgariser un maximum, le but est de partager mon quotidien avec des amis et surtout l’occasion pour moi de remettre un pied dans la programmation web :)

[Romain La Rocca @romain_larocca]

Salut à tous ! J’ai lancé mon propre site internet il y a peu. J’ai tout codé de zéro donc forcément le site est un peu bancal, mais je vais partager du contenu scientifique massez régulièrement. Aujourd’hui j’ai posté le premier article ici : https://t.co/hWKiUo5qXX

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@PhD_Genie publish* (* : hopefully)

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On the road to Hiroshima 🇯🇵 also the occasion to collect a few man’s hole cards by traveling with local trains and discover landscapes at the same time 👍

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@meschichi If he would have say the same thing for art in general, then he's dumb. If he said this specifically for your art, then he's dumb and queerphobic

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So convenient to work with pigments: choose a chromatography fraction have never been easier 🌱

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Koraku-en garden in Okayama tonight, so beautiful ✨

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@ATinyGreenCell Easy money making, reminds me the plastic stuff and holders for acrylamide gels made by a specific brand… 👀

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@scientistswrite Paperpile, because Zotero is a mess with Google Docs sometimes (I had to restart from zero my PhD bibliography because of this), but it’s not free

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Carbon evaporation 🔥 a tricky but necessary step before observing proteins by negative staining

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@Amey_Bhidey Without telling too much about my research, you can see the different components of thylakoids in the tube, from the small proteins to the big ones. The chlorophyll makes it all very nice to look at, with different shades of green and brown :)

[Romain La Rocca @romain_larocca]

The beauty of sucrose density gradient 🌱 very singular way to purify proteins

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@ATinyGreenCell 35.000 rpm, so around 170.000 g ! So indeed very fast, a little scary the first time I am not gonna lie