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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 19h

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

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Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Oppose Trump Loyalty Oath

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing President Trump’s proposed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” The resolution, citing concerns …

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 3d

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Diffuse Project @diffuseproject.bsky.social · 4d

The Diffuse Project is looking for an amazing Project Manager to help us achieve our goal of unlocking protein dynamics! Are you a scientist who naturally loves organization, coordination, problem solving and working with a diverse team of scientists & engineers?

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

TTPD #7 with @fraserlab.com.

We chatted about the recent meetings, news, preprint engagement notifications, and the point of rotations.
wankowiczlab.com/2025/09/27/T...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0JCB...

The Tortured Proteins Department, Episode 7

This is the official web page for the Stephanie Wankowicz Lab at Vanderbilt University.

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

Runner wedding bliss!

Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

Preprint #3: High-resolution ab initio reconstruction enables cryo-EM structure determination of small particles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @olibclarke.bsky.social

High-resolution ab initio reconstruction enables cryo-EM structure determination of small particles

Despite recent advances in data acquisition and algorithmic development, applying single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) to small proteins (<50kDa) remains challenging, even when high ...

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

Preprint #2: Improved cryo-EM reconstruction of sub-50 kDa complexes using 2D template matching www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @grigoriefflab.bsky.social @kekexinz.bsky.social

Improved cryo-EM reconstruction of sub-50 kDa complexes using 2D template matching

Visualizing the structures of small proteins and complexes has been a longstanding challenge in single-particle cryo-EM. Some of these targets have been successfully resolved by binding to antibody fr...

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

Preprint #1: Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @brianhie.bsky.social @samuelhking.bsky.social @claudiadriscoll.bsky.social

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

TTPD #7 with @fraserlab.com.

We chatted about the recent meetings, news, preprint engagement notifications, and the point of rotations.
wankowiczlab.com/2025/09/27/T...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0JCB...

The Tortured Proteins Department, Episode 7

This is the official web page for the Stephanie Wankowicz Lab at Vanderbilt University.

wankowiczlab.com

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 13d

This is scary

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Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology @vanderbiltcsb.bsky.social · 15d

With a new collaboration called diffUSE, the @stephanieaw.bsky.social lab is helping to advance our understanding of protein motion, leading to a new paradigm in dynamic structural biology.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

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Nozomi Ando @nozomi-ando.bsky.social · 16d

Fall beamtime begins! Here is Sarah @andolab.bsky.social ! 😎⚡️

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 17d

A joy we can all agree we need in our lives right now.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

It is Fat Bear Week in Alaska. The popular competition lets anyone vote on which of the animals is most prepared for winter. nyti.ms/3IBbucx

A very large brown bear walking in a field of grass.

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Kexin Zhang @kekexinz.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 Check out our new preprint on extending the scope of single-particle cryo-EM with 2D template matching!
Improved cryo-EM reconstruction of sub-50 kDa complexes using 2D template matching is now available on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 24d

Peak millennial humor.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d

LimeWire, which became popular in the 2000s, has been revealed as the buyer that paid $245,000 for the rights to the Fyre Festival. It’s unclear what exactly it plans to do with the embattled brand.

LimeWire, the Former File-Sharing Service, Is Buying Fyre Festival Brand

The streaming service, which became popular in the 2000s, paid $245,000 for the festival naming rights. It’s unclear what exactly it plans to do with the embattled brand.

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

As always, feedback is always appreciated!

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

Rules include: define biological selection criteria, set up QC, beware PDB biases, mind sample size/stats/uncertainty, choose proper controls, compare metrics consistently, link to other databases, and visualize everything!

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

I originally put this guide together for my lab, but expanded it into a “10 Rules” article on how to use structural bioinformatics effectively.

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

Structural bioinformatics is incredibly powerful on its own or when paired with theory or experiment. One of the PDB's superpowers isn’t from one structure, but comparing many to uncover folds, binding sites, and subtle conformational shifts. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

10 Rules for a Structural Bioinformatic Analysis

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is one of the richest open‑source repositories in biology, housing over 277,000 macromolecular structural models alongside much of the experimental data that underpins thes...

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 10

Why do people think they will get away with lying on their resume?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 4

These statements about corruption in science are egregious lies. Kennedy is a tsunami of anti-science propaganda.

This isn’t just a moral injury to scientists, it is downright dangerous.

It is devastating that the U.S. Senate is permitting this.

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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · Sep 4

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