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Da-Neng Wang
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Structural biologist, professor, NYU School of Medicine. Alum of: Skirball Institute, EMBL, Univ Stockholm, Acad Sin, NEU. Personal account. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lX2sB0sAAAAJ&hl=en
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We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!

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Research Group Leader
Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Jane changed how I both think about and teach biochemistry.
admirablewomen.bsky.social Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 7d
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941

+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012

#WomenInSTEM
Vibrant color portrait of Jane S. Richardson, the visionary biophysicist and artist who revolutionized structural biology with her invention of ribbon diagrams. She gazes warmly at the camera with a bright, knowing smile that radiates quiet brilliance and decades of curiosity. Her silver-blonde hair woven with gentle waves. Large, elegant dangling earrings catch the light, and she wears a richly patterned brown blouse embroidered with intricate turquoise paisley motifs and delicate beadwork that echoes the molecular elegance she has spent her life depicting. Behind her floats a luminous, dreamlike backdrop of glowing molecular structures--interlocking hexagonal and ribbon-like forms in electric blues, teals, and greens--blending science and art in a single, living canvas. Hand-drawn and hand-colored (by Jane Richardson) scientific artwork known as a Richardson ribbon diagram (or “ribbon model”), one of the iconic visual inventions of Jane Richardson that transformed the way we see and understand protein structures. A graceful, three-dimensional tangle of protein backbone ribbons twists and spirals through space, rendered in soft pencil lines and luminous watercolor hues. Smooth golden-brown coils represent α-helices that curl like elegant ribbons, while broad teal-green arrows trace the flat, pleated strands of β-sheets slicing through the molecule with directional purpose. Thin, looping golden threads connect the secondary structures, creating a delicate, almost dance-like choreography of biology’s hidden architecture. The entire form is framed by a simple olive-green mat and dark border, giving the drawing the quiet dignity of both fine art and precise scientific illustration—a timeless bridge between molecular reality and human imagination.
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨Our lab at MRC-LMB Cambridge is recruting a postdoc to study transcription-coupled splicing using cryoEM and endogenous isolation! 🔬 🧬

Please feel free to get in touch directly #postdoc #cryoEM #biochemistry #splicing

Apply here by 11 Feb
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Structural Studies - Dr Suyang Zhang - LMB 2761 - Cambridgeshire (GB) job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12852642
Postdoctoral Researcher Salary £42,694 per annum  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK We are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Apply by Feb. 3 to become a Janelia Group Leader!

Group Leaders drive breakthroughs & experimental approaches in imaging, molecular engineering, protein chemistry, mass spectrometry, & methods that don't yet exist. Learn more: janelia.org/groupleader 🧪
Lead a lab at Janelia Pioneer next-generation tools for biological discovery Apply by Feb. 3, 2026 janelia.org/groupleader
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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BPS is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal
Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal
The Biophysical Society is seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s flagship publication, Biophysical Journal. This appointment will begin January 1, 2027, for one five-year term. The…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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SGP congratulates the first recipients of the new Rising Star Travel Awards! The application deadline for the next round of awards has been extended to 31 January 2026. See sgpweb.org/awards/risin... for more info.
January 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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In Jan 2006 I started my dream job: running my own research group at The Hospital for Sick Children in my home town, Toronto. Stephanie Bueler started as lab manager on Day 1.
Many students, postdocs, papers, and microscopes later we're still going strong - and Stephanie is still putting up with me!
A young John Rubinstein and Stephanie Bueler on a lab skating trip at Nathan Philip Square in Toronto.. A slightly older John Rubinstein and Stephanie Bueler. A chocolate cake with red writing that reads 2006, 2026, JLR, SAB
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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The Gonzalez Lab at Columbia University is seeking a scientific leader!

Join us in a Research Scientist position, driving single-molecule, structural, and biochemical studies of translation, translational control, and other RNA-based processes.

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/176949
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Announcing the second round of 2025 SGP Rising Star Travel Awards for students and postdocs. The $500 awards can be used for meetings held up to 1 year from notification. Apply today! Deadline: 31 December 2025 sgpweb.org/awards/risin...
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🌟 WeINSPIREBio is hosting its first event!

On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar:

Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology

If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼

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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I needed this…
shoshana.bsky.social Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Nov 23
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Oh, Canada. What are you doing to us?
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Excited to share our latest @nature.com: How does naloxone (Narcan) stop an opioid overdose? We determined the first GDP-bound μ-opioid receptor–G protein structures and found naloxone traps a novel "latent” state, preventing GDP release and G protein activation.💊🧪 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Go New Jersey!!!
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We are looking for a computational postdoc to work with us on new optimisation algorithms to make #RELION even better. Join our bubbly team at the @mrclmb.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK. 🤗 RTs appreciated.

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October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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New online: New York City’s structural biology mosaic
New York City’s structural biology mosaic
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 28 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01698-zThe structural biology community in New York City combines expertise and access to cutting-edge instrumentation that fosters cooperation. Working collaboratively is indispensable because developing interdisciplinary tools can enable discoveries in cell, structural and molecular biology.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!

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Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Fred Hutch's Human Biology Division is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor to lead a laboratory-based research program focused on the biological mechanisms of solid tumor cancers and their clinical translation. Learn more and apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/174007
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Chris Russo and Anastasiia Gusach have developed a new method to prepare #cryoEM samples that avoids protein damage during freezing

Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/a-new-method...

#LMBResearch
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Our home department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at UC Irvine is looking to hire a new tenure-track assistant professor in the broad area of structural biology. Come be our colleague! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09887

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Assistant Professor in Structural Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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October 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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UGA is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to develop an innovative research program focused on disease mechanisms. The ideal candidate will use cryo-EM and other structural techniques, with potential applications to future therapies.
Apply here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/456...
Assistant Professor of Structural Biology
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for multiple open faculty positions, beginning August 1, 2026. We are broadly interested in scientists...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Houston has an open search for a tenure-track faculty position. If you are ready (or know someone that is) to start looking for positions, this will be a great opportunity to join the Texas Medical Center. See flyer below. 1/2
October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️

A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria
Endogenous structure of antimalarial target PfATP4 reveals an apicomplexan-specific P-type ATPase modulator
Nature Communications - Here, the authors present the 3.7 Å cryoEM structure of native sodium efflux pump PfATP4 from Plasmodium falciparum, revealing a bound protein that they term...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM