Marija Dramicanin
@dramarija.bsky.social
Head of Protein Production Facility at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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🔬 We’re recruiting: Translational Research Scientist (Cell Therapy Manufacturing)
Join the Jenkins Lab at WEHI and be at the forefront of research in immunotherapy for brain cancer.
For full details and to apply visit: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Par...
Join the Jenkins Lab at WEHI and be at the forefront of research in immunotherapy for brain cancer.
For full details and to apply visit: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Par...
October 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🔬 We’re recruiting: Translational Research Scientist (Cell Therapy Manufacturing)
Join the Jenkins Lab at WEHI and be at the forefront of research in immunotherapy for brain cancer.
For full details and to apply visit: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Par...
Join the Jenkins Lab at WEHI and be at the forefront of research in immunotherapy for brain cancer.
For full details and to apply visit: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Par...
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
Excited to share our new review on AI-driven protein design - from its origins to today’s breakthroughs, methods, potential, and challenges ahead !
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design
In this review, Fox et al. discuss how artificial intelligence has transformed our
ability to design new-to-nature proteins that bind target proteins with high affinity
and specificity. The authors de...
www.cell.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Excited to share our new review on AI-driven protein design - from its origins to today’s breakthroughs, methods, potential, and challenges ahead !
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
New to nature proteins are the future! Proud to have contributed to this groundbreaking work! 🏴☠️
Excited to share our latest work using AI-designed proteins to block heme-piracy by E. coli. Published in @natcomms.nature.com. A team effort between my lab and the @knottrna.bsky.social lab, with experimental work led by the talented @danielrfox.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inhibiting heme piracy by pathogenic Escherichia coli using de novo-designed proteins - Nature Communications
Many pathogens encode transporters that extract heme directly from host proteins. In this study, the authors demonstrate the utility of de novo-designed proteins in understanding the mechanism behind ...
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New to nature proteins are the future! Proud to have contributed to this groundbreaking work! 🏴☠️
Lab Heads positions are available at our institute in beautiful Melbourne! 👇🏻
🌏 Make your mark in Melbourne! 🌏 We are looking for innovative researchers to join WEHI as Laboratory Heads and help lead the next wave of biomedical discovery.
For more information and to apply 👇
For more information and to apply 👇
Make your future Melbourne
Lead the next wave of biomedical discovery
www.wehi.edu.au
May 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Lab Heads positions are available at our institute in beautiful Melbourne! 👇🏻
Happy democracy sausage day Australia 🇦🇺!
May 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Happy democracy sausage day Australia 🇦🇺!
What a fantastic opportunity!
Aithyra is hiring! We are looking for multiple starting PIs in life sciences and AI/ML. We offer highly competitive packages and salaries among the highest in Europe.
www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news...
www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news...
Search for LIFE SCIENCE and AI/ML Starting Principal Investigators (m/f/d) at AITHYRA, Vienna
If you are an ambitious early-career scientist ready to propel your research to new heights, we invite you to be part of AITHYRA’s founding generation of Principal Investigators. Together, we will sha...
www.oeaw.ac.at
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What a fantastic opportunity!
Many familiar names from labs in Australia in this exciting preprint! Congratulations!!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
De novo design of miniprotein agonists and antagonists targeting G protein-coupled receptors
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play key roles in physiology and are central targets for drug discovery and development, yet the design of protein agonists and antagonists has been challenging as ...
www.biorxiv.org
March 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Many familiar names from labs in Australia in this exciting preprint! Congratulations!!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Netflix’s #Adolescence is a masterpiece that everyone should watch.
March 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Netflix’s #Adolescence is a masterpiece that everyone should watch.
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
We are recruiting a group leader in laboratory research at Peter Mac Cancer Centre in
Melbourne, Australia 🔬🦘💥
Work in a cutting edge research environment in a vibrant world city!
We value research excellence, creativity and diversity.
Join us!
careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
Melbourne, Australia 🔬🦘💥
Work in a cutting edge research environment in a vibrant world city!
We value research excellence, creativity and diversity.
Join us!
careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
Group Leader
Group Leader
careers.petermac.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We are recruiting a group leader in laboratory research at Peter Mac Cancer Centre in
Melbourne, Australia 🔬🦘💥
Work in a cutting edge research environment in a vibrant world city!
We value research excellence, creativity and diversity.
Join us!
careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
Melbourne, Australia 🔬🦘💥
Work in a cutting edge research environment in a vibrant world city!
We value research excellence, creativity and diversity.
Join us!
careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
Hilarious
Me: It's a type of influenza.
11 yo: Wait, is that a disease only influencers get? 😂
11 yo: Wait, is that a disease only influencers get? 😂
February 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hilarious
Today marks 10 years since I moved to Australia! Can’t think of a better place to be. Back to where it all started @lorneproteins.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today marks 10 years since I moved to Australia! Can’t think of a better place to be. Back to where it all started @lorneproteins.bsky.social
De novo design of protein minibinder agonists of TLR3. Congrats to the authors!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
De novo design of protein minibinder agonists of TLR3 - Nature Communications
This study reports the computational design of miniprotein binders of the pattern recognition receptor TLR3. When oligomerized, the miniprotein binders induce TLR3 signaling in cells, suggesting they ...
www.nature.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
De novo design of protein minibinder agonists of TLR3. Congrats to the authors!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quinone extraction drives atmospheric carbon monoxide oxidation in bacteria - Nature Chemical Biology
Here, Kropp et al. use cryo-electron microscopy and structural modeling to show that the enzyme [MoCu]-CO dehydrogenase interacts with its partner, the membrane-bound quinone-binding protein CoxG, to ...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxin” paper from the Baker lab just published in Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins - Nature
Deep learning methods have been used to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible an...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxin” paper from the Baker lab just published in Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Marija Dramicanin
Interactive Program now live for the Lorne Protein Conference 2025! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
www.lorneproteins.org
www.lorneproteins.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Interactive Program now live for the Lorne Protein Conference 2025! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
www.lorneproteins.org
www.lorneproteins.org
To get the things going on this platform, I decided to start sharing some interesting de novo protein design papers! Hope you find them useful!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Development of a De Novo Protein Binder that Inhibits the Alpha Kinase eEF2K
Elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) is calmodulin activated and phosphorylates eEF2, a GTPase, that regulates global translation. When eEF2K phosphorylates eEF2, protein translation is halted. This pro...
www.biorxiv.org
December 13, 2024 at 3:31 AM
To get the things going on this platform, I decided to start sharing some interesting de novo protein design papers! Hope you find them useful!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Australia's got de novo binders! 🎉 Congrats to @danielrfox.bsky.social @rhyswg.bsky.social, @cyntiat.bsky.social, @gavinjknott and all authors on their incredible work featured in two preprints below.
Thrilled to have contributed to the ChuA story, such an exciting advance in Protein Biochem!
Thrilled to have contributed to the ChuA story, such an exciting advance in Protein Biochem!
Excited to share our first foray in ML-guided protein design. With the @gavinjknott lab we designed protein binders as that block heme piracy by pathogenic E. coli and potently inhibit CRISPR-Cas13. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 9, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Australia's got de novo binders! 🎉 Congrats to @danielrfox.bsky.social @rhyswg.bsky.social, @cyntiat.bsky.social, @gavinjknott and all authors on their incredible work featured in two preprints below.
Thrilled to have contributed to the ChuA story, such an exciting advance in Protein Biochem!
Thrilled to have contributed to the ChuA story, such an exciting advance in Protein Biochem!