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Gerald F. Audette
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Structural Biologist & Crystallographer; Professor of Chemistry at #YorkU; Study bacterial secretion systems, in my spare time I practice #kendo.
Well, I made it. Excited to get started at the #LACAABCr2025 meeting. #IUCr2026 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social @iucr2026.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Well, I'm on my way to the LACA-ABCr meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. And "Calgary Cal" is tagging along for the fun! #WhereIsCal #iucr2026 #ScienceWithoutBorders @iucr2026.bsky.social @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for IUCr 2026 are officially OPEN 🎉

🗓 Deadline: February 15, 2026
📍 Location: Calgary, Canada

🔗 Submit your abstract today: www.iucr2026.org/

#IUCr2026 #CallForAbstracts #Crystallography #StructuralScience #science #IUCr
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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🧪 The countdown to IUCr2026 is officially on. The Call for Abstracts opens October 1, 2025, & this is your opportunity to share your discoveries on the global crystallography stage.

Stay informed and get the details first at 👉 iucr2026.org
Let science, structure, and scenery collide.
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm looking forward to taking Calgary Cal with me to the upcoming #LACA-ABCr2025 meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. Looking forward to meeting with colleagues and promoting @iucr2026.bsky.social and @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels
Where in the world is Calgary Cal? 🌍🐴

Take him with you — from lab bench to mountain peak!

🚨 First 20 people to DM or comment get a Calgary Cal sent their way.
Let’s see how far science can travel. ✈️

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels
September 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A very big thank you to the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social team for making the #ACA2025 meeting such a success! Looking forward to seeing everyone at @iucr2026.bsky.social in Calgary, AB, next year!
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Experience world class structural science at the gateway to the Canadian Rockies at 2025 Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography #IUCr2026
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July 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our #ACA2025 Tuesday sessions include our biannual Fiber Diffraction session. I really enjoy this session! Leading off is Joseph Orgel talking on fiber diffraction of collagen and paleontologic studies. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Our 2025 Fankuchen Mermorial Award lecture by Prof. Chris Malliakas #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Not at #aca2025? Sign up for updates using the "expression of interest" form at www.iucr2026.org
July 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our #ACA2025 Bau Neutron Diffraction Award Winner, Dr Craig Brown, and his talk "Adsorption and separations of small molecules in porous media". @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And now @biophyskrys.bsky.social giving a hot strucutres talk on BoPDA, a polysaccharide deacetylase. Another great study and talk! #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Another Etter Student talk at #ACA2025 ... This time in our Hot Strucutres Session (2.1.2) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!
July 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Starting Sunday with the session on combining predictive models with experimental data for structure determination (2.1.6) #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our #ACA2025 YSIG Mixer was a great success! Apparently the YSIG has an informal games night tonight after the poster session. I may have to check it out 🤔😀 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Transactions part 2 ... An update on the PDB-IHM and structures from integrative methods #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social @rcsbpdb.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Starting our #AC2025 Transactions session is Simon Billinge from Columbia discussing AI/ML methods in PDF Analysis, signal analysis etc. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Professor Stephen Burley @rcsbpdb.bsky.social gave an amazing Keynote at the opening of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social 75th Annual Meeting this evening! @gfaudette.bsky.social
#structure #research #impact #science #ACA2025
July 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
And away we go! #ACA2025 is a go! A great Keynote from Stephen Burley form the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social to kick off our opening ceremonies. Then our reception ... Great to see everyone! @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Tomorrow ... Sessions begin!
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
On my way to #ACA2025! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Lombard and a great scientific progam!
July 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm looking forward to Nick's talk as the CNCC's 6th instalment of the Penelope Codding Lecture Series on Jan. 30th. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social xtallography.ca/index.php/co...
Lecture 6 – N. Bragagnolo – Canadian National Committee for Crystallography
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January 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Our final issue of 2024 is out: tinyurl.com/4efts8bb

The cover shows the refinement of the coordination of a magesium cation in a cryoEM structure of chlorophyll using metal-coordination restraints extracted from the Crystallography Open Database tinyurl.com/3w8zrdmf
December 10, 2024 at 1:51 PM
A very productive day at the @aip.bsky.social for their Society Leadership Workshop with Kristin and Danielle (our incoming VP) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Happy to have my first Bluesky post be to report that some excellent work by Nick Bragagnolo in my group has been published in @actacrystd.bsky.social @acastructuralsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1107/S205...
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P1
The structure of a type IV pilin from a human-pathogenic strain of P. aeruginosa was solved to 1.3 Å resolution using molecular replacement with an AlphaFold-generated search model. It is the first st...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM