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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · 11d

Currently advertising a CASE PhD studentship based at #researchcomplexatharwell
in partnership with #Connectomx

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - A multi-scale multi-modal analysis of Stau1 protein in s...

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Collaborative Computational Project for Electron cryo-Microscopy @ccpem.bsky.social · May 7

Raw Zoom recordings of the majority of talks at the DLS BCI and CCP-EM Spring Symposium are available here... www.ccpem.ac.uk/symposium/sp...

2025 Spring Symposium XI – CCP-EM

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · May 7

Quite the rainbow at the vEM GRC in Casteldefells.

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · May 3

Our work on phiC31 integrase is now on bioRxiv. Joint University of Glasgow and Research Complex at Harwell effort. Funded by BBSRC. @uofglasgow.bsky.social #researchcomplexatharwell #BBSRC

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Structural basis of DNA recombination catalysis and regulation by phiC31 integrase

Large serine integrases catalyse the insertion (integration) and excision of bacteriophage genomes into and from the genomes of their bacterial hosts via site-specific recombination. The recombination...

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Apr 26

Back from the 11th CCP-EM Spring symposium. Great science and networking opportunity. Such a wonderful community. @ccpem.bsky.social

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Jan 8

Total rollercoaster here, too 🎢

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Jan 2

Starry Glaswegian sky in 2025 🤩

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Dec 24

Il cielo di Grado.

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · Dec 8

For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social
Please RT !!
research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Dec 8

Another dramatic Scottish sky. 😍

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Brent Stockwell @brentstockwell.bsky.social · Dec 5

The Dept. of Biological Sciences at Columbia is searching for an #AssistantProfessor in the area of #biochemistry — submit a one-page anonymized statement of research w/app. Apply here: : apply.interfolio.com/160181

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · Dec 3

The latest RNA-Puzzles paper is out (CASP for RNA structure prediction). Check how wild some of the best predictions are for these small RNAs. We're still a long way from a reliable AlphaFold for RNA.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tertiary structure comparisons between 23 experimentally determined small RNA structures and the best structure prediction selected from 18 different groups.

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · Dec 3

This was published a little while ago in @naturechemistry.bsky.social, but has just popped up in my issue e-alert. This is a delightful correspondence about fonts and chemistry; very much appealing to my inner chemistry nerd 🤣 #Chemsky

The font of chemical knowledge

Nature Chemistry - The font of chemical knowledge

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Nov 30

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · Nov 27

PhD Alert! We have a fully funded (UK residents only, I'm afraid 😟) #NeuroSkyence PhD to move towards developing an at-home EEG system to monitor sleep oscillations for brain health monitoring and early dementia diagnosis. Please share with your network!

www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences - MVLS Graduate School - PhD Research Opportunities - College Futures PhD Programme - Projects - Advanced Diagnostics ...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Nov 27

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Nov 27

Really enjoyed today’s external seminar on time-resolved crystallography!

Mathis Riehle @mornorse.bsky.social · Nov 27

Briony Yorke @universityofleeds.bsky.social gave a talk at SoMB @uofglasgow.bsky.social about time resolved X-ray crystallography used to assess UV damage of crystallins (eye lens proteins-yours are as old as you are) #sketchnote #structuralbiology 🧪 bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com/2024/11/brio...

Briony Yorke: Seeing the light - the role of UV radiation in cataract formation

Sketch about the scientific talk by Briony Yorke about the detailed biochemistry on how crystalin proteins in the lens of the eye respond to UV.

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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · Nov 27

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · Nov 27

I am looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join my lab to work on the role of HIV-1 accessory proteins in the pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS and viral latency.

Please contact me informally or ‘re-sky’ to anyone you think may be interested. Closing Dec 10th

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV639/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · Nov 27

An absolutely incredible opportunity to work with a fantastic new PI. From personal experience of having worked with Ferdos 10/10 highly recommend!

Ferdos Abid Ali @abidalilab.bsky.social · Nov 27

If you’re interested in how molecular motors coordinate to power intracellular trafficking events (e.g. endocytosis), I’ve got a PhD position available to study this at vibrant Bristol uni. In this project, we will capture highly dynamic events by #cryoEM, single molecule imaging & cell biology. 🔬❄️🧪

This scheme shows the cargo adaptor FHF in the middle with arrows pointing to distinct microtubule and actin-based motors (dynein-dynactin, KIFC1, KIF1C and myosins V, IX and X as well as Tropomyosin 1). It also shows a link to Rab5 marked early endosomes. The hypothesis is that FHF coordinates multi motor binding at the early stages of endocytosis. The PhD project would address the hierarchy of motor binding and how these motors coordinate to allow the newly formed vesicle to transition from the actin to MT cytoskeletal network.

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Nov 27

Congratulations! 🙌

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · Nov 26

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Bluesky Starter Pack @blueskystarterpack.com · Nov 25

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Bluesky Starter Packs

Discover and connect with amazing people on Bluesky. Create and share curated lists of accounts to follow.

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francespearl.bsky.social @francespearl.bsky.social · Nov 25

Big announcement 📢🚨
Together with the 3DBioinfo @ELIXIREurope community we are organising a joint conference in Barcelona March 19-21, 2025!
If you work in Structural Bioinformatics or Computational Biophysics communities register ASAP! Only 120 spots!
www.iscb.org/3dbioinfo202...

3DBioinfo 2025 - HOME

ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology

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Laura Spagnolo @lauraspagnolo.bsky.social · Nov 25

#rainbow over the main campus @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 24

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper

When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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