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RSC Peptide and Protein Science Group @rsc-ppsg.bsky.social · Jul 17

Registration is now open for the first PPSG conference in Nottingham, December 15-16th 2025.

bit.ly/1STPPSG2025

Register by the 31st August for an early-bird price!

1st RSC Protein and Peptide Science Group Conference

Business School South and GSK Carbon Neutral Labs, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Rd, Lenton, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, United Kingdom

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy to have been a small part of this fantastic collaboration!

Hugo Belda @hbelda.bsky.social · Jun 23

Better late than never, but I am thrilled to share our newest research from the Treeck lab!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound - Nature Microbiology

FIKK effector kinases underwent rapid evolutionary expansion and are a druggable target in Plasmodium falciparum.

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RSC Chemical Biology @rscchembio.rsc.org · May 22

👀 A gentle nudge!
⏳ Abstracts for @rsc-ppsg.bsky.social are due 5 June
📝 Registration closes 20 June
Don’t miss out on this friendly and focused event for ECRs in protein/peptide science.
🔗 www.rsc.org/events/d...

#PPSG2025

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Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social · May 23

🔥 Exciting online, free #chembio event on 28th May!!

Please join us online for the hybrid ESBOC Satellite meeting! Setup as a teaser to allow for accessibility and see some of the speakers that will attend ESBOC in Gregynog/Wales. To attend, please register by sending an email: lnkd.in/e-U7C6Jb

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Moritz Treeck @moritztreeck.bsky.social · May 19

Huge congratulations to @hbelda.bsky.social and David Bradley for their publication on the extraordinarily interesting FIKK kinase family (I am biased) of the malaria causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 1/n

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Apr 14

#PhD #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery @icbcdt.bsky.social @imperialchemistry.bsky.social #ImperialCollege

Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Apr 14

🧪 Techniques include: mRNA display, chemoproteomics, cell-based screening
📍 1y MRes + 3y PhD | Full funding
🤝 GSK collab + interdisciplinary training

Looking for science grads (50%+ phys sci) into chemistry, biology, & innovation 👩‍🔬🧬

For more info or to apply 👉 tinyurl.com/mwa63ww5

Studentships for October 2025 entry

2025 Studentship Opportunities

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Fully-funded 4-yr MRes+PhD studentship @Imperial 🚨

Join our team (w/ Prof Hugh Brady @Imperial + Dr Jacob Bush @GSK) on an exciting PhD project developing a covalent cyclic peptide discovery platform with a focus on immuno-oncology targets 🔬🔥

📅 Deadline: 27 April 2025

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Feb 7

Today! Free and online. 1pm GMT

RSC Peptide and Protein Science Group @rsc-ppsg.bsky.social · Feb 6

📢 Our Early career academic seminar series continues tomorrow! 7th Feb | 1-2 PM | Online

Talks from Dr Sona Krajcovic from The University of Cambridge and Dr Anna Peacock from The University of Birmingham!

Attendance is free, please register here: bit.ly/PPSGFEBSEMINAR

See you there!

Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 30

Last 24 hours to apply!

RSC Peptide and Protein Science Group @rsc-ppsg.bsky.social · Jan 27

Nominations are still open for the 2025 Astrazeneca Peptide and Protein Science Award!

Follow this link:

bit.ly/AZ-PPSG-2025

🧪 Nominations close on the 31st January 2025 at 17:00 GMT.
🧪 The winner will be a keynote speaker at the PPSG ESRM in July 2025

We are excited to read your nominations!

Protein & Peptide Science Group Awards

Our community recognising scientific excellence

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 27

It was a pleasure reading such an interesting thesis and chatting with Sabrina all things G4

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 20

More details of requirements and selection criteria can be found at the webpage below:

www.rsc.org/membership-a...

Protein & Peptide Science Group Awards

Our community recognising scientific excellence

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 20

Guidelines

•The prize is open to nominees based in the UK or internationally.

•Nominees must be members of the RSC PPSG Interest Group.

•Self-nominations are permitted and encouraged.

•Members of the PPSG prize committee are not eligible to apply.

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 20

This open prize is awarded in recognition of excellence in any area of protein and peptide science.

🏆Award presented at the 2025 PPSG Early Stage Researcher Meeting

🎓Keynote lecture at the PPSG ESRM

💰Prize money of £1000

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 20

Nominations still open for the AstraZeneca Protein and Peptide Science Award

Just over a week left to apply!

Closing date for nominations: 31st Jan 2025, 17:00 GMT.

www.rsc.org/membership-a...

Protein & Peptide Science Group Awards

Our community recognising scientific excellence

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · Jan 9

If you are interested in 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, definitely consider the #ABPP2025 conference on March 30th to April 2nd, 2025, at The Francis Crick Institute.
Registration deadlines have been updated.
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14th International Activity Based Protein Profiling (ABPP) Meeting on LinkedIn: REGISTRATIONS DEADLINES UPDATE! Early Bird registration (🐣) has been…

REGISTRATIONS DEADLINES UPDATE! Early Bird registration (🐣) has been extended to the 30th of January and Late Registrations (🦉) end on the 28th of February…

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Jan 3

Looking forward a new job to go with a New Year?! Opportunity for a chemical biologist to join our team - applications close on Monday

Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Dec 17

🚨Looking to recruit a postdoc chemist/chemical biologist to join an exciting translational collaboration. Funded by Kidney Research UK we aim to develop new peptide-based therapeutics to alleviate innate immune complications in transplanted kidneys through preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury.🚨

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Dec 20

Do take a read, especially if you're interested in #peptides, #covalentdrugs, #geneticcodereprogramming #argininedeiminases or #citrullination

Thanks to coauthors Ewen Calder and Simone Kunzelmann and to everyone else that contributed!

@imperialchemistry.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Dec 20

🚨 We managed to sneak a last paper over the line in 2024 🚨

Congratulations to Issy Mathiesen on her first publication 🥳.

In it we adapt the mRNA-display technique RaPID to directly screen for covalent peptide inhibitors of peptidyl arginine deaminase 4 (PADI4).

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Dec 17

This will be an exciting new collaboration with @drglycoben.bsky.social, Steve Sacks (KCL) & Subho Mukhopadhyay (KCL)

Start date 3rd March 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA818/r...

Research Associate in Chemical Biology at Imperial College London

Discover Research Associate in Chemical Biology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Dec 17

🚨Looking to recruit a postdoc chemist/chemical biologist to join an exciting translational collaboration. Funded by Kidney Research UK we aim to develop new peptide-based therapeutics to alleviate innate immune complications in transplanted kidneys through preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury.🚨

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Louise Walport @ljwalport.bsky.social · Nov 12

For my 1st post I'm pleased to share results of a fab collaboration with the Christophorou Lab (Babraham Insitute) - now in print!

We develop a set of cyclic peptide tools to explore the cellular function of PAD4/PADI4 - let us know if you'd like to try them out.

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

A cyclic peptide toolkit reveals mechanistic principles of peptidylarginine deiminase IV regulation - Nature Communications

Walport & coworkers report cell-active, potent and selective cyclic peptide modulators for the enzyme peptidylarginine deiminase PADI4/PAD4, including an inhibitor, an activator and an affinity mo...

www.nature.com

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