Marta Barniol-Xicota
@mbarniolx.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @UPFbiomed. Junior Leader Fellow @BecariosFLC. Peptides, enzymes & things in membranes. https://barniolxicotalab.com/
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Run for tomorrow - donate.kuleuven.cloud/crowdfunding...
You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."
You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."
Run for Tomorrow: Antwerpen Marathon tegen kanker
Ik ben Emeric Bomans, student in mijn tweede bachelor geneeskunde aan de KU Leuven.
Kanker vormt één van de grootste uitdagingen in de geneeskunde. Maar voor mij werd deze ziekte plots ...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Run for tomorrow - donate.kuleuven.cloud/crowdfunding...
You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."
You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."
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Sometimes, more is accomplished by taking a break, self-reflecting, and going back to the drawing board. Remember, you don’t have to do it alone. Sharing your ideas can bring clarity and support.
If your current career situation is making it tough to just get through each day, then setting goals may feel overwhelming (or ridiculous), but those goals may be critical to helping you weather the storm.
More in my latest blog post:
jenheemstra.com/resources/goal…
More in my latest blog post:
jenheemstra.com/resources/goal…
https://jenheemstra.com/resources/goal…
August 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Sometimes, more is accomplished by taking a break, self-reflecting, and going back to the drawing board. Remember, you don’t have to do it alone. Sharing your ideas can bring clarity and support.
Super happy to see our work out!
Phage display leveraged to identify highly selective protease substrates 👩🔬 @upf.edu @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @prbb.org @jacs.acspublications.org
Phage display leveraged to identify highly selective protease substrates 👩🔬 @upf.edu @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @prbb.org @jacs.acspublications.org
Our paper outlining a new method for identifying selective protease substrates by phage display is finally out. Nice work from @mbarniolx.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org
July 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Super happy to see our work out!
Phage display leveraged to identify highly selective protease substrates 👩🔬 @upf.edu @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @prbb.org @jacs.acspublications.org
Phage display leveraged to identify highly selective protease substrates 👩🔬 @upf.edu @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @prbb.org @jacs.acspublications.org
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Our paper outlining a new method for identifying selective protease substrates by phage display is finally out. Nice work from @mbarniolx.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org
July 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Our paper outlining a new method for identifying selective protease substrates by phage display is finally out. Nice work from @mbarniolx.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
📢We are looking for a junior postdoc to join our lab. If you are interested on macrocyclic peptides and cancer immunotherapy, get in touch!
‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties
📩Deadline extended to June 30th
‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties
📩Deadline extended to June 30th
June 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
📢We are looking for a junior postdoc to join our lab. If you are interested on macrocyclic peptides and cancer immunotherapy, get in touch!
‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties
📩Deadline extended to June 30th
‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties
📩Deadline extended to June 30th
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New paper from @nickpolizzi.bsky.social, Bill Degrado and Bobo Dang showing that de novo designed small molecule binding proteins can bind to the drug and clear it from the circulation in vivo. Read in Nature Biomedical Engineering!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid clearance of achiral small-molecule drugs using de novo-designed proteins and their cyclic and mirror-image variants - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Cyclic and mirror-image variants of de novo-designed proteins effectively bind and clear small-molecule drugs in vivo in less than 30 min, highlighting the applicability of computational tools to prod...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
New paper from @nickpolizzi.bsky.social, Bill Degrado and Bobo Dang showing that de novo designed small molecule binding proteins can bind to the drug and clear it from the circulation in vivo. Read in Nature Biomedical Engineering!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yes!!! Needhi knew what I was talking about!
“How might the narrative about senior women be challenged or changed in order to respect these women who have achieved enough success to earn promotion? How do we stop this generational cycle so that women's wings aren't clipped as soon as they approach the power to soar.”
May 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes!!! Needhi knew what I was talking about!
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Had a great time at #ABPP2025! Great to see so many former lab members and their students and postdocs. Awesome venue and program. Looking forward to ABPP2027 in Leiden and then Ben Cravatt and I will try to bring it to California!
April 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Had a great time at #ABPP2025! Great to see so many former lab members and their students and postdocs. Awesome venue and program. Looking forward to ABPP2027 in Leiden and then Ben Cravatt and I will try to bring it to California!
🚀 Our new #preprint is out!
We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications.
Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗
#ChemBio
We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications.
Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗
#ChemBio
Macrocyclic phage display for identification of selective protease substrates
Traditional methods for identifying selective protease substrates have primarily relied on synthetic libraries of linear peptides, which offer limited sequence and structural diversity. Here, we prese...
doi.org
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🚀 Our new #preprint is out!
We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications.
Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗
#ChemBio
We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications.
Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗
#ChemBio