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Yolanda Perez
@yolandapereznmr.bsky.social
Senior researcher Biotransformations's 🧫 Group and 🧲 NMR Core Lead at IQAC-CSIC🔸Interested in IDPs and metalloenzymes from a structural viewpoint #NMRchat🔹 Barcelona (Spain)
🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-perez-4797ba290
📖 ORCID: 0000-0003-3767-5346
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EMBO postdoc fellowship application deadline coming up!

Our research group has started a new line of research that integrates structural biology approaches—particularly NMR—to elucidate enzyme structure–function relationships and develop innovative biocatalysts for biotechnological applications.
EMBO postdoc fellowship application deadline coming up!

Our research group has started a new line of research that integrates structural biology approaches—particularly NMR—to elucidate enzyme structure–function relationships and develop innovative biocatalysts for biotechnological applications.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Join us for our upcoming webinar next week, where we will trace the journey of protein data from the lab bench and scientific literature into the UniProt Knowledgebase.

Registration is free but essential:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

🖥️🧬
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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CNRS cancels Web of Science in order to focus on qualitative evaluation and promoting the development of open databases.

www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
www.cnrs.fr
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Integrative In Silico and In Vitro Screening of Low Molecular Weight Compounds Targeting SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA Elements - Toews - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Integrative In Silico and In Vitro Screening of Low Molecular Weight Compounds Targeting SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA Elements
A combined virtual and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based screening approach identifies small molecules that bind conserved SARS-CoV-2 RNA structures. Diverse compound libraries are screened usin....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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I believe that we are about to see a major scientific conflict play out here on BlueSky, for better or for worse. I'll weigh in on this on the blog once I'm sure that I understand everyone's positions:
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Let’s run the numbers on this new @ERC_Research “ERC-Plus” scheme. About 30 grants to be awarded, and we’re told “better apply for a regular grant, your chances are 30× higher.”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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First crystal structure of a metalloprotein at 120 °C shows changes in H-bonding compared to cryogenic crystal structures. Exciting work from Cramer et al., out now with @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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@angewandtechemie.bsky.social (open) Ultrabroadband 1D and 2D NMR Spectroscopy, corresponding Burkhard Luy @kit.edu Dedicated to Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Ultrabroadband 1D and 2D NMR Spectroscopy
Optimal control-derived saturation pulses allow 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy covering spectral ranges in the MHz range. Next to a multitude of nuclei even multinuclear spectra are possible.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Please check out our just published article
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
, in which we demonstrate a proof-of-principle example of an NH-pi #hydrogen_bond on the surface of an IDP through detection of an ultra-weak J coupling by #NMR, supported by #MD and #DFT.
Direct detection of an NH-π hydrogen bond in an intrinsically disordered peptide - Nature Communications
The authors demonstrate a proof-of-principle example of an NH-π hydrogen bond on the surface of an intrinsically disordered protein through detection of weak scalar couplings by NMR, supported by Mole...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Tomorrow, Friday, November 28, noon CET / 6 am EST, Konstantin Ivanov Intercontinental Magnetic Resonance Seminar, François-Xavier Theillet, CITCoM, Université Paris Cité, France, In-cell structural biology using NMR: overview and latest developments sites.google.com/view/nmr-sem... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
ICONS Series
Konstantin Ivanov intercontinental magnetic resonance seminar series started on April 8, 2020. It organises seminars on a range of topics in magnetic resonance covering NMR, EPR, hyperpolarisation, co...
sites.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We show structural details of TDP-43's C-terminal helix assembly into functional multimers, explaining dysfunction caused by several disease mutations (in Nature Comm). Appropriate for Thanksgiving day, there is a critical tryptophan! with @mittalgrouptamu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural details of helix-mediated multimerization of the conserved region of TDP-43 C-terminal domain - Nature Communications
RNA-binding protein TDP-43 contains a region forming a dynamic α-helical multimer that accounts for its functional role, evolutionary conservation, and disruption in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, mak...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Take a look through the Instruct-ERIC Facility starter pack!

Find the technology and expertise in structural biology that you need, and receive funded access to any of these facilities through Instruct - bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Earlier this year Jane Evans ran an informal LinkedIn experiment: 2 women & 2 men, posted identical content at the same time. The women had a combined 154K followers, the men had only 9,389. Guess who got the highest reach? Yep, the men.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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This team are searching for new "Asgard archaea" to sequence.

Let's talk about why these bacteria-like organisms are so fascinating, why they're named for Norse mythology, and why looking at them is unlocking a better understanding of our own genomes.

Once considered a type of oddball bacteria🦠...
#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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#research #hydrogenbonding

NMR spectroscopy studies of hydrogen bonding
(Dračínský) – Coord. Chem. Rev.: doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

@iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I tried the updated Gemini image generator on scientific related image prompts that have failed in the past and I am really impressed by the quality of the outputs. The first is drawing a diagram for a pocket prediction algorithm using Voronoi diagram, Delaunay triangulation and alpha shapes
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Brrrr! Bacterial cells “bundle up” for winter, turning on a set of seasonal genes that changes the molecular composition of their cell membranes.🧣
Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing | Quanta Magazine
Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it. The discovery suggests that seasonal tracking is fundamental to life.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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My uni and many others have tried to centralize and automate many administrative functions. What happens is that the expertise is moved out of the department and then the rest of us suckers are left to learn to become admins and deal with all the edge cases. Such has been the last 6 yrs of my life
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM