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Research Assistant Professor, National Institute of Chemistry, Baker lab @ UW alumni, MSCA alumni. http://ljubetic-lab.si

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Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Jun 26

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉

Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025)

Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/
Website: europeanrosettacon.org

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Please share this far and wide:)

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ByteTrending @bytetrending.bsky.social · 3d

Protein Generation: AI Tools & Techniques

Unlock next-gen protein design! Learn how cutting-edge AI is revolutionizing biomolecule creation, accelerating drug discovery & materials science. Explore innovative techniques for tailored protein generation – the future of innovation.

Protein Generation: AI Tools & Techniques

Unlock next-gen protein design! Learn how cutting-edge AI is revolutionizing biomolecule creation, accelerating drug discovery & materials science. Explore innovative techniques for tailored protein generation – the future of innovation.

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 6d

Just a heads up to anyone interested. @joshuamhardy.bsky.social will be presenting Protein DJ next week at the Australian Structural Biology Computing “Protein Design Seminars” hosted by @ausbiocommons.bsky.social

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

WEBINAR SERIES: Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding proteins — Australian BioCommons

Be inspired by case studies that show you how deep learning methods are speeding up the process of designing proteins with desirable biophysical properties. More information Register

www.biocommons.org.au

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Biologic Models @biologicmodels.bsky.social · 16d

Do you have a colleague who just finished a major accomplishment and you'd like to commemorate their successes? 3D printed protein models with commemorative bases recognize your colleague's accomplishments in molecular biology. Submit a 3D print request at buff.ly/8x5f0BS

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UC Davis Egghead @ucdavis-egghead.bsky.social · 19d

AI has revolutionized study of protein structure and design. UC Davis researchers are taking part in two new NSF-backed projects to apply AI-driven protein engineering in industry. www.ucdavis.edu/news/federal...

Federal Grants Support Research on AI-driven Protein Design

Two projects at the University of California, Davis, that use artificial intelligence to design and engineer proteins for industrial and health applications have been funded by the U.S. National Scien...

www.ucdavis.edu

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 23d

AI reveals how toughest protein bonds behave #Science #Biology #MolecularBiology #ProteinResearch #Biotechnology #ArtificialIntelligence

AI reveals how toughest protein bonds behave

Proteins can form “catch-bonds” that tighten under force, much like a finger trap. Credit: Rafael C. Bernardi, Auburn Physics Researchers have used artificial intelligence to help uncover how certain...

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Really excited to receive the ERC Starting Grant! It’s gonna allow us to do a lot of cool protein design and structural biology method development in the next few years!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected].

More info: www.shekharlab.org

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · Aug 27

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

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

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 21

The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.

Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now

But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.

www.npr.org

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Indrek Kalvet @ikalvet.bsky.social · Aug 22

RFdiffusion2 is now live!
github.com/RosettaCommo...

You can now design proteins, and in particular enzymes from just partially defined amino acid side chains, and without defining their sequence position or order!

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Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Aug 19

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 closes in two days!

Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025)

Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/
Website: europeanrosettacon.org

Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Aug 18

Probably not until it can manipulate things the structures as well. But if RosettaScripts was ported...

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Lars-Anders Carlson @lacarlson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Repost appreciated:
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/

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Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Aug 11

Due to popular demand (and summer time), early registration for EU Rosetta Con has been extended until Aug 20th!

If you missed the deadline -- there is still time to apply:
europeanrosettacon.org

European RosettaCon

europeanrosettacon.org

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Aug 10

Researchers analysed thousands of natural protein sequences and got assistance from AI in order to design a new hydrogel adhesive that can stay sticky underwater or even within a living body.

Super-sticky hydrogel is 10 times stronger than other glues underwater

Researchers analysed thousands of natural protein sequences and got assistance from AI in order to design a new hydrogel adhesive that can stay sticky underwater or even within a living body

www.newscientist.com

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Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Aug 1

⏳ Time flies: only 10 days left for early registration to European RosettaCon 2025 (europeanrosettacon.org) from 20-22 Oct!

The speaker lineup is shaping up amazingly well.

Join us for three days of cutting-edge protein and biomolecular design topics!

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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 2 × PhD positions @EPFL! 🚨
Help us push the boundaries of fluorescence microscopy - DNA nanotech, custom optics & spatial omics in Lausanne 🇨🇭. Start Jan 2026. Send CV + motivation + 2 refs → [email protected]
#PhD #Hiring #microscopy #SuperResolution #SpatialOmics #DNAPAINT #FLASHPAINT

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Instruct-ERIC @instruct-eric.bsky.social · Jul 30

Take a look at our speakers for the #IBBC2026!

Registration is open and we are excited to see you all in Brussels next May!

instruct-eric.org/ibsbc2026

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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are excited to share our preprint describing DirectContacts2! Here we develop a machine learning model to discriminate between direct and indirect protein interactions. We use our model to construct a highly accurate wiring diagram of the human cell.

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

DirectContacts2: A network of direct physical protein interactions derived from high-throughput mass spectrometry experiments

Cellular function is driven by the activity proteins in stable complexes. Protein complex assembly depends on the direct physical association of component proteins. Advances in macromolecular structur...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Jul 29

Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant.

Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske.

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Vanni Lab at UNIFR, Switzerland @labvanni.bsky.social · Jul 23

Happy to share the latest work from the lab, led by @mudgal17.bsky.social‬, in collaboration with the Weis lab @ethzurich.bsky.social.
How do nuclear membranes fuse during NPC assembly? We answer this question in our latest work, where we identify a new mechanism for membrane fusion… (1/13)

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Patrick Bryant @patrickbryant1.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our study where we develop EvoBind2: Design of linear and cyclic peptide binders from protein sequence information is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks! Huh, bsky was the only one (out of twitter and LinkedIn) that did not recognise the link :)

Ajasja💻🧬🔬 @ajasjaljubetic.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎉🎉 ljubetic-lab.si🎉🎉

New lab website. We have been working on this in the background for a while, but now it's time to let it out :)

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · Jul 18

Very interesting technique, will certainly try!

Also great external validation of BindCraft, 7/36 binders bound, two with 0.8 and 6 nM affinity! Congratulations on the great work!

Julien Capin @ju-cap.bsky.social · Jul 17

You designed binders for your favourite protein and wish there was a way to experimentally screen them within 24h w/ only a set of pipettes and a plate reader?

Check out our Cell-Free 2-Hybrid approach (CF2H)

Full post: tinyurl.com/48cz5nb6

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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