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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 16

I've got a postdoc position open @ucl.ac.uk - using phosphoestamers to block oncogenic protein-protein interactions. Large collaboration, translational outlook, cool chemistry underneath! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 10

It can Hoogsteen plenty, and it can do cool things with other molecules (like cyanuric acid), and nature thinks it's cool enough to stick a pile of them on the end of every RNA, as well as the whole ATP thing...

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 10

I like G because it has a guanidine in it. But A's my favourite, because it's manages without oxygen.

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 3

...and "no safe dose" is a stupid thing to say when apparently there's even a safe dose of botulinum toxin

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 3

Pretty much in agreement here. This may be chemist bias, but in the end, the only question I have about food is what stuff is actually in it.
Is UPF status a state function?

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's true once you get above a certain temperature

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 30

Perhaps the problem is not with the UK...

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 27

You take that back about beer. Nowhere in the world is there anything as good as British ale.

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 24

PharmAlliance creates all kinds of opportunities for collaboration between UCL, UNC, and Monash

Prof. Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social · Jun 24

An example of one of the teams here

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 23

A great group outing to Bloomsbury Lanes!

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 20

I feel for you.

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 18

You should see people's faces when I tell them I'm an Associate Professor of Drug Discovery

Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is the best

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Dr Kat, Epidemiologist @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thanks, AI

Peptide design to control protein–protein interactions

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Andrew Beekman @andrewbeekman.bsky.social · Feb 14

Want to take on a new protein-protein interaction but don't know where to start? Have a look at our latest review in @chemsocrev.bsky.social on designing peptides to control protein interactions.
doi.org/10.1039/D4CS...

Targeting of protein–protein interactions has become of huge interest in every aspect of medicinal and biological sciences. The control of protein interactions selectively offers the opportunity to co...

doi.org

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Feb 14

I will be referencing this paper in nearly every manuscript and grant application until someone beats its record.

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · Feb 6

Come join our lab @crick.ac.uk and KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist, ideally with experience of assay design, to lead our chemical biology work, collaborating across my group, and driving forward basic and translational projects tinyurl.com/4h732e22 closes 23/2! 24-month post initially

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jan 30

We're looking for a postdoc to join the group at @ucl.ac.uk School of Pharmacy to use sequence to tie polymers in knots. Come and combine supramolecular chemistry with precision synthetic macromolecules!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Chris Serpell @cjserpell.bsky.social · Jan 22

I finally made a new group website for UCL! Basic for now, but has the key info: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/serpell/

UCL The Serpell Group

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