Jean-Philippe Gourdine
docteurjayp.bsky.social
Jean-Philippe Gourdine
@docteurjayp.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Interest Glycobiology, Bladder Microbiome, Reproducibility of Research & Ancient DNA

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💎MRC AIM PhD advert💎 Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system.

Liang Wu, David Tourigny, and I are looking for someone to work on how A. muciniphila imports mucin.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Amos Bairoch, pioneer of bioinformatics and co-founder of SIB. His lifelong commitment for high-quality, open data transformed global research. We honour his legacy by continuing to build the future of bioinformatics.
Amos Bairoch, Swiss pioneer of bioinformatics, passes away
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th...
www.sib.swiss
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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3/3 GlycoShape is an open access library of glycan structures from MD simulations that gives users all the diff structures significantly occupied at equilibrium and tools to reconstruct the target glycoproteins with a single representative conformer (Re-Glyco) or multiple (Re-Glyco Ensemble)
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Excited to share our laboratory's research tools to study Siglecs along with some interesting discoveries with these tools. Lot of help from many group, but @zeinab-jc.bsky.social was the major driver of this work. Please reach out if you would like to try them out. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ultrasensitive and modular platform to detect Siglec ligands and control immune cell function
Siglec-liposomes are a multivalent and modular platform for profiling Siglec ligands and modulating immune cell function.
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...

Please share in your networks! #microsky
April 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Complex carbohydrates catabolism capacity of bladder microbiota inhabiting healthy and overactive female bladders https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646827v1
April 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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We are seeking to hire a lab tech, this is an HHMI funded position, please share the job posting:

hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Lab Administration Research Technician- Bertozzi Lab
Primary Work Address: Beckman Center, Stanford, CA, 94305-5323 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We are currently looking for a highly motivated Lab Administration ...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Registration is open for the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrates and the associated Gordon Research Seminar! 🧪 We have a exciting line-up of confirmed speakers and more to be added!
www.grc.org/carbohydrate...
The conference will be held June 15 - 20 in Holderness, NH.
March 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🚨 Join us for the next GlyGen Webinar!

🗓 April 01, 2025 | 🕒 10 AM EST

🎙 Dr. @Zhiyong Lu, NIH

💡 Biomedical Text Mining for Literature Retrieval & Curation

🔗 gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/91498498310

Missed previous webinars? Check our YouTube: @glygenmyglygen4223

#glycotime #webinar #NIH
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Cool paper using LLM to discover a protein sequence code for subcellular localization 👏

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...
www.science.org
February 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbohydrate-active enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila break down mucin O-glycans to completion - Nature Microbiology
Biochemical characterization of 66 carbohydrate-active enzymes from the gut microorganism Akkermansia muciniphila reveals that these enzymes can break down a range of host glycans, including mucin, wh...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quinone extraction drives atmospheric carbon monoxide oxidation in bacteria - Nature Chemical Biology
Here, Kropp et al. use cryo-electron microscopy and structural modeling to show that the enzyme [MoCu]-CO dehydrogenase interacts with its partner, the membrane-bound quinone-binding protein CoxG, to ...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
December 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM