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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Call for Abstracts – One Month to Go!
Don’t miss your chance to present at the 51st Lorne Proteins Conference. Share your research, connect with global scientists, and be part of a legacy 51 years strong.
👉 Submit your abstract now: www.lorneproteins.org
#LorneProteins #ProteinScience

Lorne Proteins 2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 1d

🎨 Design the Next Lorne Proteins T-Shirt!
Got an eye for design? We’re calling on creative scientists to design the official 2026 conference T-shirt!
📅 Entries close 10 November 2025
👉 Submit your design here:
#LorneProteins #TshirtCompetition #CreativeScience

T-Shirt Competition Entry Form

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Dr Rosemary Cater @rosemaryjcater.bsky.social · 21d

Lorne 2026 is set to be excellent! Especially with a Transporter Satellite Meeting!!

Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 23d

Momentum is building! Join us for the 51st Lorne Proteins Conference Feb 8–12, 2026, Mantra Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, for fun networking activities 🏐 🎾 🥗 🪩 and breathtaking surf-coast accessibility 🏖️ 🏊 🏄 in the generous breaks between sessions!

🔗 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org/register

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 14d

📢 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚘𝚘𝚗!!

𝙳𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼. 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝟸𝟺𝚝𝚑 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 – 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎! 🏖️ 🏄‍♀️ 🏊

👉 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚝:
www.lorneproteins.org/submissions

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 14d

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 recognises up to 5️⃣ scientists who are within 5 years of their PhD, with a talk secured in a dedicated session! It’s always a highlight of the meeting & a fantastic opportunity to showcase exciting new science 🤩

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝟐𝟒 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓:
www.lorneproteins.org/submissions

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 19d

Anyone in #SouthAustralia culturing Karenia mikimotoi? #AlgalBloom #brevetoxin

Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 19d

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Coulibaly @coulibaly-lab.bsky.social · 21d

👇 We want you! Don’t miss out on our inaugural "Indigenous Researcher Award" from the Lorne Proteins conference. Full support to attend the 2026 conference. Deadline October 24.
www.lorneproteins.org/researcher

Indigenous Researcher Award — Lorne Proteins 2026

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Coulibaly @coulibaly-lab.bsky.social · 21d

👇 We want you! Don’t miss out on our inaugural "Indigenous Researcher Award" from the Lorne Proteins conference. Full support to attend the 2026 conference. Deadline October 24.
www.lorneproteins.org/researcher

Indigenous Researcher Award — Lorne Proteins 2026

www.lorneproteins.org

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 21d

Martini 3, where did my fourth chain go?

Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 26d

"But you grow if you stand still in the greatest doubt, and therefore steadfastness in great doubt is a veritable flower of life." #CarlJung

#SharedFacts #EmotionLogic #BrainFunction

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 23d

Momentum is building! Join us for the 51st Lorne Proteins Conference Feb 8–12, 2026, Mantra Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, for fun networking activities 🏐 🎾 🥗 🪩 and breathtaking surf-coast accessibility 🏖️ 🏊 🏄 in the generous breaks between sessions!

🔗 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org/register

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 30

With a delegation visiting IIT Roorkee- Great to meet Pravindra Kumar and Saugata Hazra and tour the amazing facilities here. The student talks were excellent 👏👏 Thanks for having us Roorkee!

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · Aug 22

Applicants wanted 2:
Open position for Postdoc Researcher for Developing Microfluidics for Research on Synthetic Cells
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · Aug 22

Applicants wanted 3:
Open position for Postdoc Researcher for Single-molecule Protein Sequencing with Origami Nanopores
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · Aug 22

Applicants wanted 4:
Open position for Postdoc Researcher for Studying in Vitro Transport Across the Nuclear Pore Complex
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · Aug 21

🥁🥁🥁
The 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function is officially live! After the resounding success of the 50th Lorne Conference in 2025 celebrating five decades of pioneering science and community, the legacy continues... 🏄🏖️🌞

February 8–12, 2026

Register here: www.lorneproteins.org

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Nate Corley @ncorley.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Training biomolecular foundation models shouldn't be so hard. And open-source structure prediction is important. So today we're releasing two software packages: AtomWorks and RosettaFold3 (RF3)

[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670328v2](www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

Accelerating Biomolecular Modeling with AtomWorks and RF3

Deep learning methods trained on protein structure databases have revolutionized biomolecular structure prediction, but developing and training new models remains a considerable challenge. To facilita...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mike Glazer @glazer1.bsky.social · Aug 15

For lovers of #crystallography: The latest issue of the @IUCr Newsletter is out at www.iucr.org/news/newslet....

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George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social · Aug 8

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n

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

Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold

Bacteriophage (phage) genome annotation is essential for understanding their functional potential and suitability for use as therapeutic agents. Here we introduce Phold, an annotation framework utilis...

www.biorxiv.org

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Get Ready to Empower the Next Generation
of Scientists at Glycopalooza 2025!! 🥳

As part of the 52nd SFG Annual Meeting, Glycopalooza 2025 is a trainee-focused event designed to empower the next generation of scientists through mentoring, career exploration and community building ⬇️

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oh cool! Congratulations Emily 🤩

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Amazing @thamlab.bsky.social , Alisa Glukhova and Jill Chmielewski 🤩 to name but a few 🍾🥂👏

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks Debnath! I have to pick your brains about microbe cryotomo one of these days 😊

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks Brett! On to the next one 😀

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks Joe!

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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · Jul 24

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity.

We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity.
Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.science.org

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