Ksenia Korshunova
@kkorshunova.bsky.social
🔸Computational biophysics postdoc at the University of Helsinki
🔸PhD at Forschungszentrum Jülich / RWTH Aachen
🔸PhD at Forschungszentrum Jülich / RWTH Aachen
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Memory in motion. Li et al. use an active vertex model to show how polarity memory in confined cell collectives drives coherent cell rotation and period reversals in migration directions.
Time-dependent active force drives periodic reversal in collective cell migration
Collective cell migration is prevalent in the processes of embryo development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis across various space and time scales. Although various motion modes have been…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Memory in motion. Li et al. use an active vertex model to show how polarity memory in confined cell collectives drives coherent cell rotation and period reversals in migration directions.
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. https://scim.ag/4pg1eX1
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. https://scim.ag/4pg1eX1
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Watch the Tutorial: Introduction to Molecular Animation at PDB-101
Learn how to use ChimeraX to create simple animations that can enrich your presentations, websites, and social media
Learn how to use ChimeraX to create simple animations that can enrich your presentations, websites, and social media
PDB101: Tutorial: Introduction to Molecular Animation
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November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Watch the Tutorial: Introduction to Molecular Animation at PDB-101
Learn how to use ChimeraX to create simple animations that can enrich your presentations, websites, and social media
Learn how to use ChimeraX to create simple animations that can enrich your presentations, websites, and social media
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/44yj4M5 🧪
July 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/44yj4M5 🧪
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
A feature in Natures shows how tardigrades exist in a sweet spot for researchers and why neuroscientists are working to make them a model organism for studying how neural circuits work. #neuroskyence 🧪
Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models
For water-bear enthusiasts, it’s the creature’s legs that make it stand out.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A feature in Natures shows how tardigrades exist in a sweet spot for researchers and why neuroscientists are working to make them a model organism for studying how neural circuits work. #neuroskyence 🧪
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia.
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
June 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia.
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
Tardigrades are all the rage for studying how critters survive extreme conditions. But they could be great neuroscience models, too. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
March 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tardigrades are all the rage for studying how critters survive extreme conditions. But they could be great neuroscience models, too. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
As of 2021, ~530 drugs available on the market are targeted #GPCRs.
About 60% of the total #GPCR complex structures solved have been resolved by #cryoEM.
Cryo-EM enables visualization of GPCRs in complex with trimeric G-proteins, in a variety of conformations.
📑 Learn more: bit.ly/gpcr
About 60% of the total #GPCR complex structures solved have been resolved by #cryoEM.
Cryo-EM enables visualization of GPCRs in complex with trimeric G-proteins, in a variety of conformations.
📑 Learn more: bit.ly/gpcr
December 2, 2024 at 3:04 PM
As of 2021, ~530 drugs available on the market are targeted #GPCRs.
About 60% of the total #GPCR complex structures solved have been resolved by #cryoEM.
Cryo-EM enables visualization of GPCRs in complex with trimeric G-proteins, in a variety of conformations.
📑 Learn more: bit.ly/gpcr
About 60% of the total #GPCR complex structures solved have been resolved by #cryoEM.
Cryo-EM enables visualization of GPCRs in complex with trimeric G-proteins, in a variety of conformations.
📑 Learn more: bit.ly/gpcr
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
hello bluesky! we have a new preprint on solvation free energies:
tl;dr: We define an interpolating density by its sampling process, and learn the corresponding equilibrium potential with score matching. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15815
with @francois.fleuret.org and @tbereau.bsky.social
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tl;dr: We define an interpolating density by its sampling process, and learn the corresponding equilibrium potential with score matching. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15815
with @francois.fleuret.org and @tbereau.bsky.social
(1/n)
December 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM
hello bluesky! we have a new preprint on solvation free energies:
tl;dr: We define an interpolating density by its sampling process, and learn the corresponding equilibrium potential with score matching. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15815
with @francois.fleuret.org and @tbereau.bsky.social
(1/n)
tl;dr: We define an interpolating density by its sampling process, and learn the corresponding equilibrium potential with score matching. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15815
with @francois.fleuret.org and @tbereau.bsky.social
(1/n)
Reposted by Ksenia Korshunova
A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far.
Learn more: scim.ag/4gEQU6n
Learn more: scim.ag/4gEQU6n
This odd fish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals
Lacking key genes that control selfish bits of DNA, the South American lungfish’s genome just grew and grew
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December 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM
A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far.
Learn more: scim.ag/4gEQU6n
Learn more: scim.ag/4gEQU6n