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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 22h

🎨 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

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 1d

📢 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 · 13d

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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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 13d

📢 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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Coulibaly @coulibaly-lab.bsky.social · 20d

👇 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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Dr Rosemary Cater @rosemaryjcater.bsky.social · 20d

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

Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 22d

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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Jamie Blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social · 21d

Lots of cool microbiology research coming out of Newcastle- certainly worth a follow if that’s your thing!

Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 22d

Our microbes in health and disease research theme @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give us a follow to hear about our exciting science!

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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🧠🔬 A major breakthrough in molecular neuroscience:

I am excited to share a new story from our lab, published in accelerated format today by @nature.com:

"Delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels"

Read more here (free article link): rdcu.be/eGIKz

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Ruoshi @ruoshiz.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to see that Spacedust is now published on Nature Methods!
It combines sensitive Foldseek structure search and conserved neighborhood detection to discover functionally-associated gene clusters in prokaryotic & viral genomes.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22d

Spacedust: a tool for de novo identification of conserved gene clusters from metagenomic data.
@ruoshiz.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social

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

De novo discovery of conserved gene clusters in microbial genomes with Spacedust - Nature Methods

This work presents Spacedust, a tool for de novo identification of conserved gene clusters from metagenomic data.

www.nature.com

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 21d

Submit your abstract here 🙂

Submissions — Lorne Proteins 2026

www.lorneproteins.org

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 21d

Submit your T-shirt design here! 👕🤞🫶 Good luck!!

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 21d

👕✨ Design the next Lorne Protein Conference T-shirt!

Entries close 17 Oct – don’t miss your chance to show off your creativity and cement your place in the history of Lorne Proteins 🤓

👉 Submit your design-see the link below...

📢 And don’t forget to submit your abstract by 24 Oct!

#LorneProteins

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Jack Bravo @jpkbravo.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium Nov 11–12 at @istaresearch.bsky.social!

Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus.

Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at #cryoEM #teamtomo

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 22d

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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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · Aug 6

See the list of past Leach Lectures given at @lorneproteins.bsky.social conferences at www.lorneproteins.org/past-leach-l...

Past Leach Lectures — Lorne Proteins 2026

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · Aug 21

Protein people- this is a great conference! Recommended to get your registrations in. 🤩🧬🧶

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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Andrea Sinz 🧪 @sinzandrea.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was at the Lorne conference several years ago and I have fantastic memories!😊

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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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Leiden Early Drug Discovery & Development (LED3) @led3hub.bsky.social · Jul 26

"Generative Design of High-Affinity Peptides Using BindCraft".

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social by the group of @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social of our @led3hub.bsky.social!

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

Cc: @leidenscience.bsky.social, @unileiden.bsky.social

Generative Design of High-Affinity Peptides Using BindCraft

Discovering high-affinity ligands directly from protein structures remains a key challenge in drug discovery. We applied BindCraft, a structure-guided generative modeling platform, to de novo design o...

www.biorxiv.org

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · May 28

The 3rd NYC Integrative Structural Biology Symposium (#NYCISB25) will be Oct 9-10, 2025.

Register today:
nyc-isb25.eventbrite.com

This event will be focused on integrative structural biological techniques and limited to 100 attendees.

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Sternberg Lab @sternberglab.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab!
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness.
Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77

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Juha Huiskonen @juhahuiskonen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited to share our latest preprint "Capsid Restructuring Activates Semi-Conservative dsRNA Transcription in Cystovirus ɸ6". We show that nucleotide-triggered disassembly of the outer capsid layer is followed by expansion of the inner layer and the stepwise assembly of transcription complexes.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · Jul 25

📣 Save the date for the 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function! ✨ Lorne, Victoria, Australia. We have a packed program and we'll be sharing all the details here - Like, Follow and Share - because friends don't let friends miss the epic Lorne Proteins 😊
www.lorneproteins.org

A cartoon image of a beach with a banner that reads "save the date!" 8th-12th February, 2026, Victoria, Australia. Lorne Proteins 2026.

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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · Jul 25

We were thrilled to represent PDBe (PDBe.org) at #ISMBECCB2025.

A great opportunity to connect with users, collaborators & fellow data enthusiasts alongside our @ebi.embl.org colleagues!

Thanks to everyone who chatted with us about proteins, RNA, DNA, ligands & more!

#Science #Chemistry #Biology

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · Jul 25

Crowd favourite @audeber.bsky.social You heard it first @ Lorne Proteins 50th anniversary - the incredible story of bacterial antiphage protein homologs in human, mice, fish... with conserved innate immune function is out now in Science. 🤩🤯 🙌
bsky.app/profile/aude...

Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · Feb 11

Session 9 Aude Bernheim Unveiling highly diverse anti-phage systems. Evolution of immunity from bacteria to human to discover new immune actors. Why would bacterial anti phage natural agents be useful for antiviral therapeutics? Only 3% biosynthetic gene clusters known. #LorneProteins2025

Lanthipeptide BGCs are found in defence islands. Do lanthiphages confer anti-phage defence? Engineered lanthiphage expression clones directly target the virus; restricted to actinobacterial defence systems. Can they be active against human enzymes?

Ancestral immunity from bacteria to predict novel immune mechanisms in human? But - long evolutionary distances. Evolution is key to understanding what's going on. Iterative/structural searches uncover many false positives. Gof/Lof/already known. SIR antiphage proteins mediate immunity via the TLR pathway. SIR2 domains in antiphage systems. Also present in euk immunity?

SIR2 across domains of life - non-immune sirtuins in one part of the tree, SIRim domain containing part of the tree. Innate immunity? SIRanc. Hypothetical role based on evolution. KO SIRanc in mice no inflammatory response to bacterial infection. Cells less resistant to viral infection.

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