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Verhelst Lab @verhelstlab.bsky.social · 7d

Run for tomorrow - donate.kuleuven.cloud/crowdfunding...
You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."

Run for Tomorrow: Antwerpen Marathon tegen kanker

Ik ben Emeric Bomans, student in mijn tweede bachelor geneeskunde aan de KU Leuven. Kanker vormt één van de grootste uitdagingen in de geneeskunde. Maar voor mij werd deze ziekte plots ...

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Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sometimes, more is accomplished by taking a break, self-reflecting, and going back to the drawing board. Remember, you don’t have to do it alone. Sharing your ideas can bring clarity and support.

Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · Aug 12

If your current career situation is making it tough to just get through each day, then setting goals may feel overwhelming (or ridiculous), but those goals may be critical to helping you weather the storm.

More in my latest blog post:
jenheemstra.com/resources/goal…

https://jenheemstra.com/resources/goal…

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Marta Barniol-Xicota @mbarniolx.bsky.social · Jul 25

Super happy to see our work out!
Phage display leveraged to identify highly selective protease substrates 👩‍🔬 @upf.edu @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @prbb.org @jacs.acspublications.org

Matt Bogyo @mbogyo.bsky.social · Jul 19

Our paper outlining a new method for identifying selective protease substrates by phage display is finally out. Nice work from @mbarniolx.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Matt Bogyo @mbogyo.bsky.social · Jul 19

Our paper outlining a new method for identifying selective protease substrates by phage display is finally out. Nice work from @mbarniolx.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Marta Barniol-Xicota @mbarniolx.bsky.social · Jun 22

📢We are looking for a junior postdoc to join our lab. If you are interested on macrocyclic peptides and cancer immunotherapy, get in touch!

‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties

📩Deadline extended to June 30th

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Milka Kostic @milkakostic.bsky.social · Jun 6

New paper from @nickpolizzi.bsky.social, Bill Degrado and Bobo Dang showing that de novo designed small molecule binding proteins can bind to the drug and clear it from the circulation in vivo. Read in Nature Biomedical Engineering!

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

Rapid clearance of achiral small-molecule drugs using de novo-designed proteins and their cyclic and mirror-image variants - Nature Biomedical Engineering

Cyclic and mirror-image variants of de novo-designed proteins effectively bind and clear small-molecule drugs in vivo in less than 30 min, highlighting the applicability of computational tools to prod...

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Marta Barniol-Xicota @mbarniolx.bsky.social · May 31

Great work @tulsiupadhyay.bsky.social , congrats!

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · May 3

Yes!!! Needhi knew what I was talking about!

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 3

“How might the narrative about senior women be challenged or changed in order to respect these women who have achieved enough success to earn promotion? How do we stop this generational cycle so that women's wings aren't clipped as soon as they approach the power to soar.”

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Olga Valverde @ovalverdelab.bsky.social · Apr 23

Tan contenta de participar en TEDx en Jerez de la Frontera !!!!
Ya se acerca el día: 9 de mayo !!!!
#TEDtalks

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Matt Bogyo @mbogyo.bsky.social · Apr 3

Had a great time at #ABPP2025! Great to see so many former lab members and their students and postdocs. Awesome venue and program. Looking forward to ABPP2027 in Leiden and then Ben Cravatt and I will try to bring it to California!

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Marta Barniol-Xicota @mbarniolx.bsky.social · Mar 24

Thanks to all my co-authors! This is my first paper under my new affiliation at @upf.edu —a project I started at Stanford and finalized in my own lab after an overseas move. A special thanks to @mbogyo.bsky.social , for his mentorship and support throughout this journey!

Excited for what’s next! 🚀

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Marta Barniol-Xicota @mbarniolx.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚀 Our new #preprint is out!

We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications.

Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗

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Macrocyclic phage display for identification of selective protease substrates

Traditional methods for identifying selective protease substrates have primarily relied on synthetic libraries of linear peptides, which offer limited sequence and structural diversity. Here, we prese...

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