Every hear of Vaults? If not, read this preprint! New from the lab, exploring novel mechanisms of RNA trafficking in neurons and what they might mean for memory. Led by stellar PhD student Mason Musgrove. #RNAsky

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Congrats to @taylorszyszka.bsky.social and @rezwansiddiquee.bsky.social who have been invited to Raise the Bar! 20 academics will visit 10 bars across Sydney to talk about their research, for 1 night only.

📅 Thu 3 April, 7:30 PM
📍Bank Hotel, 324 King St, Newtown
🎟️ Register: bit.ly/43Ci7n0

#RTBSYD

Really proud of the famous Taylor Szyszka for the perseverance for this project! Amazing work!

Had such a wonderful time at #Coesb2024! Got to meet like minded synthetic biologists and learn about their successes and challenges. And huge thanks to @ARC_CoESB for an award for Outreach Excellence!

My first ever Bluesky post is a new #preprint alert! What if we could put *anything* into a protein cage? Our new in vitro encapsulin assembly system is esay to use and enables the pacakging of protein and synthetic cargo!
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This is a great tool to search for your community and quickly follow a bunch of people!

I sometimes forget how flexible proteins are. It becomes really apparent when you use NMR states for an animation. That poor cofactor is getting pushed around a lot 😅

#sciart #blender3d #biocatalysis

Check out Yu Heng’s post below.
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This work is led by my better half, the superstar @taylorszyszka.bsky.social and is our first paper together! Many thanks to our supervisor @yuhenglau.bsky.social for incredible support and of course, from contributors Alex, Lachlan, Regi, Titus and collaborators Andrew and Claire from UTS.

How did we do this? A clean system of fusing a steric block to encapsulin protein cage monomer – prevents assembly. Take this in vitro, add *any* cargo to the reaction and cleave off the block. And voila! Assembled in vitro cages that are surprisingly better in every way.

Very excited to share our new pre-print! We’ve developed a new way to put any type of cargo (biological or synthetic) into protein cages! All in-vitro! This enables massively scalable in vitro packaging technology for multiple lucrative applications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Long time lurker, first time poster... announcing our latest preprint on encapsulin protein cages!

We can now assemble them beautifully in vitro, without the ugly defects you get using acid/base or denaturants.
This lets us put any synthetic cargo into these cages.

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