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Yolanda Perez

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Senior researcher Biotransformations's 🧫 Group and 🧲 NMR Core Lead at IQAC-CSIC🔸Interested in IDPs and metalloenzymes from a structural viewpoint #NMRchat🔹 Barcelona (Spain) 🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-perez-4797ba290 📖 ORCID: 0000-0003-3767-5346

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 21d

We have ongoing projects related to the development of artificial biocatalysts (metalloenzymes) and their laboratory evolution using structure-based methods such as NMR. I would be happy to support applications for personal postdoctoral fellowships (e.g.EMBO, MSCA-PF or government funded) 📧 for info

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats! 🥳

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 14h

To properly celebrate today's MOFs Nobel prize 🥇 🤗 🎉 (just published today), with colleagues from @westernu.ca Wanli Zhang, Vinicius Marti, Jeffrey Collins, Reza Moshrefi, Samantha Michelle Gateman, Victor V. Terskikh, and Yining Huang* www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #NMRchat 🧲

Interplay between noble gases and MOFs: Insights from 129Xe and 83Kr NMR spectroscopy

The atomic-level mechanisms of Xe and Kr adsorption in MOFs are revealed using 129Xe and 83Kr solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

www.science.org

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paulschanda.bsky.social @paulschanda.bsky.social · 15h

🌟 Huge congrats to Darja Rohden for winning the L’Oréal For Women in Science Award 2025! 🎓
Darja works in our group @istaresearch.bsky.social and at @univie.ac.at, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social on chemical synthesis of amino acids and protein #nmr.
👉 Get more details in the thread.

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 10d

4 Forscherinnen erhalten den L'Oré[email protected] Förderpreis "For Women in #Science" 2025, 2 davon von der #univie: Nida Ali der Fakultät für Psychologie und Darja Rohden vom Institut für Biologische Chemie! 🥳 Herzliche Gratulation an die Preisträgerinnen! Mehr dazu 👉 www.ots.at/presseaussen...

Porträt von Darja Rohden, sie lächelt in die Kamera
(c) L'Oréal

Porträt von Nida Ali, sie lächelt in die Kamera
(c) L'Oréal

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Week is once again upon us! How many women and how many scientists from the Global South will be awarded Prizes this year? Remember that this is typically a set of Prizes dominated by white men from North America (some Europe, some Asia). The first announcement was today: Medicine. 🧵 1/

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I completely agree. In the past, I generated several sequences, and implementation in the NMR spectrometer was straightforward.

Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 1d

¿Has obtenido una JAE INTRO CSIC 2025 y estás buscando un proyecto?
Echa un vistazo a nuestro plan de formación JAEINT25_EX_0767 en el IQAC-CSIC de Barcelona. Escríbeme si estás interesado y necesitas más información.
@dpe-csic.bsky.social

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 1d

With the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry being announced tomorrow, here's a reminder of the research on protein structure prediction that won last year's prize: www.compoundchem.com/2024/10/10/2...

#ChemSky 🧪

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. Proteins are important biological molecules formed from 20 naturally occurring amino acids. Proteins form folded 3D structures which are key to their function and properties, but the exact way in which they fold is hard to predict. In 2020, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and their co-workers unveiled an artificial intelligence model called AlphaFold2 to predict 3D folded structures of proteins. David Baker developed Rosetta, software that also attempts to predict protein structures, and used it to start with a protein structure and use the software to work out its amino acid sequence. Predicting and designing protein structures benefits the design of protein-based drugs, sensors, vaccines, catalysts, and more. It also aids our understanding of existing proteins and how they interact with other molecules.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

You might enjoy our take on this www.nature.com/articles/pal...

“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence

www.nature.com

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some reminiscences Jim wrote of NMR community in 1970s. https://www.nmrdg.org.uk/History_of_the_NMR-DG/Chairmen_files/Feeney.pdf

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear Jim Feeney died at weekend. Born 1936 in St Helens, Jim graduated from Liverpool Uni also did PhD and was a lecturer there for 5 yrs. In 1972 he came to NIMR Mill Hill, was Head of Molec Struct Divn and controller of Biomed NMR Centre. Thks Jon Marsh for info.

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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 2d

NMR tube thickness and signal-to-noise ratio u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2012/12/nmr-... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 2d

“We believe our method could become a standard tool for structure-activity studies, and help understand how the chemical structure of a molecule relates to its pharmacological effect."

💬 Dr Serena Monaco

New technique to speed up the design of drugs targeting proteins in the cell membrane - Quadram Institute

An team has developed a new technique that will speed up the design of drugs targeting ion channels, a type of cell membrane protein

buff.ly

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 6d

'Innovation does not occur in a vacuum. It requires raw materials: the findings of basic research. We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it.'

For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up | EMBO reports

EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

www.embopress.org

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5d

Do AI-designed proteins create a biosecurity vulnerability?

Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.

arstechnica.com

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 6d

This October I’m drawing one molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 2/31
Prompt WEAVE

N-terminal domain of a Fibrion - a building block of silk fiber produced by silkworms.

Pdb: 3UA0

Next prompt is CROWN and I would love your suggestions!

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paulschanda.bsky.social @paulschanda.bsky.social · 6d

📢 New paper: a combination of a new isotope labelling with solution-NMR, allowing to assign methyl groups even in large proteins -- we've tested it with our favourite ~130 kDa enzyme and a 70 kDa receptor.
->see thread
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@istaresearch.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Novel HMBC-CC-HMQC NMR Strategy for Methyl Assignment Using Triple-13C-Labeled α-Ketoisovalerate Integrated with UCBShift 2.0

In this study, we describe an integrated approach for methyl group assignment comprising precursor-based selective methyl group labeling, a novel puls…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marek Lab @mareklab.bsky.social · 6d

Supramolecular NMR contact shifts in paramagnetic cocrystals by @mareklab.bsky.social just published in Chemical Science: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

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La Marea @lamarea.com · 6d

Séptimo límite

La salud del océanos es básica para nuestra estabilidad, y aunque estamos al borde del colapso, también estamos a tiempo de evitarlo. La viñeta de esta semana de @atxe.bsky.social en @climatica.coop https://climatica.coop/septimo-limite/

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Instruct-ERIC @instruct-eric.bsky.social · 7d

Join us in Brussels for the 7th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference!

#IBSBC2026 showcases the latest in integrative structural biology from leading scientists across the world. This year's conference will take place 27-29 May - register below!

instruct-eric.org/ibsbc2026

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee

“Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 7d

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make"

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 9d

"AlphaFold-Multimer’s prediction accuracy is sensitive to the defined boundaries of the interacting partners" #alphafold

yep

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

AlphaFold-Multimer accurately captures interactions and dynamics of intrinsically disordered protein regions | PNAS

Interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) pose formidable challenges in structural characterization. IDRs are highly...

www.pnas.org

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 9d

Applications are now open for the position of Senior Research Laboratory Technician at the Autonomous University of Barcelona's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Service (deadline 09/10/2025). Experience of NMR/MRI and an animal handling certificate are required.
#NMRchat #MRI #NMR

e-TAULER - Consorci Administració Oberta de Catalunya

tauler.seu-e.cat

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 10d

Frison A, Sørensen MM, Prince K, Aachmann FL, Flaten GE, Rainsford P, et al. InNMR: an innovative NMR-tube insert enables direct studies of transport phenomena in situ. ChemRxiv. 2025; doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-mzpv4
#NMR #NMRchat

InNMR: an innovative NMR-tube insert enables direct studies of transport phenomena in situ

A novel discoid insert together with a plunger tool has been developed that can be inserted into a standard NMR tube. By attaching any type of semi-permeable barrier to the bottom of the insert, the d...

chemrxiv.org

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 12d

If you rising senior PhD student and are interested to come to Europe as a postdoc, get in contact with PIs early (6-9 months ahead of time) and discuss postdoc funding options like fellowships

Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Can confirm. Depending on where you go, it can easily take six to nine months from when you apply for a fellowship, to when you can start.

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