🧪 💻 During my stay in Athens, I will work with Prof. Efstratios Stratikos on the target identification on which p-cymene exerts its anticancer action.
✨ Excited for the next steps and ready to do some amazing science!
#MSCA #compchem #CircularBioeconomy #AntiCancer
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📣 Back to the roots!
I am happy to announce that I am starting my secondment at my Alma Mater, the Department of Chemistry, NKUA as part of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for the #Waste2Drug project.
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Just earned my Science Communication Certificate from the University of Illinois! 🎉
Ready to level up my outreach! 🚀 #SciComm #CompChem #Waste2Drug
Thank you to the school for hosting me and to the dedicated teachers fostering scientific curiosity in the next generation of researchers. 🔬✨
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I explained to the students how #compchem and #DrugDesign play a crucial role in developing new treatments—and how even waste products from nature can become tomorrow's medicines. Their enthusiasm reminded me why science communication and outreach are so important.
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My project, supported by @horizoneu.bsky.social, focuses on transforming the terpenes found in agricultural waste into valuable chemical feedstocks with potential anticancer applications.
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It was an incredible opportunity to share my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship #MSCA #Waste2Drug hosted at NovaMechanics Ltd with curious young minds eager to learn about science and its impact on society.
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🎗️ Yesterday, I had the privilege of participating in the Researchers at Schools initiative for World Cancer Day at the Latsia junior high school here in Nicosia.
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Looking forward to the next sessions and to applying these insights within the @horizoneu.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #Waste2Drug project and beyond! 🚀
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We began with an intro to Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD), followed by a hands-on session using the KNIME Enalos/Asclepios Tools developed by NovaMechanics Ltd. These tools provided an excellent framework for exploring how workflow automation and integrated analytics can streamline #CADD.
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Excited to kick off the first day of the training “Java and Python Programming using KNIME for Computer-Aided Drug Design”! 💻🧬
#compchem #chemsky #MSCA #Waste2Drug
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Thank you @gromacs.bsky.social for reminding us!
🌍 Calling Undergraduate Chemists Worldwide! 📣
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This is how we first teach chirality to our undergrads !
I am happy that there are voices within Academia in Europe that are willing to defend the civilian nature of the HORIZON program during this warmongering reality that we are living in.
Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence
A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
I’m very happy if these materials prove useful — and I welcome feedback, discussion, or contributions from others working on related challenges.
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1. Setting up a system with a ligand and cofactor (manual): sofki.github.io/2025-12-01-M...
2. Simulate a Zn-metalloprotein with a modified AMBER forcefield: sofki.github.io/2025-12-11-Z...
3. Automated prot-ligand system setup with the python tool Gromologist: sofki.github.io/2025-12-12-G...
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👩💻 Complex biomolecular systems often require non-standard solutions. By making these workflows explicit and accessible, I hope to lower technical barriers, improve reproducibility, and encourage knowledge sharing across the field.
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👩🏫 These tutorials are offered as open tools for the community and serve two main purposes:
• To support researchers who are setting up and simulating similarly complex systems
• To act as a public, transparent protocol documenting the system setup workflow used in my MSCA project #Waste2Drug
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🧪 In the spirit of #OpenScience and community-driven research, I’m happy to share a set of three tutorials I’ve created on how to build complex metalloprotein–ligand–cofactor systems using GROMACS with the AMBER force field.
#MolecularDynamics #GROMACS #MSCA #compchem #chemsky
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Have you ever received a gift that shaped your life and career?
We asked the Nature Briefing readers this, and their answers really delivered go.nature.com/4q1OAez
I haven't received any @nature.com briefing for a while now. Does anyone know what happened?
#academic #science #chemistry
If you speak #greek and you are interested in #science and #sciencecommunication have a look at my #Instagram account www.instagram.com/themaxhmeias/ where I try to explain the chemistry of everyday life events in a language that is accessible!
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
