Our paper is out today! See this news article on it. Asgard archea have some cool proteins. If you are interested in protein evolution it’s a really exciting space. I’m lucky to be a structural biologist in the age of DL🧬🧶 @brendanburns999.bsky.social @iduggin.bsky.social @debnathghosal.bsky.social
🧶🧬🤩 Useful! Thanks George.
Hey everyone, new targets are needed now more than ever! 🧶🧬 Please consider if you have something ready to go.
Big update for nf-core Proteinfold for protein people… check out v2. Great team effort! nf-co.re/proteinfold/...
Science is at a critical juncture. More and more fundamental researchers are turning to private company jobs because they ‘pay’. More and more tech is being locked away 😳Why? Because western society has stopped valuing scientists. It’s all a bit scary. What world do we want for our kids? 🧶🧬
Nice resource! Thanks for making it open access. Check your protein friends people ( and the accompanying paper in Nat. Methods). 🤩🧶🧬
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I watched it myself a month or so ago for the first time and felt the same way.
What’s up everyone with the division? So much noise creating wars between generations, genders, political parties, religion, cultures and nations. Humanity left the trees based on the back of being able to work together. Why is everyone so hell bent on going backwards right now?🤔 Happy Friday.
Slide thanking the protein databank and all the researchers who contributed structures.
At #bps2026 : I loved the special acknowledgement of the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social and the MANY researchers who generated the experimental macromolecular structures that made it possible to build AI models for structure prediction.
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Elitza Tochaeva presenting her work at UNSW today
Amazing talk today by Prof Elitza Tochaeva about the evolution of bacterial cell membrane and walls. Certainly got me thinking about bacterial and archaeal membranes. It is such a joy to see so many problems that are progressively being solved by Cryo ET. 🥰 🧬🧶 @unswbabs.bsky.social
Super amazing work James!!! 🤩 Congratulations
Kinda smashing it right now. 🤩 Again- another great team effort with some superstars and some protostars (you know who you are 😉)
😂 I hear you.
I get it-but these little guys are hard to keep alive. They evolved when our world was really different. They live in weird places that you certainly wouldn’t. Studying them helps us understand how to treat diseases and make new drugs. Try to think happy thoughts when you see them-they don’t hurt us
More importantly, this linage of archaea is currently the closest we know of that marks the point that complex organisms diverged. Most of the complex systems in our own bodies are found in this organism. You are looking at a cousin here people.
So nice to see this story! Jan is like a dog with a bone chasing this down. The origin of alpha/beta tubulins has been a question he won’t let go of. Great collaborative team effort and careful work. Recommended 🧬🧶
Beautiful work Deb! Check out these structures? Biofilms are very interesting. 🧶🧬
Dr Tom Litfin (Australian Biocommons) presented the Structural Biology Platform project and the Australian Computational Structural biology community. If you are interested and missed him you can join up here: australian-structural-biology-computing.github.io/index
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Be part of Lorne Proteins history! Photo session today from 1-1:10 pm. See you there 🎉📷🤩
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Slide of retromer-rab7 complex from Kevin’s presentation at Lorne Proteins 2026
Beautiful structural work on the Retromer-Rab7 complex presented by Kai-En Chen at Lorne Proteins. Also a preprint:www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
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This was a beautiful talk.
Just a few hours before Lorne Protein kicks off! Exciting line-up, gorgeous location. See you there. 🧬🧶
This was interesting and fun to do… seems Alphafold and the like have learnt what a Leucine zipper looks like… but not really.🤔 interesting that a fully synthetic leucine zipper that couldn’t possibly assemble looked pretty probable. 🧶🧬
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Oh yeah… can do that.
Diagram describing the change in process of PBD submissions from Oceania in 2026- now going via PDBj
Hey structural biologists submitting PDB’s from Oceania in 2026…. Keep those structures coming via the Japanese PDB node! 🤩
