Pup and I are getting ready for my last meeting as a regular member of NIH’s MSFB study section.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate | ND Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility Join our team at the ND Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility! We're seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to work at the forefront of optical and other techniques to measure biomolecular structure an...

Do you love flow cytometry, cell sorting and other quantitative, biophysical approaches for measuring cells and their biomolecules? Join our team at Notre Dame!

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Here's the direct link with all the details:
jobs.nd.edu/postings/37844

Postdoctoral Research Associate | ND Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility Join our team at the ND Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility! We're seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to work at the forefront of optical and other techniques to measure biomolecular structure an...

Do you love flow cytometry, cell sorting and other quantitative, biophysical approaches for measuring cells and their biomolecules? Join our team at Notre Dame!

www.linkedin.com/posts/ndbic_...

Research Integrity and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Lecture Series: Maintaining and Communicating a Robust Scientific Record in an Age of AI and Social Media Apr. 22 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Excited to have @holdenthorp.bsky.social visit Virginia Tech for a talk on Maintaining & Communicating a Robust Scientific Record in an Age of AI & Social Media. He's also having coffee w/ our Presidential Postdocs & Research & Innovation Postdoc Scholars prior.
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ATTENTION:

If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date.

I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter.

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Are you aware of some that aren’t, other than the ones postponed during the initial communications freeze?

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Well, I knit during the in-person meetings, too. Having something simple to do with my hands helps keep my brain focused. 🧶

Although I’m not a fan of NIH study sections on zoom, hanging out all day in comfy clothes with my dog is definitely a consolation prize. 🖤

He is without peer in using his platform to champion for a just world, on many fronts.

Meaning, there are plenty of women making great contributions, but the Swedes made the right call on this one, IMO. I say this as someone who works close to this field and as a huge supporter of women getting the recognition they deserve.

(Kidding, if that wasn’t obv)

Geez, Mark — way to pile on. 🙄

There are lots. 2 examples: Lynne Regan did some important early work, but moved into other areas. Tanja Kortemme (postdoc with Baker) works in protein design, though her work leans more to synbio. Baker’s contributions are most remarkable, tho, both for early leaps AND ongoing impact on the field.

He was my postdoc advisor. Amazing scientist, teacher and mentor.

Ditto for the genome sequencers, who gave us all the homologous sequences for alignments!

Expanding Anfinsen’s Principle: Contributions of Synonymous Codon Selection to Rational Protein Design Anfinsen’s principle asserts that all information required to specify the structure of a protein is encoded in its amino acid sequence. However, during protein synthesis by the ribosome, the N-terminu...

My lab has shown that synonymous codon usage can help sculpt protein structure: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Love that paper! Did you take that class with Jonathan King, by any chance?

The original Raiders of the Lost Ark

‘Silent’ mutations found to have repercussions beyond their own gene Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that "silent" or synonymous mutations may have crucial con...

Super happy for this help from NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, getting the word out about our new study in PNAS, showing surprising new effects of synonymous codon substitutions on the expression of the gene "next door"!
directorsblog.nih.gov/2024/09/26/s...

I wish there was more credit to people who were the thin end of the wedge. The “First Black faculty in the University,” “First woman in the department,” “First blind person to get a doctorate in the institution,” and on and on. They made it easier for everyone to follow.

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Thanks, Joey!

My department seeks to hire a new tenure-track assistant professor in computational biophysics, broadly defined, to complement and grow Notre Dame's existing biophysics community. Please share -- and consider applying!
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How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins | Quanta Magazine Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.

Jane Richardson's impact on protein science is amazing. Her development of ribbon diagrams, discussed here, is only ONE of her seminal contributions. ❤️
www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful...

Required reading as faculty committee work starts to spin back up...

Clean laundry cat.

Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $750 in travel funding to present research at the Spring ACS National Meeting or PITTCON?

Please encourage them to apply for the Kolthoff awards! Deadline is Jan. 8, 2024.

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