🚨 Good news! Abstract deadline Extended! 🚨
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the meeting. Submit your abstract by May 15th, 2026.
Meet our invited speakers, share your research, and connect with the community. ✨
"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
Our next speaker will be Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social with "The Evolution and Emergence of Regulatory DNA", 14th April, 5PM CET.
Sign-up here:
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My new mini article exploring recent developments using the phylogeny of genomes to improve data compression and the computational efficiency of some key tasks in genomics 🧬
rdcu.be/faKgm
🇵🇪 Tutorial proposals are open for #LATAM2026! We're seeking hands-on tutorials in cutting-edge #bioinformatics topics. Help attendees build knowledge, learn new research areas, or develop advanced skills.
📅Deadline: May 13
Submit here: www.iscb.org/latam2026/call-for-submi...
To all early life enthusiasts🦠 How did we get from soups of chemicals to the Last Universal Common Ancestor? 🌋
Help us bridge the gap at A Road to LUCA in beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿
⏳ 1 WEEK until the abstract deadline!
Explore here: natur.cuni.cz/en/aroadtoluca
DSSS continues this Thursday with speaker Dr. Benjamin Podbilewicz who has thankfully managed to join us from Technion in Haifa, Israel. Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/27cedwft
📆: Thursday 26th March at 11am
📍: MP-Intelligent Systems seminar room, ground floor
#DSSS #MP-IS
ERC starting grant eligibility window increased to 10 years post-PhD defense:
www.ukro.ac.uk/news/changes...
EvolCompGen presents: Christian Landry on the Evolution of gene duplication, from redundancy to dependency
🧬EvolCompGen presents: Christian Landry on the Evolution of gene duplication, from redundancy to dependency
@christianlandry.bsky.social
🗓️ Join us on Monday, March 23 at 11:00 AM EDT
📌 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This talk is happening tomorrow—as part of the Protein Structure Evolution seminar!
Click here to register if you like cool science: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Organized by @lacholt.bsky.social, @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social and myself.
Our next Talk will be "Protein Origami and the Hidden Rules of Functional Innovations"! March 11th, 5PM CET. Sign-up here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Logo for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). It shows a the letter UDN is different colors that overlap to form the analogous colors.
Today is #RareDiseaseDay & we are celebrating by highlighting the invaluable work of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)! Formed in 2020, it aims to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. In this thread, we will highlight their use of the #zebrafish model. 1/5 🧪
Starting in less than an hour!
Register to join: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
A gouache painting of an owl with blue eyes facing towards the viewer
A pen and ink drawing of an owl perched on a branch with its eyes closed.
A haunting charcoal and chalk drawing of an owl perched on a branch in the night
If the hashtag #SuperBowl has you wondering where the superb owls are…we got you!
🦉Detail from Owl, 1601–1800. EA2012.344.b
🦉An owl on a branch, 1893–1898, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898). WA2015.68.29
🦉Owl, 1865, Arthur Burgess (1843–1886). WA.RS.RUD.046
meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Announcing the 2026 EMBO course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics, to be held at Bath. The course brings together experiments and bioinformatics to study host-microbe interactions and co-evolution. Register now, or at least by 11 May, if interested :)
Curious about how life began? OoLEN is a global community for early-career researchers in origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. 🧬🌍 Connect with others across disciplines, find opportunities, and grow together. Join: oolen.org/join Tell us in the replies—what do you work on? #OriginOfLife
Next up in our ProSE seminar series: Vyacheslav Tretyachenko on alternative translation in the human proteome
Register to join: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Past seminars: tinyurl.com/ProSE-videos
Come one, come all to the first Protein Structure Evolution talk of the year (Feb 10)!
Click here to register if you like cool science: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Jointly organized by
@lacholt.bsky.social, @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social and myself.
Can proteins fold and function with half of the amino acid alphabet?
Using only 10 residues, we designed stable, mutation-resilient structures—no aromatics or basics involved.
A minimalist foundation for ancient biology and synthetic design. tinyurl.com/37t8br4v
#ProteinDesign #OriginsOfLife
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#OtD 22 Jan 2018 legendary anarchist author Ursula K Le Guin died aged 88 in Portland, Oregon. An ardent feminist and advocate for diversity in literature and publishing, she won numerous awards for her work. We have made available some of her books here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
FYI were starting weird structure/evolution/biology stuff at Glasgow University!
If you're interested let me know! Tell your friends!
CRYO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
BIOINFO www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
TECHNICIAN www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/technici...
#science #hiring #evolution
Thrilled to introduce TEDLH, a library of profile HMMs built from TED’s structure-derived domain annotations of the AFDB.
Explore 765K HMMs capturing CATH superfamily diversity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Vaults. They are cell biology's greatest puzzle! This preprint from Martin Beck's lab shows them docked on ER membranes with a ribosome inside. What on earth is going on there??
#CellBiology #WTFology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Protein Structure Evolution Seminar November 11, 5pm CET Title: AI-Powered Classification and Discovery Across the Protein Universe Speaker: Joana Pereira Organized by: Claudia Alvarez Carreno, Zachary Ardern, Lars Eicholt, Carolina Sanchez-Rocha, Sergio Romero-Romero and MD. Hassan Uz-Zaman
The next ProSE Seminar will be given by Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social (VIB, KU Leuven)
🗓️ November 11th, 5pm CET
Registration is now open: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
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Join our next ProSe seminar 11th November 5PM CET and follow us @proteinstructure.bsky.social!
Protein Structure Evolution (ProSe) Seminar is now on BlueSky! Every 2nd Tuesday, 4PM GMT.
Sign-Up: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Organized by Claudia Alvarez Carreño, Zachary Ardern, Lars Eicholt, Carolina Sanchez-Rocha,
Sergio Romero Romero and Md. Hassan Uz-Zaman.
I'll be featured at the outreach event of the Science Café in Nijmegen 🇳🇱, talking about astrochemistry and the origins of life and its building blocks in space and on early Earth.
Stop by if you're in the area on Thu, Oct. 23, 7.45 PM. Admission is FREE, and there will be jazz! 🎶🎷🌌🔭☄🦠
Last week to apply to join our recently created lab as a PhD Student!
Join us to research about protein computational biophysics, evolution, machine learning , and human mutations!
Description and link to apply here:
www.bsc.es/join-us/job-...
The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU):
Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t”
Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
