Wildlife sculptures built from more than 1.5 million Lego bricks are part of the stunning exhibition "Brick Planet" by Sean Kenney.
#LEGO #BrickPlanet #Wildlife #Museum #LegoArt #ArtPhotography
Harvard University is offering a free online course on the U.S. Constitution, taught by my friend and mentor Thomas Patterson. Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Here's how you can enroll. www.edx.org/learn/govern...
... and fascinating contemporary art during the Whitney Biennial.
#NewYorkCity #ArtPhotography #WhitneyBiennial #ContemporaryArt
The Whitney Museum offers great views of the city...
Downtown Denver in front of the Rocky Mountains.
#Denver #Colorado #RockyMountains
#Photography 📷
“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
When our pets get sick, having the right answers sooner can make all the difference. A recent study explores a more sensitive rapid test that could one day support at‑home screening for common pet infections.
Read more on ACS Axial: buff.ly/8AdIt13
Model of a sauropod heart.
Model of a sauropod head.
Model of a sauropod lung and ribcage.
The exhibition "The World’s Largest Dinosaurs" at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science shows life-size models of the anatomy of sauropods, the largest land animals to ever live.
#Dinosaurs #Anatomy
#Denver #Colorado
#Photography 📷
#Science 🧪
Exploiting internal symmetry can be a powerful approach to analyse convergence in MD simulations.
If two conformational states are symmetry related, their kinetic and thermodynamic properties should be the same. If one doesn't enforce this during analysis this provides a useful test. 1/n
The facade of the hotel Populus in Denver was inspired by the dark lenticels found on the bark of quaking aspen trees. The hotel claims that it achieves net negative carbon dioxide emissions.
#Denver #Colorado #Architecture #Photography #Environment
Figure 1. Cryo-EM of abundant protein complexes in native membranes.
Figure 2. Cryo-EM of membrane proteins in vesicles.
Figure 3. 3D reconstruction of V-ATPase in native synaptic vesicle membranes.
Figure 4. Generation of membrane vesicles for structure determination of proteins in their native lipid bilayer.
I've written a review on what I think is an extremely exciting direction in cryo-EM:
Cryo-EM of endogenous membrane proteins in their native lipid bilayer
Open access in Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics:
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...I call these hallucitations
The Colorado State Capitol Building
#Photography #Denver #Colorado
Our new book chapter has just been published! "Computational approaches for protein complex modeling for intermediate resolution cryo-EM maps" We introduced our recently developed tools available on the EM server (em.kiharalab.org).
You can read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
A thought about job adverts. I assume seeking "exceptional" individuals selects for specific character traits (eg self confidence). My goal is to get candidate with best potential, even if they don't yet think of themselves that way. What words do you use to encourage the widest pool of applicants?
Downtown Denver at Night.
#Photography #Denver #Colorado #NightPhotography #CityLights
Exciting to see the approval of linerixibat for cholestatic pruritus—an IBAT inhibitor that targets the underlying bile acid biology driving itch.
A great example of basic science translating into real therapies. Curious to see where IBAT inhibitors go next.
Celebrating #BiophysicsWeek T&C partnered with Phase Space Invaders podcast: Robert Best @sonyahanson.bsky.social @xuhuihuangchem.bsky.social and host @milosz-wieczor.bsky.social Episode 32: Driving the Future of Biophysics: What’s Next in Theory and Computation?
www.buzzsprout.com/2313153/epis...
Evolution seems to have repeatedly converged on a similar architecture in the early olfactory system of many animals. We offer an efficient-coding framework to understand this. Out in @pnas.org now! Led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos, + help from Farhad. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Nice read: a mini-review by Novack & Filizola on #AI in #GPCR #DrugDiscovery.
Summarizes well where AI is actually helping and where it is not yet reliable. Current main limitations: active states, flexible regions, transient interfaces, and interpretability.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I wonder: How were the plates aligned? Rotation symmetry would make that pretty arbitrary, no?
Left: Banner announcing the APS global physics summit in Denver. Right: The Daniels & Fisher Tower in bright sunlight.
It's a wrap! hard to believe so much science could fit in a single week. Also going by the weather, this conference lasted an entire season; it started with wintery snow and is ending with scorching sunshine.
#APSSummit26
On the last day of the APS Summit, I am following physical virology talks.
Juan Perilla introduced us to the mechanobiology of viral capsids and presented his investigations into the effect of Cyclophilin-A on the HIV-1 capsid using simulated AFM.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#APSSummit26
Finishing the day with biomolecular condensates. #APSsummit26
Ben Schuler presents an impressive combination of simulation and experiment. Important insight: The microscopic dynamics of polyelectrolytes can be connected to their bulk viscosity via polymer physics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
text that reads: We're hiring! Software Engineer, MESA
#FlatironCCA is seeking a research software engineer to develop, maintain, and contribute to community-oriented software instrument tool MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics). See more: https://apply.interfolio.com/182988 #science #astrophysics #hiring
