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Posts by Tom Lau
I love lamp
People had questions, like
"Are there apples that taste & crunch like Honeycrisp? But without the existential rage about being alive?"
Yep! Let's talk about them!
Job alert! Looking for a mass spectrometry expert to come join our team. Please share and let me know if you have any personal recommendations. #teammassspec www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Can't say i'm not a little tempted to try to come home :) I'll be back at the dept for the 20 year reunion at Xmas at least!
Silly take for a vacation day. Those couples that are smiling while sharing a slice and a hot dog at Costco, you just know they're gonna be together forever.
@thewoolab.bsky.social @brianliau.bsky.social @milkakostic.bsky.social @liron1bar-peled.bsky.social @katherinedonovan.bsky.social @danetteldaniels.bsky.social @craftycarbene.bsky.social @laurakiessling.bsky.social @piefuchs.bsky.social @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social @amandalsmythers.bsky.social
Chembio in the Pub! The tastier, chattier version of the popular Boston conference. Jun 12th is pretty close to the GRC too so whether you're a local or visiting it would be great to hang out www.eventbrite.com/e/chembio-in... #chembio #chemicalbiology #bostonbiotech
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Still Amusing Ourselves
Why does this 40-year-old book by a career academic still hit so hard?
⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' article thread (12 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊
Gotta ridewithgps or Strava route?
Truncated gRNA sequences to target Cas9 fusions to hundreds of sites with similar sequences: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This should address a question I commonly get for GLoPro (PMID: 29735997), about targeting TF binding sites throughout the genome, rather than a single locus.
Cool work.
@kusterlab.bsky.social Still happening, is it just me?
Whom would you like to hear at our next event?
The planning for the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks is starting. We are excited for talks by @oconnorlab.bsky.social, @craigmcrews.bsky.social and Kelly Chibale.
Let us know in reply to this post, whom you would additionally like to hear!
There are no shortcuts in drug discovery. And it takes incredible efforts to make sense of what you can find in the scientific literature. This is an excellent piece of work to quality check what has been claimed as a new avenue in targeted protein degradation (TPD). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked a collection of chemical biologists, “What do you think are the most exciting frontiers or the most needed developments in your main field of research?”
You can read that they said in our Feature “Thoughts for the future” – Free to read in January. rdcu.be/d5Ksw
Turns out the best seat on the plane is the one not next to your own family!
Ogdenville vibes
1/ In two back-to-back papers, we present our de novo TRACeR platform for targeting MHC-I and MHC-II antigens
TRACeR for MHC-I: go.nature.com/4gcLzn5
TRACeR for MHC-II: go.nature.com/4gj5OQk
Come with me as I troubleshoot this very high GC PCR toward clonable homology arms in an actinobacteria. Testing DMSO, Betaine 1M, and Propylene Glycol to see if we get amplification. Arms are 1000bp. Full length with arms and gene is 2800bp. Let's go!
🧵 1/n
This was glorious. I will never complain about a 2 hour toddler flight to Detroit ever again.
Very neat system from Alice's team. I love the name too!
Link?
Fellow Genetics professors - rejoice! This is pedagogy heaven: the paradigmatic epiallele in calico cats … is built on a cis-regulatory deletion, not a coding mutation!
We can teach it all off 1 paper!
1. Woo
2. Hoooo!!!
H/t @lianafaye.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Delighted these fun explainers have made it to bluesky
Assume all small molecules are unselective for their protein target until proven otherwise. Even if the vendor tells you it’s a selective inhibitor for X, there’s a decent chance it isn’t selective! So how do we find quality molecules for scientific experiments? academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Nice new large proteomics dataset on drug MoA applying proteome integral solubility alteration (PISA) from @dschweppe.bsky.social and Gygi lab #TeamMassSpec
Article: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Blog post by @dereklowe.bsky.social: www.science.org/content/blog...
Is ProteomicsDb dead? Even a single protein search just infinitely loads for me
Chemical biologists with proximal activity