Opinions on the best disorder predictors in 202*? Using PONDR and DisEMBL makes me feel old 😬
Hey I love them, but they are from 20 years ago! #IDP #disorderedprotrins

An octopus and an AI stare at each other… A few weeks ago, we had a rather unusual lab meeting. My boss gathered the group in a circle in the room we usually use for meetings and…

I wrote a piece on how different biological intelligences and consciousness arise… and how does that relate to artificial intelligence. It’s on Medium

medium.com/@giulio.chie...

Adventures of a Lifetime What You Do Before You Start Writing

Very cool suggestion on what to do “before” writing by @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social one should always try to live (and not die) 🖤
open.substack.com/pub/chuckpal...

Everybody who shows up at the FedEx office at opening on a Saturday of a long weekend has a story to tell. It generally involves *stress*!!

SynBio 7.0 and Bioengineering Conference is coming soon! June 1-3, 2025 at the University of Toronto! 🧬
Abstract submission open until May 2nd!
Submit your abstract here: synbio7.vercel.app/register

Our keynote speakers: Dr. Nika Shabika Dr. Kevin Solomon, Dr. Benjamin Scott, and Dr. Adam Damry.

The Two Body Problem and The Road North My story on how I moved to Canada as a scientist and an immigrant.

I wrote a new article on Medium: it's just my adventure on how I came to #Canada. No science, this time, but life of a scientist. ☺️
#Academia
medium.com/@giulio.chie...

That document that saves the day, the month, and potentially the year, arriving with 26 minutes to spare from the deadline.

Do some fist wagging from the window at least! 😂

I’m in #montreal today and a homeless lady just asked me if I could give her a smile. 🥲🇨🇦

Pubmed is down too. It’s not you :(

That’s such a better way to put it! I die of boredom and frustration when I have to! 💛💪

I didn’t think it could be true until I went to Florida last week: it came out twice in two different conversations with strangers in the span of 3 days. I thought they were joking. They were not. 😟

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Retransforming plasmids from a plate made 2 years ago feels like going back to the buried treasure chest, following a map you made a long time ago.

Courtesy of my aunt - it’s in Italian, but numbers are numbers. For an exciting 2025!

“That’s a wallpaper: you are actually in the broom closet.”

ok, sent the last one into the void. You have to try.

Spoiler alert! 🙃

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.23.624970v1 Biomolecular condensation has emerged as an important mechanism to control various cellular processe

The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact ofprotein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11....

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

It would require huge like-mindedness in goals and research philosophy, and an ego well in check, but yeah no one wants to be alone!
Probably though institutions should change/adapt to be open to this possibility. Embrace change!

Where generative protein design meets reality Protein design will help us make better biological drugs, but not without hard work in the lab!

As a sort of intro, I’m going to re-share something I wrote on Medium a few months ago. Hope you guys like it!

I loved this episode! It got me obsessed!