Is there PFAS in baking paper a.k.a. grease-proof? It isn't food so no ingredients are listed. A.I. says there might be. Wouldn't that be pretty insane as you are literally cooking your food on it? Same question for 'wax' programs in car wash stations, shouldn't this be banned??
Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳
mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
With sadness we share the passing of em. prof. dr. Hans Vliegenthart, founder of the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research at Utrecht University. His scientific legacy will continue to inspire.
In memoriam: www.uu.nl/en/news/in-m...
Happy lunar new year to all those who celebrate!! 🐴
Cover of Dutch chemistry magazine C2W featuring a quotr by scientific director of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI).
'New research mostly starts with the arrival of junior group leaders'. Amen Thijn Brummelkamp!! 🙏
Thanks Joost!!
Thanks Dina!!
Smiling headshot of Matti Pronker
Congratulations to former LMB postdoc @mfpronker.bsky.social, who is launching his own independent research group at Sanquin Research where he'll use protein engineering and structural biology techniques to study important blood protein complexes.
Best of luck to you Matti!
#LMBAlumni
Would recommend, Elena does fantastic science!!
Structure of a FLAG peptide bound to anti-FLAG M2 as determined by X-ray crystallography
I am excited to share that I will be starting my lab @Sanquin-forlife Research in Amsterdam this month! Looking forward to do structural biology and use protein engineering to tackle important questions related to 🩸blood🩸 protein complexes in health and disease.
🧬🧫🔬🧪👨🔬
#cryoEM #xtallography
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
*DYKDDDDK 😉
Just got this in the mail from @addgene.bsky.social, recognizing that 100+ labs have now ordered our anti-FLAG-M2 plasmids via their service. @mfpronker.bsky.social
www.addgene.org/Joost_Snijder/
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Let's make 2026 a great year!!! ✊️💚
Happy holidays everybody!! 🌲
#EMBOComp3D has officially begun! 🥳 What are you looking forward to in the next few days?
Congrats Dan!!!
Only 22 min delay on the first leg of the journey 😬 thankfully still in time for train 2/2
What is the German word for being anxious and sleepy at the same time? About to enter the German railway network, wish me luck!!
ICE train interior
On the train to Heidelberg for the @EMBO workshop #computational_structural_biology, excited to hear about the latest developments in the field and share some recent work!
Sunrise
Utrecht 2025
#LifeHack
@hannes-stark.bsky.social @gcorso.bsky.social
Has anybody noticed how #Boltzgen does not output pLDDT in the ADP column of the output .cif files in the way Boltz1/2, AF2/3, Chai1 etc do? Especially weird since it uses Boltz2 to generate these models, has it been taken out to speed up calculations? Preprint doesn't mention it.
The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
This year, for Postdoc Appreciation Week, could we please STOP referring to them as TRAINEES!
They are exceptionally qualified professionals, highly experienced researchers, mentors, educators, world-leading experts in their field, grownups with responsibilities, not interns!
Has anybody solved this conundrum?
As it's the season, 3 options for those wishing to cook pumpkin:
1. Suffer when trying to peel a raw pumpkin
2. Boil the pumpkin with skin on (skin comes of easily), suffer when trying to clean the pot later
3. Suffer when eating the awful pre-cut pumpkin (fridge or frozen) 🥴
Isopeptide bond?
