Great job, everyone! Until next time 😁🥳
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Great job, everyone! Until next time 😁🥳
Regina presented on using DNA to attach gold nanoparticles to produce light-sensitive nanotechnology!
Jahmal presented on his latest developments for a Martini gold model!
Jesse presented on how the Density-Threshold Affinity (DTA) method measures the binding affinity of lipids to membrane proteins!
Ezry presented on how SAFEP can be used to calculate the absolute binding affinity of a lipid to a membrane protein!
Connor presented a poster that discussed our blobulation algorithm! Feel free to check it out 😄 www.blobulator.branniganlab.org
In addition to two great talks by our lab at the BPS conference, our PhD students showed off their wonderful posters! Thank you, @ccib-rutgers.bsky.social, for giving us the opportunity to present our research!🧵
Great job, everyone! Until next time 😁🥳
Regina presented on using DNA to attach gold nanoparticles to produce light-sensitive nanotechnology!
Jahmal presented on his latest developments for a Martini gold model 😄!
Jesse presented on how the Density-Threshold Affinity (DTA) method measures the binding affinity of lipids to membrane proteins!
Ezry presented on how SAFEP can be used to calculate the absolute binding affinity of a lipid to a membrane protein!
Connor presented a poster that discussed our blobulation algorithm! Feel free to check it out 😁: www.blobulator.branniganlab.org
At the BPS conference, @gracebrannigan.bsky.social also gave an amazing talk at the Membrane Structure and Function Symposium! 👏😄 Well done!
Our PhD student, Lindsey Riggs, gave her first talk at BPS on "Clustering the ensemble of an IDP by contiguous regions of hydrophobicity reveals distinguishable conformational states" Great job, Lindsey! 🎉😁
• Interactive web interface links known mutations with biophysical context: www.blobulator.branniganlab.org
• CLI for batch analysis
• VMD plugin for structure overlay
For more information, read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Not all mutations change a protein’s predicted structure, but they can still reorganize its sequence! We introduce the blobulator toolkit for exploring hydrophobic organization 🧵:
The 7D motion theater and human crane were definitely highlights😆we also found some unique puppets at a thrift store and ended the trip with a beautiful hike! Until next time, Poconos! ⛰️
We had tons of fun playing Dutch Blitz and Mysterium👻! We even got a few games of pool in🎱😄
We recently took a trip to the Poconos to celebrate our lab’s many recent accomplishments, including Regina and Lindsey passing their qualifying exams! Congratulations to you both 🎉
Our PhD student Lindsey Riggs presented a poster about the Blobulator toolkit at the MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference last week! Well done👏🏻! Check out the Blobulator web tool here 😁: blobulator.branniganlab.org
⚠️Do you run coarse-grained membrane simulations with restraints on the absolute positions of any molecules? We found a common setting combination that causes metastable membrane distortions! Read our paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations again to our winners🎉 !! Let us know your favorite image/movie 😁 Until next time!
We also had some really unique media from Regina Salzer, Ezry Santiago-McRae, and another image from Jesse Sandberg!
2nd place 🥈: Ryan Lamb for "Under the Surface" youtu.be/4AAqFJvUxbU?...
Last but not least, this year we decided to introduce a "Scientific media category" which allows participants to explore various editing/rendering tools. Please congratulate our winners:
1st place 🥇: Jesse Sandberg for "A postcard from Wyoming"
3rd place 🥉: Jesse Sandberg for "Sugar and Fat for the brain" youtu.be/dr8YujmwWcI?...
2nd place 🥈: Connor Pitman for "Looking Glass" youtu.be/dT-x54ZXd-s?...
Moving on to the winners for Best #VMD Movie of 2025🎉:
1st place 🥇: Jesse Sandberg for "Can you find the binding lipid?" youtu.be/9yo2ePhhUX8?...
We also had fantastic image entries from Connor Pitman, Lindsey Riggs, Ryan Lamb, and a second image from Jesse Sandberg!