Physicist cosplaying (/postdocing) as a biochemist @marcvanderkamp @BristolBiochem PhD-Molecular dynamics and AFM of DNA and proteins @ANoyLab
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Not to suggest I lead a really boring life or anything but I'm still thinking about how good my new airer is
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Check our latest publication in #JACSAu @ACSPublications with @ElliotWChan and @BPSIYork where we describe how the bacterial protein HU binds DNA at atomic resolution. Thanks to @EPSRC and @N8CIR and @hecbiosim for computational resources. See more👇pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Come to York and fight antimicrobial resistance with Daniel Cole, @dghilarov and Inspiralis Ltd.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Computational Drug Discovery Targeting DNA Gyrase to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance at University of York on FindAPhD.com
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PhD project with GW4 BioMed DTP
available (Sept '26)!
Use #compchem multiscale reaction simulations & experiment to understand and combat antimicrobial resistance by Class C beta-lactamase #enzymes.
More info: gw4biomed.ac.uk/overcoming-%…
Deadline Oct 20th, but contact me by Oct 5th.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: bit.ly/3CghCUd
ALT SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever
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So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.
Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨
This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.
#NobelPrize
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It is Postdoc Appreciation Week!
Recently,
1. @ElliotWChan has done a great job presenting ML/MM simulations with EMLE electrostatic embedding at the @CCPBioSim and #CMS2024 @UniofWarick conferences, when I couldn't attend.
(github.com/chemle/emle-engin…)
#PostdocAppreciationWeek
It's been a busy couple of months, feeling very grateful to have been able to present our work at both the 10th Annual CCPBioSim conference earlier this summer and the Computational Molecular Sciences conference this week!
You can find out more here:
github.com/chemle/emle-engin…
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Signed by over 120 experts, our letter highlighting the urgent need for a collaborative effort to establish a #FAIR database for #MolecularDynamics simulation data, is now on Arxiv.
📎 Read it here: bit.ly/3WjcC7x
📝Support our statement: bit.ly/3zVS3qm
#MDDB
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Starting off 2024 with exciting news that we have an open experimental PDRA position in our lab funded by my #UKRIFLF pyne-lab.uk/pdra-experimenta…. We are looking for someone excited by what we do, not with specific skills - see the thread below for what we think we can offer you!
My first week as an official #UKRIFLF and I couldn't be more excited to say that I have 3 open positions for people to come and join us! I know that everyone is looking for great postdocs at the moment, so here's a little on who we're looking for and what I think we can offer
ALT A sepia image of 3 DNA minicircles on a black surface
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“To whom it may concern”
- vague
- weak
- ignorable
“To whom it will concern”
- ominous
- strong
- alarming
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I designed an outreach activity to teach people about DNA structure and supercoiling using the medium of friendship bracelets! It went down really well, so thought I'd share the instructions for anyone interested. DM if you want the word version or any other details.
Really interesting seminar this afternoon by @RuedaLab about the effects of DNA supercoiling on Cas9 specificity! Nice to know I've not completely forgotten everything from my PhD already 🧬
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If the only limiting factor for doing this is that "it is not profitable" then we, as humanity, still don't get how bad the situation is..
theguardian.com/environment/…
Super happy to have been able to present my PhD work at #POL2023! Many thanks to the organisers for running a brill conference and for giving me this opportunity!
