Twitter account of the Thompson Lab @UCMerced. We do structural biology at physiological temperatures and beyond. Most tweets by the PI.
Merced, CA
Joined May 2020
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This account will disappear soon... keep up with the lab at thompson-lab.bsky.social
Hope to see you over there!
Check out our latest preprint with @Chica_lab where we demonstrate the creation of highly active artificial enzymes by incorporating experimental crystallographic data into the design strategy...
Happy to share our latest preprint, in collaboration with @MThompsonLab.
Design of efficient artificial enzymes using crystallographically-enhanced conformational sampling biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Professional update 1: As of July 1st I am now the graduate group chair for Chemistry & Chemical Biology @UCMChemistry - so if you have questions about graduate studies, how to apply etc. to our amazing campus please get in touch! 1/n
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I am so excited to share that I will be starting a lab in January 2024 as an Assistant Professor at @OHSUSOM in Portland! I am building my team, so if you are interested in cellular cryoelectron tomography, computational structural biology, and working in PDX, hit me up!
ALT Headshot with an OHSU sweater
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Going to #bps2023? Would love to catch up between sessions or in one of the poster sessions. Here's what's coming from our lab:
@FengYu_Bio is presenting his newest preprint at the IDP I platform, Sunday 9:00 AM in Rm. 6C
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What is mentorship to structural biologist @stevendamolab1?
“A collaborative partnership with goals for both the mentee + the mentor.” 🫱🏿🫲🏾🫱🏼🫲🏾#NationalMentoringMonth
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Here we present a method that can scale and merge data from different types of diffraction experiments -- monochromatic, polychromatic, XFEL, and more! Give it a try! Check out the examples: github.com/rs-station/carele…
We're excited to share our new publication, "A unifying Bayesian framework for merging X-ray diffraction data," live now in Nature Comm!
In this paper, Kevin Dalton and @JackGreisman present "careless", a python package for Bayesian scaling and merging
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Look how many University of #California #NobelLaureates I was able to gather in just 2 minutes. A great public university and a national treasure @UC_Berkeley @UCLA. #NobelWeek
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The Thompson Lab (@MThompsonLab) studies protein structure and function using X-ray crystallography. They develop new methods with a collaborative approach to science. Projects include protein design, drug discovery, and temp sensing. They're hiring! tinyurl.com/3zuk952n
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👩🏾🔬⚗ Join us in two graduate recruitment seminars on Nov. 17th and Dec. 6th!! Faculty will give an overview of research in the department, general tips on grad school applications, and will answer all of your questions. International attendees welcome!! shorturl.at/nwy78
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Interested in grad school? Come join a young, dynamic, and supportive environment at UC Merced's Chemistry and Biochemistry grad program. Two webinars at Nov. 17th (8 AM PST, 3 PM GMT)and Dec. 6th (11 AM PST). Register here: shorturl.at/nwy78
DMs open for questions!
Was an honor to help our collaborator Judith Klinman celebrate her 80th birthday last weekend in Berkeley, with @klinmanlab members, colleagues, friends, and family!! Lots of great science highlights, and some sage advice too...
Thrilled to wake up this morning to the news of one of my chemistry heroes, @CarolynBertozzi, winning the Nobel Prize! It's impossible to listen to one of her talks without getting excited and inspired by the science!!
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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UC Merced has received a $12.5 million @NSF grant to develop the Biology Integration Institute: INSITE—a research collaborative to expand the knowledge of symbioses and inform immediate and long-term conservation strategies in the face of climate change. ucm.edu/rkq7Px
ALT A multi-disciplinary team from UC Merced, Michigan State University and Resilient Oceans will look at how climate change will impact ecosystems through a symbiotic lens.
Excited to be a part of this team and get to work on some cool new science!! 🌎
news.ucmerced.edu/news/2022/…
Interested in cryoEM, but working with small proteins? @Yeates_Lab has the solution! Super cool new work building on many years of careful protein design - check out the preprint.
‘Rigidified Scaffolds for 3-Angstrom Resolution Cryo-EM of Small Therapeutic Protein Targets’
Congrats @rcastellsg @kylemeador and team!
With our imaging scaffolds, we report a 2.9A structure for a ~19 kDa KRAS protein oncogenic mutant.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Happy to announce our latest preprint, in collaboration with @MThompsonLab and @Prof_Goto:
Computational remodeling of an enzyme conformational landscape for altered substrate selectivity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…