Join our next ProSe seminar 11th November 5PM CET and follow us @proteinstructure.bsky.social!

The next ProSE Seminar will be given by Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social (VIB, KU Leuven) 🗓️ November 11th, 5pm CET Registration is now open: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share!

Protein Structure Evolution (ProSe) Seminar is now on BlueSky! Every 2nd Tuesday, 4PM GMT. Sign-Up: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Organized by Claudia Alvarez Carreño, Zachary Ardern, Lars Eicholt, Carolina Sanchez-Rocha, Sergio Romero Romero and Md. Hassan Uz-Zaman.

I'll be featured at the outreach event of the Science Café in Nijmegen 🇳🇱, talking about astrochemistry and the origins of life and its building blocks in space and on early Earth. Stop by if you're in the area on Thu, Oct. 23, 7.45 PM. Admission is FREE, and there will be jazz! 🎶🎷🌌🔭☄🦠

Last week to apply to join our recently created lab as a PhD Student! Join us to research about protein computational biophysics, evolution, machine learning , and human mutations! Description and link to apply here: www.bsc.es/join-us/job-...

The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU): Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t” Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

How does catalysis emerge from non-catalytic domains? In our new paper, we show that catalytic activity can arise without conserved active-site residues — through multimerization and electrostatic features instead. A striking case of catalysis evolving from binding.

The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU): Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t” Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration go.nature.com/42229kK

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Happy to share Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record 🧪 It appears as part of a Special Section in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social organized by @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social and J. Douglas doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #mevosky

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space". Date: September 9 Time: 5pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #mevosky

In a new GBE Review, @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social & J. Douglas give an overview on protein structural phylogenetics, how to obtain evolutionary insights from structural data, and key applications and future directions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf139 #genome #evolution

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Thrilled to see this out! Thank you for the shout out @chercheurjuteux.com!

[Resources] #AlphaFold protein and PPI prediction databases 1️⃣ Predictomes (genome maintenance & H2A/H2b) predictomes.org 2️⃣ Flypredictome www.flyrnai.org/tools/fly_pr... 3️⃣ Human interactome prodata.swmed.edu/humanPPI 4️⃣ BFVD (viral proteins) bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 1/2

New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉 Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025) Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/ Website: europeanrosettacon.org We are looking forward to seeing you! Please share this far and wide:)

¿Te interesaría unirte a nuestro laboratorio como Postdoctoral Fellow? ¿Está interesado en investigar y contribuir a la comprensión del papel de los anaerobios en la salud humana? Revisa la convocatoria Pew Latin American Fellows ¡Contáctame si cumples con los requisitos! #Archaea #MicroSky

📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out. MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Join us for the next ProSE Seminar! We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients" Date: June 10 Time: 4PM CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #MEvoSky

Join us for the next ProSE Seminar! We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients" Date: June 10 Time: 4PM CET Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 Please share! 🧪 #MEvoSky

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Happy International Museum Day! Museums are essential repositories of specimens and information for biodiversity research. GBE has published much research in genomics and evolution that benefited from this crucial function of museums. See below ⬇️ and continue supporting museum research #IMD2025

Excited to share our new preprint on HLp—a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii that forms stable tetramers and wraps ~60 bp of DNA: "DNA Wrapping by a Tetrameric Bacterial Histone" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA" May 13, 4PM CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4 Please share!

Very interesting new study from authors including Nobel Prize winner David Baker. I'm glad that it cites one of my related papers 😀 I've faced plenty of skepticism from editors & others about the importance of this line of research, perhaps this will shift ... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA" May 13, 4PM CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4 Please share!

Labour continues the stupid culture war politics of the previous govt. 😡 Cyclists killing pedestrians is super rare. There are so many more useful things the govt could spend their time on legislating, e.g making streets safer for cyclists. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Dates are now confirmed for the 2025 SMBE Satellite Meeting in Chile: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution. Join us in Puerto Varas for the latest advances in evolutionary biology. Check more details: smbechile2025.cl 📅: 6 – 8 th October 2025 📝 Deadline: July 31

Here we unexpectedly find that the ribosomal protein S20/L26—identified at the dawn of ribosome research but later deemed a biochemical artifact—is indeed a genuine component of the large ribosomal subunit. More on this ribosome content variation is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻Hello world! We are 3D-SIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, track of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) @iscb.bsky.social 🙌

Tomorrow’s ProSE Seminar features Dr. Devlina Chakravarty (@devlinac.bsky.social) presenting “Mutations Switch Folds in Proteins”. Don't miss out! April 8, 3PM GMT Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar3 🧪 #MEvoSky

Do you have experience working with AI? We’re seeking proposals for presentations and workshops at Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once, this 3-5 December. Join global experts exploring AI & ML in GLAM, Digital Humanities, and beyond. Submit by 18 May: bit.ly/BLConferenceAI

De novo genes research community 🧬 - please consider using for your future or past work our new methodology annotation format for better comparability of studies and higher reproducibility. (1/3)

Next up in the ProSE Seminar Series: Devlina Chakravarty (@devlinac.bsky.social) presents "Mutations Switch Folds in Proteins". Join us to explore how mutations reshape protein structures! April 8, 3PM GMT Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar3 #ProSESeminar #ProteinEvolution #StructuralBiology

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

Next up in the ProSE Seminar Series: Devlina Chakravarty (@devlinac.bsky.social) presents "Mutations Switch Folds in Proteins". Join us to explore how mutations reshape protein structures! April 8, 3PM GMT Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar3 #ProSESeminar #ProteinEvolution #StructuralBiology

Are you planning to join #ESEB2025? Our two amazing invited speakers will be discussing evo-evolutionary dynamics driven by mobile genetic elements at symposium 10! @eseb2025.bsky.social @taylorpriest.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Join us this August in Barcelona for the @eseb2025.bsky.social. In "The Future Meets The Beginning: Synthetic Biology, Evolution & Origin of Life," we will explore the connections between these topics. Submit your abstract before the 25th of April! #evolution #science #synthetic_biology

Excited to finally share the primary results of the NeuroSAFE PROOF trial! Huge thanks to our incredible team and, most importantly, the patients who made this research possible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Many, and perhaps most, members of our academic community do not understand [the benefits of publishing] in society-based journals ... compared with for-profit journals from companies like Springer Nature, Frontiers, Wiley, and Elsevier." 🧪 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

How does collagen fold? Very carefully! (And with some help from electrostatics.) Our latest collaborative study uncovers kinetic mechanisms where interchain electrostatic interactions act as molecular clamps to promote proper folding. Check it out! 🎉🌟🧬🧫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to announce that we’ll be presenting the much-anticipated results of the *NeuroSAFE PROOF trial* at *EAU25 in Madrid*! 🗓 *Date:* Monday, March 24, 2025 🕙 *Time:* 10:00 AM 📍 *Location:* Green Area, eURO Auditorium 1 Join us at this Game Changer Session

Don't miss tomorrow's ProSE Seminar with @zachary-ardern.bsky.social on "Investigating billion-year trends in protein structure evolution" March 11, 3PM GMT Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2 🧪 #MEvoSky @lacholt.bsky.social @caro-rocha.bsky.social @hassanzaman.bsky.social

My second ever Bluesky post: Another part of the work of my wonderful graduate student Kavita Matange (post doc at CSHL) has come out here (open access). pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Don't miss the chance to share your research at #BiGEvo2025, the intersection of bioinformatics, evolution, and geology happening in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico! Submit your abstract here: https://www.iscb.org/bigevo2025/call-for-submissions/abstracts Looking forward to seeing your work!

🚀 #AlphaFold Database update AlphaFold DB now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED) – a resource designed to systematically identify & classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... @pdbeurope.bsky.social