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Join us! Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social with me & @sj-marzi.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics & epigenetics in ageing & neurodegeneration using multiomics/bioinformatics. Collaboration with Alexi Nott & @rikeshrajani.bsky.social Closing date: 2nd June

Join us for Mythbusting: Let’s Talk Dementia Research during Dementia Action Week. We’ll discuss brain supplements and visit the Lab. 📅 Mon 18 May, 11:00–13:30 📍 ILS1, Swansea University 🎟️ tinyurl.com/33z5d8c8 Supported by @alzresearchuk.bsky.social Wales Network. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

Registration is open for the #CCPBioSim Annual Conference, 6-8 July, Bristol, UK! See: www.ccpbiosim.ac.uk/bristol2026 Delighted to be hosting the conference @bristoluni.bsky.social, with the theme "Biomolecular simulation across scales, for understanding and design" #compchem #compbio #biodesign

Just gonna leave this here for folks in Academia “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?’” —Winnie the Pooh

Its not too late to register for our #webinar tomorrow 27-Jan, 15:00 CET ➡️ bioexcel.eu/bcjz "VTX: From Real-Time high performance molecular structure and dynamics visualization to integrative modeling of massive molecular systems" #moleculardynamics @matthieumontes.bsky.social

We're proud to partner with Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation and @ukdri.ac.uk on the Bio-Hermes-002 study, working towards an Alzheimer's test that's scalable, accessible and cost-effective. t.ly/QWn1R

Currently enjoying Thursday mornings off on my phased return. Swimming with Mali, and then a coffee shop today whilst one of us sleeps off the excitement!

The last paper that just squeaked over the line in 2025 is out in print now journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... another fantastic collaboration with researchers in dentistry, chemistry and industry. Check it out here -

Being back from maternity leave yesterday on the first Monday after Christmas made it the Monday-ist Monday ever! Very grateful to my lovely colleagues for the welcome back, decorating my office so it would be less depressing, meeting me for lunch and generally stopping by for a chat 💬

First day back. Filling in the board….

Two weeks left now, please be kind when I return everyone. My brain is not running at full capacity 🧠

a final two papers are just squeaking over the line this year. One in mBio is still in production- a wonderful collaboration with researchers in Cardiff dental - and this one which would make fantastic Christmas reading www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27... led by prof Jones in the school of Biosciences

Just paid off my student loan. It’s only taken 18 ish years. That’s what happens when governments suddenly put up interest when you’re in the middle of 8 years in higher education. Merry Christmas to me! 🎄

Our annual conference, Connectome, is in full swing today!  As well as excellent science talks, this morning we heard an insightful discussion between Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Prof Miratul Muqit, and journalist @rorycj.bsky.social, who generously shared his experience of living with Parkinson's.

Very important conversations happening at the U.K. DRI conference today. @rorycj.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

🚀 New fellowship opportunity!🚀 Delighted to launch a bold new fellowship scheme in partnership with Race Against Dementia, to support innovative scientists who are using the latest AI technology to drive pioneering dementia research🎉 Find out more👉 buff.ly/xCMwZPM

😂 with what feels like less than adequate compensation for said constant rejections

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Very cool

Always a nice email to receive. I look forward to sharing our paper with you once it’s in print 🎉

A pleasure to welcome @rorycj.bsky.social to the UK DRI at Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Rory has written a fantastic blog about his experience meeting discovery scientists developing the next generation of treatments for Parkinson's & other neurodegenerative conditions rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/dementia-r...

Happy to announce our latest article, a tutorial on running Gaussian-accelerated MD simulations in NAMD. Tour de force work by @hmmichel.bsky.social with @mdpoleto.bsky.social that unifies theory and practice in one place! livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...

AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done. clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...

There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers. What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

CASP is the main reason the protein structure prediction technology and research field advanced over the last 30 years. And the main reason AI based methods have been accepted and widely applied in biology. So shortsighted of NIH to postpone or even halt funding. John Moult is a scientific hero.

Heat and a newborn is not a great combo 🥵

Just found out my nomination to join the biochemical society as a member of the grants panel was successful 🎉 working really hard for the first 5 months of this year is starting to pay off 🤣

New paper 🚨super proud of this collaborative effort, and grateful to my co-authors for answering the reviewer comments whilst I was on mat leave. You can find it here pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

This is madness!

One week left in work before maternity leave and I don’t want to speak to soon but I am really getting through my to do list 😆 no one derail me now please!

Next up prof. Vincent Dion from the @ukdri.ac.uk is talking science fact, not science fiction, and telling us about his groups approach to finding a treatment for Huntingtons. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

Our second speaker of the day, Dr Lelos talking to us about cell therapy and how this might be used to treat Huntingtons. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

ARUK public engagement at the @cardiffcity.bsky.social stadium. Dr Massey kicking it off by talking to us about Huntington’s Disease, what it is and how we might be cure it. @alzheimersresearchuk.org

Pre-announcement: MARTINI tutorial workshop, August 11-15th 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands !! Learn basic and advanced Martini from the cocktail masters themselves. Registration will open soon.

Some good news for a change–Queen's has set aside funds to assist any students who have lost their visa status in the US and are looking to continue their graduate studies. Please share widely. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

AF2χ: Predicting protein side-chain rotamer distributions with AlphaFold2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649219v1

Our lab is hiring 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc to study the mechanism of lipid transport using computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, AI). Fully funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social for 4 years, with amazing collaborators and excellent life and working conditions. Apply by email. Please share and repost!

📢 Our article calling for a #FAIR database for #MolecularDynamics simulation data has now been peer-reviewed and published in @naturemethods.bsky.social 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/ef6YX 📝 Support the statement: bit.ly/3zVS3qm #MDDB #FAIRdata #collaboration

Final taught session of the year is done 🎉 I still have marking and in person assessments to do, but with 7 weeks left till I go on maternity leave it feels pretty good to be concentrating on final research bits and making sure all my students are in a good place before I go. 🧬🖥️

The Free Energy Workshop (feworkshop.bsky.social) will happen on May 6-8th. If you're an unemployed #CompChem modeller or researcher and want to attend to network but cannot afford the $215 registration fee, please DM me.

📣 Please share: TENURED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 👇 Establish your own group at DTU Health Tech! Deadline April 22nd '25 Tags #bioinformatics #dataScience #machineLearning #deepLearning #artificialIntelligence #AI #python #Rstats #teaching #research #academia efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

More than 2 decades ago the PINK1 protein was found to be linked to Parkinson's disease, but its structure and how it was activated was not known. Until @science.org today. A triumph for cryo-EM and structural biology, introducing new targets for drug intervention. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There is a lot of stress around job cuts and changes in the university at the minute, but Friday my lovely project students gave me the nicest card to say thank you for the help I gave them during their project. Little things like that from students make lots of the hard work so very worth it! 🥰

Dementia devastates the lives of everyone it touches, but this #internationalwomensday let’s highlight the impact it has on women: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/about-us/our...

FREE WEBINAR for #BiophysicsWeek! March 27 at 1 PM Eastern The Spectrum of Ability in the Workplace: Learning About Our Largest Workplace “Minority”

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

🚨 All right, since this is a place of sanity now, let’s kick things off with an open PhD position in my team to work on simulating glycans and their interactions. If you’re passionate about computational biophysics and glycobiology, go ahead and apply! Any shares would be greatly appreciated. 🙃

On the train so catching up with this excellent podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5aPX...