Today was presentations day for the students of the course in Physics of Soft Matter and Biological Systems within the MSc program on Condensed Matter and Biological Systems at UAM Madrid. Great talks and Q&A sessions, in a friendly and stimulating environment. Well done everyone! 👏

If you are in Madrid next week, do not miss a great talk on DNA mechanics!

New paper out! Led by our PhD student Eva Zunzunegui, our study investigates in silico how macromolecules with varying hydrophilicity incorporate within cubic phases, with insights on the nucleation mechanism in membrane protein crystallization. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For all the people interested in Soft Materials, Phase Separation and more: if you happen to be in Madrid, do not miss the next IFIMAColloquium on March 14th by Raffaele Mezzenga! www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimacolloqu...

It was a pleasure to represent the “soft” side of IFIMAC at the latest GEFES meeting

Still a few days left! If you earned your PhD after 1/1/23 and want to co-apply for the Fellowship, get in touch asap! Topics: simulation of biomolecules, particularly 1) nucleic acids and their interaction with proteins, 2) molecular chaperones, especially Hsp70

The call for the postdoc Juan de la Cierva Fellowship is now open: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria... If you are interested in simulating biomolecules in our group in Madrid (www.salvatoreassenza.com), get in touch to discuss a potential application with me as a host! Repost appreciated :)

Yesterday it was presentations day within our MSc course on the physics of biosystems at UAM Madrid. Kudos to all the participants, I am impressed and proud of the high scientific level of the discussion! Here a picture during a well-deserved break refueling with Modica chocolate

For people interested in chaperones, protein quality control, proteostasis and cellular homeostasis, here is the link of the webinars we (P. Goloubinoff, A. Barducci, N. Nillegoda and I) hosted during the COVID pandemics. A lot of material! tinyurl.com/27y5wpzy

If you happen to be in Madrid on February 6th, you will have the chance to hear Enrico Carlon on DNA topology at multiple scales! Lots of fun, not to be missed :) www.ifimac.uam.es/ifimac-semin...