Just confirming what we already knew: Otago Biochemist Associate Professor Lynette Brownfield is an awesome postgrad supervisor! This week awarded the Division of Health Sciences Supervisor of the year. Here she is with her group of young scientists enjoying a well-earned break amongst the rhodies.

Ready for a transformative research journey? 🚀 Join the vibrant, interdisciplinary PhD programmes at NTU College of Science in Singapore! We offer fully funded scholarships. Hear from our students and faculty in the video below 👇 youtu.be/JeZHiXu3fgE

Is the alphafold database performing really poorly, and Uniprot alphafold links broken for everyone, or just me? I've tried clearing my cache, but any tips @ebi.embl.org?

Open Group Leader Positions at the IMB, UQ. Interested in joining us in sunny Queensland?

Excellent course content for my scientific writing class!

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

We're hiring! Come join us as a Lecture/Senior Lecturer in the fantastic supportive Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago. Dunedin is a super-liveable city, which just happens to have some of the best access to nature (and biking) in Aotearoa...... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

Biochemistry Special Seminar Wed 27 Aug 1pm Rm BIG13 Distinguished Professor Natarajan Kannan, University of Georgia Evolution of regulation in signaling systems: From ancient cores to modern complexity

Vinnie Tagliabracci kicking off the final morning of #iubmbkinases, post conference dinner crowd still strong (with coffee....)

Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!

Welcoming Grace Gong back to NZ to kick off afternoon number 3, lipid kinases at #iubmbkinases

Day 3 of #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social and many of us sprung up to take this photo through the conference room window - even during talks. Queenstown turning on a stunner of a day, matched only by some terrific science

Flying start to the #iubmbkinases meeting in beautiful Queenstown, NZ. Jubilee Award from IUBMB to Kevan Shokat yesterday, and a kinase masterclass from Susan Taylor this morning

Robust debate in Parliament yesterday, with questions from Scott Willis to Shane Reti MP about cuts, job losses and whether reprioritisation will yield clarity or any benefits. The answers aren't reassuring but it is good to see this getting attention. youtu.be/Vam6UmnvtyY

This! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Four weeks left for abstract submission and early-bird registration for the NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting!! Adele Williamson and William Kelton are putting together an amazing program including outstanding plenary speakers! www.nzsbmb.org/conference-2025-rotorua

Excited to see this work led by Cameron Reddington and Annabel Walsh out in @febsj.bsky.social — ASXL proteins share a PHD domain that is not a PHD domain, evolved to bind an MBD domain that is not an MBD domain! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For every €1 invested in Horizon Europe programme, Europe is expected to get as much as €11 in GDP return Source: www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/horizon-euro...

A fantastic oral program is now in place, but you can still register and submit an abstract for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on (Pseudo)kinases in signal transduction! Outstanding setting, with ample chances to exchange ideas with the top kinase minds in the world! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

It's June 20 in New Zealand, which means it's the last day to have your abstract considered for oral presentations at the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on kinases and pseudokinases!

Check out the view today from the venue—scoping for the IUBMB Focussed meeting on (pseudo)kinases! Abstracts and early bird registrations closes this week! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/ @pseudokinase.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social

Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Only one week left to submit your abstract and register at early bird rates for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting - (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction. Sign up and register by June 20!! Join @pseudokinase.bsky.social Natalia Jura, and a who's who of kinase research! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

The 13th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society will be held in Búsios, Brazil Oct 26-30, 2025. Training workshops will be held at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Oct 23-23. Register now! Links below. 1/3

With less than a month to submit abstracts for the @iubmb.bsky.social Focussed Meeting on (pseudo)Kinases in stunning Queenstown, we are delighted to announce travel scholarships for selected ECRs thanks to @biologists.bsky.social and the Maurice and Phyllis Trust! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

In an age of triumphant managerialism, we must remember that giving researchers support, autonomy, and freedom results in miraculous things. Another point is that the government required AT&T to invest in basic research to avoid being treated as a monopoly. 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-l...

Two Otago academics, Dr Olivia Harrison and Professor Jemma Geoghegan, have been awarded Prime Minister's Science Prizes for their outstanding work on managing viruses and managing anxiety. Ngā mihi nui! 👏 Read more here:

Congratulations to Professor Kevan Shokat from the University of California, San Francisco, 🇺🇸, recipient of the IUBMB Jubilee Award Lecture. His award lecture will be presented at the IUBMB Focused meeting on "The Emerging roles of (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction". @asbmb.bsky.social

For the first time in history, we can proudly show you a DOUBLE German bollarding. This has NEVER been seen before so congratulations to us. #WorldBollardAssociation

📢Searching for REVIEWS EDITORS for IUBMB Life, BioFactors, and Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. ‼️Apply by May 31, 2025

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By combining high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning, bespoke SpCas9 enzymes are identified that outperform evolution-based and engineered nucleases and base editors in human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBTHighlight

We are recruiting 🤩🤩🤩!!! If you are looking to establish ylur lab in a multidisciplinary institute with state-of-the-art facilities, horizontal structure and diverse faculty, apply!!!

Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions

I’ve just updated the BioEmu notebook to include the powerful LogMD. Now, you can generate equilibrium ensembles and explore the full ensemble directly in the notebook. A huge thanks to Alexander Mathiasen for the support! 🙌 🔗 Try it on Google Colab: lnkd.in/gcuqd-fT

Uni of Wollongong Cryo EM job closes on Sunday people! @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social might be able to answer questions? 🧬🧶

Exciting news from the lab out today in Science - the structure of human PINK1 on a TOM-VDAC complex! @wehi-research.bsky.social

In this time of chaos - something good! We are excited to share our final (or near final) speaker list for the 3rd UCSF Full Circle Symposium 4/3-4/4 to highlight Native biologists! Please share the word and register to attend the webinar in person! More info: qbi.ucsf.edu/full-circle-...

Really exciting to share the peer-reviewed version of our study of the DET1 adaptor for the CUL4 Ub ligase. A cryptic E2-binding site and recruitment mechanism for COP1—another E3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

(1/4) 🚀 PhD Fellowship Opportunity @iecb.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social University of Bordeaux! Looking for talented international Master’s graduates to apply for a PhD fellowship via the UB PhD Scholarship. Two exciting projects in kinase biology & nanobody therapeutics! ⬇️ Please Repost

My Departments vs Software Accuracy article is finally out -- with great support from the Editors, and some useful feedback from referees. doi.org/10.1093/bioa... #benchmarks #bioinformatics #genetics #software #compsci

Exciting to open registration for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on Emerging roles of (pseudo)kinases! Fantastic speakers in an unmatched location, lots of speaking slots available for ECRS. Interested in kinases or pseudokinases? We would love to see you in Queenstown! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB2...

The Foldseek webserver for fast protein structure searches now features a Sankey tree taxonomy visualization and filter, allowing to subset hits by clades. Developed by my talented student @sunjaelee.bsky.social. Try it out! 🌐 search.foldseek.com

"The current knowledge of ubiquitin signals through a ubiquitin-centric, structural biology lens." Useful resource for ubiuitin-lovers. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Our paper on computational design of chemically induced protein interactions is out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. Big thanks to all co-authors, especially Anthony Marchand, Stephen Buckley and Bruno Correia! t.co/vtYlhi8aQm

Are you doing summer work writing for the Guardian @ppgardne.bsky.social ?? Or should I say 'Eva'...... The pāua and the glory: cafe’s creation sparks pie mania in New Zealand www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...