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maxewilkinson.bsky.social
PhD @MRC_LMB, now post-doc at @MIT, dabbler in cryoEM. Keen on spliceosomes. Now also keen on reverse transcription. Kiwi.
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Nice visit to the lovely Princeton campus. Could not be prouder of @automnenine.bsky.social. For those who are looking for a postdoc, there are exciting opportunities to join his lab!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Ridiculously good work by George on LINE-1 retrotransposition! Also the paper is an inspiring read - there's some really super biochem in it

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

we recently found some really neat RNA-guided DNA-cutting systems in phages. Despite remarkable similarities to CRISPR systems, including encoding guide RNAs in arrays, they appear entirely evolutionarily distinct (but definitely related to snoRNAs 🤓) We decided to call them TIGR-Tas systems 🐯

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

please go check out this glowing pink blob and what it does to the shiny gold blob (it's a spliceosome! Truly it was a nostalgic pleasure to help out with this paper, a super fun collaboration with @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social & Kathy and Karli)

submitted 192 days ago • 2 comments

gonna start shamelessly crossposting some of my molecular movies from the Other Place. Starting with my favourite: showing how wacky reverse transcription can defeat viruses. Bonus: some noises 🎹🎻

submitted 206 days ago • 3 comments

Our fly brain connectome papers are now live (www.nature.com/immersive/d4...), and is getting traction (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...). With ~139k neurons, >8k cell types, synapses annotated, transmitters predicted, ~134 evo-devo units denoted, so much is now possible in the fly.

submitted 253 days ago • 1 comment