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Postdoc in the Gunnar von Heijne lab @ Stockholm University. Studying membrane protein insertion and folding using biochemical and biophysical techniques 🧪
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Proteins preferentially insert into membranes that have a similar hydrophobic thickness to the protein, even without cells or chaperones! Implies sufficiency of physical properties of membranes and proteins for proper sorting to organelles. Cool paper! 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Very nice work outlining a new method to determine dimerization energies of TMDs in unbiased MD simulations 🧪

My colleague and I are co-chairing the GRS on Membrane Protein Folding this Summer near Barcelona, Spain ⛱️ If you are a grad student or postdoc and work on membrane protein folding, apply! www.grc.org/membrane-pro...

I like my lab coats to feel like I'm wearing an armored vehicle but also a snuggie

Just learned that one of the most productive scientists I know uses a cardboard box as a reference manager. I'll be over here existentially questioning the value of my neatly curated zotero library.

chaotic neutral

Beautiful night in Stockholm 🌃

If anyone knows of starter packs for biochemistry / biophysics, I would love to check them out!

Goodreads has a popular list of books everyone should read. It's 33k books. Reading a book a day, this would take 90 years. Goodreads, this is not a serious list.

Anyone familiar with BioPython? When I read a file with SeqIO, I see strange behavior. If I assign a SeqRecord object to a variable, it is only iterable once. In the code below, the output is nothing, but if I switch the print statement to the first loop it prints fine. What am I missing?

Something tells me they did not, in fact, read my preprint.

Has anyone figured out how to name the individual chains for a job in the #Alphafold3 server? The output of a job with mutliple chains just has them labeled as A, B, C, etc.