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larsvbock.bsky.social
Theoretical and computational physicist working on ribosomes and antibiotics - atomistic simulations, statistical physics and ML. Project leader at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences https://t.co/1ecLGaOjXB 🚴
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🆕📣 Job alert: Our department @compbiophys.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student or Postdoc specializing in theory and methods for non-equilibrium theory and atomistic simulations of complex biomolecules. More information here: ⬇️

💭 Would you like to contribute to projects in the field of "Theory and Methods for Non-equilibrium #Theory and Atomistic Simulations of Complex# Biomolecules"? Join our department as #PhD student or #Postdoc at @mpi-nat.bsky.social in 🇩🇪 🔗 Here are more details www.mpinat.mpg.de/4965656/10-2... #job

Excited to share my latest research. In this paper in PNAS, I use #cryoEM and #crystallography to solve multiple new structures of a viral RNA motif that controls frameshifting. #virus #retrovirus #structuralbiology #science #biochemistry www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧐 Are you a computational physicist and expert in probability theory? 👉 Contribute to our project "Theory and Algorithms for Structure Determination from Single Molecule X-Ray Scattering Images" as PhD student or Postdoc! 🔗 Check our job advert for more details www.mpinat.mpg.de/4988122/09-2...

Gemma Solomon and I are looking for a postdoc to work across the two groups on modelling biological systems with a view to applications for quantum computing More details about the project including how to apply in the link below. Deadline April 9 2025 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

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 🧪👩‍🔬

🥹 Last day at #bps2025 and a 🤩 final poster session with contributions from our group @compbiophys.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social: Meet Annke, Lars @larsvbock.bsky.social and Malte during today's session 10:30 AM -12:30 PM and discuss their exciting projects with them before you say goodbye...👋

🚨The triennial Ribosome Conference will be held June 22-June 27, 2025 in Pacific Grove, California. Registration is open - hope to see many #Ribosome #RNA aficionados there. #RNASky #AcademicSky 🧪 rna.ucsc.edu/rnacenter/ri...

We are hiring a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Structural Molecular Biophysics team! Experience with cryoEM and/or membrane protein simulations are a plus! Happy to chat in person with anyone at #bps2025 ! apply.interfolio.com/160227

We proudly present a selection of research projects from @compbiophys.bsky.social at this year's #bps2025 meeting in LA! Don't miss the oral presentations or posters being presented and find us in the program biophysics.cld.bz/BPS2025-Full...

Recharging batteries in Sta Monica with @compbiophys.bsky.social. Come and reach us in #bps2025! (Contributions listed in the comments) @reinierdevries.bsky.social @larsvbock.bsky.social @steschuu.bsky.social @oberend.bsky.social

If you are interested in postdoctoral research on ligand-gated ion channels and the synapse, or simulation/AI methods for structural biology - drop me a line if you'll be around at Biophysical Society in LA! #bps2025 #bps #biophysics

📢 Out now: Our double feature “Constant pH #cpH Simulation with #FMM Electrostatics in #GROMACS” #openaccess in #JCTC on 🅰️ Design and Applications and 🅱️ GPU Accelerated Hamiltonian Interpolation #HI! 👇 Happy simulating! ☺️

The regular registration for on-site participation has been closed. However, it is still possible to join our workshop online! You find the link to the according registration on our workshop website 🔗https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/workshop/huenfeld #TheoryHünfeld2025 #biophysics

Join us in beautiful Prague to study molecular physics. My group is offering a PhD position at UCT Prague, Czechia related to #protein - #RNA interactions. For more details, visit mhko.science/p/positions/ or contact us directly at [email protected].

Over 60 German unis and institutes jointly announce they're leaving X due to the "lack of compatibility between the platform and the institutions' core values" (my translation) nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Our new paper in #SciAdv on #Bayesian electron density determination from single-molecule #X-ray scattering is out! 🧐 High resolutions can be achieved from #XFEL exp at low S/N ratios using less than 50 #photons per image! 🔗https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp4425 @mpi-nat.bsky.social

Molecular simulations or AI models produce ever larger and more complex datasets. Comparing different conditions to find meaningful patterns is a bottleneck for many projects. We address this with PENSA, a flexible open-source analysis library. Now out in JCP: doi.org/10.1063/5.02... 🧪 #CompChem

Want to come work with me? Short postdoc opportunity. Deadline tomorrow ⚡️ jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Abstract submission for the 2025 Free Energy Workshop are now open! Submissions will be accepted from December 1st to January 15th. bit.ly/FEW2025Abstr...

We have a PhD position in Molecular chemical physics at UCT Prague, Czechia. It is closely related to our research of the evolution of #protein-RNA interactions. A pre-PhD #internship available from January 2025. Apply directly by email to [email protected].

In this work, we use all-atom MD simulations to elucidate why human and rhesus macaque TRIM5α differ in their ability to restrict HIV. See our manuscript by Liam Haas-Neill, Deniz Meneksedag-Erol & Ibraheem Andeejani --

Do you want to work at the interface of molecular simulations, structural biology experiments and #AI? Come to Paris for a PhD at @pasteur.fr 1 PhD position is available in our lab funded by ERC_Research. Please repost!! #compchem #compbio Info 👇 research.pasteur.fr/b/15Hr

Interested in using the OPLS4 force field in your next lipid simulations? Check out our just published manuscript, where we validated POPC and DMPC lipids against NMR data. In short, your simulations will be fine and overall, OPLS4 performs similarly or slightly better than CHARMM36 (also their […]

🚨 PLEASE REPOST 🚨 We're still looking for an enthusiastic PhD student 😉 Here are some potential projects: - mechanical stability of microtubules probed by computational force spectroscopy - mechanism of microtubule assembly studied by coarse-grained modeling www.mpinat.mpg.de/28-24?c=2501...

📢 New #preprint describing our community effort to share #plumed tutorials arxiv.org/abs/2412.03595 ! Explore the tutorials at www.plumed-tutorials.org

Multiple PhD positions available in our group in the field of computational and theoretical chemistry Feel free to forward the info and please apply via [email protected]

If you are a fan of ligand binding kinetics, come to the CECAM workshop that @herrflow.bsky.social, Rebecca Wade, Giovanni Bottegoni and I are organizing next year in Lausanne. The registration deadline is January 10, hurry up! #compchem www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

📢 It's our great pleasure to invite you all to our upcoming #Workshop on "Computer Simulation and #Theory of Macromolecules" in #Hünfeld on March 7-8, 2025 in #hybrid format! See you online or on-site! More details are provided here: www.mpinat.mpg.de/workshop/hue... #TheoryHünfeld2025 #biophysics

📣 The BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2025 is now open for applications Our flagship #training event will take place 8-13 June 2025 in Sardinia, Italy 🌞⛱️ For more information and how to apply ➡️https://bit.ly/4ihQCUI

Natural variation in the drug-binding residues of bacterial ribosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you a scientist working or interested in RNA Translation? Join our starter pack and share ideas, methodologies and tips to advance our knowledge in how life came to be! #RNA #ribosome go.bsky.app/VN78eTo

We have a #Job opening for a #PhD student in our group here @mpi-nat.bsky.social in Göttingen 🇩🇪 in connection to #RTG2756 #CYTAC Job advert 🔗https://mpinat.mpg.de/4793823/28-24?c=645962 🔗https://uni-goettingen.de/rtg2756 #mircotubules #Applications welcome!

Happy to be part of the bluesky researcher's community now! Just moved over... Looking forward to the news and views shared here! 😀

I made a MD starter pack! Dm or reply to be added ☺️☺️ go.bsky.app/QQjPjbL

Starting a theoretical biophysics starter pack, feel free to (self-) nominate, I’ll keep updating this in the next days/weeks! go.bsky.app/RMF7jUK

MD simulations of K+ ions permeation through the MthK potassium channel, done at +150 mV. We developed and applied optimized ion parameters within the Electronic Continuum Correction (ECC) framework. The simulated current quantitatively matches the experimental one. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We offer two fully-funded PhD studentships to investigate ribosome hibernation in stem cells via cryoET. If you are interested, please apply here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... or here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin.... If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

I haven't found a pack for Women in Science yet so I'm making one. Write if you want to be added (or removed)! Rather small ATM. #WomeninChemistry #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM go.bsky.app/LjumNEg