Junior Group Leader @Sanquin Research - protein engineering and structural biology, #cryoEM ❄️🔬, #crystallography 🩻💎 - views are my own

Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joined May 2017
I am excited to share that I will be starting my lab @Sanquin Research in Amsterdam this month! Looking forward to do structural biology and use protein engineering to tackle important questions related to 🩸blood🩸 protein complexes in health and disease. 🧬🧫🔬🧪👨‍🔬 #cryoEM
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How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed? At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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PDB's Emerald Anniversary Today marks the 55th anniversary of the 1971 announcement of the PDB. Consider supporting 50 years of PDB's spirit of openness, cooperation, and education with a donation to the wwPDB: Foundation.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=202…
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The Abe siblings’ favourite family tradition - becoming world champions together in Baku 🙂 What an ippon in the final. Abe Hifumi put the perfect finishing touch on an unforgettable day! 🥇🇯🇵 Follow all the action on JudoTV.com 💻 #JudoWorlds #Baku #Azerbaijan #RoadToLA2028 #OlympicQualifiers
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Suite à ma prise de parole du 16 septembre, de nombreux tweets, publications, commentaires et messages à caractère haineux ou raciste ont circulé sur les réseaux sociaux à mon encontre. J’ai exprimé une inquiétude. Chacun est libre de la partager ou non. Le débat et la contradiction sont légitimes. La haine et le racisme ne le sont pas. Le parquet de Paris a décidé d’ouvrir une enquête pour injures publiques racistes et cyberharcèlement. Désormais, chaque propos haineux ou raciste tenu à mon encontre sera documenté et, lorsque les faits le justifieront, fera l’objet des suites judiciaires appropriées. Je tiens aussi à remercier sincèrement toutes celles et ceux qui m’ont adressé des messages de soutien, de respect et de fraternité ces derniers jours. Ils comptent. Je continuerai à m’exprimer librement, avec respect et sans haine.
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Graag de boeren verantwoordelijk voor buizen op het spoor onder terrorisme wetgeving bestraffen als ze worden gepakt.
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Big start for De Lange! 🇳🇱 Follow all the action on JudoTV.com 💻 #JudoLausanne #Switzerland #Judo #OlympicQualifiers #RoadToLA28
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Huge from former world champion Van Lieshout! 🇳🇱 Follow all the action on JudoTV.com 💻 #JudoLausanne #Switzerland #Judo #OlympicQualifiers #RoadToLA28
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Milestone for my new lab: first completely computationally designed de novo antibodies that produce and bind to target! 🤖🤖🤖 great work by @Kaziks20!!
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I’ve been asked many times over why I keep posting when so many of the replies I receive are personal attacks. The answer is actually really simple. As scientists, we cannot concede to silence. If we do, we leave space for disinformation to fill the void. and it will. Science doesn’t advance by being the loudest voice. But it does depend on people willing to keep speaking out - even and perhaps especially during the most difficult chapters.
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To all the dads out there – Happy Father’s Day! Nothing we do is more fulfilling!
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AI for redesigning molecular biology tools like affinity tags. Here's a short demo testing ESMFold2 to redesign the FLAG affinity tag using the anti-FLAG antibody structure (M2, PDB: 8RMO) as a reference. Target to redesign = FLAG: DYKDDDDK ESMFold2 was also tested in the opposite direction, where a new potential FLAG tag binder was designed. AI agents made this presentation for the demo using ChimeraX and the OpenAI text to speech API.
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Can someone start a journal called “Cell Atlases” so that the rest of the journals can go back to publishing interesting things?
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My first time at the Dutch society for thrombosis and hemostasis society (NVTH) symposium, looking forward to hear lots of interesting science and get to know the community!
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Now that we are in a full-blown oil crisis, can we finally just ban these cancer-causing fumes exhausting combustion engine scooters? Swap it for an electric bike (similar price) or scooter, or even better, an old-fashioned muscle-powered bicycle (cheapest and best for health)!!
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Happy lunar new year to all those who celebrate!! 🐴
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'New research mostly starts with the arrival of junior group leaders'. Amen @ThijnBrummel!! 🙏
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Fuck I love this figure. Pure fucking art.
I am excited to share that I will be starting my lab @Sanquin Research in Amsterdam this month! Looking forward to do structural biology and use protein engineering to tackle important questions related to 🩸blood🩸 protein complexes in health and disease. 🧬🧫🔬🧪👨‍🔬 #cryoEM
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