Assistant Professor @univgroningen | Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | same handle on BluSk

Groningen
Joined April 2011
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
If you want to participate in PPI Prediction Challenge #2, come over the the other place... bsky.app/profile/chembiobrya…
I am very skeptical of the AI/ML/computational methods to predict protein-protein interactions. Prove me wrong. I present a challenge for anyone who claims they can predict protein-protein interactions. 1/n
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Wow! There is a real X leak for Bluesky. Are you there? Here is our profile, come say hi: bsky.app/profile/lonelypipet…
Enfin ! Xitter est en train de s'effondrer. La plateforme avait déjà perdu 20-30% de ses utilisateurs en 1 an, et c'était AVANT la vague dûe aux élections US 😳 Et euh... y a des rumeurs de fusion avec Truth Social 😬 Pendant ce temps, sur Bluesky : 🚀
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There’s a place where the sky is blue (and with increasingly many structural biologists and biophysicists)
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 Please retweet 🚨
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The Protein Design Competition results are in! 🧬 200 designs tested in our lab 🌍 90 protein designers from around the world 💎 5 novel binders found 🎯 2.5% hit rate (vs 0.01% on previous EGFR work) 1st place: @MartinPacesa & Lennart Nickel 2nd place: @khRRustamov 3rd place: Adrian Tripp (@tugraz)
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A recent preprint from our lab about MOSAIC: a very easy protocol to make (short) mutations or libraries in plasmids much easier (no PCR, or assembly cloning needed), just electroporation with oligos! Probably useful for many in the field biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… spread the word!
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Hey, #synbio people. Wes Robertson, A good friend of mine and a great scientist is starting his lab @MRC_LMB This is a unique opportunity to have an impact in #synthetic_genomics and work under leadership of talented and ambitious PI. shorturl.at/mnvw9
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4-year studentship available in my lab at @kclchemistry working at the interface of fundamental synthetic biology and therapeutic biotechnology development - come & join me in the XNA world! Please RT findaphd.com/phds/project/ch…
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🚨🚨🚨 We are hiring! We are looking for 2⃣ PhD students who want to join us @StratinghInst for awesome research in the field of continuous #enzyme #evolution! Informal questions per DM. Click the link below to apply! #MolecularEvolution Please RT! rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us…
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Assistant/Associate Professor Position on Computer-Aided Drug Design open in Groningen ! rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us…
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PDRA opportunity in our group @UCLChemistry to develop & characterise ribozymes that harness primordial chemistries. 28 months, funded by BBSRC & Royal Society; org chem or mol bio background. Apply by 7th August: tinyurl.com/4bhhf2v2
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Are you a bioinformatician and want to use your skills to support diverse research lines? Biochemistry @WUR is hiring a staff scientist in bioinformatics! Come join us :D
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Curse and Blessing of Non-Proteinogenic Parts in Computational Enzyme Engineering (Fuerst et al.) @MaxFus #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to share that our perspective on whole-cell modelling using #Martini is out in @FrontChemistry! To showcase the capabilities of the #Martini ecosystem, we build a model of an entire cell with near atomistic resolution. #ComputationalMicroscopy doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2023.1…
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My jocular bingo card of things attempted in the inference of an AlphaFold2/ColabFold complex prompted a bit of side discussions, so I wrote a blog post about some things one can try: blog.matteoferla.com/2022/10…
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Novozymes A/S invites data scientists and protein scientists around the world to look into this scientific challenge: predict protein thermal stability. The competition has just been launched on the Kaggle platform 🔥. Link: lnkd.in/e464vXED
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Spread the word! Groningen's Faculty of Science and Engineering opened 20 positions for Rosalind Franklin Fellows - prestigious fellowships for female researchers on a tenure track. See rug.nl/fse/meet-the-faculty/… and apply before 28 October. @univgroningen
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1/5 🙌🥳👇Tired of performing #enzyme #evolution in 96-well plates? Then, check out our latest preprint that was just published on @biorxivpreprint! We report a directed evolution platform that leverages recoded organisms to select better biocatalysts! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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