Do you enjoy the thrill of discovery? Does this photo give you good vibes?
Then you might be the right person to join our lab!
Current projects range from chloroplast transcription to thylakoid membrane remodeling & we would be happy to welcome bright and motivated people at all career stages!
How do human cells defend against viruses?
@sgfern.bsky.social discovers that human immune proteins named ISGs target ancient features of replication shared between animal and bacterial viruses – opening analysis of human immunity to the power of bacterial genetics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@romihadary.bsky.social and @soreklab.bsky.social 's discovery that sponge proteins constitute enormous families of viral immune evasion factors is now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
@reneechang.bsky.social and our lab were happy to help with this story!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Folddisco is now published @natbiotech.nature.com. It’s a fast motif search for similar 3D DISCOntinuous residues like catalytic sites or zinc fingers across the entire protein universe.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💾 folddisco.foldseek.com
🌐 https://search.foldseek.com/folddisco
A newly released AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences.
go.nature.com/4wS3Pen