Pleasure to welcome Patrick Cramer to SMART and to present our research and discuss future directions. Cooperation between Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de and institutions in Shenzhen is expanding and will open new opportunities. As Patrick concluded in German, “Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne”.
Delighted to welcome our new PI, Daxiao Sun who is starting her lab at SMART after a postdoc with @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social
Daxiao’s group will investigate how biomolecular condensates regulate cell junctions and tissue morphogenesis. Welcome!
Link to the original article: Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Meidi Gu on starting her lab at SMART!
Meidi brings expertise in immunotherapy developed through her postdoc with @jimriley52.bsky.social at @pennmehp.bsky.social and @mdanderson.bsky.social
Her lab will focus on how membrane remodeling shapes T-cell function in diseased tissues.
Fascinating new @nature.com paper: a Pluto moment for biology.
It introduces the concept of 'peptideins' - a new category for dark translated ORFs that produce detectable microprotein-like products with unknown biological roles.
The first Max Planck Center in Shenzhen. @maxplanck.de and Chinese Academy of Sciences launch a Center for Synthetic Biochemistry at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. It will leverage automated infrastructure for biomanufacturing of natural products. Germany-China partnership is growing.
It was very special Karen Davies Memorial Symposium in Nottingham. Karen’s pioneering work on ATP synthase and bioenergetic membranes shaped our field, and speakers highlighted her impact as colleague, mentor and friend. Thank you eBIC, CCPEM and all participants for making such a meaningful tribute
english.siat.ac.cn/news/si/2026...
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A large-scale proteomics analysis of the dark proteome by the TransCODE Consortium reveals many translated non-canonical open reading frames to encode microproteins and peptideins.
SIAT’s main component divisions include the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology (SIIT), the Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering (IBHE), the Institute of Advanced Computing...
Wei Yang joins SMART after a postdoc with David Baker @uwproteindesign.bsky.social. He designs next generation binders for immune checkpoint receptors. At SMART, Wei's team will integrate algorithm development with high-throughput experimental validation to deliver selective protein therapeutics.
Pleasure to welcome Patrick Cramer to SMART and to present our research and discuss future directions. Cooperation between Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de and institutions in Shenzhen is expanding and will open new opportunities. As Patrick concluded in German, “Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne”.
Delighted to welcome our new PI, Daxiao Sun who is starting her lab at SMART after a postdoc with @hymanlab.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and Alf Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social
Daxiao’s group will investigate how biomolecular condensates regulate cell junctions and tissue morphogenesis. Welcome!
Sad news about Karen Davies' passing.
Karen was an inspiration in bioenergetics and cryoET. Her pioneering postdoctoral work on ATP synthase and respiratory supercomplexes marked turning points in the field. I created Scholar profile to acknowledge her contribution
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
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Wei Yang joins SMART after a postdoc with David Baker @uwproteindesign.bsky.social. He designs next generation binders for immune checkpoint receptors. At SMART, Wei's team will integrate algorithm development with high-throughput experimental validation to deliver selective protein therapeutics.
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Formerly of Electron Bio-Imaging Centre, Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom - Cited by 2,887 - cryo-EM - tomography - method development - bioenergetics
