Postdoc working on RNA Nanotech & MD simulations @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & MPIP. GROMACS wrangler, oxDNA developer, @molpigs.bsky.social podcast host, and all around weird lil guy.
Has been known to post about music and neat bugs found in the woods.
Erik Poppleton
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There is only one song powerful enough to make an entire generation start singing with just a single note.
(Blank video, sound up)
The new arXiv rules don’t even say you can’t be bad at citing, just don’t make up citations from whole cloth.
Improper citations are a problem which predates LLMs. I found one recently where, for more than a decade, the entire field has been citing a paper for something it didn’t do.
RNA imaging 👀🧬👀🧬
The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.
No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.
The parking attendant moved on.
I feel like @aptshadow.bsky.social was binging on Creature posts from @lize.bsky.social while writing the Bug Section of Children of Strife.
Erik Poppleton
Erik Poppleton
Erik Poppleton
Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.
We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.
Thread + link below.
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
Erik Poppleton
🚀 We are recruiting 2 PhD researchers to join the Walther Lab @ JGU Mainz!
Help us build intelligent matter: synthetic cells and hydrogel materials that compute, adapt, move, learn, or make simple decisions.
#PhDPosition #SyntheticCells #Hydrogels
Our multi-μm DNA shell paper is finally out in #NanoLetters, now also featuring controlled multilayer shell formation! 🧬
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Thanks so much again to Christoph and
@simmellab.bsky.social !!
New results! 🧬
Versatile DNA nanostructures 🧬 can be used as molecular lithography masks for the selective deposition or etching of materials in conventional lithographic processing. Check out our new open-access review in J Phys D: Appl Phys! doi.org/10.1088/1361... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
