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Huge congrats Iso 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 can't wait to see you soon!

So proud of you Iso!!! You smashed it 🥳🥳

Untangling the effects of flexibility and the AWI in cryoEM sample preparation: A case study using KtrA Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) is a powerful tool for elucidating the structures of biological macromolecules without requiring cry…

I’m very happy to share my first paper on the effects of AWI interactions and flexibility on SPA data quality! Thank you to everyone on the team 🤩

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Looking for something else to do after a day at #UKREiiF? Pint of Science is running events in pubs across Leeds from 19th-21st May. Hear about the research taking place here, all whilst supporting local venues and a not-for-profit organisation! pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25

Exciting to see our time-resolved #cryoEM device developed by @stemuench.bsky.social & colleagues in action at the CCPEM Spring Symposium!
Brilliant talk by @scarfflab.bsky.social showing how it helped to visualize the elusive actomyosin primed complex & demonstrate the swinging lever mechanism.

I started on this around 2006 so only taken 20 years! The project itself started over 30 years ago. Great to finally see the elusive structure.

Swinging lever mechanism of myosin directly shown by time-resolved cryo-EM - Nature A study using time-resolved cryogenic electron microscopy reveals the swinging lever mechanism of myosin, providing information on the molecular basis behind the production of force and movement by my...

Swinging lever mechanism of myosin shown by time-resolved cryoEM www.nature.com/articles/s41... so glad to finally be able to share this with the community! @astburycentre.bsky.social @astbury-bsl.bsky.social @stemuench.bsky.social @snmcmillan.bsky.social @davidklebl.bsky.social

Investigation of lipid-protein interactions within mechanosensitive ion channels at Aston University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigation of lipid-protein interactions within mechanosensitive ion channels at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 Just over 3 weeks left to apply for a 4-year funded PhD position at @astonaime.bsky.social for October 2025. Come study protein-lipid interactions in mechanosensitive channels with me, Dr. Alice Rothnie, and Prof. Corinne Spickett 📢

📅 Application deadline: 7th April 2025

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We had an amazing time with the ABC family and already miss you all! Can’t wait to hear your exciting talks, have great discussions, and hit the slopes of the Alps again. #ABC2025

See you next time!🗻⛷️🚠🧬🧫🧪💙

Now we are moving into the plant world 🌿
Arabidopsis alone has 130 ABCs, a third of which are ABCGs... 😍
Peng Zhang presenting on the magical amd mysterious world of plant hormone transport

Don‘t mix Jena with Vienna!
Ute @hellmichgroup.bsky.social is revealing the mystery of allosteric nucleotide sensing in ABC transporters at #ABC2025

Investigation of lipid-protein interactions within mechanosensitive ion channels at Aston University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigation of lipid-protein interactions within mechanosensitive ion channels at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 4-year funded PhD opportunity at the Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence, starting in October 2025. The project will focus on studying protein-lipid interactions in mechanosensitive channels📢

📅 Application deadline: 7th April 2025

@astonaime.bsky.social

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a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a hallway with their hands in the air . ALT: a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a hallway with their hands in the air .

Back in Innsbruck, Austria attending @abcmeeting.bsky.social !!!
So excited to catch up with everyone.

The Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) is advertising PhD projects across membrane biochemistry, biophysics, polymer chemistry and biotechnology. Please spread the word. So much exciting research going on here. No better place to be for membrane lovers!

www.aston.ac.uk/graduate-sch...

Another end-of-the-month clean up of Astbury level 6 unearths chemicals older than all of us 😮‍💨

6th UK workshop on membrane proteins, 14-16th April 2025, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. [image of membrane proteins in polymer/lipid discs] Register online: bit.ly/6th-Membrane-Proteins Early bird deadline 14/02/2025

If you're interested in membrane protein research and don't know where to start, or if you want to build your skills and your network, consider our upcoming workshop! We have talks and practical sessions on everything from detergents to solid-state NMR.

Cell-free expression and SMA copolymer encapsulation of a functional receptor tyrosine kinase disease variant, FGFR3-TACC3 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Cell-free expression and SMA copolymer encapsulation of a functional receptor tyrosine kinase disease variant, FGFR3-TACC3

The first of my Masters papers was published last week in Nature Scientific Reports! Thank you to my Masters supervisor and co-first author @snowentific.bsky.social, all coauthors, PI @stemuench.bsky.social , & all my lovely people in the Muench lab &co. Miss you all!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.