@gavirius.bsky.social
Biochemist. Protein crystals grower and structural biologist. Head of LEC, IACT (CSIC). All views my own.
Lonsdale's notebooks, showing incredibly neat and consistent handwriting
Lonsdale's notebooks, showing incredibly neat and consistent handwriting
We couldn't let World Handwriting Day go by without sharing Kathleen Lonsdale's penmanship ✍️
Lonsdale conducted pioneering research in X-ray crystallography and worked at the Ri. In 1929, she proved that the structure of benzene was flat—the chemical was also discovered here, by Michael Faraday.
Registration for the 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) is now open! Topics: single crystal XRD, powder XRD and 3D electron diffraction. Details can be found at ecs11.org and registration at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... We hope to see you in Stockholm!
01.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#11F Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia!!! 🧬🔬💎
12.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We continue to explore how to use cross-linked enzyme crystals (CLECs). We hope you like it. An enzymatic microfluidic sensor for β-lactam antibiotics based on cross-linked ancestral β-lactamase crystals - now published in Nanoscale Advances. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
@iactcsic.bsky.social
📣El GE3C anuncia el lanzamiento del MOOC “Cristalografía y Cristalización”, un curso online, abierto y gratuito. El curso está disponible todo el año en la plataforma OpenUAH, con inscripción abierta en cualquier momento!
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📣El #GE3C concede el II Premio Catalina Ruiz Pérez 🏅 a Luis León Alcaide por su tesis: “Beyond Crystallinity in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks” dirigida por el Dr. Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas y realizada en el
@icmoluv.bsky.social.
Are you looking for your next role in structural biology?
Take a look at vacant positions through Instruct-ERIC, including the Team leader position at the cryo-EM facility of the Ernst Ruska-Centre at @fz-juelich.de!
Find out more and apply here - instruct-eric.org/jobs/team-le...
🚀 Introducing PDBe-KB Complexes — a new PDBe-KB resource for exploring macromolecular complexes across the PDB.
🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb...
📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568...
#PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology
📣 The #GE3C has awarded the Gold Medal 🎖️, its highest distinction, to Professor Santiago García Granda, from the University of Oviedo and President of the IUCr, in recognition of his extensive and outstanding 🔝 scientific career in the field of crystallography 💎.
22.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Spanish delegation at #ECM35 in Poznan!!!
#ECA
In the afternoon happy to Chair Simona Fermani´ Keynote lecture on the CB cycle regulation.Example of SAX-Mx-CryoEM use to answer biological questions. #ECM35
27.08.2025 05:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday we Chair a great morning session on Nucleation at #ECM35. We thank the speakers and the audience for such a nice environment.
27.08.2025 05:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry, it is in Spanish..
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Me preguntan por la financiación de distintas áreas. Son muchas...
Aquí pongo de ejemplo una humanidades (Historia), una de ciencias "básicas" (Química) y una de biomedicina (Cáncer). La financiación media varía mucho, claro, pero el raquitismo relativo se mantiene... 😕
Special thanks to our collaborators @jouline.bsky.social & @gavirius.bsky.social
16.07.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The fourth talk of the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by @cathleenzeymer.bsky.social. She will talk about her group’s exciting research under the title “Design and directed evolution of artificial photoenzymes”.
Make sure to register for free: https://cvent.me/G1geWW
A unique honor to become a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety.org, together with my @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social colleague Stuart Russell and old friends like John Briggs, Asia Akhtar, Patrick Cramer or Ruth Lehmann. Learning about great science and science history was a real treat.
19.07.2025 15:54 — 👍 45 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0This is some really cool natural history, but I don’t like the spin that Science is putting on it. I don’t see any reason to think it’s evolving into a virus and the one outside researcher that they spoke to was dubious as well.
30.06.2025 03:49 — 👍 159 🔁 14 💬 8 📌 0I am really happy to share with you our latest publication on turning the inhibiting nucleation effect of silica gel on protein crystallization by increasing the hydrophobicity through controlled functional modification. #chembio, #ge3c-rseqf
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Every chart in this paper is like
01.06.2025 09:42 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A global alternative to PubMed 🧪 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
31.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 55 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 3
The final of the Crystallization Contest in the School was celebrated today in Granada at IACT.
23.05.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI: New Online! Molecular machineries shaping the mitochondrial inner membrane
17.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The structure of the human sweet receptor bound to artificial sweeteners reveals the structural basis for sweet detection, shedding light at how one single receptor mediates responses to a range of sweet-tasting compounds. ow.ly/M39P50VPqfT @fitzpatricklab.bsky.social 🧪
14.05.2025 19:02 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo
13.05.2025 19:24 — 👍 1799 🔁 737 💬 106 📌 458
The 12th Edition of the Macromolecular Crystallography & Cryo-EM School is running!!!!
@ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social
20.04.2025 00:24 — 👍 221 🔁 71 💬 1 📌 1
Don't miss this great overview on the current and future perspectives for structural biology at the EPN-Grenoble.
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