@iainwilsonwien.bsky.social
Associate Professor interested in molecular glycobiology, glycomics of lower eukaryotes, glycan arrays, chemical glycobiology, classical music. Viva la libertà!
Using #Caenorhabditis genes to reengineer insect cells to better mimic nematode glycosylation
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ASBMB members are invited to propose mini-symposia for the 2026 @asbmb.bsky.social Annual Meeting — an opportunity to curate compelling scientific conversations, spotlight emerging areas of research and build new collaborations across the molecular life sciences. www.asbmb.org/annual-meeti...
18.07.2025 07:33 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Yes, I believe so … as judged by how some people cite my own papers sometimes, never mind how other people’s papers get cited …
17.07.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My university can take part in the new OeAW call *APART-USA*. The university can therefore appoint *one scholarship holder* as well as nominate *a reserve candidate*. Deadline to send a letter of interest is 5th August! Candidates must be postdocs in the US.
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Tonight‘s Croatian 🇭🇷 craft beer 🍺
Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad
Croatian 🇭🇷 IPA 🍺
Varionica Deep Dive IPA
An example of #badglycans
Yellow glucose!
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Finally, some 10 years after bringing this wild honeysuckle plant in a bucket from Denmark and planting it on my balcony trough, a flower has been produced.
05.07.2025 20:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I have now written to the authors and submitted a biorxiv comment.
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Glycoproteomics of a lobster: My explanation would be that a Man2GlcNAc2Fuc2 is on the Asn, not that there's some adventurous O-glycan.
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Latest nematode glycomic research: Excretory-secretory products of the fish-borne parasite Anisakis simplex L3 larvae possess allergens and unusual N-glycan modifications
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My last opera visit of the season @WrStaatsoper
Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!
Long „Corpus Christi“ weekend in Croatia. I am starting to read Aucoin‘s book about opera.
21.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 34th edition of JGM takes place in Lille, France, co-organized by the French Institute of Structural and Functional Glycobiology (UGSF, University of Lille – CNRS) and the Belgian Center for Medical Biotechnology (University of Gent – VIB). 12-14/10/2025
jointglycomeeting.univ-lille.fr
Fine new recording of Glass‘ Violin Concerto #1
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RSC Carbohydrate Group Winter Meeting 2025
The RSC Carbohydrate Group is organising its annual winter meeting in York this September (22nd – 23rd). This one and half day symposium will showcase the state-of-the-art research in carbohydrate chemistry.
www.rsc.org/events/detai...
With Russia announcing its digital ID law, digital ID under consideration in Austria to implement age-restrictions on social media use plus the Britcard, I guess that by 2030 I’ll no longer post to social media … as I don’t want a digital ID.
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Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of his generation, lauded for his Beethoven sonatas
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Program | SERMACS/SWRM - Chemistry In The Sunshine
October 26-29th in DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld, in Orlando.
Featuring one symposium in the field of Carbohydrate Chemistry:
Glycomaterials for a Sustainable Future
www.sermacs2025.org/program.html
I can only say that crossing the border at Niagara Falls train station 2 weeks ago was stress-free.
16.06.2025 06:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Out of 66 Springer-Nature "Discover" Journals, 25 have *identical* identical* names to existing MDPI journals (Viruses - Viruses); 11 differ by one letter (Food – Foods) and 22 more are pretty similar (Computing – Computers).
That’s 58 copycat journal titles out of 66 for you.
We experienced the end of the world at the Wiener Staatsoper tonight - Wagner‘s Götterdämmerung! Andreas Schager is perhaps almost the best Siegfried I’ve ever heard!
15.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
I guess we need more unusual glycan standards, e.g., with GlcA or PC, to increase coverage of, e.g., insect structures! The 83% for MMF seems high for Sf9-produced Spike, unless the BEI stuff is very different from Novavax.
11.06.2025 21:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Final scientific event of my time in Canada/USA: brief visit and Glycobiology Interest Group seminar at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to Natasha Zachara & Ron Schnaar! Now waiting for Amtrak to Newark airport.
06.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post #ASMS - I wasn’t at the aquarium, but at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert & the world premiere of Composer in Residence James Lee III’s Concerto for Orchestra - a homage to the city!
06.06.2025 02:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My lunchtime stroll through downtown Baltimore!
05.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Curious about unusual N-glycans in insect express systems?
Come to this afternoon‘s #glycotime session at #ASMS2025 - including my own talk on caterpillars and worms!
Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social at #ASMS2025
Varying ETD and EThcD parameters (q and Tau values) for increase O-glycopeptide identifications.
Two #glycotime talks during this afternoon’s informatics session at #ASMS2025 - featuring work from the Mechref and Lebrilla labs. Annotation/quantification, fingerprint fragments, fucose rearrangements in CID, retention time patterns …
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