Ben Schumann

Open Call: Max Planck Director in Biological Artificial Intelligence Expressions of interest or nominations to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence at MPI-CBG.

Here's a job at my institute that just opened up: Max Planck Director in Biological AI. This is an amazing opportunity -
www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Check out our first PhD advert, primarily for enthusiastic students with a chemical/chemoenzymatic synthesis background:

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=12186&lang=en&style=cms2

A special Thank You to @crick.ac.uk and @imperialchemistry.bsky.social, all my friends, mentors, colleagues and collaborators for their amazing support throughout the years - we had (and will continue to have) a lot of fun in London, it is a special place!

A huge Thank You to my amazing lab, everybody has been so supportive.

Dresden is an amazingly collaborative place with a unique, multidisciplinary scientific infrastructure. Our lab will be based in the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, with lots of interactions and collabs.

🥳 Thrilled to share that I am starting a new position as W3 Full Professor of Biochemistry at @tudresden.bsky.social. From Aug 2025, the Chemical Glycobiology Lab will continue our mission to generate Chemical Precision Tools for #glycotime in one the most beautiful places in Germany 😊

🔥 Job alert! We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate in the new Chemical Glycobiology Lab at @tudresden.bsky.social! Master in Chem or similar, experience in organic chem including chemoenzymatic, and most importantly: enthusiasm!

Deadline 8th July:

www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Thank you to our organizers for putting together this program:
@stephanhacker2.bsky.social
Marina Rubini
@borisvauzeilles.bsky.social
@michellefrei17.bsky.social
Hana Macíčková Cahová
@drglycoben.bsky.social
@mlakemeyer.bsky.social
Shixian Lin
@rubenragg.bsky.social
Meghan Lucas
(4/4)

Self-assembled PROTACs enable glycoproteins degradation in the living cells We report here a two-component proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) strategy selectively targeting O-GalNAcylated and O-GlcNAcylated proteins for proteasomal degradation, which leads to severe tox...

Great to see the new concept of protein PTMs functionalization published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! The GlyTACs enable selective degradation of glycoproteins in living cells. Congratulation to Haoyu and Liu. Have a look on the full story here: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #chembio

#chembio, #glycotime and #bioorganic crowd, join us tomorrow online ✨for free✨!!

Great news for @tudresden.bsky.social! 🎉 In addition to Physics of Life, 4 additional Excellence Clusters were funded at the TUD by the DFG @dfg.de. Congratulations to all our friends and colleagues, and especially to the Speakers of the Clusters and the TUD rector!

Read more: tud.link/cfwd9z

Registration link: www.esboc.org.uk?p=1235

The awesome lineup on 28th May 2025 UK time:

9.30 – 10:00 Craig Markin (Manchester)
10:00 – 10.30 Yi Jin (Manchester)
10.30 – 11:00 Barbara Imperiali (MIT)
11:00 – 11.30 Roman Dembinski (Oakland University)
11.30 – 12:00 Stephen Cochrane (Queen’s University Belfast)

🔥 Exciting online, free #chembio event on 28th May!!

Please join us online for the hybrid ESBOC Satellite meeting! Setup as a teaser to allow for accessibility and see some of the speakers that will attend ESBOC in Gregynog/Wales. To attend, please register by sending an email: lnkd.in/e-U7C6Jb

It's a big #glycotime family!

It doesn't happen very often that you receive an award on the same day as your mentor. Congratulations to Peter Seeberger on winning the @rsc.org Khorana Award #glycotime! And I am very thankful to the amazing lab members, colleagues and mentors that led to winning the Norman Heatley Award!

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Schumann lab poster award winners

We had a blast at yesterday's @rsc.org Chemical Biology Symposium. Congratulations to Teresa and Freya who were awarded a prestigious poster prize!

Nice one - congrats @nmriley.bsky.social! Well deserved for #glycotime!

We are happy to announce the new team that will organize the Virtual ChemBioTalks from this edition onwards
Marina Rubini
@mlakemeyer.bsky.social
@michellefrei17.bsky.social
Hana Macíčková Cahová
@drglycoben.bsky.social
@borisvauzeilles.bsky.social
@stephanhacker2.bsky.social
(1/4)
#ChemBio #ChemSky

Join us for the #GBMLunch Lunch on April 9 (12.30 PM)
Speaker: Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
Title: Chemical Precision Tools to Dissect Protein Glycosylation
Chair: Oliver Thorn-Seshold @oliverthornseshold.bsky.social (Technische Universität Dresden)

I did not review it (and can't see peer review file), so are you suggesting that reviewers were not thorough enough? Which is possible but I am not sure about given the scale of the work/journal. What remains is to be critical (as always) and let the scientific process go its way, right?

I am not defending (non-)existence of glycoRNAs either way. Peer review should screen for comprehensive evidence of claims. With new data, claims may be revised. Mechanism is important but often not possible in a given time/budget. Does that mean that original paper should not have been published?

Super proud of the lab representation at the Glycobiology GRS. Check out the work by @sandhyasridhar.bsky.social, @hc3009.bsky.social and @sophiedschmidt.bsky.social at the GRC! #glycotime

🤷‍♂️ scientific discourse. It also appears to be the case that neither lab used (or tried) the exact same procedure. We'll see what happens.

Again, lots of valid questions. Not sure I fully support the notion that we can't publish findings until every possible question is resolved - there's too much of that sort of gatekeeping already in the peer review process. I'd just go by the evidence.

...to me, as important as the discussion above is the move away from classical dogmas involving subcellular topology. E.g. why is there RNase-sensitive material on the cell surface? People find weird aspects about the sec pathway while looking for and characterizing glycoRNA, which is super cool.2/2

My 2 cents about this: Big discoveries are subject to scrutiny, as they should be. Some evidence is hard to reconcile without the presence of glycoRNA, and there will be questions on its identity which we know @raflynn5.bsky.social is addressing... 1/2

ESBOC will be epic, just saying: www.esboc.org.uk #chembio

✨​ Final Call for Oral Communication at ESBOC! ✨​ Europe pioneering conference in #BioorganicChemistry & #ChemBio, since 1967! 🎉​ Stunning Gregynog, 🏰​
Check out our brilliant lineup of speakers! 🤩🤩
🔗​ Register: esboc.org.uk/?p=1208
We can't wait to see you there🤩

Super cool, like the use of diazirines to fix the lipids in place! Also some #glycotime inside the #lipidtime!

As someone who has been using "BenS" as my initials on samples forever, I just feel for all the pens/markers that I wasted just because I did not want to leave any doubt about the quality of said samples...