Jon Agirre

One of the coolest things going on here is that the GitHub repos contain Jupyter notebooks for you to try their software. In case you don't have Jupyter installed or don't know what it is: you can always upload the notebooks to Google Colab and run everything on their cloud services :)

Great to see this article by @guptapenn.bsky.social is out! Kushol helped us interview @xtalmaker.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social who published an article on careful sample preparation in crystallisation experiments, also part of #SAMPREP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34R...

YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography Structure of Plasmodium vivax N-myristoyltransferase with the NMT inhibitor IMP-1088

I'm incredibly proud to present this @actacrystf.iucr.org interview with Alex Mendez and Cydni Bolling on their first paper ever! The interview was co-led by Dr Graham Chakafana from Hampton University in the USA, who supervised the authors' undergraduate research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjI...

Structure of Plasmodium vivax N-myristoyltransferase with inhibitor IMP-1088: exploring an NMT inhibitor for antimalarial therapy The 1.8 Å resolution ternary structure of P. vivax N-myristoyltransferase in complex with IMP-1088 and myristoyl-CoA is presented. IMP-1088 is an N-myristoyltransferase inhibitor from a family of inhi...

The article we're discussing is "Structure of Plasmodium vivax N-myristoyltransferase with the NMT inhibitor IMP-1088", You can read the paper (🔓<- yes, it's open access!) here: journals.iucr.org/f/issues/202...

YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography Structure of Plasmodium vivax N-myristoyltransferase with the NMT inhibitor IMP-1088

I'm incredibly proud to present this @actacrystf.iucr.org interview with Alex Mendez and Cydni Bolling on their first paper ever! The interview was co-led by Dr Graham Chakafana from Hampton University in the USA, who supervised the authors' undergraduate research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjI...

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Just a few days left to register for the next Diamond/CCP4 Data Collection and Structure Solution Workshop! This is an excellent training course delivered at a unique location and close to the most wonderful time of the year. It also has LOTS of tutors per student! www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/DLS-...

Just a few days left to register for the next Diamond/CCP4 Data Collection and Structure Solution Workshop! This is an excellent training course delivered at a unique location and close to the most wonderful time of the year. It also has LOTS of tutors per student! www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/DLS-...

YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography FabG4 from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis

Indeed, our journal carries these contributions with pride. This might be a good time to revisit our video chat with Xinping, Prashit and Krystle (last year! time flies) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZhv...

Two scientists looking at a computer screen

Excited to share this story on the protein crystallography CURE I developed and have been teaching for the last 3 years!

www.vassar.edu/news/student...

This course is supported by my #CottrellScholars Award from RCSA.

@rescorp.org
@vassar.bsky.social

#grantsinaction #biochemistry

We were pleased to publish some of the results from this course, some in our recent 'Empowering education through structural genomics' focused issue: journals.iucr.org/special_issu...

Happy World Rain Day! It’s raining…

– Cats and dogs (English)
– Old ladies and sticks (Welsh)
– Like a pissing cow (French)
– As from Esteri’s ass (Finnish)
– Penguins headfirst (Uruguayan Spanish)
– Pilot whales (Faroese)
– Chair legs (Greek)
– Wheelbarrows (Czech)
– Men (hallelujah)

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Thanks for sharing — lovely photos.

AI chat bots behaving like science fiction AI chat bots because they were once trained on Asimov

Lost for words 😞

Interviews with Authors - YouTube

Just realised that we've been doing Interviews With Authors on YouTube for a whole year!

I'd really appreciate receiving comments about these, e.g. suggest a structural biologist you would like us to interview

Here's a playlist with all the videos we've done so far: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

ACA2025 attendees wearing cowboy hats in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

ACA2025 attendee wearing cowboy hat in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

ACA2025 attendees wearing cowboy hats in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

ACA2025 attendee wearing cowboy hat in front of a billboard that says "See you in Calgary!"

Giddy up to Calgary! Stop by our #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to gear up for the 2026 Conference to get some Calgary Stampede merch, plan your trip, meet other attendees and more!

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Welcome to the new normal in Erurope

Please use mosquito repellent

Interesting preprint, by the way. I will try to read it next week.

Interviews with Authors - YouTube

Just realised that we've been doing Interviews With Authors on YouTube for a whole year!

I'd really appreciate receiving comments about these, e.g. suggest a structural biologist you would like us to interview

Here's a playlist with all the videos we've done so far: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#glycotime

And here is the interview with Gabby, Vivian and Sarah where they discuss their article and its connection to the ACA SAMPREP workshop! bsky.app/profile/glyc...

Please give the interview a watch! Thumbs-up and comments much appreciated too 😄

Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments All crystal-based structural biology methods, including X-ray crystallography, serial synchrotron and serial femtosecond crystallography, and electron diffraction, require the preparation of biomolecu...

The authors wrote a wonderful review for a dedicated @actacrystf.iucr.org issue that includes contributions from #ACA2023 SAMPREP workshop attendees journals.iucr.org/f/issues/202... – edited by @guptapenn.bsky.social , who also joined us for the interview and asked some great questions.

YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments

As the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...

Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org!

Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff!

Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

🚨We've updated our preprint "Frustration, Dynamics, and Catalysis" ✨ We appreciate RT ☺️

A short 🧵1/8: We expanded the conceptual connection between the energy landscapes theory and catalysis, added new figures, and clarified how local frustration shapes enzyme function.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00600

We’ve got some more ECR interviews coming — watch this space!