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The next Protein Structure Evolution Seminar will be given by Stephen Fried (JHU):

Title: “Who Cares About Protein Refolding Anyway?: Why Some Microbes Do and Others Don’t”
Date: October 14th, 5 pm CET
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

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Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration

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Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record Abstract. Protein folds are structural units defined by the number, type, arrangement, and orientation of their core secondary structural elements. The uni

Happy to share Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record 🧪
It appears as part of a Special Section in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social organized by @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social and J. Douglas

doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space".
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

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Shout-out to @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @lacholt.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social, @romeritos.bsky.social and @hassanzaman.bsky.social

The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space".
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

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🧪 #mevosky

Puente-Lelievre et al. have systematically reviewed how protein structures can be used to trace evolutionary histories. This rapidly advancing field has not yet caught up with the burgeoning databases of high quality protein structure predictions provided by AlphaFold and other tools.

In a new GBE Review, @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social & J. Douglas give an overview on protein structural phylogenetics, how to obtain evolutionary insights from structural data, and key applications and future directions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf139

#genome #evolution

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Thrilled to see this out! Thank you for the shout out @chercheurjuteux.com!

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#AlphaFold protein and PPI prediction databases

1️⃣ Predictomes (genome maintenance & H2A/H2b) predictomes.org

2️⃣ Flypredictome www.flyrnai.org/tools/fly_pr...

3️⃣ Human interactome prodata.swmed.edu/humanPPI

4️⃣ BFVD (viral proteins) bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev

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Global inhibition of deadenylation stabilizes the transcriptome in mitotic cells In the presence of cell division errors, mammalian cells can pause in mitosis for tens of hours with little to no transcription, while still requiring continued translation for viability. These unique...

New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉

Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025)

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We are looking forward to seeing you!

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📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky

Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out.

MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social
GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Join us for the next ProSE Seminar!
We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients"
Date: June 10
Time: 4PM CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
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Join us for the next ProSE Seminar!
We are excited to welcome Sophie Heiding for a talk on "Computational Insights into Protein Adaptation Across Environmental Gradients"
Date: June 10
Time: 4PM CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share!
🧪 #MEvoSky

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Happy International Museum Day!

Museums are essential repositories of specimens and information for biodiversity research. GBE has published much research in genomics and evolution that benefited from this crucial function of museums.

See below ⬇️ and continue supporting museum research

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A snapshot of the HLp tetramer (purple) wrapping ~60 bp of DNA (green).

Excited to share our new preprint on HLp—a bacterial histone from Leptospira perolatii that forms stable tetramers and wraps ~60 bp of DNA: "DNA Wrapping by a Tetrameric Bacterial Histone" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA"
May 13, 4PM CET
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4
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Design of overlapping genes using deep generative models of protein sequences In nature, viruses frequently evolve overlapping genes (OLG) in alternate reading frames of the same nucleotide sequence despite the drastically reduced protein sequence space resulting from the shari...

Very interesting new study from authors including Nobel Prize winner David Baker.

I'm glad that it cites one of my related papers 😀

I've faced plenty of skepticism from editors & others about the importance of this line of research, perhaps this will shift ...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA"
May 13, 4PM CET
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4
Please share!

Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be jailed for life under new law in England and Wales Reckless cycling is currently prosecuted under legislation from the 1860s, with a maximum two-year jail sentence

Labour continues the stupid culture war politics of the previous govt. 😡 Cyclists killing pedestrians is super rare. There are so many more useful things the govt could spend their time on legislating, e.g making streets safer for cyclists.

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Dates are now confirmed for the 2025 SMBE Satellite Meeting in Chile: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution. Join us in Puerto Varas for the latest advances in evolutionary biology.

Check more details: smbechile2025.cl

📅: 6 – 8 th October 2025
📝 Deadline: July 31

Structurally heterogeneous ribosomes cooperate in protein synthesis in bacterial cells - Nature Communications Cells can simultaneously produce structurally dissimilar ribosomes, suggesting functional specialization of distinct ribosome populations. Here, the authors show that distinct ribosomes cooperate rath...

Here we unexpectedly find that the ribosomal protein S20/L26—identified at the dawn of ribosome research but later deemed a biochemical artifact—is indeed a genuine component of the large ribosomal subunit. More on this ribosome content variation is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻Hello world! We are 3D-SIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, track of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) @iscb.bsky.social 🙌

The session has ended! We’ll share recordings of all the talks as soon as we’ve finalized the best way to do so. Stay tuned!

Tomorrow’s ProSE Seminar features Dr. Devlina Chakravarty (@devlinac.bsky.social) presenting “Mutations Switch Folds in Proteins”.
Don't miss out!
April 8, 3PM GMT
Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar3
🧪 #MEvoSky

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