Ronnie Berntsson

Skrattade högt.

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.

For more details and to apply please see

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.

Researchers' card game teaches children about microorganisms Hope to spark curiosity about life beneath the water’s surface – with playful game cards.

This is really cool! If you want to get a card game that explains microorganisms - now's your chance!

www.umu.se/en/news/rese...

Seems like a very handy tool!

PDB101: Global Health: Antimicrobial Resistance: About: Bacteria and Antibiotics PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

Visit PDB-101 to learn more about Antimicrobial Resistance

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ok, då köper jag det! 😀

Det låter ju iofs väldigt gott, men att kvalificera som middag är väl att ta i lite.. 😂

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?

Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Interesting that they could put a number on it. And yes, that's a reindeer seeking shade behind a concrete wall. Not their usual place to hang out...

Cryo-EM ligand building using AlphaFold3-like model and molecular dynamics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40788932/ #cryoEM

I've only had 8 molecules (of a 67 kDa protein) in the ASU as the maximum. However, are you sure that you have so many molecules? About 5 years ago we solved a structure that had 81% solvent content...

graphical abstract of the article the extended mobility of plasmids

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.

Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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😳😱 not a smart move…🧬🧶

I'm today starting as pro-dean at the medical faculty at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Looking forward to exciting years ahead, together with the new dean Katrine Riklund and the others in the faculty leadership!

Finally! ERC is reducing the length of part II of their application form.

'The length of this section is now limited to seven pages for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grant applications and ten pages for Synergy Grant applications'

Vad i hela friden är en ”puck” med ost? Brännvin på eftermiddagen är däremot underskattat 🙂

Åtta nya toppforskare till Sveriges unga akademi - Sveriges Unga Akademi Den 23 maj tar Sveriges unga akademi emot åtta nya ledamöter – framstående yngre forskare från fält som datadriven biovetenskap, historia och hållbarhetsvetenskap. Med sina olika perspektiv stärker de...

Alltid lika spännande att se vilka som blir nya ledamöter i @sverigesungaakademi.se! Är lite extra glad över att se att vi får en ny lokal ledamot, då @laurabacete.bsky.social från Umeå @umeaplantsciencecentre.se / @umeauniversitet.bsky.social är invald 🙂

sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddela...

Grattis!

Bra tråd om man är intresserad av skog!

will it be live streamed? 😀

"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

What can one say..

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Might know some that are looking. Would you mind sending over a CV?

Only 5 more days left to apply. Take the chance and join us trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, in beautiful Umeå, Sweden. We are extremely well equipped, and are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! 😀

This is cool stuff, will be interesting to try out!

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.

Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...