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Sample Preparation & Characterisation Facility at EMBL Hamburg: Integrative Structural Biology, Microbiology & Biotechnology.

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Exciting to be with part of my group at the 15th European Biophysics Congress (EBSA) in beautiful Rome, Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

If you are around, join my talk today about tools for the analysis of biophysical data ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿงฉ

Check our posters for open discussion and networking !๐Ÿ“ƒ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ

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01.07.2025 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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KinGenie, an online tool for the analysis of kinetics data, has been introduced on the 4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference in Paris, France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

A great addition to our eSPC web server๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿš€

Reach out to us for further input!

@osvalb.bsky.social
@mosbri.bsky.social
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11.06.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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4th MOSBRI Scientific Conference starts today ๐Ÿ“in beautiful Paris, France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

Excited to see familiar and new faces from our TNA site, network and continue collaborating on research infrastructures projects in molecular biophysics ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿงซ ๐Ÿค

@mosbri.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

10.06.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy to co-host a workshop on lipid nanoparticles together with @embl.org Hamburg this week. The workshop is a part of the @eugloh.bsky.social โ€˜Entrepreneurship meets Health Innovation at Large-Scale Facilitiesโ€™ conference.

@landaulabcssb.bsky.social @spcembl.bsky.social

06.06.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Our latest research is out ๐Ÿ“„ !

This study provides an interaction map of Sla2 & the regulatory proteins Sla1 & Pan1, predicted by AI modeling & confirmed by molecular biophysics.

@lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @meytallandau.bsky.social
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12.05.2025 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChiraKit: an online tool for the analysis of circular dichroism spectroscopy data Abstract. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is an established biophysical technique to study chiral molecules. CD allows investigating conformational ch

Now publication NAR is online:

doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

28.04.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This project was conceived as a collaboration in the frame of MOSBRI @mosbri.bsky.social

28.04.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ”Š Thrilled to share our latest work, just published in NAR! ๐Ÿ“ƒ

We present ChiraKit, open-source tool to process raw CD data and perform advanced analysis!

Access via our eSPC web-server!

โžก๏ธ spc.embl-hamburg.de
@osvalb.bsky.social @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

28.04.2025 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Tanks for the nice feedback! Peer-reviewed publication coming soon ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘

24.04.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChiraKit, an online tool for the analysis of circular dichroism spectroscopy data Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is an established biophysical technique to study chiral molecules. CD allows investigating conformational changes under varying experimental conditions and has bee...

Just want to say thanks to @spcembl.bsky.social for developing ChiraKit and allowing quick and informative analysis of CD data - more here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
best news of the day today as we were stuck with beautiful but hard to analyze data ๐Ÿ™‚ #scienceisawesome

24.04.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We're hosting an Ask Me Anything about Biophysics on Bluesky today with BPS Ambassador Alumnus Gonzalo de Prat Gay! Tweet your questions with #BiophysicsAMA and tune in at 11am USA Eastern time.

28.03.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

๐ŸšจThe registration for the Functional #Amyloid Meeting is finally open, check it out on landau-cssb.de

๐Ÿงช๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿงถ

26.03.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to George who had his PhD defense today! ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰ @uni-hamburg.de @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

21.03.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Happy International Women's Day! #IWD2025

We encourage everyone to #AccelerateAction and support #DEI.

@carobarisch.bsky.social @landaulabcssb.bsky.social @topf-lab.bsky.social @mariarosenthal.bsky.social @bosse-lab.bsky.social @jankosinski.bsky.social

07.03.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ New preprint alert ๐Ÿšจ!

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ @fedevignale.bsky.social

๐Ÿ”๏ธ Our latest study explores seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef at Laguna Pozo Bravo ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท - a site with conditions reminiscent of early Earth ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿฆ 

๐Ÿ“– Read here : doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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24.02.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If youโ€™re attending the BPS 2025, donโ€™t miss the poster of our ARISE fellow @osvalb.bsky.social

Heโ€™s presenting eSPC, online data analysis platform on biophysics ! ๐Ÿ”Ž

Date : 18/02/25
Time : 13:45
Session: โ€œProtein stability folding & chaperonesโ€
Poster : B38

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

17.02.2025 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to making new connections at #BPS2025๐Ÿ‘จ Meet me at poster B38 on Tuesday 18 Feb 13:45. Session "protein stability folding and chaperones"

14.02.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Today,on #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate the contributions of women in structural biology & biophysics!

As an international team of women scientists ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ช , weโ€™re proud to push the boundaries of discovery ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿฆ 

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceForAll

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11.02.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Emil! We did reply to him. Yes, we have a Chirascan CD from AP. Good call ! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ

07.02.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dear Edwin, we have a Chirascan CD instrument from Applied Photophysics. Our instrument doesnโ€™t do that at all. It works perfectly. The best approach will be contacting customer service. They are fantastic either via email or phone either with or without a service contract in place ! Good luck! ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ‘

07.02.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A cup of yerba mate on a wooden surface and some dried yerba mate next to it.

A cup of yerba mate on a wooden surface and some dried yerba mate next to it.

Scientists at University of Buenos Aires, EMBL Hamburg, and others mapped yerba mateโ€™s genome, providing surprising facts about its biochemistry and evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. ๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿงช

Find out more: www.embl.org/news/science...

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03.02.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Exciting work on the Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome providing new insights into convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿง‰

Amazing work from our postdoc Federico Vignale and our STO @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

๐Ÿ”— elifesciences.org/articles/104759

03.02.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After many months of gathering user feedback and improving our software, we think it's time to share it with the community. Enjoy our latest tool ๐Ÿฅณ , and stay tuned for the next one ๐Ÿ˜‰

31.01.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ”Š Our latest biophysical tool for circular dichroism analysis, ChiraKit, is out ๐Ÿ”

To read more about it, visit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ChiraKit can be accessed at spc.embl-hamburg.de

@osvalb.bsky.social @lucasdefelipe.bsky.social @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social
@mosbri.bsky.social

31.01.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A person holding a traditional preparation of mate with crushed dried yerba mate leaves steeping in hot water in a cup made of a gourd and a specialised metal straw

A person holding a traditional preparation of mate with crushed dried yerba mate leaves steeping in hot water in a cup made of a gourd and a specialised metal straw

Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but itโ€™s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82

23.01.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Congratulations to the Sondermann Group and our core facility user, Sophia Mortensen, and collaborators.

Amazing work on the discovery and characterization of this new family of bacterial enzymes named as diDNases.

@embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

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10.01.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme โ€“ Postdoctoral Programme

๐Ÿ“ฃWe are looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral candidate to work on an interdisciplinary project on biophysics of extremophiles!

๐ŸคA collaboration with Donato Giovannelli @donatogiovannelli.bsky.social and Vikas Trivedi @viktri08.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“ฉContact: Maria.Garcia@embl-hamburg.de

07.01.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, fungi, and cancer

Donโ€™t forget to register for the new @embl.org /@EMBO symposium on Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, fungi, and cancer!
Abstract submission: 12 Jan 2025
Registration (On-site): 4 Feb 2025
Date: 18 - 21 Mar 2025
Location: EMBL Heidelberg
www.embl.org/about/info/c...

23.12.2024 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy holidays! Best wishes from the SPC Facility & EMBL HH @embl.org @cssbhamburg.bsky.social

23.12.2024 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What about joining us for an interdisciplinary postdoc between Hamburg,Naples&Barcelona working on the biochemistry and biophysics of extremophiles?!

20.12.2024 10:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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