Peter Mace

The NZSBMB are committed to our meeting as a community event with ample opportunity for ECRs to present, travel awards, education focussed talks, and plenty of chances to connect.
@otagobiochemist.bsky.social @pletzerlab.bsky.social

Four weeks left for abstract submission and early-bird registration for the NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting!! Adele Williamson and William Kelton are putting together an amazing program including outstanding plenary speakers!

www.nzsbmb.org/conference-2025-rotorua

FEBS Press A plant homeodomain (PHD) at the C terminus of additional sex combs-like (ASXL) proteins is recurrently truncated in disease. In the current study, the ASXL PHD was shown not to bind histone modifica...

Excited to see this work led by Cameron Reddington and Annabel Walsh out in @febsj.bsky.social — ASXL proteins share a PHD domain that is not a PHD domain, evolved to bind an MBD domain that is not an MBD domain!

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Horizon Europe delivers €11 GDP return for every €1 invested Learn how Horizon Europe is driving innovation and growth across the EU, with up to €11 in GDP returns and sixfold societal benefits by 2045.

For every €1 invested in Horizon Europe programme, Europe is expected to get as much as €11 in GDP return

Source: www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/horizon-euro...

Congratulations from Dunedin Thornton! Tagging @adamjmm.bsky.social

We can accept registrations until July 25th, but space is filling up! @iubmb.bsky.social @iubmbtrainee.bsky.social @pseudokinase.bsky.social

A pseudokinase emerging from Lake Wakatipu at night

A fantastic oral program is now in place, but you can still register and submit an abstract for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on (Pseudo)kinases in signal transduction! Outstanding setting, with ample chances to exchange ideas with the top kinase minds in the world!

www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

We realise NZ is in the future, relative to many of you, so will consider any abstracts submitted by June 20 locally, wherever you are in the world! @pseudokinase.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social

It's June 20 in New Zealand, which means it's the last day to have your abstract considered for oral presentations at the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on kinases and pseudokinases!

Check out the view today from the venue—scoping for the IUBMB Focussed meeting on (pseudo)kinases! Abstracts and early bird registrations closes this week!

www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

@pseudokinase.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social

Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

@iubmb.bsky.social @iubmbtrainee.bsky.social

Only one week left to submit your abstract and register at early bird rates for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting - (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction. Sign up and register by June 20!! Join @pseudokinase.bsky.social Natalia Jura, and a who's who of kinase research!

www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

The 13th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society will be held in Búsios, Brazil Oct 26-30, 2025. Training workshops will be held at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Oct 23-23. Register now! Links below.

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@iubmbtrainee.bsky.social Submit your abstract ASAP. Really looking forward to hosting the an outstanding lineup of speakers in NZ, chairing with @pseudokinase.bsky.social and Natalia Jura....Is Natalia on bluesky on James....?

With less than a month to submit abstracts for the
@iubmb.bsky.social Focussed Meeting on (pseudo)Kinases in stunning Queenstown, we are delighted to announce travel scholarships for selected ECRs thanks to @biologists.bsky.social and the Maurice and Phyllis Trust! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

Why Bell Labs Worked. Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs

In an age of triumphant managerialism, we must remember that giving researchers support, autonomy, and freedom results in miraculous things. Another point is that the government required AT&T to invest in basic research to avoid being treated as a monopoly. 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-l...

Prime Minister’s prizes awarded to two Otago academics Work on managing anxiety and managing viruses has resulted in two Otago academics receiving Prime Minister’s Science Prizes.

Two Otago academics, Dr Olivia Harrison and Professor Jemma Geoghegan, have been awarded Prime Minister's Science Prizes for their outstanding work on managing viruses and managing anxiety. Ngā mihi nui! 👏

Read more here:

Congratulations to Professor Kevan Shokat from the University of California, San Francisco, 🇺🇸, recipient of the IUBMB Jubilee Award Lecture. His award lecture will be presented at the IUBMB Focused meeting on "The Emerging roles of (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction".

@asbmb.bsky.social

For the first time in history, we can proudly show you a DOUBLE German bollarding. This has NEVER been seen before so congratulations to us.
#WorldBollardAssociation

📢Searching for REVIEWS EDITORS for IUBMB Life, BioFactors, and Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry.

‼️Apply by May 31, 2025

📢Searching for IUBMB Publications Committee members

‼️Apply by May 31, 2025

By combining high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning, bespoke SpCas9 enzymes are identified that outperform evolution-based and engineered nucleases and base editors in human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBTHighlight

We are recruiting 🤩🤩🤩!!! If you are looking to establish ylur lab in a multidisciplinary institute with state-of-the-art facilities, horizontal structure and diverse faculty, apply!!!

How does fried and fast food sneak into the positives but fish and seafood is red? Guess you best be frying your fish?

Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions Schmid and Walter train a classifier that discerns functionally relevant structure predictions in proteome-wide protein-protein interaction (PPI) screens using AlphaFold-Multimer, and they use this confidence metric to curate a database of 40,000 predicted interactions among ∼300 genome maintenance proteins.

Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions

I’ve just updated the BioEmu notebook to include the powerful LogMD. Now, you can generate equilibrium ensembles and explore the full ensemble directly in the notebook.

A huge thanks to Alexander Mathiasen for the support! 🙌

🔗 Try it on Google Colab: lnkd.in/gcuqd-fT

Associate Research Fellow - SEEK Seeking an Associate Research Fellow to provide expert advice and support to UOW members of the ARC Training Centre for Cryo-EM of Membrane Proteins.

Uni of Wollongong Cryo EM job closes on Sunday people! @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social might be able to answer questions? 🧬🧶

Exciting news from the lab out today in Science - the structure of human PINK1 on a TOM-VDAC complex!
@wehi-research.bsky.social

In this time of chaos - something good! We are excited to share our final (or near final) speaker list for the 3rd UCSF Full Circle Symposium 4/3-4/4 to highlight Native biologists! Please share the word and register to attend the webinar in person! More info: qbi.ucsf.edu/full-circle-...