Peter Mace

Excellent course content for my scientific writing class!

You do make more sense to me after several sips of beer..... ;)

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
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#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

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I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

Don't get me wrong, it is an excellent department doing diverse research, supportive colleagues, etc etc! But also there is this for the weekends.....

We're hiring! Come join us as a Lecture/Senior Lecturer in the fantastic supportive Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago.

Dunedin is a super-liveable city, which just happens to have some of the best access to nature (and biking) in Aotearoa......

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

Awesome to have such a bunch of legends down under. Thanks @pseudokinase.bsky.social !!

Biochemistry Special Seminar
Wed 27 Aug 1pm Rm BIG13
Distinguished Professor Natarajan Kannan, University of Georgia
Evolution of regulation in signaling systems: From ancient cores to modern complexity

Vinnie Tagliabracci kicking off the final morning of #iubmbkinases, post conference dinner crowd still strong (with coffee....)

Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!

Welcoming Grace Gong back to NZ to kick off afternoon number 3, lipid kinases at #iubmbkinases

Day 3 of #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social and many of us sprung up to take this photo through the conference room window - even during talks. Queenstown turning on a stunner of a day, matched only by some terrific science

Flying start to the #iubmbkinases meeting in beautiful Queenstown, NZ. Jubilee Award from IUBMB to Kevan Shokat yesterday, and a kinase masterclass from Susan Taylor this morning

YouTube video by New Zealand Association of Scientists RSIT in Parliament – Oral Q5 14 Aug 2025

Robust debate in Parliament yesterday, with questions from Scott Willis to Shane Reti MP about cuts, job losses and whether reprioritisation will yield clarity or any benefits. The answers aren't reassuring but it is good to see this getting attention. youtu.be/Vam6UmnvtyY

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

This!
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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/...

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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