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Brandán Pedre

@brandanium.bsky.social

I make fluorescent indicators that monitor metabolites and signaling molecules in the cell. Now @KULeuven, previously in @DKFZ and @VIBLifeSciences.

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Combining FRET and super-resolution microscopy reveals kinase activation and mitochondrial activity at the nanoscale Protein kinases are key regulators of intracellular signaling, showing activities in specific subcellular compartments and in micro- or nano-domains. Genetically encoded biosensors based on Förster′s ...

Excited to share our #BioSenSRRF preprint on bioRxiv! 🎉
We show how SRRF microscopy can be used with FRET-based biosensors to 🔬mitochondrial functions with high resolution 😍.
Code and test data are open (GitHub + Zenodo).
👏 to Nicolas, Pierre-Jean, and co-authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Just wrapped up a fantastic week at the EMBO Workshop on Thiol-Based Redox Switches. Great science, great discussions, and a truly inspiring community. Huge thanks to the organizers @danareichmann.bsky.social and Tobias Dansen for their hard work in putting together such a memorable meeting!

22.09.2025 19:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thiol-based redox switches: From chemistry to physiology and pathology Redox reactions have been essential for the emergence of life on Earth, and diverse strategies have evolved for responding to various cellular redox species. These mechanisms are still of vital impor…

The @EMBO workshop #EMBOthiolSwitches is coming up soon, join us in beautiful Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, 13–18 September 2025!
We have a fantastic speaker lineup, with a few spots still open for short talks. Abstract deadline extended to 31 May 2025.

meetings.embo.org/event/25-thi...

19.05.2025 06:45 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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The Barrier Properties of Biological Membranes Dictate How Cells Experience Oxidative Stress Molecular oxygen diffuses across membranes with such speed that, despite respiration, the intracellular oxygen concentration does not differ significantly from that outside the cell. In contrast, mem...

James Imlay turns redox chaos into clockwork: his new paper shows how membrane permeability sets the tempo of oxidative stress, with straight-up back-of-the-envelope math in the appendix. Fundamental, elegant, causal.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

23.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Just dropped in @naturecomms.bsky.social

We’ve engineered the most photostable yellow fluorescent proteins (YFPs) to date—mGold2s and mGold2t—with up to 25× greater photostability than mVenus and mCitrine, without compromising brightness.

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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.04.2025 20:59 — 👍 47    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
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A palette of bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins for bacterial time-lapse imaging Bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins enable long-term time-lapse imaging in E. coli.

A palette of bright and photostable monomeric fluorescent proteins for bacterial time-lapse imaging | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

18.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

...and the reflection of the capricious citation culture:
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

18.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

touché.

academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

24.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 7

A long but fruitful journey: from a roGFP2-based drug screen to reaching protein targets of the proton pump inhibitor rabeprazole. Congratulations to all the authors! @aubrykmiller.bsky.social

25.02.2025 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dual-expression system for blue fluorescent protein optimization - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Dual-expression system for blue fluorescent protein optimization

We are very excited to see the first orange flame lit up for our plasmid pHybrid-Electra2 on Addgene, which is designed for gene expression in E. coli and mammalian cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

18.02.2025 05:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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First Bluesky post! 👋 I work designing fluorescent indicators for redox biology. Last year, I published a review on genetically-encoded redox biosensors—DM me if you’d like a copy! Happy to connect with fluorescence enthusiasts and redox biologists. #FluorescenceFriday

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31.01.2025 08:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Antonio Martínez Ruiz in Madrid

Postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Antonio Martínez Ruiz in Madrid

Do you want to work as a #postdoc in our group in a Hospital Research Institute in Madrid?🏥🔬

Interested in how #mitochondria and #redox signalling/stress can influence #stroke outcome and #inflammation?🧠💊

Apply up to 26 December at n9.cl/iunkw (ref 72/2024)
Full call n9.cl/gijjd

Please repost 😉

16.12.2024 10:23 — 👍 12    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you very much for your initiative @tonnomartinez.bsky.social !

25.11.2024 09:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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