Happy to share the latest from the lab, led by Daniel Alvarez, in collaboration with @lizconibear.bsky.social. In this AA-MD tour-de-force, we delve deep into the mechanism and energetics of lipid uptake by bridge-like lipid transfer proteins, and we learn a few interesting things along the way...
07.08.2025 08:45 — 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Given that OMB is part of the Executive Office of the President, this should read
"after intervention by OTHER top White House Officials."
30.07.2025 11:36 — 👍 115 🔁 36 💬 12 📌 1
2/n
30.07.2025 02:06 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
/fin
30.07.2025 02:06 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
BPS2026 Travel Awards | Biophysical Society
Did you know about the BPS Bridging Funds Program?
If you're a biophysicist navigating a difficult time, this program is for you to defray costs for attending the BPS Annual Meeting!
I am grateful to the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for supporting our members!
www.biophysics.org/2026meeting/...
25.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.
“Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
25.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short
Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.
NEW from me at STAT:
We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.
More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...
🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
21.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 101 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 7
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
08.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 40529 🔁 11351 💬 1091 📌 861
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
23.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 364 🔁 449 💬 18 📌 59
🚨. I've been mostly off social media for a bit (mental health) but this is very important!!!!!
Please comment and circulate to everyone you know for comments!!!
23.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Reminiscing about our Airborne Institute event last week. Having @carlzimmer.com attend & sign his book Air-borne made the day beyond extra special at UC San Diego. We are ready to take on airborne disease and push beyond the place the world has been stuck for 200+ years! @rommieamaro.bsky.social
21.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Infographic on the chemistry of beer. The top of the graphic identifies the major stages of beer brewing: milling, mashing, brewing, cooling, fermenting, and maturing. The rest of the graphic identifies four key components of beer flavour: alpha acids, beta acids, essential oils and esters. Alpha acids degrade during brewing and form iso-alpha acids, which contribute bitterness. Humulone is the main alpha acid in the majority of hops. Beta acids also originate from hops and add a harsher bitterness than alpha acids. Essential oils contribute the majority of hop flavour and aroma, and there are over 250 found in hops. Esters form during the reaction of alcohol with organic acids, and give fruity flavours.
It's #NationalBeerDay 🍻
Enjoy some of the chemistry behind the brewing while you watch the markets slide 📉
www.compoundchem.com/2014/07/10/b...
#ChemSky 🧪
07.04.2025 14:23 — 👍 73 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 3
The Continuing Crisis, Part XI: Feral Children, Breaking Things
More updates on what’s happening to federally funded US science. Roughly the same magic touch Trump has brought to world trade, actually.
Today’s examples are on drug-resistant gonorrhea and vaccine approvals, both of which are going to hell.
07.04.2025 17:42 — 👍 69 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 2
San Diego to take a $40 million hit in federal funding for public health
Ninety-one grant-funded positions could be affected by cancellation of grants.
Just as our new Public Health Lab - which was built on key lessons learned during COVID - was set to open, the necessary funding for its operation was just pulled by DOGE/HHS.
That operation, critical to safety and public health in San Diego.
Gone.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/04/s...
06.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 268 🔁 139 💬 14 📌 10
We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇.
That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.
07.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 579 🔁 393 💬 17 📌 25
This is particularly awful
The F awards are US biomedical workforce training awards
Their agenda to destroy the future of biomedical science on full display here
29.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Ufffff!!!!!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
29.03.2025 12:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google Colab
Run BioEmu in Colab - just click "Runtime → Run all"! Our notebook uses ColabFold to generate MSAs, BioEmu to predict trajectories, and Foldseek to cluster conformations.
Thanks @jjimenezluna.bsky.social for the help!
🌐 colab.research.google.com/github/sokry...
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
29.03.2025 09:50 — 👍 102 🔁 42 💬 1 📌 2
Trump travel ban: California colleges urge international students to rethink travel plans
At least one university said it doesn't recommend international travel as a possible travel ban that could impact more than 40 countries looms.
Wow. California State University, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego and U of SF are ALL urging foreign-born students, faculty and staff to reconsider international travel because there's no telling whether the Trump administration will allow them to re-enter.
www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...
29.03.2025 01:25 — 👍 442 🔁 184 💬 14 📌 17
Turns out a colander works pretty well for eclipse spotting.
#SolarEclipse
29.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 1108 🔁 145 💬 32 📌 6
Partial solar eclipse - top right of Sun has a crescent shaped bite taken out of it.
Peak occlusion at about 11:05 GMT. Light cloud, which gives a halo effect.
29.03.2025 12:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)
29.03.2025 02:09 — 👍 101 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 11
NO TIME FOR FUTILITY, ACTION WORKS: “…studies now resuming include research into the pathobiology of LongCOVID in children, persistent SARSCoV2 viral reservoirs, vascular dysfunction, post-exertional malaise, reactivation of latent viruses like EpsteinBarr, & the link between SARSCoV2 & diabetes.”
28.03.2025 19:42 — 👍 87 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1
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