Prof. Zoë Waller

Leg selfie showing black dress, mid-tone orange tights and black ballet pumps. The Irregular Choice ballet pumps have a photo of Queen Elizabeth II on the left foot and a photo of a corgi on the right foot.

In my sadness that Irregular Choice is going out of business I'm making more effort to wear my collection - today are black flats with Queen and Corgi #irregularchoice

A photo of a sliced green beefsteak tomato on a wooden chopping board. The shape of the tomato is kidney shaped, with five compartments of seeds

Thank you Krystal. I have put a new image below and updated my settings ❤️

Sounds like the best misunderstanding 😆

DNA docs and Halloween vibes today ✨️

Initially I went with choroplast, but realised the greeneess was a distraction.

Didn't even consider a kidney - seems obvious now! I don't often see them in my day to day I guess.

That's a good one!

Also very true 🍅 🍅 🍅

I see it now.

Either way, adding some sauce 🍅 🍅 🍅

Green tomato or mitochondrion?

DNA dress on today!

In memoriam...

Chimpanzees use the same plants we do to treat similar illnesses A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry remains mostly a mystery

Primatologist Jane Goodall's recent passing left an incredible legacy that transformed our understanding of chimpanzee behavior and intelligence. New insights show that great apes use medicinal plants to treat wounds like humans. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Low magnesium dulls Cas9 molecular scissors But even when the CRISPR-Cas system is less efficient, it’s still enough to protect against phages

A study found that at cellular concentrations of magnesium, the Cas9 enzyme often nicks only one strand—and this small cut is enough to defend against phages. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

Outlook - One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream - BBC Sounds Once a homeless single mum, Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is now a nanomedicine pioneer

From finding a "universal language" in science, to comedy, conferences and following her passion, Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social tells BBC World Service about her fascinating path to becoming a pioneer of pharmaceutical nanoscience and champion for race equality

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Self-assembly of (poly)peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates: from orthogonality to emergence Peptides and DNA both display characteristic self-assembly motifs which underpin the spectacularly varied and functional nanostructures of biology. Ea…

Thanks to @jesspanch.bsky.social at Trends in Chemistry for handling this review article on DNA-peptide self-assembly which is just out. This outlook is going to frame some more papers you'll see coming out my lab over the next year or so.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meeting Tutees from Drug Discovery and Development today!

It's #ChemNobel season again!

Surely this year should go to the most important chemical breakthrough of our lifetimes: DNA synthesis/Marvin Caruthers 🧬

Phosphoramidite DNA synthesis is the bedrock of modern biology and enabled the development of therapies for untreatable diseases
#chemsky 🧪

a clock that has the hands on the numbers 10 and 12 ALT: a clock that has the hands on the numbers 10 and 12

Twenty years today I started my PhD - tempus fugit

Congratulations to Dilek to getting a position as a Lecturer! It's not goodbye - just a pivot from Postdoc to collaborator ❤️

Painting: where art meets science The chemistry behind the craft...

The fabulous Naked Scientists have just produced a podcast episode about colour in art, a topic about which I was of course delighted to speak to them.
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

Ha ha that's a good one

Also a good choice!

I didn't realise until recently how many people use this instead of typing!

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#ChemSky

Reading comments on a post and someone spelled Acetone *Assitone* and now I only want to spell it this way #chemsky

Matching in a different way today #Docs #leopardprint

More matching the platform yesterday #Docs #snag