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Lena Quambusch

@quambel.bsky.social

Postdoc, Cambridge, UK. Chemical Biologist, Structural Biology Newbie, Ligand Design Advocate. #EmbraceEquity

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Anyone keen to reveal their fav strategies for grant writing? #sciencesky #academicwriting

Currently hiding (from lab work) in my college library - fueled by sugar, caffeine and 80s. #postdoclife

20.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kaum eine Sprache kann komplexe Dinge so präzise formulieren wir unsere. Eine Weiterentwicklung hinzu inklusiver/akkurater Sprache ist im Naturell dieser. Also Wissenschaftsnation sollten wir das zelebrieren.

„Verbot“ ist hier nur eh ein plakatives Werbemittel nach rechts… traurig.

12.08.2025 07:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Walked through #Scotland for a bit.
140 km precisely, along the west highland way. Not regretting a second of it! #hikingacademics #longdistancetrail

14.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Definitely in my 3D printing era!
#Crystal structure turning into a haptic model. #structuralbiology #3Dprinting

01.07.2025 19:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Walked from #Cambridge to #Ely along the Camb yesterday.
30k ✅
Trekking pants ✅
Was excited to see the cathedral, arriving in pouring rain left that beauty for the next visit.

Getting ready for the Westhighland Trail #scotland

27.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

09.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 76    🔁 42    💬 2    📌 6

Down the line: anxiety a metabolic disorder of western diet?!

20.04.2025 06:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worth a read for all the drug designers out there.

17.04.2025 07:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Can’t cope how #cambridge is showing off in #spring. My camera roll is full of blossoms and sunshine.
#uk

17.04.2025 07:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That pretty gold, that pretty new golden SPR chip.
Please show some shiny direct binding please.
#sciencesky #spr #proteins

12.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After 3 years of a synthetic break, I was hosted of our next door neighbors and synthesized a small fragment hit this week. Felt good to write LQ001 again!
Equally excited about the fragment to do some magic soon 💫
#chemsky #science

23.03.2025 07:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ChimeraX can be used to find pockets and cavities in protein structures using the Find Cavities tool or kvfinder command. This feature is available in daily builds from 10 March 2025 or later.

17.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 59    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Blazing spring sun and Cambridge half!

#TTPCambridgeHalf

09.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

06.03.2025 16:40 — 👍 6581    🔁 2356    💬 122    📌 334
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It’s a daily agenda. Democracy is a reflection of our engagement.

Convinced my granny to join “Omas gegen Rechts”!
#democracy #katapult #abroad

28.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sie identifizieren sich halt einfach mit F.Merz.

25.02.2025 12:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Scene of white snow covered mountains.

Scene of white snow covered mountains.

Imaginary dream lab location unlocked 🔓 🏔️

16.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today I did something truly special. Contributed to a great open access platform and repository - the PDB @pdbeurope.bsky.social
A protein structure I solved, from protein crystals 💎 I made and fished 🔎

Won’t be the last for sure, but firsts are always memorable!

#openaccess #structuralbiology

28.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ICB-II building at University of Sao Paulo where Department of Microbiology is located and where the advertised positions will be based in.

ICB-II building at University of Sao Paulo where Department of Microbiology is located and where the advertised positions will be based in.

We are looking for candidates for two technical positions to join us at University of São Paulo on a collaborative project with Andrea Balan'n group to study AMR mechanisms in ESKAPE pathogens, at TT-4 and TT-5 levels.
More details from hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk/tt_positions...
Re-posts appreciated!

14.01.2025 15:33 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

@emmabelcher96.bsky.social Great Talk!! Go Team activin 🤍
@markohyvonen.bsky.social

08.01.2025 20:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Lecture theater with view onto the projector wall

Lecture theater with view onto the projector wall

Departmental away days 🤝 PhD Symposium

💫 Science kick off Biochemistry Department Cambridge 2025 💫
#chemsky #biochemistry

08.01.2025 20:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The thrill of a new structure is real!!
#structurebiology #science #crystallography

30.11.2024 21:58 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.11.2024 00:49 — 👍 63    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0

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