Wonderful talk by @audgems from Ando Lab on the classification of the critical ribonucleotide reductase family (produces the building blocks of #DNA) and the discovery of a new class of RPR with #SAXS and #cryoEM structures! ACAxtal #acamtg2022 congrats on the SIG award 👏👏👏

Ribonucleotide reductases are essential for DNA biosynthesis and may be the link in the transition from an RNA to DNA world. @audgems, Spence and Xu et al. propose a new evolutionary model for the diversification of this protein family #ReviewedPreprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wooo!! Go Audrey! CornellChemistry #BauerScholarshipAward 😎

Truly one of the highlights of my PhD career thus far! I am so thankful to all of my mentors who encouraged this to happen. #AnassaKata

Dynamic Ando Lab superstar @audgems gave a (r)evolutionary talk at her alma mater as the winner of the CornellChemistry #BauerScholarshipAward. Thanks for hosting Bryn Mawr College and Yan Kung!

yyyyeeeeeuuuuh 🌲🌳🌴elifesciences.org/digests/79790/… Ando Lab eLife - the journal CornellChemistry

Final version of RNR study with RNR expert Nozomi Ando and her lab (@audgems Darren Xu ) and Matt Spence from my lab - distant evolutionary relationships, a new clade, and use of new eco-velocity approach of (Brian Hie) made for a nice comprehensive story I think- lots of fun!

Very visible how I aged during the pandemic between these two photos

.CornellArts&Sciences CornellChemistry doctoral candidates Audrey Burnim and Da Xu are co-first authors of a study that uses a family of proteins to create an evolutionary model connecting organisms today to a time when the atmosphere had little oxygen. Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/1…

Twitter-less Jesus is one of the most passionate and thoughtful chemists I know and I am so excited to see the exceptional work he does next!

queen shit

New pronouns dropped: the Dr / the Dr’s

💡Check out our exciting discovery in gut microbial metabolism! Our latest work reveals a gut bacterial enzyme, bilirubin reductase (bilR), closing a critical knowledge gap in the heme degradation pathway. Out today in Nature Microbiology! A short 🧵: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Read about National Library of Medicine NCBI's latest research on gut microbial metabolism and our findings 👇

Turns out, pretrained weights are much closer to the optimal values compared to randomly initialized weights.

Very proud to share the latest ❄️🔬 work from Ando Lab on the conformational landscapes of a dynamic enzyme during active turnover. tinyurl.com/57uhkkh5 The enzyme is constantly moving, even before chemistry begins.💃🕺

So incredibly proud of Darren Xu, William C Thomas, and aab phd for their work on the conformational landscapes of RNR! Out now in bioRxiv! ❄️🔬

really amazing stuff led by Darren Xu!! ❄️🔬🎬