We figured it was about time to update what the field knows about O-GlcNAc and neurodegeneration. Here is our fairly comprehensive review that covers the topic in Biochemical Journal. Apologies to anyone’s work that we may have missed: portlandpress.com/biochemj/artic…

After two lab workers diagnosed with fatal brain disease, five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions. sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/f…

Chaperone, aggregase AND unfoldase! 👏

Congrats to our fearless leader Matt Pratt for receiving the 2021 Isbell award from #ACSCARB ... and for being USC Chemistry's new vice chair. We're sorry we couldn't attend your talk so we made you a poster instead. #glycotime

Can’t believe this is happening tomorrow! Time flew wow

Not gonna lie, this is my favorite project for sentimental reasons😀glad to share this story out!

Bittersweet! #PhDone

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of … Flight attendant: The pilots are debating hybridization theory of bonding and degrees of covalency and is pi backbonding even really a thing? Me: Okay. I’m here.

Here’s one of our many strong women leading the fight against the tyrannical and oppressive Philippine government! This is important!

This week in Nature: Protein misfolds – Neurodegenerative diseases classified by shapes of tau filaments. Browse the issue here: go.nature.com/3mKuu9E

Go @adi_gajigan so inspiring

THIS

Just out! To target #Tau pathology, we must embrace and reconstruct its complexity 🧠 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Alzheimer’s #Neuroscience

Today we publish a paper in Science Magazine that expands nanopore readings to the proteome: a nanopore-based scanner to read off PROTEINS at the single-molecule level! 🤩 Awesome experiments by postdoc Henry Brinkerhoff of our #CDlab, with MD simulations of AksimentievLab 1/x

We’re trying something new! eLife authors can now freely speculate the meaning and implications of their data in our new section: 💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡 (1/3) elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e…

I promised a rhizomatic piece, and here it is in all its glory! If Deleuze and Guattari can refer to Lewis Carroll when they write philosophy, then Maria Tello Lafoz and I can certainly refer to Daft Punk when writing immunology. #mechanoimmunology x #daftpunk Trends in Immunology

A useful new review exploring clinical & imaging evidence of the brain-first vs body-first models of #Parkinsons; They "might be two distinguishable entities on some clinical- & imaging markers" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My team has a postdoctoral position open at Genentech in Infectious Disease focused on the development and use of chemical biological approaches in microbiome research. If interested, please see: roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/ROG-A2O-GENE/j…

New bioRxiv explores post-translational modifications, such as O-GlcNAc modification, of #Parkinsons-associated α-Synuclein; Heat shock proteins interactions with O-GlcNAc fibrils inhibit their seeding activity; From aaronbalana Matt Pratt et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…