Honored and grateful to Società Chimica Italiana and the Calabria Section Board for awarding me the Bucci Medal for the best Ph.D thesis in Chemical Sciences 2022. Special thanks to the University of Palermo for hosting the SCI SiCa 2023 conference #Chemistry🔬🏅 PROMOCS Società Chimica Italiana - Sezione Sicilia

🎄 🎁 Super happy to share our work just published in Nature Communications! Our paper elucidates the intriguing role of monovalent K+ ions in splicing mechanism. Amazing work by J. Aupic collaborating with J. Borisek Wojtek Galej Dr. Sebastian Fica, PhD 👉rdcu.be/dugjq #compchem #compbio

#compchem people, mark your calendars! In March 2025 there will be a CECAM workshop about drug-protein binding kinetics organized by Steffen Wolf, Rebecca Wade, Giovanni Bottegoni and me. I hope to see you there!

We wish everyone a happy holiday with the release 1.1.0 of mlcolvar, our library for machine learning collective variables for enhanced sampling! #compchem 💻 pypi.org/project/mlcolv… 📄 mlcolvar.readthedocs.io/en/stable Enrico Trizio Luigi Bonati Andrea Rizzi at IIT

Assessing the Binding Mode of a Splicing Modulator Stimulating Pre-mRNA Binding to the Plastic U2AF2 Splicing Factor #MolecularDynamics #Docking pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Riccardo Rozza ꙮ Pavel Janoš ꙮ Alessandra Magistrato #JCIM Vol63 Issue23 #compchem

Curious about interactions between bacterial sugars and functionalized polymeric surfaces using computer simulations? Available Ph.D. position, funded by a joint project with cwiklik_lab under the Czech Science Foundation, at Masaryk University. More details: charmm-gui.org/?doc=jobs&view…

Multiple Postdoc and Ph.D. opportunities are open in my lab. We specialize in molecular simulations of peptides, proteins, and membranes (also sugars in the mix by Denys Biriukov). Find more details at: vacha.ceitec.cz/jobs-openings/ charmm-gui.org/?doc=jobs&view… linkedin.com/jobs/view/3790…

📢 Still looking for a postdoc to study the role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in mRNA processing to start as soon as possible !! 😅 In collaboration with Roberta Pierattelli, L. Napolitano Silvia Onesti. Interested? Send me a CV and cover letter! pls RT.

Our #paper on the combination of force-field and ensembles refinement has been published on The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 🥳!! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp… Congratulations Ivan Gilardoni, Thorben Fröhlking Giovanni Bussi. Summary 👇

I am looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will focus on the development of machine learning potentials for R/DNA. Ultimate goal: simulating nonenzymatic self-replication of canonical/alternative nucleic acids. Place: CHEM@PWr Politechnika Wrocławska euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/184618

Interested in non coding RNAs? 🧬 Have a look at our new review JCIM & JCTC Journals on computing non coding RNA biogenesis and modulation. Congratulations to Silvia Maura, Elisabetta Moroni, and @rrozza for their excellent work. 👏 #NoncodingRNA #compchem #compbio 👉pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

now out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbi… that parallel stranded d(GGGA)3GGG DNA G4 folds via multiple paths from a coil-like ensemble #moleculardynamics Sponer lab

Two really exciting preprints that perform programmable RNA editing (!) using CRISPR-mediated trans-splicing: * RESPLICE (Patrick Hsu): biorxiv.org/content/10.110… * PRECISE (Jonathan Gootenberg Omar Abudayyeh): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Alessandra Magistrato 🚀Thrilled to share our latest research paper unveiling the mechanism of fast-cycling cancer-associated mutations in Rac1 Small GTPases ! 🧬👩‍🔬 Dive into the details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pr… #ProteinScience #CancerResearch Fondazione AIRC per la ricerca sul cancro

Join us in the beautiful Trieste, Italy for this event co-organized with Rommie Amaro Lander Lab, Giulia Palermo & Joanna Trylska and supported by Biophysical Society & CECAM

The registration deadline of the meeting "Emerging theoretical approaches to complement single-particle cryo-electron microscopy" is today! Join us in Trieste, Italy, with an outstanding list of speakers. biophysics.org/2024trieste#/ Pls RT & Apply !

Some light summer time🏖️ reading: Our perspective on metalloenzyme-inspired approaches to nanozymes now out in Environ. Sci.: Nano Royal Society of Chemistry #enzyme #nanozyme #environmental #chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Two fully funded positions available: #PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems SISSA SBP Sissa . Deadline Aug 26, h13:00 CET. Online application: pica.cineca.it/sissa/phd-phys… Exam (remote): Sep 9-10. More info ⬇️