Knowing how to give a good talk is a crucial skill to have, but it's mostly not formally taught very well. Here's a 🧵on my strategy for how to prepare for the presentation, actually present it, and then answer the questions.

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to share my PhD research at the UK Archaea Workshop 2024 at Nottingham University. Congrats to all the amazing speakers! Excited for next year's edition in Bangor. 📸 Chahrazad Taissir

We are thrilled to present a new #enzyme to the world, the first shown to break the man-made carbon-silicon bonds in #siloxanes, which are persistent in the environment. caltech.edu/about/news/tea…

Thank you to all those that came to the Londonomics kick-off event at Imperial College London, filled with computational chat, pizza, and beers 🧑‍💻 🍕 🍻 Register to the network to hear about the next co-working session! All London based computational biology ECRs welcome 🤗

🚨 The Delas lab UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology is officially recruiting 🥳 We will study how cis-regulatory elements control developmental cell fate choice, focusing on gene silencing. Funded by Wellcome. Postdoc advert closes on 12 March! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Strategies for developing phages into novel antimicrobial tailocins Trends in Microbiology by Cedric Woudstra et al from lone brøndsted sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our Progres method for fast protein structure searching can now search the AlphaFold database TED domains at Dali-level accuracy in a tenth of a second per query on CPU. (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A distinctive family of enzymes catalyzing a new type of crosslink in the bacterial cell wall CavaLab Felipecava.mims @UmeaUniversity SciLifeLab MIMS - Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden #bacteria #peptidoglycan #microbiology #biochemistry nature.com/articles/s4146…

We love the excitement & results from the community on AlphaFold 3 and are doubling the AF Server daily job limit to 20. Happy to also share that we're working on releasing the AF3 model (incl weights) for academic use, which doesn’t depend on our research infra, within 6 months.

I am excited to share our new preprint on the structure of S-layers. The work is a collaboration between Oxford Chemistry (Ed Johnston and myself) and Buse Isbilir and @TBharat_lab at @MRC_LMB and Vikram Alva at @MPI_Bio. 🧵 1/11 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨The MIMIC Lab is officially open!🥳 I am thrilled to start as a group leader in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University. Thanks to Wellcome funding, we will conducting research on molecular mimicry and synthetic chromatin for the next few years! 1/2

Our latest preprint: Sriram Garg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Delighted to speak at the next Archaea Power Hour conference this Wed, 9th Oct! Tune in to hear about conflicts between archaea & bacteria. Thanks to Brittany Baker for the kind invite!

Interested in plasmid biology? Our new preprint is now available!!! 🚨 In this work, we analyzed thousands of diverse bacterial plasmids to characterize for the first time one of the most fundamental aspects of plasmid biology: Plasmid copy number. 1/7 👇

In two days, the showdown you've all been waiting for arrives: Archaea vs. Bacteria 🦠⚔️🦠!! Jkjk... but we will have Romain Strock tell us about his work combining bioinformatics & heterologous expression to discover & characterize weaponry that archaea bring to battle bacteria!

Reminder to catch the second installment of our fall session of Archaea Power Hour tomorrow at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET. Check your email for the Zoom link or visit our website (link in bio) for more info. Check out the two exciting talks we have planned for you:

OUT NOW 🦠 Prediction of strain level phage-host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic information, by Aude Bernheim Hugo Vaysset MDMLab @iame_center Bacteriophage Lab Institut Pasteur nature.com/articles/s4156…

Mark your calendars, Archaea Power Hour is back next WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13th, at 10AM EST / 4 PM CET!!! We'll have one talk by our very own @BrendanSchroyen. Check your email for the link or visit our new website for more info: archaea.bio/archaea-power-….

Protenix - Yet another reproduction of AF3 github.com/bytedance/Prot…