Breeanna Urbanowicz
@breeannau.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UGAs Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. Lead of the Plant Biopolymers Group. Plant biochemist, gardener, and cat enthusiast with a focus on plant cell wall biology.
Normally I post about science, but here is a bit of my textile dye art pieces that I enjoyed making during the holiday break #icedye
I'm excited to share our new work getting us closer to on plant-derived compostable plastic replacements 🌿🧪 My talented grad student, Mohammad Aghajohari, figured out the structure-reactivity roadmap for plant xylans to make it easy to modify. #glycotime #MaterialsScience #Biobased rdcu.be/eMh4g
Structural features of xylan dictate reactivity and functionalization potential for bio-based materials
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Are you interested in graduate studies in plant science? UGA is looking for perspective graduate students to participate in Integrated Plant Science Access Preview Week hosted by graduate students affiliated with the UGA Plant Center.. Applications are due October 14th tinyurl.com/IPS-Access
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🍭 Glycans are biology’s sugar code—super complex, super important. Thanks to AlphaFold3, we can now model their interactions with proteins! 🧪 Our new workflow unlocks fresh ways to explore immunity, infection & disease. doi.org/10.1093/glyc... #BioFGREAT #NSF #glycotime
The team at BioF:GREAT is always on the lookout for new protein design models that care about more than just the backbone! We are excited to try the new RFdiffusion3 (RFD3)! 🚀 New preprint from David Baker!🚀 🧪 #ProteinDesign #DeepLearning #ComputationalBiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3
Deep learning has accelerated protein design, but most existing methods are restricted to generating protein backbone coordinates and often neglect interactions with other biomolecules. We present RFd...
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Meet the BioF:GREAT Team at The Society for Glycobiology's Annual Meeting in San Diego this November and be part of the future of glycoscience! Register for SfGlycobiology here: www.glycobiology.org/annual-meeting See you there! #SfGlycobiology #glycotime #biotech #glycotime #glycosylation
Our work @benschulz.bsky.social on the specificity and the mechanism of activation of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is now on Glycopedia ⬇️🎉🥳, the largest repository of #glycotime news and educational material online! Thank you Serge Perez 🤓❤️ glycopedia.eu/2025/09/09/r...
Regulation of N-glycosylation efficiency by eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase - Glycopedia
Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) catalyses the key step of N-glycosylation, transferring immature N-glycans to select Asn residues in nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Asn are more li...
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Sweet science, serious impact!! Check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry the BioF:GREAT. #glycotime 🧪
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Who knew the kinome has a dark side? To find out more- check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry. #glycotime #kinase 🧪
Check out our new paper unraveling the structure of Rhsmnogalacturonan I in Arabidopsis. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... 🧪🌱
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So proud that Kristen Thorne in my group won an award for best poster at the CAZyme GRC today!! #glycotime
Had a wonderful evening celebrating my friend and colleague Robin Buell’s election into the National Academy of Sciences! So proud to be part of UGAs plant science community. 😊
Really excited to have this new capability at UGA thanks to the support of the NSF! The Eclipse XRM-910 Micro-CT from Sigray Inc., will allow us to create 3D models of plant tissues from a series of 2D X-ray images, preserving the original sample. #plantbio #glycotime 🧪
Celebrating 2 new PhD candidates in the Plant Biopolymers Group this week. Congrats to Zeina and Charlie!!!
We are still accepting applications to attend the GRC on CAZymes for Glycan Conversions. This year's theme is ‘Unlocking CAZyme Interfaces’. This is one of my favorite meetings and I am excited to be the vice co-chair elect this year. #glycotime #biochemistry 🧪 www.grc.org/carbohydrate...
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It’s not just about this or that nameserver or browser, or how long it’s down, or if it’s intermittent (though those things are important, especially to clinicians and their patients); it’s this: “What if NCBI is not a permanent repository?” 🧪 🧬
It sounds like things are functional atm but what if NCBI is not a permanent repository? Are existing NCBI projects preserved in European Nucleotide Archive if NCBI goes down? 🧬 🖥️ #sequencing #microbiome
Had a great time hosting @ArielOrellana this week for a wonderful visit! Lots of cool work going on with NDP-sugars in plants.
Have you ever wondered how pectin acetylation affects cell adhesion? Together with @breeannau.bsky.social we have the answer! Check our our joint preprint! @treebiocoe.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...
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Read our new #preprint on @researchsquare: TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Pectin synthesis is much more complex than we think! #glycotime 🧪 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...
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Had a blast at our holiday lab Bingo party!! Great people 🧪 and great fun 🎉🍻
Our colleagues at the Jülich Plant #Phenotyping Center #JPPC (@fz-juelich.de) have an open #PHDposition. Apply on the link 👇 untill 10.1.2025. #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience 🧪 #Roots Re-post please. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
PhD Position – Characterization of the Phenotypic Diversity of Root and Shoot Traits in Rye Heterotic Pools
Are you passionate about science? Would you like to contribute to research on breeding crops resilient to climate change? Come to work with us at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Plant Sciences...
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I want to give @carrieaeckert.bsky.social a big shout out for leading our teams effort to work with scientists across academia, government, industry, and US funding agencies to suggest science roadmaps to drive the emerging bioeconomy. Check out our roadmap here!! www.casa-bio.net
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Our new preprint is out on developing ML models to study glycosyltransferaes #glycotime 🧪 Thank you to DOE for supporting our work on glycoenzymes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Decoding substrate specificity determining factors in glycosyltransferase-B enzymes - Insights from machine learning models
Substrate specificity is an essential characteristic of any enzyme's function and an understanding of the factors that determine this specificity is crucial for enzyme engineering. Unlike the structur...
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Thank you for having me Chris! Such a great visit 🥳🥳 and amazing hospitality 🙏🏻
Today we're hosting Dr Elisa Fadda @unisouthampton.bsky.social for our Colyn Crane-Robinson seminar on "Restoring Protein Glycosylation with GlycoShape". See her latest publication here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glyco-job alert!! The application deadline is approaching for our open track faculty position at the CCRC 🧪🧪 join the great glyco community in Athens, GA. #glycotime www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/400...
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Check out the Plant Science Research Weekly -- Perspective on our recent review : Enzymatic routes to designer hemicelluloses for use in biobased materials (JACS Au) (Summary by Mary Williams) buff.ly/3C87FZ3 #PlantaePSRW #glycotime
Perspective: Enzymatic routes to designer hemicelluloses for use in biobased materials | Plantae
This article poses the interesting question of whether we can use our knowledge of plant cell wall-modifying, carbohydrate-active enzymes to produce biobased materials. Specifically…
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