Charlie Bond
@charliebondxray.bsky.social
He/him, Structural Biologist, Professor, University of Western Australia. Singing, Piano-playing, Oxford United-supporting husband and father.
Hot on the heels of yesterday's news of Reading potentially closing its chemistry department, we've been looking at the past 20 years of data of A-level chemistry entrants, undergraduate chemistry numbers, and demography of university staff www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...
The health of chemistry across the pipeline
More students in the UK are studying chemistry at A-level than 20 years ago, but how does that translate to universities?
chemistryworld.com
Our paper describing a cool FRET sensor for ssRNA using PPR proteins is out in NAR. A fun mixture of crystallography, single molecule FRET and some other methods. Special thanks to Nick Marzano, @bradyajohnston.bsky.social, Antoine van Oijen and Ian Small, University of Wollongong and UWA