Gavi
@gavirius.bsky.social
Biochemist. Protein crystals grower and structural biologist. Head of LEC, IACT (CSIC). All views my own.
Our new study shows that a #phytopathogenic bacterium uses distinct #chemoreceptors to detect plant defence compounds, revealing an important role for #chemotaxis in plant #virulence. @krelllaboratory.bsky.social @gavirius.bsky.social @robertagenova.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Chemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens. Pathogen attack triggers the release of defense compounds by plants. Bacteria move chemotactically to these compounds.Nice collaboration with Ashleigh Holmes, @gavirius.bsky.social, @miguelmatilla.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Chemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens
Author summary Chemotaxis permits bacteria to move to sites that are favorable for survival and host colonization. A typical chemotactic response is initiated by the binding of chemoeffectors to chemo...
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Happy to share our new paper! Many thanks to the @embo.org fellowship for supporting this new collaboration with Dr. Ashleigh Holmes at the @hutton.ac.uk , and many thanks to all the people who contributed and collaborated @miguelmatilla.bsky.social @gavirius.bsky.social
Krell Laboratory@krelllaboratory.bsky.social · 3mo agoChemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens. Pathogen attack triggers the release of defense compounds by plants. Bacteria move chemotactically to these compounds.Nice collaboration with Ashleigh Holmes, @gavirius.bsky.social, @miguelmatilla.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
I learnt a great deal writing this feature - including the legal concept of 'gastrointestinal infringement' www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...
The curious case of disappearing polymorphs
From crystallographers' beards to billion-dollar lawsuits, the phenomenon of disappearing polymorphs has puzzled chemists for decades. Now researchers are finally unravelling the science behind why st...
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We are pleased to announce the 9th International Doctoral School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC2026), to be held in Granada (Spain) during October 4th to 9th, 2026. 💎💎💎REGISTRATION IS OPEN: isbcgranada.org 🏁🏁🏁📢 . . .Grants are available!!!! 🧪
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🧵🌡️Empezamos una serie de hilos en los que explicaremos las bases científicas del cambio climático. En esta primera entrega vamos a aprender a diferenciar cambio climático y calentamiento global. Os mostraremos gráficas que os ayudarán a entender los conceptos #AemetDivulga
El @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social estrena Equipo de Comunicación. Manda tu noticia a ge3c@rseq.org (Asunto: COMUNICACION) y nosotros la distribuimos. 🔊🔊
Wild! I had never considered regrowing teeth to be a possibility! 🧪 techfixated.com/human-trials...
Human trials begin for drug that could let adults regrow teeth for the first time
In October 2024, researchers at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan began administering an experimental tooth-regeneration drug to human volunteers, marking
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Artemis II mission will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. The first time around, in 1969 it was a global event that had almost everyone glued to the TV screens. Turns out many scientists are not that excited by what’s scheduled for April 1st 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Humanity is heading back to the Moon — why aren’t more scientists thrilled?
Some researchers remain underwhelmed by NASA’s upcoming lunar fly-by.
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Happy International Women's Day! 👩🔬 To celebrate we're highlighting some of the impactful work published with us in 2025/2026 led by women researchers worldwide. Read our collection👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #Chemsky #IWD2026 🧪
Resisting AI slop @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org "Like many tools, AI will allow the scientific community to do more if it picks the right ways to use it." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We couldn't let World Handwriting Day go by without sharing Kathleen Lonsdale's penmanship ✍️ Lonsdale conducted pioneering research in X-ray crystallography and worked at the Ri. In 1929, she proved that the structure of benzene was flat—the chemical was also discovered here, by Michael Faraday.
Registration for the 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) is now open! Topics: single crystal XRD, powder XRD and 3D electron diffraction. Details can be found at ecs11.org and registration at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... We hope to see you in Stockholm!
By 2028, all 4-character PDB IDs will be exhausted. After that, all new entries will receive extended IDs: 12 characters total, formatted as pdb_ + 8 alphanumeric characters (pdb_1000axyz) Test it from PDB Beta Archive Read more: www.wwpdb.org/news/news?ye...
We continue to explore how to use cross-linked enzyme crystals (CLECs). We hope you like it. An enzymatic microfluidic sensor for β-lactam antibiotics based on cross-linked ancestral β-lactamase crystals - now published in Nanoscale Advances. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @iactcsic.bsky.social
An enzymatic microfluidic sensor for β-lactam antibiotics based on cross-linked ancestral β-lactamase crystals
A microfluidic enzymatic sensor based on cross-linked crystals of an ancestral β-lactamase (βLa-CLECs) was developed for the detection of β-lactam antibiotics under continuous flow conditions. The sen...
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📣El GE3C anuncia el lanzamiento del MOOC “Cristalografía y Cristalización”, un curso online, abierto y gratuito. El curso está disponible todo el año en la plataforma OpenUAH, con inscripción abierta en cualquier momento! open.uah.es/courses/cour...
📣El #GE3C concede el II Premio Catalina Ruiz Pérez 🏅 a Luis León Alcaide por su tesis: “Beyond Crystallinity in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks” dirigida por el Dr. Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas y realizada en el @icmoluv.bsky.social.
Are you looking for your next role in structural biology? Take a look at vacant positions through Instruct-ERIC, including the Team leader position at the cryo-EM facility of the Ernst Ruska-Centre at @fz-juelich.de! Find out more and apply here - instruct-eric.org/jobs/team-le...
Team leader position cryo-EM facility Ernst Ruska-Centre Jülich - Instruct-ERIC
Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.
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🚀 Introducing PDBe-KB Complexes — a new PDBe-KB resource for exploring macromolecular complexes across the PDB. 🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb... 📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568... #PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology
📣 The #GE3C has awarded the Gold Medal 🎖️, its highest distinction, to Professor Santiago García Granda, from the University of Oviedo and President of the IUCr, in recognition of his extensive and outstanding 🔝 scientific career in the field of crystallography 💎.
In the afternoon happy to Chair Simona Fermani´ Keynote lecture on the CB cycle regulation.Example of SAX-Mx-CryoEM use to answer biological questions. #ECM35
Yesterday we Chair a great morning session on Nucleation at #ECM35. We thank the speakers and the audience for such a nice environment.
