Excited to hear @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social talk today ( 1 pm Sydney time) on “Structural bioinformatics and AlphaFold modeling of the human kinome and its interactions” at the Australian Structural Biology Computing community meeting. Details to join the talk:

MEETING: Australian Structural Biology Computing Community — Australian BioCommons

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Exciting work by close colleagues (and Structural Biology Facility users😉). Exciting to see it in print.

Clocked stepping of an artificial protein walker along a DNA track - Nature Nanotechnology

A synthetic three-footed protein walker assembled from non-motor protein domains takes directional steps along a DNA track powered by Brownian ratchet motion driven by free energy transduction from mi...

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Ministry’s N.W.O still hits home 🤔 “You've been taken, but you don't know it yet." Not much has changed evidently.

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Ministry · KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) · Song · 1992

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Great summary and insight into Folddisco. 🧶🧬

What do you think, should I go and try to reclaim some of my gold from abcam?

Protecting the role of science as a global public good in an era of geopolitical competition: The International Science Council @sciencecouncil.bsky.social calls for the protection of scientific freedom, collaboration & capacity in an era of geopolitical fragmentation council.science/statements/s...

Protecting the role of science as a global public good in an era of geopolitical competition - International Science Council

In this statement, the International Science Council calls for the protection of scientific freedom, collaboration and capacity in an era of geopolitical fragmentation, recognizing science as a global...

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This should give our archaeal structural protein predictions a long-needed boost. This ‘dark space’ has been a frustrating limit and I’m excited to see the impact. Great work Pedro! 🥳🧶🧬

Pedro Leão@pedroleao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

Archaea and bacteria reveal the ancient origins of another ‘eukaryotic’ complex. Membrane trafficking is old… check this out for an integrative approach showing how bioinformatics and computational structural methods marry with x-ray crystallography and cryo EM to reveal biology in all its beauty.🧶🧬

🧶🧬Tomorrow ASBC community talks:Dr Cameron Gilchrist is talking about “Multiple protein structure alignment with FoldMason” Wed 20th May Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart (AEST) : 1 pm - 2 pm Adelaide (ACST): 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm Perth (AWST): 11 am - 12 pm For details of joining:

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It’s my favourite famous human’s birthday today! Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough. How many of us went into careers in science inspired by him? When the world seem bleak he always reminds me to look at the wonder of the natural world to see something worth fighting for

From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100

David Attenborough has captured and told the stories of nature to millions of people – and inspired scientists and conservationists the world over.

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Our paper is out today! See this news article on it. Asgard archea have some cool proteins. If you are interested in protein evolution it’s a really exciting space. I’m lucky to be a structural biologist in the age of DL🧬🧶 @brendanburns999.bsky.social @iduggin.bsky.social @debnathghosal.bsky.social

From Asgard to Earth: Tiny tubes may reveal the moment complex life began

Stromatolites—and their close relatives, microbial mats—could be mistaken for what seems like a bunch of old dark rocks. But instead, they are dense, layered communities of microbes. Long before compl...

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🧶🧬🤩 Useful! Thanks George.

George Bouras@gbouras13.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey everyone, new targets are needed now more than ever! 🧶🧬 Please consider if you have something ready to go.

RCSB Protein Data Bank@rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for Targets: CASP17 (2026) Depositors: Help advance the frontiers of structural biology by submitting your targets

Big update for nf-core Proteinfold for protein people… check out v2. Great team effort! nf-co.re/proteinfold/...

proteinfold: Introduction

Protein 3D structure prediction pipeline

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Jose Espinosa-Carrasco@josesca.bsky.social · 4mo ago

nf-core/proteinfold 2.0.0 is out ✨ Now with Boltz, RoseTTAFold-All-Atom, HelixFold3, AlphaFold3, RoseTTAFold2NA, parallel execution, interactive HTML reports, comparative benchmarking reports, and many improvements. Big thanks to all contributors ❤️🚀 nf-co.re/proteinfold/...

Science is at a critical juncture. More and more fundamental researchers are turning to private company jobs because they ‘pay’. More and more tech is being locked away 😳Why? Because western society has stopped valuing scientists. It’s all a bit scary. What world do we want for our kids? 🧶🧬

Nice resource! Thanks for making it open access. Check your protein friends people ( and the accompanying paper in Nat. Methods). 🤩🧶🧬

Nick Polizzi@nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A public database of binding-site predictions in the human proteome and a google colab notebook to use the model yourself can be found here: github.com/sokrypton/af...

Deep learning is transforming structural biology 🧬🖥️ Find out how the BioCommons-supported ASBC community is helping researchers access the software, HPC, and training needed to run predictive workflows at scale. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/azVTi2k #DeepLearning #Bioinformatics @kmichie.bsky.social

Accelerating deep learning in Australian structural biology research — Australian BioCommons

The Australian Structural Biology Computing community has successfully translated the 2025 national research infrastructure roadmap into a year of impactful training, useful resources and global…

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What’s up everyone with the division? So much noise creating wars between generations, genders, political parties, religion, cultures and nations. Humanity left the trees based on the back of being able to work together. Why is everyone so hell bent on going backwards right now?🤔 Happy Friday.

At #bps2026 : I loved the special acknowledgement of the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social and the MANY researchers who generated the experimental macromolecular structures that made it possible to build AI models for structure prediction.

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National Computational Infrastructure@nci-australia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New in NCI DATA : Structural Biology AI Reference Collection 🧬 A curated, versioned set of reference databases supporting protein structure prediction at scale. Built for tools like AlphaFold 3, AlphaFold 2 and RoseTTAFold, using updated data from UniProt and the Protein Data Bank

Meet Dr Joshua Hamey, one of our outstanding MACSYS Research Fellows. Based at our UNSW node, Josh is a molecular biologist studying how proteins are made inside cells. In this video, Josh shares insights into his research and what inspired him to join MACSYS. youtu.be/MuAfPxFXWZk?...

Dr Joshua Hamey - MACSYS Research Fellow

YouTube video by MACSYS

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Already more than 5,000 Australians have joined our campaign to release more funding for medical research in the 2026 Federal Budget. If you can spare 30 seconds of your time to join our campaign, you’ll help fund life-saving cures in Australia. www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

Amazing talk today by Prof Elitza Tochaeva about the evolution of bacterial cell membrane and walls. Certainly got me thinking about bacterial and archaeal membranes. It is such a joy to see so many problems that are progressively being solved by Cryo ET. 🥰 🧬🧶 @unswbabs.bsky.social

Super amazing work James!!! 🤩 Congratulations

James Lingford@jameslingford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our work is published today: ‘Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor’. This was a huge effort lead by @katyappler.bsky.social. Extremely grateful to have been a part of this amazing project! 😊🦠🧬 Links: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So nice to see this story! Jan is like a dog with a bone chasing this down. The origin of alpha/beta tubulins has been a question he won’t let go of. Great collaborative team effort and careful work. Recommended 🧬🧶

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Beautiful work Deb! Check out these structures? Biofilms are very interesting. 🧶🧬

Debnath Ghosal@debnathghosal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A. baumannii is one of the most notorious multidrug-resistant pathogens, capable of forming drug-tolerant biofilms that make infections exceptionally difficult to treat. But how are these complex microbial fortresses built? Just published in Nat Comms. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41654547/

Dr Tom Litfin (Australian Biocommons) presented the Structural Biology Platform project and the Australian Computational Structural biology community. If you are interested and missed him you can join up here: australian-structural-biology-computing.github.io/index 🧬🧶 #lorneprotein2026

Be part of Lorne Proteins history! Photo session today from 1-1:10 pm. See you there 🎉📷🤩 #lorneproteins2026

Frances Separovic@francesbiophys.bsky.social · last yr.

Lovely photo taken at the 50th @lorneproteins.bsky.social conference last week. Gathering included some of the greats from the very first #proteins meeting held at Lorne.

Beautiful structural work on the Retromer-Rab7 complex presented by Kai-En Chen at Lorne Proteins. Also a preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701266v2 #lorneprotein2026

Just a few hours before Lorne Protein kicks off! Exciting line-up, gorgeous location. See you there. 🧬🧶

Lorne Proteins@lorneproteins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Following the Welcome to Country and Opening Remarks, Lorne Proteins 2026 🏖️🌊 kicks off with Christopher Barnes in Session 1—Weapons of Microscopic Destruction 🦠🧫 Sunday 8th Feb from 3:30 pm in the Heritage Ballroom! Can't wait 🤓 Join the conversation #lorneproteins26