Big thanks to Isabelle Baconguis (Vollum Institute) and her group for including us in their epic foray into the structural plasticity of ASICs, now out in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/4

Conformational plasticity of human acid-sensing ion channel 1a - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Using cryo-electron microscopy, Cahill, Hartfield et al. identified six structural states of human acid-sensing ion channel 1a, revealing how acidic conditions and peptide toxins regulate channel acti...

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En route to the 2026 ion channel GRC - looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up on everything related to those magic proteins! www.grc.org/ion-channels...

One week left to apply for the EMBO/FEBS lecture course on #ionchannels and #transporters in beautiful Erice in May 2026: meetings.embo.org/event/26-ion... Please share

Cryo-EM structures of human P2X2/3 heteromer channel reveal the structural basis of ligand selectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41931608/ #cryoEM

Excited to be on my way to the Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating GRC - many of our present projects started at this meeting 10 (!) years ago! @Nalcn @Split inteins

New OpenFold3 preview out! (OF3p2) It closes the gap to AlphaFold3 for most modalities. Most critically, we're releasing everything, including training sets & configs, making OF3p2 the only current AF3-based model that is functionally trainable & reproducible from scratch🧵1/9

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

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3000th clone added to our clone library. Happy weekend

Sudha (@chakrapanilab.bsky.social) and Julio (@cvlab.bsky.social) are organizing the 2026 Ion Channel Gordon Research Conference: Ion Channels Across Scales — Bridging Molecular Events to Physiological Outcomes, to be held at Mount Holyoke College, July 12–17, 2026. 1/3

Kicking off 2026 on a positive note! Check out our latest work on developmental channelopathies. #IonChannels #NALCN #IHPRF1

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Preferential vulnerability of cortical GABAergic interneurons to Nalcn deficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.700772v1

Time to sign up! Registration for the joint FEBS/EMBO course on ion channels and transporters in Erice, Italy (May 13-19th 2026) is now open: meetings.embo.org/event/26-ion... Please share and repost.

Lorne Proteins 2026 🏖️ Leach Lecturer Carol Robinson, Oxford, on establishing mass spec as a viable technique for structure/function studies; and John Kuriyan, Vanderbilt University, on the structural plasticity and evolutionary potential of DNA clamp loaders. 🔗 Register now: www.lorneproteins.org

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

To all trainees interested in channels and transporters: the joint FEBS/EMBO course will go ahead in Erice, Italy from May 13-19 2026: network.febs.org/posts/new-jo... Further details to come soon. Please share and repost.

PhD students and Postdocs: The Night Science Podcast (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is producing an episode highlighting young scientists talking about their creative process. DM me if you'd like us to consider you for this, & read below what PhD student Davis Garner will contribute! ⬇️

Game changer, no doubt. Commercial systems will have expensive consumables I suppose, but huge savings to be made in cell culture, and many important but sparse native targets come into play. Crispr-tagged targets from iPSC neurons, for example. TRPC6 blind? 🤯

Janine Brunner@janinebrunner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

MISO: microfluidic protein isolation enables single-particle cryo-EM structure determination from a single cell colony. Or from a single dish of HEK cell culture in the case of two membrane proteins. Out in Nature Methods now! lnkd.in/gpyBSceg Wonderful collaboration with the Efremov lab.

Very grateful to have been able to attend the second-ever NALCN conference. This provided a fantastic opportunity to catch up with collaborators and meet patients and families affected by NALCN-related diseases. Huge thanks to everyone at the Channeling Hope Foundation for making this event happen!

Phosphorylation on tyrosines control key pathways in immunity, cancer, and metabolism. For the first time, we can now design proteins that specifically recognize individual phosphotyrosines, even in disordered regions. (1/8) Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When I started working on ion channels 20+ yrs ago, I could have never imagined how many channels there are to explore! Now I’m delighted to be heading to thematic meetings on two of our favorite channels in the span of just weeks - can’t wait to catch up with the ASIC and NALCN communities!

After years in making, I am glad to be able to share our attempt on establishing a framework for combined functional and computational assessment of variant pathogenicity in the sodium leak channel NALCN: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Momentum is building! Join us for the 51st Lorne Proteins Conference Feb 8–12, 2026, Mantra Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, for fun networking activities 🏐 🎾 🥗 🪩 and breathtaking surf-coast accessibility 🏖️ 🏊 🏄 in the generous breaks between sessions! 🔗 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org/register

Come to the second edition of the world wide sodium channel conference! Submit an abstract by September 26.

Oksana Iamshanova@iamshanovao.bsky.social · 11mo ago

2nd #WSCC26 will take place in Grindelwald (Switzerland) 🚠 from 4th to 6th of February, 2026. 🌍 Join @lampertlab.bsky.social , @antoniospantazis.bsky.social, @khannalabuf.bsky.social, and others. 💡 Submit abstracts by the 26th of September, 2025: lnkd.in/eDhPUVKd 💻 More info: lnkd.in/eJw9pfMz

Adriano Senatore @utoronto.ca and colleagues explore the evolutionary origins of the sodium leak channel NALCN and its ancillary subunits FAM155/Mid1, UNC79, and UNC80. rupress.org/jgp/article/... #Evolution #IonChannels

2nd #WSCC26 will take place in Grindelwald (Switzerland) 🚠 from 4th to 6th of February, 2026. 🌍 Join @lampertlab.bsky.social , @antoniospantazis.bsky.social, @khannalabuf.bsky.social, and others. 💡 Submit abstracts by the 26th of September, 2025: lnkd.in/eDhPUVKd 💻 More info: lnkd.in/eJw9pfMz

Wonderful visit to beautiful Bergen, Norway. Big thanks to @herculeria.bsky.social for hosting and to Tim Lynagh for guiding me up the local hills

🥁🥁🥁 The 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function is officially live! After the resounding success of the 50th Lorne Conference in 2025 celebrating five decades of pioneering science and community, the legacy continues... 🏄🏖️🌞 February 8–12, 2026 Register here: www.lorneproteins.org

Friends don’t use friend’s plasmids without sequencing them. For some types of plasmids from academic and industrial labs, up to 40% contained mutations academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Prevalence of errors in lab-made plasmids across the globe

Abstract. Plasmids are indispensable in life sciences research and therapeutics development. Currently, most labs custom-build their plasmids. As yet, no s

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Villum Sabbatical grant: For US-based researchers wishing to visit a Danish university for up to 12 months Deadline Aug. 15th 2025 villumfonden.dk/en/group/cha...

🚨 One week left to apply! I am hiring a fully funded PhD fellow and a postdoc to work on membrane protein structural biology and pharmacology at Univ Copenhagen Come work with a great team and exciting projects in a collaborative environment! 🔗 Links to the ads in comments #CryoEM #AcademicJobs

@michaelclerx.com et al. @uniofnottingham.bsky.social present variability in reported midpoints of activation and inactivation for the cardiac fast sodium current, INa, show the correlation between these midpoints, and discuss possible experimental sources of variability. rupress.org/jgp/article/...