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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS

@vizcie.bsky.social

I make mesmerising 3D scientific visuals that make you dream, with the highest respect for scientific accuracy.

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John Rubinstein@johnrubinstein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sad news on the passing of Prof. Andreas Engel, a pioneer in the field of cryo-EM (shared with the 3DEM community by Henning Stahlberg). Andreas' kindness, warmth, and enthusiasm for science and his colleagues will be missed.

Dear colleagues, With deep sadness I share the news that Andreas Engel passed away last Wednesday, at the age of 82, after a courageous fight against an aggressive caner. Only half a year ago, he was out hiking in the Italian mountains with his wife Barbara, walking 160 km in a single week. Andreas trained as a physicist in Bern, Switzerland, before heading to John Hopkins University in Baltimore for his postdoctoral work. He then led a research group at the Biozentrum in Basel, and in 1985 took on the role of a group leader in research and development at Ilford Ltd. in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 1987, he joined forces with his colleague Ueli Aebi to establish the Maurice E. Müller Institute at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Together, Ueli and Andreas served as professors for structural biology there for almost a quarter century, leaving a lasting mark on the field of structural biology as we know it today. Andreas Engel was a true pioneer. He was among the first to apply atomic force microscopy (AFM) with the tip operating under water, and one of the earliest researchers to perform 3D reconstructions using scanning transmission electron microscopy, achieving remarkable high-resolution maps of porin 2D crystals by STEM. He became a leading expert in membrane protein 2D crystallization, and his group played a key role in the determination of the first aquaporin structure, in collaboration with Peter Agre and Yoshinori Fujiyoshi. As he approached retirement from Basel, Andreas founded the Center for Cellular Imaging and NanoAnalytics (C-CINA) of the University of Basel, which in 2009 operated among others one of the very early Titan Krios instruments. From 2008 also held a professorship at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, followed by a position at TU Delft in the Netherlands in 2013. In 2020, he was among the founding members of CryoWrite, a company in Basel that he led as CEO until recently. His contributions to science, to the tools of str…Photo of Andreas Engel
VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS@vizcie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And here is the Walk through video tutorial on how to make your proteins move with Brownian motion! youtu.be/uOEsHBZ-omY It's my first recording and I am not sure it is because of my stuffy nose or I always sound like this... 🫠

Blender Brownian Motion Presets Walk Through

YouTube video by VIZCIE

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VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS@vizcie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do you also want to make animation with proteins moving following Brownian motion paths? Just get my Geometry Nodes presets from: vizcie.gumroad.com/l/BlenderBro... As soon as I have a microphone arriving and some time I will try to make a walk through tutorial ^_^ #BlenderScience #GeometryNodes

VIZCIE | SCIENTIFIC VISUALS@vizcie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

February's PDB Molecule of the Month is for "Histones Across the Tree of Life". I wanted to focus on the histones of archaea Methanothermus fervidus which thrives at 83°C in sulfur pools in Iceland. I call the image: "Compacting DNA at nearly boiling water."

The image shows DNA nucleosomes arranged from histones in archaea. DNA is portrayed as an incandescent metal in a heated environment.
Maayan Visuals@maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thanks to everyone who participated and I have a blog post here with lots of resources that can help with scientific figure design, posters, grant figures, and data visualization! #SciArt #Academia #sciencepublishing #journalcovers #academics #phd #gradschool www.maayanvisuals.com/post/visual-...

Visual communication for scientists resources- Updated!!

I am currently offering lectures and workshops focused on Visual Communication for Scientists- online and in person! I ran a quick Twitter poll and it seems that this kind of training is badly needed....

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RCSB Protein Data Bank@rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Visit PDB-101 to watch the 2025 video "Caffeine and Adenosine: Antagonist and Agonist"

PDB101: Learn: Videos: Caffeine and Adenosine: Antagonist and Agonist

This short video uses the example of adenosine and caffeine to introduce two key concepts in pharmacology: the agonist and the antagonist. Both, adenosine, and caffeine molecules bind to adenosine receptors on the neurons. Caffeine, the antagonist, blocks the receptor, while adenosine, the agonist, produces the biological response upon binding.

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 8mo ago

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research

The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

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Matthew Clark@matthew-batisio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I watched the Alien Prometheus movie recently and the opening scene had some pretty funky DNA ✅ Left-handed double helix ✅ Extreme 🔥 grooves ✅ ~15 bases per turn ✅ Super-glued base ladder ✅ Subatomic black goo What are some of your favourite funny molecule structures from TV/movies?

Computer generated graphics of a DNA structure from the movie PrometheusClose up of the Prometheus DNA molecule being swallowed up by black goo.