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University of Iowa Molecular Physiology and Biophysics @uiowaphysiology.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What’s better than one major NIH award? Two! 🎉 Congratulations to @alexmsci.bsky.social and her lab on receiving an R01 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her project, “Decoding the Structure, Function and Pharmacology of TOK Channels from Human-Pathogenic Fungi.”

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Chowdhury and Miller labs … On Ice!

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

What fantastic news. What a coup by the Charité! HIV remission!!! From basic science. Incredible what people are doing in Berlin. Yet we suffer under absurd short-sighted cuts whilst Bayern and others are expanding their science. People don't seem to realise it has taken decades to build this up.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

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Nicholas Schnicker @nschnick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Happy to share we got the NoA for the NIH S10 proposal I submitted for a Glacios #cryoEM 🔬 for #IowaResearch #structuralbiology

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Scientists are “not opposed to examining how taxpayer funds are used; on the contrary, we welcome efforts to improve efficiency […]. But what’s happening now has nothing to do with efficiency. These actions […] are indiscriminate and risk doing real, long-lasting harm.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Irrespective of your opinion on the matter, I think this is an important read to understand why some of the mistrust in science exists in our society today.

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Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.

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Channels, Receptors & Transporters Subgroup of BPS @bpscrt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The Channels, Receptors & Transporters Subgroup of the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social is excited to announce the final program for our 2025 Symposium. Please join us on Feb 15 to hear from @willowcoyote.bsky.social @drcontrexin.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social and others 👇Thanks to our sponsors!

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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fresh out of the press! ✨Check out our new paper on the violent entry of the HIV capsid into the nuclear pore — and how it cracks the gate! 🤯 💥 Incredible work from @becklab.bsky.social and @hummerlab.bsky.social 🤩 More here: www.biophys.mpg.de/2842024/hivcapsid-cracks-the-npc?c=2011019 🔗 #teamTOMO

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I had missed this. Looks to be the more interesting paper on the topic in a while. Using electric-field-stimulated time-resolved X-ray crystallography to investigate K ion movement across the selectivity filter in the well-studied “NaK2K” channel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Direct visualization of electric-field-stimulated ion conduction in a potassium channel

Understanding protein function would be facilitated by direct, real-time observation of chemical kinetics in the atomic structure. The selectivity fil…

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Nurunisa @nneyzi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

MYO7A, linked to Usher syndrome 1B, is known to localize key bundle proteins - but is this the motor protein responsible for tensioning hair cell tip links? Using a mouse line that enables late, conditional deletion of MYO7A, this work establishes that it is not- shifting focus back to MYO1C.

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MYO7A is required for the functional integrity of the mechanoelectrical transduction complex in hair cells of the adult cochlea | PNAS

Myosin-VIIA (MYO7A) is an unconventional myosin responsible for syndromic (Usher 1B) or nonsyndromic forms of deafness in humans when mutated. In t...

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 06/01/2025

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

De novo design of a voltage gated anion channel. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My amazing lab went bowling and shared a meal together a couple of weeks ago to celebrate the holidays. And there were soo many treats…Happy holidays to everyone!

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🦠A team led by the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab used a new technique developed at Janelia called high-resolution template matching, or HRTM, to uncover in unprecedented detail the movement of ribosomes – the molecular structures that synthesize proteins inside cells. 🔗 hhmi.news/401LKMq

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/12/2024

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year is lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/3BrCtUn

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/12/2024

I wasn’t sure about the new HHMI initiative at first, but learning that just 10 institutions—led by Stanford, Berkeley, and Rockefeller—account for over half of HHMI’s investigators puts things into perspective. Efforts to improve this aren’t a bad idea! www.statnews.com/2024/12/13/h...

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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Filing under TIL... the PDBj mirror of EMPIAR automatically compresses compressible movies (MRC stacks) - meaning in this case only 600GB to download rather than 5.5TB! 😱

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Jon Grimm @dyerfulchymist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In honor of our annual ChemisTree event @hhmi.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social today, here's a repost of a little video I made a few years back to demonstrate how the ornament silver plating works! #chemsky

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🎉Congratulations to Luke Lavis (@rhodamine110.bsky.social), recipient of the 2025 Gregorio Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Applications from ISS for his pioneering work on the design & synthesis of small-molecule fluorescent dyes.🧪

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We are now accepting applications for speakers from Native American trainees - if you know of someone who would be a good fit, encourage them to apply! More info in the original thread Apply to be speaker at Full Circle here: forms.gle/dMUtGWvigrNA... PS: We have travel funds available! Plz share!

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

If you want to follow awesome women and non-binary early career scientists, the starter pack of Leading Edge Fellows is here! go.bsky.app/He3EAcq

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🎉 Congratulations to Vivek Jayaraman and Gaby Maimon, co-recipients of the 2024 W. Alden Spencer Award from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons for their pioneering contributions in elucidating the neural circuits underlying navigation in fruit flies.

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Alexandria Miller @alexmsci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Past and present unite. Quick trip to Janelia with my postdoc, Gufran Siddiqui. Was great to catch up with David Clapham and many others.

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