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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#GPCRZoominar happening today! 🕓 4:00 PM CET we will host Dr. Pawel Krawinski from Martin Caffrey's group at Trinity College Dublin🤩. Book your agenda for this exciting session, and as always, do not hesitate to contact us for the JOIN link 🔗! #ECI_Zoominar #GPCR_Forum

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📢Today at 4 pm CET we will host Dr. Saif Khan in the #GPCRECIzoominar! Join us to learn about his exciting research on #opioid research.🚀 📩As always, send a DM to receive the JOIN link or check the GPCRForum mailing list. @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @gati.bsky.social #structuralbiology #GPCRs

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here the information on our website ⬇️ www.gpcrforum.org/events/gpcr-...

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GPCRFORUM.ORG - GPCR Zoominars

GPCR Zoominars 2026

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🧬 #GPCRForum ECI Zoominars are back for the 2026–2027 season! We kick off today with Dr. Nour Aldin Kahlous from Uppsala University. ⏰ 4 pm CET 🔗 Find the joining link on our website, or send us a DM and we will send you the link. See you there 🤩

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Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Some very cool simulations, look at those little guys climb that ladder! #MolecularNodes

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

HAPPENING THIS WEEK 🗓️ May 14th, 2026 ⏰ 15:00 CEST In the next Career Café Session, we will host Dr. Dawn Thompson from the University of Aberdeen, UK. This would be a great opportunity to listen to the journey of a successful scientist who established her own group in recent years! #ECI_zoominar

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Next week on #Zoominar, we will host Antoni Marciniak from #KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Antoni will present his work on the evolutionarily conserved mechanism of activation in class A #GPCRs! *As always, drop us a DM if you do not receive announcement emails.

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

👨‍🏫 Already 4 years of #teaching and #tutoring this course at #TUM together with @antonelladipizio.bsky.social. Loving every discussion with students 🤩 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 I truly believe one of the great impacts we can make is helping #shape the #nextgen.

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Community perspective: Toward a unified framework for determining conformational ensembles of disordered proteins 🍝 with framework for experimental data acquisition, computational ensemble generation & validation Led by @hamidrgh.bsky.social, Silvio Tosatto & Alex Monzon doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

[…] “for too long now, research has been trapped by indicators that actually have nothing to do with the intrinsic quality of the scientific advances set out in a publication"

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 Happening today at 4pm CEST. We host Dr. Phil Richter from Leinniz Institute for food systems biology at TUM. Don't miss it. If you do not receive the announcement emails and the join link, send us a DM. #ECI_Zoominar #GPCR_Forum

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 Book your agenda for our next #GPCRzoominar next week: 🗣️Dr. Hossrin Batebi 🗓️February 5, 2026 🕓 16:00 -17:00 CET #ECI_Zoominar #compchem #GPCRforum #openscience #scienceforall

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📢📢 The last #GPCR Zoominar of 2025 is a CaféSession with Prof. Graeme Milligan from the #UniversityOfGlasgow. You will discover the fascinating scientific path of Prof. #Milligan and will have the chance to engage with him on career-related topics. Link: www.gpcrforum.org/events/gpcr-...

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📣 #zoominar next week 📣 🗓️ December 4th 🕓 4 pm CET 🎙️ We will host Silvia Schaefer from the #Leibniz Institute for food system biology at #TUM. Book your agenda, and send us a DM if you do not receive announcement emails from GPCRForum. 🔗 www.gpcrforum.org/events/gpcr-...

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🎥The final session of this year's #2nd_GPCR_Forum_virtual_conference showcases the 🇺🇸 #GPCR community at #UCSF in the USA. 🎙️The chair is @amanglik.bsky.social and he has scheduled a wonderful lineup of #ECI speakers! 🔜 The session begins at 16:55 CET (< 1 hour). See you there!🤩

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The 3rd day of the #2nd_GPCR_Forum_conference starts in a few minutes. We begin with #GPCRLadies, where @tastelabhuji.bsky.social and Silvia Sposini have invited a magnificent lineup of speakers. Don't miss this! 🔗 GPCR ladies: gpcrladies.com

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🎙️2nd day of the #GPCRForum Virtual Conference 🎥 🇦🇺🇳🇿 Session 3: Australia and New Zeeland 🇪🇺 Session 4: #ECI contribution from Europe #2ndGPCRForum #openscience #GPCR

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

✨How can #bioinformatics, and #structuralbiology help us see the invisible: the molecular world behind our #sense of #smell? 🧬 Happy to share our first #review from the CPM group 💻 🔗 lnkd.in/dr9NkRTb #GPCR #Olfaction #Bioinformatics #AI #ComputationalBiology #smell

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨 Happening this Thursaday🚨 🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 ⏱️ 16.00 - 17.00 CEST We will host Dr. Simone Aureli from the University of Geneve. You will receive the link via email if you are already a member of #GPCR_FORUM. If you haven't already, consider becoming a member to avoid missing any of our events.

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🗞️ Check out the exciting program for the 2nd GPCR Forum Conference! 🎥 Stay tuned in the coming days as we announce the detailed sessions. 🧬 #Youngscientists are invited to join and connect with #GPCR researchers worldwide! 🔗 Register now: gpcrforum.org/events/2nd-gpc… #GPCRForum #openscience

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

⚡️Happening in less than an hour ⚡️

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📢We resume the GPCR Zoominars on October 23rd! After a long pause, the #GPCR_ECI_Zoominar is back with a Café Session. On October 23rd, we host Prof. Hugo Gutiérrez de Terán, a professor and a CEO🤩! This happens at the usual time, i.e 4 pm CET. Book your agenda📅

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📢 Call for Abstracts! We encourage all researchers to submit an abstract for a poster presentation or flash talk — share your work with the GPCR community! 📷 Abstract submission deadline: October 24, 2025 📷 www.gpcrforum.org/events/2nd-g...

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GPCRFORUM.ORG - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 2025

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The GPCR early career investigator (ECI) Zoominar is now managed by gpcrforum.org. To receive notifications for upcoming events, such as the ECI Zoominars, please register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… ECI: from undergraduate students to junior group leaders

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📝 Register by: November 11, 2025 🔗 Registration form: lnkd.in/ev432nNU 📄 Conference details: lnkd.in/eEhVhkkS Let’s come together to advance #GPCRscience and #innovation!

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📢 Call for Abstracts! We encourage all researchers to submit an abstract for a poster presentation or flash talk — share your work with the GPCR community! 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: October 17, 2025 👉 Submit here: www.gpcrforum.org/events/2nd-g...

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GPCRFORUM.ORG - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 2025

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚀 Hey #GPCR community on #bluesky! 🌍 The 2nd GPCR Forum Virtual Conference is taking place!🧬 📅 Nov 12–14, 2025 This 3-day virtual event will bring together scientists and researchers from around the world to explore the latest breakthroughs in GPCR! #GPCRforum #ScienceTogether

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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Great opportunity to present my work on #MDsimulations of #ORs at #ECRO25, along side many inspiring scientists 🤩 👩🏻‍🏫 Greatful to @tastelabhuji.bsky.social for organizing such an excellent symposium. 🙏🏻 Huge thanks to #LSB and @antonelladipizio.bsky.social for their constant support!!

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

👋🏻 #bluesky GPCR 🚀 Want to get to know me a bit better? ⚗️ Curious about what I’ve been working on? I had a fun chatting on the Dr. GPCR #podcast to talk about my #journey, #research, and everything in between! 🎥 Watch on YouTube: lnkd.in/gzGQYX-x 🔗 Podcast: lnkd.in/gbcGj_HH #GPCR #compchem

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Looking for a home for your structural biology paper? We welcome studies that advance our understanding of molecular mechanisms in biology, using experimental and computational approaches to provide quantitative insights. See what we publish ⬇️

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Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

eLife reviews research that uses techniques including X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM and single-molecule methods. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.

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Chelsea Brown @chelseabrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

What better way to use my first proper post than to share my first big piece of post-doctoral work with @cg-martini.bsky.social! Here, we used integrative modelling to build and simulate a mitochondrial cristae. Find the paper here (rdcu.be/eujAC) or see below for a quick overview 👇

A stylized image of the molecular model of a mitochondrial crista, with proteins and lipids shown

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“The assessment of monomer targets in the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction Round 16 (CASP16) underscores that the problem of single-domain protein fold prediction is nearly solved--no target folds were missed across all Evaluation Units.”

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Levental Lab @leventallab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Been thinking about biomembranes? Wondering what next decade of research will be? Wonder no more: there's an awesome conference coming up in Copenhagen in July!! From simulations to cells and everything in between. 5 days left to submit abstract - APPLY! www.biophysics.org/blog/beyond-...

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Beyond Simple Models: The Consequences of Membrane Complexity in Living Systems - Copenhagen, Denmark 2025

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting on Beyond Simple Models: The Consequences of Membrane Complexity in Living Systems. This meeting will be held in ...

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Results from CASP16 on predicting conformational ensembles of 2 domain-linker-domain constructs. Happy to see that CALVADOS 3 and our two rescaled versions of Martini do well in matching SAXS data in blind tests. But the results also show that lots remain to be done in modelling domain orientations

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Harvard University: “We have informed the [Trump Administration] through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...

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Pablo Arantes @pabloarantes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I’ve just updated the BioEmu notebook to include the powerful LogMD. Now, you can generate equilibrium ensembles and explore the full ensemble directly in the notebook. A huge thanks to Alexander Mathiasen for the support! 🙌 🔗 Try it on Google Colab: lnkd.in/gcuqd-fT

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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“Any paper referring to a docking score or MMGBSA as a "binding energy" should be desk rejected” - words of wisdom from Pat Walters. 💯 % agree and will try to implement as JCIM policy 😈 #skychem #compchem

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a raccoon is sitting on its hind legs with its hands folded in prayer .

ALT: a raccoon is sitting on its hind legs with its hands folded in prayer .

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Bussi Lab @bussilab.org · 05/04/2025

Our community letter on #FAIR principles in #moleculardynamics simulations has been published on @naturemethods.bsky.social 🎉

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🚀 NEW collaborative paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social 💡 #MD help exploring W350 dynamics with different ligands! 🔍 paper: lnkd.in/dWQuEQPV 🌍 Collaboration between #TUM, #KAUST, #LSB @antonelladipizio.bsky.social 🎨 Thanks to @bradyajohnston.bsky.social for #GeometryNodes! #PDB #CompChem #Blender

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Alessandro Nicoli @anicoli90.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🎙️Happy to have presented my #Postdoctoral project at the Weihenstephan #Bioinformatics Symposium 2025 organized by Prof. @itisalist.bsky.social and by the amazing team @daisybio.de at #TUM!!! Learned a lot about the exciting science around #TUM ann #LMU 🤓 #compchem #MD #chemosensory #GPCR

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry

This work challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid abundance asymmetry...

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Dima Lupyan @newyorkdimka.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Free Energy Workshop (feworkshop.bsky.social) will happen on May 6-8th. If you're an unemployed #CompChem modeller or researcher and want to attend to network but cannot afford the $215 registration fee, please DM me.

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Free Energy Workshop 2025 (@feworkshop.bsky.social)

Organizing the largest workshop concerning Free Energy calculations within the United States.

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