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Breeanna Urbanowicz

@breeannau.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at UGAs Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. Lead of the Plant Biopolymers Group. Plant biochemist, gardener, and cat enthusiast with a focus on plant cell wall biology.

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Enjoying my first time at the Plant and Animal Genome meeting in sunny San Diego! #PAG33
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Normally I post about science, but here is a bit of my textile dye art pieces that I enjoyed making during the holiday break #icedye
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I'm excited to share our new work getting us closer to on plant-derived compostable plastic replacements 🌿🧪 My talented grad student, Mohammad Aghajohari, figured out the structure-reactivity roadmap for plant xylans to make it easy to modify. #glycotime #MaterialsScience #Biobased rdcu.be/eMh4g
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Structural features of xylan dictate reactivity and functionalization potential for bio-based materials
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Are you interested in graduate studies in plant science? UGA is looking for perspective graduate students to participate in Integrated Plant Science Access Preview Week hosted by graduate students affiliated with the UGA Plant Center.. Applications are due October 14th tinyurl.com/IPS-Access
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Plant Center – University of Georgia
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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🍭 Glycans are biology’s sugar code—super complex, super important. Thanks to AlphaFold3, we can now model their interactions with proteins! 🧪 Our new workflow unlocks fresh ways to explore immunity, infection & disease. doi.org/10.1093/glyc... #BioFGREAT #NSF #glycotime
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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The team at BioF:GREAT is always on the lookout for new protein design models that care about more than just the backbone! We are excited to try the new RFdiffusion3 (RFD3)! 🚀 New preprint from David Baker!🚀 🧪 #ProteinDesign #DeepLearning #ComputationalBiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3
Deep learning has accelerated protein design, but most existing methods are restricted to generating protein backbone coordinates and often neglect interactions with other biomolecules. We present RFd...
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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Meet the BioF:GREAT Team at The Society for Glycobiology's Annual Meeting in San Diego this November and be part of the future of glycoscience! Register for SfGlycobiology here: www.glycobiology.org/annual-meeting See you there! #SfGlycobiology #glycotime #biotech #glycotime #glycosylation
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our work @benschulz.bsky.social on the specificity and the mechanism of activation of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is now on Glycopedia ⬇️🎉🥳, the largest repository of #glycotime news and educational material online! Thank you Serge Perez 🤓❤️ glycopedia.eu/2025/09/09/r...
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Regulation of N-glycosylation efficiency by eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase - Glycopedia
Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) catalyses the key step of N-glycosylation, transferring immature N-glycans to select Asn residues in nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Asn are more li...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Sweet science, serious impact!! Check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry the BioF:GREAT. #glycotime 🧪
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Who knew the kinome has a dark side? To find out more- check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry. #glycotime #kinase 🧪
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Check out our new paper unraveling the structure of Rhsmnogalacturonan I in Arabidopsis. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... 🧪🌱
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
GRC Lobstertime!! #CAZyme GRC #glycotime
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
So proud that Kristen Thorne in my group won an award for best poster at the CAZyme GRC today!! #glycotime
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Enjoyed a tour of the #UGA Georgia Electron Microscopy facility to see the new #Sigray x-ray microscope that me and a group of PIs acquired through the support of #NSF MRI We’re ready to look at plant cell walls! 🧪
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Had a wonderful evening celebrating my friend and colleague Robin Buell’s election into the National Academy of Sciences! So proud to be part of UGAs plant science community. 😊
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Really excited to have this new capability at UGA thanks to the support of the NSF! The Eclipse XRM-910 Micro-CT from Sigray Inc., will allow us to create 3D models of plant tissues from a series of 2D X-ray images, preserving the original sample. #plantbio #glycotime 🧪
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Celebrating 2 new PhD candidates in the Plant Biopolymers Group this week. Congrats to Zeina and Charlie!!!
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are still accepting applications to attend the GRC on CAZymes for Glycan Conversions. This year's theme is ‘Unlocking CAZyme Interfaces’. This is one of my favorite meetings and I am excited to be the vice co-chair elect this year. #glycotime #biochemistry 🧪 www.grc.org/carbohydrate...
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It’s not just about this or that nameserver or browser, or how long it’s down, or if it’s intermittent (though those things are important, especially to clinicians and their patients); it’s this: “What if NCBI is not a permanent repository?” 🧪 🧬
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Had a great time hosting @ArielOrellana this week for a wonderful visit! Lots of cool work going on with NDP-sugars in plants.
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Cezary Waszczak @cezarywaszczak.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Have you ever wondered how pectin acetylation affects cell adhesion? Together with @breeannau.bsky.social we have the answer! Check our our joint preprint! @treebiocoe.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Read our new #preprint on @researchsquare: TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Pectin synthesis is much more complex than we think! #glycotime 🧪 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Had a blast at our holiday lab Bingo party!! Great people 🧪 and great fun 🎉🍻
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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Our colleagues at the Jülich Plant #Phenotyping Center #JPPC (@fz-juelich.de) have an open #PHDposition. Apply on the link 👇 untill 10.1.2025. #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience 🧪 #Roots Re-post please. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
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PhD Position – Characterization of the Phenotypic Diversity of Root and Shoot Traits in Rye Heterotic Pools
Are you passionate about science? Would you like to contribute to research on breeding crops resilient to climate change? Come to work with us at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Plant Sciences...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Neat 🧪
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I want to give @carrieaeckert.bsky.social a big shout out for leading our teams effort to work with scientists across academia, government, industry, and US funding agencies to suggest science roadmaps to drive the emerging bioeconomy. Check out our roadmap here!! www.casa-bio.net
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Our new preprint is out on developing ML models to study glycosyltransferaes #glycotime 🧪 Thank you to DOE for supporting our work on glycoenzymes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Decoding substrate specificity determining factors in glycosyltransferase-B enzymes - Insights from machine learning models
Substrate specificity is an essential characteristic of any enzyme's function and an understanding of the factors that determine this specificity is crucial for enzyme engineering. Unlike the structur...
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you for having me Chris! Such a great visit 🥳🥳 and amazing hospitality 🙏🏻
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Glyco-job alert!! The application deadline is approaching for our open track faculty position at the CCRC 🧪🧪 join the great glyco community in Athens, GA. #glycotime www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/400...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Check out the Plant Science Research Weekly -- Perspective on our recent review : Enzymatic routes to designer hemicelluloses for use in biobased materials (JACS Au) (Summary by Mary Williams) buff.ly/3C87FZ3 #PlantaePSRW #glycotime
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Perspective: Enzymatic routes to designer hemicelluloses for use in biobased materials | Plantae
This article poses the interesting question of whether we can use our knowledge of plant cell wall-modifying, carbohydrate-active enzymes to produce biobased materials. Specifically…
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Open Rank - Assistant, Associate or Full Professor
The University of Georgia (UGA) announces an opening for a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC; https://c...
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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Calling all glyco-enthusiasts!! We have an opening for a tenure-track faculty member at any rank in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (ccrc.uga.edu) in the areas of plant or microbial glycoscience. Come join our amazing team. #glycotime www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/400...
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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Come and join an amazing community of researchers in plant-insect interactions, Group leader position at the John Innes Centre #plants #insects www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...
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Plant-Insect Group Leader | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on plant-arthropod interactions, including insects.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs. My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
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Carrie A. Eckert (she/her/hers) @carrieaeckert.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s not too late, please consider attending a Keystone Symposium I’m chairing on the role of genetic engineering in driving a sustainable future www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Genetic Engineering for a Sustainable Future | Keystone Symposia
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Carrie A. Eckert (she/her/hers) @carrieaeckert.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I also want to highlight the massive amount of work so many talented scientists across academia, government, industry, and non-profits working with US funding agencies to suggest science roadmaps to drive the emerging bioeconomy www.casa-bio.net
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