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Chelsea Brown

@chelseabrown.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher in the Lewandowski, Stansfeld and Dowson labs @ Warwick | Former postdoctoral researcher in the Marrink lab @ Groningen University | Views are my own | She/her 🏳️‍🌈 orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-5015

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Chelsea Brown @chelseabrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Delighted to share my first author paper on how the MIC10 protein complex generates curvature in mitochondrial crista out now in Science Advances!! 🥳🥳 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... See below for a run through of why we were interested and what we found 👇
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The molecular basis of mitochondrial crista formation by the MIC10 complex
Mitochondrial cristae are essential for respiration, yet the molecular basis of how the high curvature of these membrane folds is maintained remains unclear. Using structure prediction tools and multi...
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Protein Society @proteinsociety.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How do we build realistic cellular environments for simulations? @cg-martini.bsky.social, @ma3ke.bsky.social, @janstevens.bsky.social answer this with Bentopy, an integration tool for proteomics, metabolomics, and structural data that rapidly assembles simulation-ready molecular models.
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Jan Stevens @janstevens.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Building realistic models of cells means fitting proteins, RNA, and metabolites at experimental concentrations inside complex cellular architectures. Here's a movie showing how we pack the cytoplasmic space of the JCVI-Syn3A cell:
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Jan Stevens @janstevens.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our paper on [Bentopy](doi.org/10.1002/pro....) is out in Protein Science! We developed Bentopy to make assembling large-scale MD models more accessible, building on what we learned from trying to simulate whole-cell models. Here's our updated Martini JCVI-syn3A cell model👇
Cutaway and close-up views of a Martini coarse-grained whole-cell model of JCVI-syn3A, showing the densely packed cytoplasm with proteins, RNA, metabolites, and chromosome inside a lipid membrane with embedded membrane proteins
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Chelsea Brown @chelseabrown.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
So pleased this is finally out! Wonderful work by the incredibly talented @ma3ke.bsky.social and @janstevens.bsky.social to generate densely packed systems, even with complex topologies Go to the paper for cool science, stay for the mesmerizing figures 🤩 Read more about it in this thread 👇
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Chelsea Brown @chelseabrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It was great to be a small part of this work with the incredibly talented PhD student Andrea!! If you want to find out how you can save heaps of time while still maintaining accurate results with CG metadynamics, look no further!! Read the article here 👇
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Abby Dommer @abbydommer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My little outlook on how our lungs 🫁 are like the sea 🌊 is finally out in Central Science. Thanks to the support from incredible mentors @rommieamaro.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social !!
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Phill Stansfeld @pstansfeld.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Kat Blow has developed CCD2MD, a suite of packages for preparing co-folded outputs for MD simulations. Created for protein–lipid interactions in integral membrane proteins, it also works for peripheral and lipid-anchored proteins too. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... github.com/keb721/ccd2md
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CCD2MD: A Suite of Packages for Preparing Co-Folded Outputs for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Protein–lipid interactions play a crucial role in the stability and function of membrane proteins. While experimental approaches to characterize these interactions in a native-like membrane environmen...
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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Martini on top of the world ! TS2CG as a Membrane Builder | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A true community effort ! The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior | ACS Central Science pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 07/07/2025
@chelseabrown.bsky.social @cg-martini.bsky.social@rug.nl Integrative molecular modelling of a mitochondrial crista demonstrates a pipeline for constructing biologically representative systems and addressing interactions in complex environments www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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An integrative modelling approach to the mitochondrial cristae - Communications Biology
Integrative molecular modelling of a mitochondrial crista demonstrates a pipeline for constructing biologically representative systems and addressing interactions in complex environments.
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Chelsea Brown @chelseabrown.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It was great to help out the lipids with these two Mycobacterial enzymes. Fantastic work from the Mancia lab!
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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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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Martini workshop registration now open !!!! See cgmartini.nl for details and how to apply. Looking forward to seeing you in Groningen, Aug 11-15th.
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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pre-announcement: MARTINI tutorial workshop, August 11-15th 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands !! Learn basic and advanced Martini from the cocktail masters themselves. Registration will open soon.
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Siewert-Jan Marrink @cg-martini.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
MartiniGlass: a Tool for Enabling Visualization of Coarse-Grained Martini Topologies | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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MartiniGlass: a Tool for Enabling Visualization of Coarse-Grained Martini Topologies
As molecular modeling gains ever more prominence in understanding cellular processes, high quality visualization of models and dynamics has never been more important. Naturally, much molecular visuali...
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