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@corrylab.bsky.social
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Computational protein research group of Prof Ben Corry. We love molecular dynamics and all kinds of membrane proteins including ion channels, transporters and immune receptors ~Posts by group members

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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excited to share work by @yemilywang.bsky.social & Zhouyu Zhang, in a collab with PKU: Martini 3 CG sims overestimate lipid scrambling, predict it in proteins that don't scramble, and give anomalous binding, from low headgroup polarity. But small parameter refinements fix it. tinyurl.com/m3scramble
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Great new preprint by our @ciarawallis.bsky.social and Abi Partridge!
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Kudos to @ciarawallis.bsky.social & @yiechanglin.bsky.social for their elegant publication testing #AlphaFold for predicting protein oligomeric states including advice on when it is likely to do well and when it can fail. 🌟🎉🌟🎉#StructuralBiology #AI #Biophysics tiny.cc/oligos
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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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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excited to share this paper from @yiechanglin.bsky.social showing how lipids can move between bacterial membranes along the bridge like protein TamB. Also happy to be able to post the cool movie. 🎥🌟 #MDsimulations #StructuralBiology doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
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ANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 23 April 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Caroline Puente-Lelievre, Research Fellow from the School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland. @corrylab.bsky.social Details: rb.gy/ik3ep3
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BSB Seminar Series: Structural phylogenetics: tracing protein functions from origins to diversification
In this talk, I will show how combining phylogenetic inference, protein structure prediction, and ancestral sequence reconstruction opens new ways to investigate how protein functions originate and di...
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Ciara Wallis @ciarawallis.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
🎉The @corrylab.bsky.social are so excited to be at #BPS2026! 💃 See Emily TODAY 4:45 PM, Room 207 talking about a simulation PIPeline to predict PIP binding sites 🖥️ + me tomorrow 8:45 AM, Room 201 for when AlphaFold can predict homo-oligomeric states 🤖 + both of us @ posters B218 & B11 on Tues! 🎆
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How does your immune system tell pathogenic RNA from your own, even though they’re made of the same stuff? Our latest paper with @gantierlab.bsky.social shows some self RNA act as an off switch preventing autoimmunity in the absence of pathogens. 🧬🔬⭐ www.nature.com/articles/s41590-026-02429-2
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2′-O-Methyl-guanosine RNA fragments antagonize TLR7 and TLR8 to limit autoimmunity - Nature Immunology
Here, the authors show that 2’-O-methylated RNA fragments from ribosomal RNA naturally block TLR7 and TLR8, helping to avoid avoid harmful self-RNA detection and autoimmunity.
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Ciara Wallis @ciarawallis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🥳So excited to announce our latest preprint on PfFNT!! The lactate/H+ exporter from the malaria parasite that challenges the standard definitions of transporters vs channels 💪✨ 1/6 tiny.cc/pffnt
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Beginning 2026 with a flipping good paper🚀 OSCA/TMEM63 proteins do double duty: they’re ion channels and mechanically activated lipid scramblases helping reshape membranes and survive mechanical stress. 👏 @yiechanglin.bsky.social @charlesdcox.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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ANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us on campus & online on Monday, 16 Feb 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Ciara Wallis, PhD Candidate @corrylab.bsky.social! Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/....
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BSB PhD Exit Seminar: Mechanisms of membrane transport proteins borderline between transporters and channels
Throughout my PhD, I determined the transport mechanisms of two proteins that we show break the standard channel / transporter definitions and instead function as anion “chansporters” - proteins that exist somewhere on the spectrum between transporters and channels.
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The Australian Society for Biophysics @aus-soc-biophys.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thank you Toby Allen and Ben Corry for that beautiful story, celebrating the life, work, and impact on our biophysics community that the late Shin-Ho Chung had. Now for a special session all about ion channels! #ASB2025
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
You cant focus on new priorities if you don't have people and funding to do the work. Let's keep the scientists we do have.
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Great to see this paper with @elainetao.bsky.social out in print at the Biophysical Journal. Using Alphafold to study conformational transitions in 32 voltage-gated channel superfamily members #ionchannel #AI #StructuralBiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
📣 Save the date for the 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function! ✨ Lorne, Victoria, Australia. We have a packed program and we'll be sharing all the details here - Like, Follow and Share - because friends don't let friends miss the epic Lorne Proteins 😊 www.lorneproteins.org
A cartoon image of a beach with a banner that reads "save the date!" 8th-12th February, 2026, Victoria, Australia. Lorne Proteins 2026.
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
2 yrs ago @yiechanglin.bsky.social sent me this movie of lipid scrambling by OSCA1.2. Now we show it’s common to WT OSCA/TMEM63 proteins, mechanically activated, cholesterol dependent, and protects cells from damaging forces. Awesome collab with @charlesdcox.bsky.social &Zhang lab. tiny.cc/tmem63
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Applications for this position are closing tomorrow! Get yours in quickly 😁
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🌟 We are hiring! Seeking a postdoc to use molecular dynamics and AI to understand how ion channels are regulated by membrane lipids 🌟 Join us at #scienceanu with amazing collaborators and great working conditions! Email me (karri.anu.edu.au) or apply here (tiny.cc/corry). Please share & repost!
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excited to share John's new work in Nat Coms! We demonstrate how PfCRT, a polyspecific peptide transporter, turns into a drug transporter for antimalarials like chloroquine and why this causes a fitness cost for the malaria parasite (1/2) tiny.cc/PfCRT
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Also bittersweet to announce the final work of @elainetao.bsky.social in our lab, using AF2 to study conformational transitions in 32 voltage-gated channel superfamily members 🤩 we're so excited to watch you Nav-igate the next steps of your career, Dr. Tao & are so proud of you 🎩 tiny.cc/VSD-AF2
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Bittersweet to announce the wonderful YC's final work in our lab. We are so proud of everything she's accomplished (incl. this beautiful study showing how the TAM complex facilitates lipid flow between the bacterial inner & outer membranes). We can't wait to see what you do next, Dr. Lin 🤩
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Thrilled to share our latest preprint from @yiechanglin.bsky.social & @ciarawallis.bsky.social showing that AF2-Multimer and AF3 can quickly & accurately predict the oligomeric states & structures of proteins (& maybe can identify multiple biologically relevant oligomeric states 👀) tiny.cc/oligomers
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Big congratulations to the very sharp @elainetao.bsky.social who submitted her PhD last week! Our greatest Nav channel expert is rumoured to be joining the dark side of Kv. #drtao #phdone @scienceanu.bsky.social 🔪🎆👩‍🔬👩‍🎓
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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Anders ECR session Ruitao Jin: plant Ca ion channels. Mechanical gating of OSCA channels. 100s of subtypes sense and react to physical forces. Homodimers with protomer pore and cleft. Liposome inside-in structure. Membrane belt-MD avg position of lipid head group. Contribute to ion selectivity 🤩
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Big congratulations to @riottowow.bsky.social .bsky.social for winning an Anders Early Career Award at @lorneproteins.bsky.social ! Presenting his work on the lipid lined pore of the OSCA mechanosensitive channel. #lorneproteins2025
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Proud of our latest work w/ the Zhang lab showing from structure & simulation how XPR1, the only known human Pi exporter, is regulated by InsP8 & KIDINS220 + Pi selection & permeation through a channel-like “knock-kiss-kick” mechanism 🚪💋🦵 💻 by @ciarawallis.bsky.social & @riottowow.bsky.social
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Excited to be going to #bps2025 in LA!
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I should have included one of the nice figures from the paper! rupress.org/jgp/article-...
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excited to start the year with this paper with @elainetao.bsky.social. Using simulations we show sodium channel blocking drugs bind at many sites within the pore and fenestrastions rather than at a single distinct pose. @jgenphysiol.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social #ionchannels hubs.la/Q031spy70
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Drugs exhibit diverse binding modes and access routes in the Nav1.5 cardiac sodium channel pore
Tao and Corry investigate how the binding of sodium channel inhibitors to the Nav1.5 pore using simulations reveal promiscuous, polyspecific binding at the
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Season's Greetings from our (lab) family to yours! P.s. can you guess which lab member is which?? 🎄🎅🍪 Baking by @yiechanglin.bsky.social, Elaine Tao, ZhouYi Wang, @ciarawallis.bsky.social, + honorary member @caloflaherty.bsky.social ♥️
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Drew Berry wehi.tv @drewberry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Delighted to publish my new molecular animation: DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs
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DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination (2024) Drew Berry wehi.tv
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We’ve had nearly 3 years of review, review, review. We need reviews, but it’s blindingly obvious that Australian research needs much greater Government investment while those reviews are done. This was true 3 years ago. Still true now. By @drjr.bsky.social
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Falling enrolments and funding cuts force Australian universities to take stock
The Australian Universities Accord offers a roadmap for reform, but there are major challenges ahead.
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Steve Brohawn @stevebrohawn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excited to share our preprint about volume regulated ion channels here! We solved structures of heteromeric LRRC8A:D channels and show how they are gated closed by pore-blocking lipids. Led by @antonylurie.bsky.social + David Kern #IonChannel #cryoem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm following the Friday trend to make my own word scramble. Mine is a bit of a historical mess, but lots of fun to try scholargoggler.com
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corrylab.bsky.social @corrylab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's great to be back in Canberra with my wonderful (and prize-winning) lab talking about channels, transporters, lipids, and simulations while drinking boba #scienceanu
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Ute Hellmich @hellmichgroup.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados! Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍 go.bsky.app/AEeXh86
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Richard Barrett-Jolley @richardbj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
May be a bit premature, but here is the Starter Pack I am trying to populate for #IonChannel research. Ping me and I’ll add you obviously! (Or to be removed) go.bsky.app/6taxHfx @jgenphysiol.bsky.social @auditorynerves.bsky.social @plesslab.bsky.social @rainbowlabuol.bsky.social
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YC Lin @yiechanglin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I made a MD starter pack! Dm or reply to be added ☺️☺️ go.bsky.app/QQjPjbL
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