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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our latest on KCNQ1, in collaboration with David Fedida and Luca Maragliano: cryo-EM shows how the inhibitor UCL2077 breaks the symmetry of KCNQ1 and causes a conformational change that blocks the pore. Cryo-EM work spearheaded by Efthymios Kyriakis. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Citation nonsense. Our paper on Ryanodine Receptor disease mutations gets cited in a paper about nanocellulose... advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Journals could use an AI tool to weed through irrelevant citations. Or is this entire paper an AI hallucination?

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Jan Siemens @jansiemens.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I just did an interview in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung about how we detect cold temperatures — the journalist, Felix Hütten, did a nice job to make it accessible also for non-scientists. www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/m...

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Warum manche Menschen schneller frieren als andere - selbst die Wissenschaft tut sich schwer

Temperaturwahrnehmung ist einer der ursprünglichsten Sinne des Menschen. Warum ist das so? Fragen an den Pharmakologen Jan-Erik Siemens.

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thanks to the UBC media team for coverage of our statin : RyR1 work. Atorvastatins bind and trigger opening of a calcium release channel critical for muscle contraction. news.ubc.ca/2025/11/ubc-... @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

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UBC researchers uncover how statins harm muscles—and how to stop it - UBC News

Study reveals how cholesterol-lowering drugs can trigger muscle damage—and point to a way to make them safer.

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Our latest work : Statins are used to lower plasma cholesterol but often come with muscle-related side effects. Using cryo-EM, we show how multiple statin molecules cooperate to bind RyR1, a calcium release channel mainly found in skeletal muscle. nature.com/articles/s41...

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Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org · 10/10/2025

PIP2-driven cytoplasmic domain motions are coupled to Kir2 channel gating, say Eva-Maria Zangerl-Plessl, Anna Stary-Weinzinger, Colin G. Nichols, and Sun-Joo Lee rupress.org/jgp/article/... @colinnicholslab.bsky.social #IonChannels #Phospholipids

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our cryo-EM structure of the intermediate state of the KCNQ1 potassium channel is out. Collaborative effort with the David Fedida and Luca Maragliano labs. Cryo-EM work spearheaded by Efthimios Kyriakis, PhD www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Misha Kudryashev @mishakudryashev.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We have a preprint of a book chapter for you: Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins in Cell-Derived Microvesicles. We describe how to image membrane proteins in mid-sized vesicles using cryo-electron tomography zenodo.org/records/1717...

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Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins in Cell-Derived Microvesicles

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A study in collaboration with Frank Bosmans. Reproducible protocol to measure the elusive NaV1.9 currents, and revealing a big role for the preIQ region in gating properties.

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A robust expression system reveals distinct gating mechanisms and calmodulin regulation of NaV1.9 channels

An expression system enables detailed study of NaV1.9 channel gating and its regulation by calmodulin.

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Still a few days left to apply for a faculty position focused on cardiac arrhythmias at Simon Fraser University. Come join the greater Vancouver network on arrhythmia research! www.academicwork.ca/jobs/assista...

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Assistant or Associate Professor in Cardiac Arrhythmias - CAUT | Academic Work

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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Well done Kookjoo Kim on a great poster presentation, here visited by an RyR VIP, @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social! And thanks @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social, @popstarlab.bsky.social & team for a great #BPS2025 under challenging circumstances - see you next year in SF!

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Stress in action: our crystal structure of PKA bound to its preferred substrate in CaV1.2 (Ser1981 for the aficionados). Quantitative experiments on previously proposed sites in CaV1.2 and its regulator Rad shows that there are two tiers of substrates. jbc.org/article/S002...

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Calcins are scorpion-derived peptides that can cross the plasma membrane and modulate the Ryanodine Receptor. Marvin presenting the latest cryoEM results from our lab at the 2024 Translational Arrhythmia Day (TADA) meeting. (description also here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Every day since the late 1920s (except during WWII), the notes of the Last Post sound through the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. Unfortunately, "never again" hasn't stuck. #ArmisticeDay

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Can you find out which ion binds your protein using cryo-EM? This new method from Bonnie Murphy's lab combines electron energy loss spectroscopy and single particle imaging, showing this can become posssible. Test case on our favorite protein, the Ryanodine Receptor. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Elemental mapping in single-particle reconstructions by reconstructed electron energy-loss analysis - Nature Methods

An approach combining electron energy-loss spectroscopy with image processing tools from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy enables elemental mapping in macromolecular complexes, paving the way ...

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Our latest cryo-EM study, elucidating the type 3 Ryanodine Receptor (RyR3) in different conformational states nature.com/articles/s4146… Unexpected binding sites for ATP and chloride in the N-terminal region, affected by mutations linked to epileptic encephalopathy.

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

A new faculty position in cardiac arrhythmia in the greater Vancouver area. sfu.ca/content/dam/... Come join our local arrhythmia community.

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Filip Van Petegem @filipvanpetegem.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

A very cool method by Bonnie Murphy's lab to map elements for cryo-EM. The method, named REEL-EM, makes use of electron-energy loss spectroscopy. Honored to have contributed to this: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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