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Francis O'Reilly

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Structural Systems Biology at NCI/NIH. Views are my own. #TeamMassSpec

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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PhIX-MS is out in Molecular Cell! Rapid in situ photo-crosslinking traps transient proteasome interactions before purification; crosslinking MS, cryo-EM and AlphaFold tell us where they bind. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo... Preview: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
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Vadim Demichev @vadim-demichev.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are delighted to present DIA-NN 2.5. Redefining LC-MS proteomics with up to 70% more proteins identified and powerful capabilities for statistics, visualisation and biological interpretation.
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Shyamal @shyamalm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Excited to share this collaborative work with Ward and Petrucelli Labs! We show that two major genetic risk factors for #neurodegeneration and cognitive decline converge on TMEM106B fibrils accumulating within lysosomes. A LOT of work packed in here 🧠🔬 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Shyamal @shyamalm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We are running the cryo-ET image processing workshop again this year! Come learn everything tomo: STA, segmentation, heterogeneity analysis from @baradlab.com @williamnwan.bsky.social and others! Apply!
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David Balchin @davidbalchin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our latest cotranslational folding story is now published @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Really cool (I think) new ideas about how exactly the ribosome directs folding and assembly to make sure complicated proteins mature efficiently in cells. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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The ribosome synchronizes folding and assembly to promote oligomeric protein biogenesis
Large oligomeric proteins constitute a major fraction of proteomes, but are difficult to refold in vitro, raising the question of how cells direct their biogenesis. Roeselová and Shivakumaraswamy et a...
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Jakob Farnung @jakobfarnung.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
When RNA Degradation 🤝 meets 🤝 Protein Degradation! tinyurl.com/E3TDMD In a collaboration of @bartellab.bsky.social and Schulman lab, we show that, in target-directed microRNA degradation (TDMD), 2-RNA-factors recruit an E3 ligase and induce the degradation of not only a protein but also RNA (1/5).
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 28/12/2025
ER-associated single-capped vaults are surprising and really cool!🤩 Some even contain ribosomes. Vault function is still mysterious but a role in protein quality control seems plausible. Also great to see Dicty in the #TeamTomo spotlight! #ProtistsOnSky @kgeissler.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social 🧪
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Plaschka lab @plaschkalab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
How does messenger RNA (mRNA) get out of the nucleus to become a protein? Eukaryotic mRNA is packaged, exported, and then translated in the cytoplasm. But how do these steps work? And what are open questions? Check out our new review for our take: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/3)
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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This work is now officially published @natsmb.nature.com with some fun new analyses included in the revised version. Congratulations to all the authors! @connyyu.bsky.social @rappsilber.bsky.social @lrsinn.bsky.social @fjoreilly.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We are excited to share our preprint describing DirectContacts2! Here we develop a machine learning model to discriminate between direct and indirect protein interactions. We use our model to construct a highly accurate wiring diagram of the human cell. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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DirectContacts2: A network of direct physical protein interactions derived from high-throughput mass spectrometry experiments
Cellular function is driven by the activity proteins in stable complexes. Protein complex assembly depends on the direct physical association of component proteins. Advances in macromolecular structur...
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
‼️ Exciting new preprint from a close collaboration with Kylie Walters' group. Our study maps the binding sites of key regulators of the proteasome in situ. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Structures of dynamic interactors at native proteasomes by PhIX-MS and cryoelectron microscopy
Proteasome function depends on a network of transient interactions that remain structurally and functionally unresolved. We developed PhIX-MS (Photo-induced In situ Crosslinking-Mass Spectrometry), a ...
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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A great lineup of speakers!
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Time to get signed up for the next Symposium on Structural Proteomics! This time in beautiful Milan 6th-8th October. ssp2025.squarespace.com
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Savitski Lab @savitski-lab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Beautiful work from my friend @kiranrpatil.bsky.social . Gut bacteria can accumulate Forever chemicals and help us get rid of them! Happy we could contribute! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - Nature Microbiology
Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as forever chemicals, in intracellular aggregates. Colonization of gnotobiotic mice with bioaccumulating bac...
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We have a 3-year funded postdoc position to work on structures of #amyloid filaments. If you are an expert in protein biochemistry, structural biology or #cryoEM / #cryoET, this could be for you! Feel free to email me with any questions. Come join us! 🤩 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Structural Studies - Dr Sjors Scheres - LMB 2640 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12840844
Postdoctoral Scientist Starting Salary: £41,344 Fixed term: 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK We are looking for a postdoc...
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Biblically accurate nitrogen
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 28/05/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Wolfgang Baumeister @maxplanck.de, awarded the 2025 #ShawPrize in Life Science & Medicine for pioneering work in cryo-ET! Learn more 👉 europa.eu/!JBXDBG #FrontierResearch #ERCSyG #CryoET #StructuralBiology #shawprize2025
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ERC grantee wins the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
2025 Shaw Prize honours ERC-funded research in molecular imaging
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We've updated our AFESM website to now include biome filtering, allowing exploration of protein structures adapted to specific environments. 🌐 afesm.foldseek.com Read more about the work in the skeetorial 🦋 bsky.app/profile/mart... or our preprint 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kelly Nguyen @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us to explore telomerase regulation by histones. Please get in touch if this may interest you.
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Felix Steinruecke @felixsteinruecke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I’m excited to share my first paper in the Farnung lab, in which we report four cryo-EM structures of the human DNA replication machinery engaging with and progressing into a nucleosome.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of our satellite-tagged Cuckoos has hitched a ride on a cruise ship and is now in the UK, the earliest one of our superstar Cuckoos has ever reached us! 😮🛥️🧵
Image of a world map showing the journey of Cuckoo Tom when he hitched a ride on a cruise ship. Arrows show the ships journey from West Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, across to the coast of South America, past Puerto Rico, the United States, up to Iceland and to the UK. A headshot of Cuckoo Tom features, alongside the wording: Tagged, Norfolk 2023. Current location: UK. Mode of transport: cruise ship. Outline of a cruise ship in white sits over the ocean. BTO logo features top right of the image.
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Gerry Wright @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha
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A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome
Nature - A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/03/2025
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“You see, that was funny because no one could imagine one banana costing $10.”
Grandpa Simpson bluthing himself
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy retirement to Francis Collins, a scientific and administrative hero. He was always a strong advocate for the importance of biological research and the results are obvious and impressive.
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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Out of the lab, into the wild: when @pauligroup.bsky.social's Andi Pauli puts on her @ox.ac.uk blue, you know it's business time! Austria's national broadcast ORF interviewed her on how #Vienna has become such an amazing place for life science research.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Foldseek-Multimer—now published in @naturemethods.bsky.social—our fast multimer search tool, enables complex comparisons against the full PDB in seconds. It comes with BFMD, a collection of 300K+ predictions gathered from community projects. 📄 nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐 search.foldseek.com
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Suyang Zhang @suyangzhang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Ever wondered how Pol II speed is controlled during productive elongation? Our study reveals that the helicase RECQL5 triggers transcription braking, while the transcription-coupled DNA repair complex restores the elongation rate. #cryoEM #transcription www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
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Haselbach Lab @haselbachlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We are very excited to share our recent preprint on the nuclear import mechanism of the proteasome, driven by the multivalent adaptor AKIRIN2! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/6
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A multivalent adaptor mechanism drives the nuclear import of proteasomes
Nuclear protein homeostasis, including the turnover of transcription factors, critically depends on nuclear proteasomes. After each cell division, proteasomes need to be re-imported into the newly for...
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Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
First paper of our lab today @natureportfolio.bsky.social by Nussi! We provide a real-time movie on how #transcription and #translation cooperate using #single-molecule FM: we find long-range #ribosome/ RNAP communication mediated by #RNA looping! @embl.org #RNAbiology #RNASky t.co/a24Xxcxdo0
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Ed Sherer @hartreefocker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Helium Remembrance Day to all who celebrate! #NMRChat #ChemSky
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Publishing the uncut blot
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interesting paper by the groups of Florian Stengel and @nadlerlab.bsky.social in ChemBioChem. They developed a new protein crosslinker based on the photoactivatable o-nitrobenzyl acetate reactive group, which leads to crosslinking of lysines for XL-MS. #ChemBio #Proteomics chemistry-europe.onl...
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Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our article "MCM double hexamer loading visualized with human proteins" published in Nature today! ❄️🔬🧬🎉🥳 Great collaboration with John Diffley's lab. Congratulations to Florian Weissmann, Julia Greiwe and all other authors! rdcu.be/d1F7m
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Eugene Valkov @eugenevalkov.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
As a biochemist, I am continually surprised that people keep rediscovering that tags affect protein properties
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So The Guardian is on here now and in its honour I am directing you all to the greatest British cultural analysis anyone has done lately www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...
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How the sandwich consumed Britain | The long read
The long read: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year. It transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast – and now it’s coming for dinner
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Applications for the 2025 Bioorganic GRC are now live! Here is the link where you can check out the current line-up: grc.org/bioorganic-c...
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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
As my lab's first post on Bluesky. If you are a UK Structural Biologist please come to our one day meeting on Friday 6th December Lots of talk slots to be selected from abstracts. Deadline for abstracts is TOMORROW: Friday 15th Nov. bit.ly/4fDEqfZ
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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
All crew, Again, please do not insert unknown USB drives from random planets into computer ports on the Enterprise. Worf
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Francis O'Reilly @fjoreilly.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
SAVE THE DATE! We are bringing the Symposium for Structural Proteomics to Cambridge MA this October 28-30. ssp2024.org. Structural mass spec, cryoEM, comp. structure prediction, and more! Check out the lineup of confirmed speakers below.
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𝗖👽𝗥𝗟 @carl.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Body goals
I'm actually not sure how to effectively describe this. It's a model of inside a human but really distorted so the human looks like a slug? I don't know I'm not a doctor!
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