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@gavirius.bsky.social
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Biochemist. Protein crystals grower and structural biologist. Head of LEC, IACT (CSIC). All views my own.

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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy to have had the opportunity to contribute to my friend Miguel’s research on how bacteria sense the environment using a set of proteins that we named receptors. We describe how evolution can move back and forth, expanding the range of molecules to be recognized. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! Grants application deadline has been extended to 16 September. Make sure you don’t miss your chance to apply! www.isbcgranada.org/registration/
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Structural Biology @actacrystd.iucr.org · 27/08/2026
Theoretical advances have led to a procedure for automatic solution of macromolecular structures with up to ~6000 non-H atoms in the ASU, resolutions up to 2.3 Å and heavy atoms in the unit cell #DirectMethods #PattersonMap #ProbabilisticApproach doi.org/10.1107/S205...
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Deadline for Grant application: August 31st, 2026!!!!!! isbcgranada.org/registration/
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Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT-CSIC) @iactcsic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Entrevista #CSIC #IACT #LEC #Ciencia #Investigación #Cristalografía #InnovaciónFarmacéutica #Proteínas
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Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT-CSIC) @iactcsic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🔬 La investigación que impulsa los medicamentos del mañana. Entrevista de Mónica Daluz a José A. Gavira @gavirius.bsky.social ius.bsky.social, , investigador del @iactcsic.bsky.social, jefe del Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, en la revista Interempresas.
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Miguel Matilla - Matilla Lab @miguelmatilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our new study shows that a #phytopathogenic bacterium uses distinct #chemoreceptors to detect plant defence compounds, revealing an important role for #chemotaxis in plant #virulence. @krelllaboratory.bsky.social @gavirius.bsky.social @robertagenova.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Krell Laboratory @krelllaboratory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Chemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens. Pathogen attack triggers the release of defense compounds by plants. Bacteria move chemotactically to these compounds.Nice collaboration with Ashleigh Holmes, @gavirius.bsky.social, @miguelmatilla.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Chemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens
Author summary Chemotaxis permits bacteria to move to sites that are favorable for survival and host colonization. A typical chemotactic response is initiated by the binding of chemoeffectors to chemo...
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Roberta Genova @robertagenova.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Happy to share our new paper! Many thanks to the @embo.org fellowship for supporting this new collaboration with Dr. Ashleigh Holmes at the @hutton.ac.uk , and many thanks to all the people who contributed and collaborated @miguelmatilla.bsky.social @gavirius.bsky.social
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Rachel Brazil @rachelbrazil.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I learnt a great deal writing this feature - including the legal concept of 'gastrointestinal infringement' www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...
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The curious case of disappearing polymorphs
From crystallographers' beards to billion-dollar lawsuits, the phenomenon of disappearing polymorphs has puzzled chemists for decades. Now researchers are finally unravelling the science behind why st...
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Marc L. Pusey 1948 – 2026
Beloved father, husband, brother, cherished friend, and extraordinary scientist — A man who met every horizon with curiosity, courage and clever limericks.
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We are pleased to announce the 9th International Doctoral School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC2026), to be held in Granada (Spain) during October 4th to 9th, 2026. 💎💎💎REGISTRATION IS OPEN: isbcgranada.org 🏁🏁🏁📢 . . .Grants are available!!!! 🧪
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HOME - International School on Biological Crystallization
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AEMET @aemet.es · 08/05/2026
🧵🌡️Empezamos una serie de hilos en los que explicaremos las bases científicas del cambio climático. En esta primera entrega vamos a aprender a diferenciar cambio climático y calentamiento global. Os mostraremos gráficas que os ayudarán a entender los conceptos #AemetDivulga
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GE3C RSEQ-RSEF @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
El @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social estrena Equipo de Comunicación. Manda tu noticia a ge3c@rseq.org (Asunto: COMUNICACION) y nosotros la distribuimos. 🔊🔊
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 08/04/2026
Wild! I had never considered regrowing teeth to be a possibility! 🧪 techfixated.com/human-trials...
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Human trials begin for drug that could let adults regrow teeth for the first time
In October 2024, researchers at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan began administering an experimental tooth-regeneration drug to human volunteers, marking
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Artemis II mission will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. The first time around, in 1969 it was a global event that had almost everyone glued to the TV screens. Turns out many scientists are not that excited by what’s scheduled for April 1st 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Humanity is heading back to the Moon — why aren’t more scientists thrilled?
Some researchers remain underwhelmed by NASA’s upcoming lunar fly-by.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Amazing-looking creatures!
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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day! 👩‍🔬 To celebrate we're highlighting some of the impactful work published with us in 2025/2026 led by women researchers worldwide. Read our collection👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #Chemsky #IWD2026 🧪
Collage of photos of women first or corresponding authors of articles published in 2025/2026 in Dalton Transactions to celerbate International Women's Day 2026.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Resisting AI slop @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org "Like many tools, AI will allow the scientific community to do more if it picks the right ways to use it." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 23/01/2026
We couldn't let World Handwriting Day go by without sharing Kathleen Lonsdale's penmanship ✍️ Lonsdale conducted pioneering research in X-ray crystallography and worked at the Ri. In 1929, she proved that the structure of benzene was flat—the chemical was also discovered here, by Michael Faraday.
Lonsdale's notebooks, showing incredibly neat and consistent handwritingLonsdale's notebooks, showing incredibly neat and consistent handwriting
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Ken Inge @keninge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Registration for the 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) is now open! Topics: single crystal XRD, powder XRD and 3D electron diffraction. Details can be found at ecs11.org and registration at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... We hope to see you in Stockholm!
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
By 2028, all 4-character PDB IDs will be exhausted. After that, all new entries will receive extended IDs: 12 characters total, formatted as pdb_ + 8 alphanumeric characters (pdb_1000axyz) Test it from PDB Beta Archive Read more: www.wwpdb.org/news/news?ye...
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GE3C RSEQ-RSEF @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#11F Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia!!! 🧬🔬💎
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We continue to explore how to use cross-linked enzyme crystals (CLECs). We hope you like it. An enzymatic microfluidic sensor for β-lactam antibiotics based on cross-linked ancestral β-lactamase crystals - now published in Nanoscale Advances. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @iactcsic.bsky.social
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An enzymatic microfluidic sensor for β-lactam antibiotics based on cross-linked ancestral β-lactamase crystals
A microfluidic enzymatic sensor based on cross-linked crystals of an ancestral β-lactamase (βLa-CLECs) was developed for the detection of β-lactam antibiotics under continuous flow conditions. The sen...
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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IACT - CSIC on X: "🎓 Con esta conferencia, el Prof. Calero puso fin a su estancia de 4 meses en el @LEC_CSIC, realizada gracias a una beca Fulbright (USA). Durante este periodo desarrolló el proyecto: “Molecular movies of the Ras oncogene reveal new targets for drug discovery”. https://t.co/1z1ku9pz8W" / X
🎓 Con esta conferencia, el Prof. Calero puso fin a su estancia de 4 meses en el @LEC_CSIC, realizada gracias a una beca Fulbright (USA). Durante este periodo desarrolló el proyecto: “Molecular movies of the Ras oncogene reveal new targets for drug discovery”. https://t.co/1z1ku9pz8W
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GE3C RSEQ-RSEF @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📣El GE3C anuncia el lanzamiento del MOOC “Cristalografía y Cristalización”, un curso online, abierto y gratuito. El curso está disponible todo el año en la plataforma OpenUAH, con inscripción abierta en cualquier momento! open.uah.es/courses/cour...
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GE3C RSEQ-RSEF @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
📣El #GE3C concede el II Premio Catalina Ruiz Pérez 🏅 a Luis León Alcaide por su tesis: “Beyond Crystallinity in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks” dirigida por el Dr. Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas y realizada en el @icmoluv.bsky.social.
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Instruct-ERIC @instruct-eric.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Are you looking for your next role in structural biology? Take a look at vacant positions through Instruct-ERIC, including the Team leader position at the cryo-EM facility of the Ernst Ruska-Centre at @fz-juelich.de! Find out more and apply here - instruct-eric.org/jobs/team-le...
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Team leader position cryo-EM facility Ernst Ruska-Centre Jülich - Instruct-ERIC
Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚀 Introducing PDBe-KB Complexes — a new PDBe-KB resource for exploring macromolecular complexes across the PDB. 🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb... 📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568... #PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣 The #GE3C has awarded the Gold Medal 🎖️, its highest distinction, to Professor Santiago García Granda, from the University of Oviedo and President of the IUCr, in recognition of his extensive and outstanding 🔝 scientific career in the field of crystallography 💎.
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Spanish delegation at #ECM35 in Poznan!!! #ECA
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In the afternoon happy to Chair Simona Fermani´ Keynote lecture on the CB cycle regulation.Example of SAX-Mx-CryoEM use to answer biological questions. #ECM35
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Yesterday we Chair a great morning session on Nucleation at #ECM35. We thank the speakers and the audience for such a nice environment.
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Sorry, it is in Spanish.. x.com/i/status/195...
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Jose A. Esteban @jaestebancbm.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Me preguntan por la financiación de distintas áreas. Son muchas... Aquí pongo de ejemplo una humanidades (Historia), una de ciencias "básicas" (Química) y una de biomedicina (Cáncer). La financiación media varía mucho, claro, pero el raquitismo relativo se mantiene... 😕
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Elizabet Monteagudo-Cascales @eli-monteagudo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Special thanks to our collaborators @jouline.bsky.social & @gavirius.bsky.social
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Virtual ChemBioTalks @chembiotalks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The fourth talk of the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by @cathleenzeymer.bsky.social. She will talk about her group’s exciting research under the title “Design and directed evolution of artificial photoenzymes”. Make sure to register for free: cvent.me/G1geWW
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Nogales Lab @nogaleslab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A unique honor to become a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety.org, together with my @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social colleague Stuart Russell and old friends like John Briggs, Asia Akhtar, Patrick Cramer or Ruth Lehmann. Learning about great science and science history was a real treat.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/06/2025
This is some really cool natural history, but I don’t like the spin that Science is putting on it. I don’t see any reason to think it’s evolving into a virus and the one outside researcher that they spoke to was dubious as well.
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I am really happy to share with you our latest publication on turning the inhibiting nucleation effect of silica gel on protein crystallization by increasing the hydrophobicity through controlled functional modification. #chembio, #ge3c-rseqf pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 01/06/2025
Every chart in this paper is like
Dragon meme with four scary dragons depicting AF3-derived protein folding NNs, and the silly dragon is RFAA
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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A global alternative to PubMed 🧪 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed
In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The final of the Crystallization Contest in the School was celebrated today in Granada at IACT.
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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 17/05/2025
ICYMI: New Online! Molecular machineries shaping the mitochondrial inner membrane
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Molecular machineries shaping the mitochondrial inner membrane
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00854-zThe inner mitochondrial membrane forms cristae, which are crucial for mitochondrial function. This Review explores the protein complexes that regulate cristae dynamics, including remodelling and fusion, and discusses recent structural insights that have increased our understanding of mitochondrial architecture.
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The structure of the human sweet receptor bound to artificial sweeteners reveals the structural basis for sweet detection, shedding light at how one single receptor mediates responses to a range of sweet-tasting compounds. ow.ly/M39P50VPqfT @fitzpatricklab.bsky.social 🧪
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 13/05/2025
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo
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Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo
El exguerrillero y símbolo de la izquierda latinoamericana fallece tras una larga lucha contra el cáncer. Su carisma y su capacidad de ser un oráculo de la austeridad y la sencillez fascinaron al mundo
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Gavi @gavirius.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The 12th Edition of the Macromolecular Crystallography & Cryo-EM School is running!!!! @ge3c-rseqf.bsky.social
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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