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Gaston Courtade

@gcourtade.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in biopolymer science at NTNU, Trondheim 🇳🇴. Working with CAZymes, NMR and MD simulations. Coordinator for the biotechnology study programs at NTNU. 🔗 courtade.folk.ntnu.no

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has reported that it was hit during an Iranian air strike on Sunday. cen.acs.org/people/Missi...
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Missile strike hits Weizmann Institute of Science lab buildings
Extent of damage unclear as conflict between Israel and Iran continues
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I thought that CRYOprobes were able to reach sample temperatures lower than 281.4 K Smh at "insufficient chiller power" #NMRchat
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
PhD position in Bergen on MD+NMR of oligosaccharides with Markus Miettinen, an excellent supervisor. DL: June 1st. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025
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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Finally, we're recruiting! If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
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Art Edison @artedison.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest Substack post. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/artediso...
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This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country
Academic science in the US is being gutted by Trump
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Happy to see that the 5-year biotech master’s (which we coordinate) tops Norway's 2025 natural sciences programs in applicants-per-spot! It’s great to see that biology & bioscience are popular at other unis too. Thanks to all students & colleagues—looking forward to welcome you to NTNU in August!
Boblediagram som viser realfagprogrammer i Samordna opptak 2025, der hver boble representerer ett studieprogram.

X-aksen angir antall førstevalgssøkere (fra ca. 5 til 200).

Y-aksen viser antall førstevalgssøkere per studieplass (fra 0,4 til 4,0).

Boblenes størrelse tilsvarer antall studieplasser (store bobler som «Biovitenskap» ved UiO har over 150 plasser, små bobler har under 20).

Fargene koder institusjon (NTNU i mørkeblå, NMBU i lys grønn, UiO, UiB, UiS og UiT i egne farger).

De mest annoterte punktene inkluderer:

«Bioteknologi, Trondheim» (NTNU, ca. 135 søkere, 4,0 søkere/plass),

«Honoursprogram, Realfag» (UiO, ca. 78 søkere, 3,9 søkere/plass),

«Geovitenskap, retning geofysikk» (UiB, ca. 45 søkere, 3,8 søkere/plass),

«Biovitenskap» (UiO, ca. 195 søkere, 1,25 søkere/plass),

«Biologi» (NTNU og UiO, ca. 175 og 125 søkere, hhv. 2,35 og 1,25 søkere/plass).
Diagrammet viser at noen programmer har høy konkurranse (over 3 søkere/plass), mens mange samler moderat interesse (1–2 søkere/plass).
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
😳 "This manuscript is an embarrassment to the reader" (Happened to us)
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Never have I ever embarrassed reviewer #2. 𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻
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Nathalie Reuter @nathaliereuter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We have an open PhD position in molecular modeling to work on the recognition of pollutants by fish receptors. More information and application procedure: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Come and work with us ;)
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PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Work from Ingrid M. Bolstad's MSc thesis is now a preprint! We show how protein secretion from V. natriegens can be used to screen for PET hydrolases. Also, we include negative results on de novo enzymes generated with RFdiffusion+ProteinMPNN.
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
TIL that business cards weigh about 80 mg, thanks Microsoft Word.
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
- Very interesting peak shapes, what kind of spectrometer do you have? - Microsoft Paint
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
From CERM, Florence: selective aliphatic 1H decoupling in 15N-detected TROSY experiments results in significant increases in sensitivity and resolution for IDPs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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15N-detected TROSY for 1H-15N heteronuclear correlation to study intrinsically disordered proteins: strategies to increase spectral quality - Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions are central to many biological processes but difficult to characterize at atomic resolution. Nuclear magnetic resonance is particularly well-suite...
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Me: procrastinating by reading fantasy George RR Martin:
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
PhD position in molecular modeling at NTNU with Titus S. van Erp. The position is part of the ∞RETIS project, developing algorithms for faster molecular simulations, integrating path sampling simulation techniques with novel parallelization methods. DL: 1st March www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Candidate in Molecular Modeling (274181) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD Candidate in Molecular Modeling (274181), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Saturday, March 1, 2025
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I present to you the Catto-Pagnotta barostat. My go-to solution for anisotropic pressure coupling of cardboard boxes.
Photo of a cat sitting on a downturned cardboard box.
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NMR at UEA, Norwich, UK @uea-nmr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Check out the latest from our lab! #NMR #NMRChat pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Determination of the pKa and Concentration of NMR-Invisible Molecules and Sites Using NMR Spectroscopy
NMR spectroscopy is a very powerful tool for measuring the dissociation constants (pKa) of molecules, requiring smaller quantities of samples of lower purity relative to potentiometric or conductometr...
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Perspective by Higman et al: deposition of data for titrations, relaxation rates, PREs, etc in a standardized way, e.g. the NEF format could help develop AI models to accurately predict the dynamic behaviour of a protein from the primary sequence alone. #NMRchat doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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Perspective: on the importance of extensive, high-quality and reliable deposition of biomolecular NMR data in the age of artificial intelligence - Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are revolutionising scientific data analysis but are reliant on large training data sets. While artificial training data can be used in the context of NMR processin...
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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Looking forward to catching up with everyone here. You can also see what we're up to on our website: www.ntnu.edu/ibt/courtade...
Futurama-style text saying "Now on Bluesky"
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