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Iain Wilson

@iainwilsonwien.bsky.social
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Associate Professor interested in molecular glycobiology, glycomics of lower eukaryotes, glycan arrays, chemical glycobiology, classical music. Viva la libertà!

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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tonight at the Musikverein - went with the 13 year old to Mahler’s 9th symphony performed by the Wiener Symphoniker. Certainly not easy listening, but the 3rd and 4th movements delivered the goosepimple effect!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Retirement symposium for Ebrahim Razazzi-Fazeli at the VetMedUni in Vienna.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Latest review by David Harvey: Analysis of Carbohydrates and Glycoconjugates by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry: An Update for 2023–2024 analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Analysis of Carbohydrates and Glycoconjugates by Matrix‐Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry: An Update for 2023–2024
The use of MALDI mass spectrometry for the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates is a well-established technique and this comprehensive review is the twelfth update of the original article pu....
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Registration open for #glycotime meeting in Berlin in January 2027. www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/glycobiotec2...
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GlycoBioTec2027
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper on GlycoMsHelper - considering the lists in Tables S1-S3, I still think manual curation wins in terms of picking up meaningful annotations for mammalian glycans! #glycotime doi.org/10.1093/glyc...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
de Haan & colleagues "reviewed 3,071 candidate N-glycopeptide IDs. … 1,722 MS2 candidate IDs were refuted as inconsistent with chromatographic and/or precursor-level evidence. Curation … [yielded] a final set of 1,436 N-glycopeptides across the serum N-glycoproteome." doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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Post-Search Validation and Curation of Site-Resolved N-Glycoproteomics Data
Abstract. Given the significant role of glycosylation in modulating protein structure and activity, glycoproteomics is gaining increased interest from the
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Inbuilt problems or selected advantage? "All humans carry a baseline #glycosaminoglycan deficit that primes the joint for degeneration. Indeed, humans have a substantially higher prevalence of degenerative skeletal diseases than do non-human primates." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton - Nature
Massively parallel reporter assays and human–ape hybrid skeletal cells are used to study the evolution of human cis-regulatory elements (CREs), revealing how differences in CREs have sh...
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The NCFG @thencfg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did you know carbohydrates can modify 10 of the 20 amino acids, from GlcNAc-Tyr in tumor cells to Glc-Arg in bacterial signaling? Find out about more: research.bidmc.org/ncfg/blog/30... #glycobiology #biochemistry #proteomics #posttranslationalmodification #cellbiology #glycotime
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30] Unusual Modification of Peptides/Proteins with Sugars
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bad glycans - new paper with correct shapes, but incorrect colours! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two days in Budapest for the „half-term“ @improglyco.bsky.social consortium meeting - mapping the way for the next 18 months or so!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To celebrate the coming @asbmb.bsky.social Molecular Bioscience Week, you can buy a T-Shirt! www.bonfire.com/asbmb-molecu...
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ASBMB Molecular Bioscience Week 2026 | Bonfire
Buy ASBMB Molecular Bioscience Week 2026 merchandise that supports American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc.. Featuring Dark Grey Heather Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chemistry World also reports on the now wider #blotgate - suppliers‘ faked antibody blot data!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Seen beside a university building where the ÖGMBT meeting is taking place - perhaps all who work there are not so intelligent! „You have taken my bike hostage for a few days - next time, park smarter!“
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A visit from Alberta: yesterday Christoph Rademacher hosted Ratmir Derda, who talked about DNA-barcoding of glycan-modified phage and about mirrored monosaccharides being sometimes ligands of innate immunity proteins. #glycotime
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tonight was the 2nd of two concerts in Vienna by the #Pittsburgh SO - #Brahms Piano Concerto #1 and #Shostakovich Symphony #5 - both exciting. The 2 works were the 1st cassettes I bought when a student in Edinburgh - I won’t say how many years ago - Rubinstein & Haitink recordings respectively!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Successful #glycotime PhD defence - my student Lena Nuschy passed with distinction!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Katharina Paschinger giving the penultimate talk of this year’s Warren Workshop - presenting data some more weird & wonderful glycans from insects! #glycotime
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
11th Charles Warren Workshop in Oxford - Talks at the Department of Biochemistry and Dinner in Hertford College. #glycotime
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
North Norfolk
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Welsh coast this week! Cymru!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Churnet Valley Railway evening special!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
22nd International Conference on Polysaccharides and Glycoscience (ICPG) will be place in Prague at Novotného lávka 5, from 11 to 13 November 2026. www.polysaccharides.csch.cz
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Latest C&EN features an article on heparin sulphate synthesis in E. coli, using the NDST from „a mosquito-like insect“. From the abstract of the actual paper, I guess they use Anopheles gambiae AgNDST! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From the Kevin Campbell lab: FAM20B phosphorylates Xyl of the matriglycan primer disaccharide and dystroglycan has an unexpected xylose phosphatase function involved in regulating matriglycan extension. #glycotime in today’s Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Xylose phosphatase activity of dystroglycan self-regulates its receptor function
Dystroglycan (DG) is an extracellular matrix receptor crucial for tissue development and pathogen entry. DG harbors a long, complex glycan called matriglycan. Loss of matriglycan or reduction in its l...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Congratulations to the ACS CARB Division award winners: @dbojar.bsky.social, Snyder, Seeberger, Li and Wang 👏👏
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Project Panama: The Industrial-Scale Book Acquisition Program Anthropic partnered with used-book wholesalers, acquir[ed] paper books ... were shipped to processing facilities where hydraulic cutters removed the spines, pages scanned at high resolution … returned to pulp. isbndb.com/blog/print-b...
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The Receipt is the New License: Print Books Sourcing for AI Training - ISBNDB Blog
In 2025, a federal judge handed down one of the most consequential copyright rulings in AI history. Anthropic (Claude AI) had purchased and physically
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Hart upon his election to the National Academy of Sciences #glycotime www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
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Banerjee, Hart elected to the National Academy of Sciences
They were honored for their contributions to the biological sciences.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
35th Glycobiology Meeting October 2026 - in Leiden, Netherlands 🇳🇱 jgm2026.aanmelder.nl/registration
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
IGO Award (biennial), nominations of senior glycoscientists are requested by other senior figures in the field; no self-nominations are accepted. For the IGO Young Glycoscientist Award, applications are made by the candidates themselves, subject to limits on academic age. intl-glyco.org/procedure
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
With #ICS2026 wrapping up today - thanks to the organisers for the hospitality & for arranging the organ concert in the cathedral where Hungarian kings were crowned. The selection of classical and modern pieces was to my liking. Followed by Bryndzové pirohy & Bryndzové halušky!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two contributions from our lab at #ICS2026 - Kristína and her poster on #Drosophila glycans and Alba and her talk on #Dictyostelium glycans - in both cases some weird & wonderful structures - solved without databases, with much of the brain work done by Katharina Paschinger.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Geert-Jan Boons, who has been awarded the 2026 RSC Carbohydrate Group Haworth Memorial Lectureship #glycotime
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
David Vocadlo introduces Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social before her talk at #ICS2026 on glycan heterogeneity.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mark Von Itzstein holds today’s first lecture at #ICS2026 - translational and discovery #glycoscience aspects of research on influenza neuraminidase and parainfluenza haemagglutinin/neuraminidase … despite similarities, different compounds active as inhibitors.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Manfred Wuhrer discusses spatial and high-throughput glycomics at the International Carbohydrate Symposium #ics2026 in Bratislava.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Do bots decide? Once for a paper, I had reused a conference abstract and then this was flagged by Springer in the case of the subsequent full article - I had to slightly rephrase title & abstract!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
On my way back home after the 95th Harden Conference - bought an Irn- Bru at Preston station.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cryo–EM structures of ciliary appendages from golden algae at 2 Å resolution: Oligomannose, complex, and a noncanonical N-glycan identified. O-glycans coating PSXX repeats, with 2 glycans linked to trihydroxylated proline & 1 to serine per repeat also found. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Structural N- and O-glycans revealed by high-resolution cryo-EM analysis of tubular mastigonemes
The chemical complexity and nontemplated biosynthesis of glycans have posed considerable challenges for establishing sequence-structure relationships. Here we report cryo–electron microscopy structure...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social is just starting his @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Research Award Lecture during the 95th Harden Conference! #glycotime #TeamMassSpec
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just arrived in time for the beginning of the 95th Harden Conference - linking Golgi trafficking and glycan function near Blackburn #BiochemEvent
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What to do when in Britain and it’s 28 C (more humid than really hot)!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Amsterdam June 2027 www.17thjennerconference.com
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our new HTX M3+ sprayer in action - just with solvent for today!
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IMProGlyco @improglyco.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
👋 Hello from the IMProGlyco project! Bringing together researchers across Europe to explore glycoscience, the project has already reached key milestones - including our first in-person meeting and two publications. Follow along for updates on our research and activities! 🔗 improglyco.science
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IMProGlyco -
IMProGlyco is a European Innovation Council-funded project to establish robust protocols for site-directed mutagenesis of glycans in mammalian cells. The project is a collaboration between the Univers...
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Last week at ESACT in Salzburg, group member Maria John presented her poster on glycosyltransferase expression - part if our work as part of the @improglyco.bsky.social consortium!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Modern Canadian music: new album of compositions by Christopher Tyler Nickel.
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
AAAS meeting postdoc talks: apply by 4th August! meetings.aaas.org/program/post...
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Postdoc Talks
These 10 min talks will showcase postdoc research
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Miya Paserba @miyapaserba.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Super excited to attend #ASMS2026 for the first time this year! If you are also attending, please stop by on Thursday at poster ThP 691: Stable isotope tracing reveals metabolic drivers of PDAC hypersialylation. #glycotime
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Photo of the day!
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Iain Wilson @iainwilsonwien.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My student Lena Nuschy with her poster about anionic glycan arrays at #CGS2026, organised by @glyconet.bsky.social, in Canmore, Alberta. Lena appreciated the interest shown!
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