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Mauricio Comas-Garcia

@m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social
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A husband, dad, amateur chef, Professor/Investigator at UASLP, and more importantly, a scientist obsessed with icosahedral viruses… mauriciocomas.wixsite.com/viralasse…

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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was lucky to meet Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley who wrote a remarkable book about the role of bacterium and architecture. They have mind blowing concepts
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Los invito a mini simposio de virología física y MOFs
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awesome collaboration with Roya Zandi’s group at @ucriverside.bsky.social on how viruses bend membranes pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
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Mechanisms of viral budding through cellular membranes
Budding is a fundamental membrane-remodeling process central to many cellular functions and is exploited by numerous enveloped viruses to acquire their lipid en
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m frustrated that even colleagues are writting their papers using IA. I’m reading Crick and Watson’s 1956 Nature article, where they proposed that spherical virus could be icosahedral. Simple and elegant. Why be a scientist that refuses to think and let IA discover nature for you?
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ciencia en el bar. Me han invitado a hablar de virus y ciencia en un bar. Qué maravilla.
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our paper on the #structural #evolution of the #alpahvirus core is out link.springer.com/article/10.1... awesome work form and awesome team, but more importantly the first co-authors are undergrad students!!
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Highly Conserved Core Residues Define Old-World Alphaviruses and Trace Early Evolutionary Divergence - Journal of Molecular Evolution
Alphaviruses are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that assemble into striking double-icosahedral particles. During budding, the nucleocapsid core forms in the cytoplasm and adopts a T = 4 i...
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are excited to share our first paper on alphavirus core #evolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Highly Conserved Core Residues Define Old-World Alphaviruses and Trace Early Evolutionary Divergence - Journal of Molecular Evolution
Alphaviruses are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that assemble into striking double-icosahedral particles. During budding, the nucleocapsid core forms in the cytoplasm and adopts a T = 4 i...
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I want to share my wife’s project to keep your kids entertained while learning sparknwonder.etsy.com
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UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry @uclacb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're hiring! Join the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry as an Academic Administrator overseeing our shared instrumentation facilities. @UCLA Apply here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11153
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It is a pleasure to see a former lab member giving a talk about his PhD project. Well done Oscar
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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Truer words were never spoken...er, written.
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There should be no more cervical cancer deaths. Pleas vaccinate against HPV. #vaccineswork
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m trilled to announce that our paper “Highly Conserved Core Residues Define Old-World Alphaviruses and Trace Early Evolutionary Divergence" was accepted in the Journal of Molecular Evolution. I’ so proud because the first coauthors are undergrads!!! #evolution #virology #chikungunya #alphaviruses
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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Faith and theism are not reliable paths to truth. Science and reason are.
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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"DuR, yOu JuSt WoRsHiP sCiEnTiSm!"
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Revisiting Alphavirus RNA packaging and assembly—A complex story with multiple angles - Comas‐Garcia - FEBS Letters - Wiley Online Library febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... we are happy to share this review that summarizes some of the issue our lab in working on.
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Virion assembly of alphaviruses is a concerted process that depends on a network of CP-CP, CP–glycoprotein, and glycoprotein–glycoprotein interactions that occur at the plasma membrane between an amo...
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is an amazing reading about #zoonosis and #flu it is highly recommended.
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is a very interesting idea; let's not forget what happened in Brazil's World Cup and the spread of #ZikaVirus across the Americas. During the Cricket World Cup, they demonstrated an impressive epidemiological system for preventing disease outbreaks. We should all learn from that example.
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 11/06/2026
Professor Luis Herrera-Estrella FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a pioneering plant scientist whose work has transformed modern plant biology and biotechnology, including the creation of the first transgenic plants. #RSFellows bit.ly/4onFAAQ
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Mauricio Comas-Garcia @m-comas-phys-virol.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy to share our latest paper on CHIKV assembly combining MD simulations and experiments... amazing collaboration between virologists, physical virologists, and physicists pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Multiple Protein–Protein Interactions Drive the Assembly and Budding of the Chikungunya Virion
The assembly of enveloped viruses is a highly orchestrated process that depends on the coupling of multiple protein–protein interactions within a membrane environment. To gain mechanistic insight into...
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