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Olalla Vázquez

@olallalab.bsky.social
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Professor of Chemical Biology at @Uni_MR. Optochemical tools for controlling biological processes at molecular level. #ChemBioLovers #ChemicalEpigenetics #Photoswitches #Fluorophores #Photosensitizers. Be the Light!✨✨

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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙏🏼 to be at #MCC2026 – the 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵 Conference 🙏🏼T.Govindaraju & SaritS.Agasti for the fantastic organisation, AlexanderHeckel & NinaMorgner for the opportunity from the 🇩🇪sideIndia🇮🇳🪷 a place where colours seem doubly bright — so natural to talk about light here😅😉✨ 🌈☀️ . #ChemBio #ChemBioLovers #ProfLife
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do you need to replace a functional group in your molecule with a #bioisostere? @drughunter.com just released an interesting free resource in their "Bioisosteres Cheat Sheet". drughunter.com/resource/bio... #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery #Science
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Bioisosteres Cheat Sheet
Bioisosteric replacement is a powerful strategy for optimizing physicochemical, pharmacological, and safety properties of drug candidates. In this article, we provide a bioisosteres cheat sheet comple...
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thanks for the shout out! A pleasure working together - more to come 😊😊😊😊
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Such a privilege to be part of this story! Amazing!!! 😍 Thanks Sophia & Jan ♥️♥️
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Du bist gut genug 🥰 - the beauty of little things. #LovelyMarburg 🏰♥️ - below the 🎵🎶 youtu.be/0GnA8VYOfko?...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/05/2026
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Exciting chemsky work out First Release in @science.org from @gracegdhan.bsky.social and collaborators, scrunching up pyrimidones so tight with UV light that the strain release can boil water! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg
Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and rel...
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#Morningview #ProfLife #M4C
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
As a golden closing chapter to 2025 ✨ thanks @idikic.bsky.social Đikić for the invitation to IBC2. 🙏🏼 #ProxiDrugs & whole team: fantastic in every sense—science 🧠 & humanity ❤️. Crashing your Xmas party was the perfect bonus 🎄😄 Thank you all for making me feel part of the team♥️ #ProfLife #ChemBio
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
✨ Our first reactions article in @ACSCentralScience with #CyrilGoudet is officially out! 🎉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Don’t miss the chance to dive into the fantastic work of #AmadeuLlebaria #Xavier Rovira and #VenkateshKrishnan – truly a great read for the winter break! ❄️ 💛 #ProfLife #ChemBio
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Wishing everyone a cozy winter break from #lovelyMarburg 🏰♥️ Wrapping up with our traditional Xmas 🥘 this year delicious Galician cake 😍 thanks to @aliciacasitas.bsky.social & @joansp.bsky.social ♥️— and amusement program prepared by care & love from our students ✨🎶🃏 -Grazas "Sharing is caring!" 🎄✨
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Fidel Ramírez-Amador @fidelormz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Last Friday was the defense of my PhD thesis entitled "Structural basis of anaerobic enzymes mediated by noncanonical metalloclusters" after 4 yrs at the @synmikro.bsky.social 🎓🎓 Big thanks to my supervisor @schullerjm.bsky.social and the whole Schuller lab for their continuous and massive support!
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🎄✨ Adventz(t) time is here! ☺️😍 this year we have the most unusual calendar ever🤦🏼‍♀️Our Alex was the 1st 👀LOOK👀 what she got: “Positive 💩–I may be a tiny 💩 but I believe in you.Go do your great sh*t!” 😂, I can’t wait to see what is waiting😂May Advent bring smiles&magic ✨ Viel Liebe🛰️❤️🇩🇪✨ #ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Merci #PaolaArimondo for hospitality at Institut Pasteur —new collaborations ahed🚀 🇫🇷 Truly touching to meet #PabloGuardado again☺️😅☺️These moments remind me how special our academic journeys are. Big thanks to Paola’s wonderful team ♥️ lovely lunch with🗼rooftop view 😍unforgettable💛À bientôt, Paris!♥️
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#Eveningview #ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I can't let the week pass without sharing that last week we had privileged to host the outstanding both @mathiassenge.bsky.social & @gracegdhan.bsky.social 🌟 Wonderful to welcome them to lovely Marburg and hear their science firsthand. #ProfLife - Thanks for visiting us at Marburg University
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We celebrated the farewell of #JörgSundermeyer — my GDCh partner in crime🥰🤩 whose energy ⚡🔋always lifted us. „Dein strahlendes Lächeln 😃& deine gute Laune werden uns sehr fehlen.“ Danke für alles! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨#ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy to be within the speaker line-at #BarluengaConference 💫 Such a special edition🥰 — the lectureship went to #BarbaraImperiali, a true pioneer in #ChemBio (kind of scientific family through @glowsticks.bsky.social 🧬💜)🙏🏼to the lovely Oviedo hosts —even the airport pickup!😅😉 #ProfLife #ChemBioLovers
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USyd Core Research Facilities @sydney-crf.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A hidden weakness in bacteria found!🔬🦠 Scientists discover a ‘cryptic pocket’ in a bacterial enzyme that can be targeted to block infection; opening a new path for antivirulence drugs. Made possible by Sydney Analytical, a #USYD Core Research Facility. #Antibiotics #NMR bit.ly/4qriJFj
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today's moments are tomorrow's memories- 🎳 Bowling to welcome ♥️our new lab members & farewell those moving on♥️ - Plenty of good memories shared 💫 & few strikes ☺️😉
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#afternoonview #holidays
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🌟 Today we celebrated our Excellence Clusters🥳🪩🪅 #microbesforclimate #M4C & #AdaptiveMind with the whole #LovelyMarburg ❤️🏰! 🌟 It was lovely 😍- check what cool tattoos I got 😍
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
✨ Celebrating another trip around the sun ✨ "Age is irrelevant. Ask me how many sunrises I've seen, ♥️ I've loved, trips I've taken or concerts I've been too. That is how old I am" - Love you all "everlong" 😉! ♥️✨
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🎉🎉My birthday present🎂came early! 🤩🤩Our work on #photoswitchablepeptides for conditional stabilisation of #HIF-1α is highlighted as Hot Paper & Cover in #Angewandte Huge🙏🏼to Marco for fantastic 1st author, amazing collaborators, @glowsticks.bsky.social for 😍 cover & @unimarburg.bsky.social #ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
✨Proud of our PhD student Valeska👩🏼‍🔬🧪, who is representing us🤩🤩 at the #EuropeanSocietyforPhotobiology (ESP) meeting in Bari 🇮🇹✨ Huge thanks to #ESP & #DAAD for funding support, and to all the wonderful colleagues 😍😍making her feel at home💛 I wish I could be there ❤️ Next time😍😍 #ProfLife #ProudPI
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#morningview #hochzeit ❤️ #LovelyMarburg 🏰❤️
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Oliver Wenger @wengeroliver.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Cr(III) complexes with enhanced metal–ligand covalency enable tunable NIR luminescence and red-light photoreduction. @giacomo-morselli94.bsky.social & team find signs of doublet–doublet annihilation, or excited-state disproportionation. In @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Pushing the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Limits of Near-Infrared Emissive CrIII Complexes in Photocatalysis
Photoactive CrIII complexes are typically based on polypyridine coordination environments, exhibit red luminescence, and are good photo-oxidants but have modest photoreducing properties. We report new...
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#PhDposition #OrganicChemistry #ChemBio - deadline 03.08 - please RT ❤️ Application online stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/d...
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🌵✨Still glowing from the magic of the #CottrellConference!❤️This family means a lot to me. 🙏🏽4 the inspiring energy—something truly woke up in me.“The desert, when the sun comes up..is a furnace of light.”As #JenniferRoss said:"I wish I could have my department & hire you all."Congrats 2025 Class😍🤩!
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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 18/07/2025
Members of all but four cohorts of #CottrellScholars since 1994 were in Tucson this week to welcome a new group of outstanding teacher-scholars to this special community. Congratulations!
New Cottrell Scholars and Holland Award recipients raise their trophies in celebration.
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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 18/07/2025
2025 Holland Awardees Enrico Ramirez Ruiz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social, Angel Martí, Rice University, and Kevin Hewitt @cise-atlantic.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social, gave talks about their research and mentorship, receiving a warm welcome as new members of the #CottrellScholar community.
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#eveningview 😍😍 @rescorp.org #ProfLife ❤️
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Quoting #RolandLill: "Beautiful modern organic chemistry" from #ClaudiaHöbartner Such a privilege to have her brilliant science at our #MiNuSymposium25 🥰 #ChemBioLovers #ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Playing ‘Lookalikes’ with Torsten at our #MinuSymposium25 —🤣🤣😅😅people see both the mayor of Marburg & Barack Obama in this shot when "they" open the new production site of BioNtech in #lovelyMarburg 🏰❤️ @minu-rtg2937.bsky.social
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#morningview Good morning lovely Marburg
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Conway Group @conway-group.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our pre-print on the development of bivalent ligands for the TRIM24 bromodomain & PHD is now online chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Congratulations to the authors: Michael Platt, Ekaterina Kot, Louise Martin, Antoine Wallabrègue, Liwen Song, Alistair Boyd, Lizbé Koekemoer, & @hammond-lab.bsky.social
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 02/07/2025
Cómo Salvador Allende quiso revolucionar Chile a través del diseño
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Cómo Salvador Allende quiso revolucionar Chile a través del diseño
El Disseny Hub Barcelona desvela en 'Cómo diseñar una revolución: La vía chilena al diseño', la explosión creativa en el diseño, tanto gráfico como industrial, que tuvo lugar en los años de presidenci...
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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Now online - the Review "Histone-mediated chromatin organization in prokaryotes and viruses" from @samuelschwab.bsky.social‬ @vikramalva.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social‬ and co. #histones #DNAorganization #chromatin #eukaryogenesis Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
After 7 incredible years at Brandeis, I'm excited to start a new chapter at UCSB Chemistry today 😊 I'm forever grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Brandeis for their support. Looking forward to building an interdisciplinary program in materials & energy @ucsb.bsky.social 🌴☀️🔋
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Steve Goldup @sgoldup.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵
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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Yay! @gracegdhan.bsky.social for receiving the Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Award in Supramolecular Chemistry at #ISMSC2025
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Back🏡-❤️full! Inspiring GRC-Endless gratitude to #AlexLippert & #MindyLevine for making it happen💫An honour to introduce 2 of the BIG GUYS #AmarFlood & #DirkTrauner How powerful it is coming together with purpose & good will. BTW, will we ever agree on molecular machine definition😅?See you soon! 👋🏼👋🏼
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#eveningview #ProfLife
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So great to finally meet you in person 🤠🤗🤩
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MPI Dortmund @mpi-dortmund.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
There are currently high hopes for the development of novel Parkinson's drugs. Malte Gersch & his team have now deciphered the mode of action of these drugs. The findings can help to develop innovative therapeutics for Prakinson's disease & other disorders. www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/news/promisi...
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Promising Parkinson's drug decoded
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/05/2025
Excellent piece by @julieparsonnet.bsky.social on infectious diseases as root causes of a number of chronic human diseases; pausing research on bacterial and viral infections will limit efforts to cure neurodegeneration, autoimmune, metabolic disease as well as cancer substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Infections cause everything
Another reason why RFK Jrs. MAHA plan is misguided
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WeigandLab @weigandlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dear friends of RNA 📣 registration for the 13th meeting of the RNA Biochemistry study group is now open. Please register at www.rna-biochemistry.de Also register for our newsletter to receive updates from the study group and RNA meetings.
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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Looking for the perfect read for a ☀️weekend? Marco’s latest Angewandte paper is now online and ready to download! 🤩😎❤️ We stabilized HIF1alpha under normoxia conditions photocontrolling downstream events (VEGFA expression) We hope you enjoy it as much as we do onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Dan Nomura @dannomura.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our latest paper w/ @pottslab.bsky.social & @amgen.bsky.social in @jacs.acspublications.org by co-first authors @cmzammit.bsky.social & Cory Nadel on discovery of covalent destabilizing degrader of AR & AR-V7 in prostate cancer. Thanks also to @themarkfdn.bsky.social ! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Helvetica Chimica Acta @helvchimacta.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Burgenstock #bc_scs25 @swisschemistry.bsky.social Editorial Board meeting R. Buller @albrecht-lab.bsky.social @olallalab.bsky.social D. Katayev @harigroupiisc.bsky.social @remglasgow.bsky.social @evaheviagroup.bsky.social J. Lacour and
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