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Paola Laurino

@paolalaurino.bsky.social
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Professor @OIST, our group is interested in understanding the origin of protein function. mom, climber, skier

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Lauren Slosky @laurenslosky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota is looking for another tenure-track Assistant Professor! Please pass along to those in your network who may be interested. 💛〽️ Join us! 👉 jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/680440/ass…  #FacultyJobs #Pharmacology #TenureTrack 🧪🔵🧠
Aerial view of the University of Minnesota’s medical campus along the Mississippi River, with autumn-colored trees lining the riverbank and the downtown Minneapolis skyline in the distance beneath a clear blue sky.
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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 04/10/2026
10 days left to apply for an Assistant Professorship in Evolutionary Biology at Columbia.
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We're seeking a motivated postdoc candidate to join us at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology to work on the structural and functional characterisation of plant enzymes that break down polysaccharides, exploring sequence space to understand the emergence of enzyme function using AI tools
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Molecular biologist & geneticist Susan Lindquist (b. #OTD in 1949) was a pioneer in studying protein folding. Her research demonstrated protein folding errors contribute heavily to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's & Parkinson's diseases. National Medal of Science in 2010. #WomenInSTEM
This colorful portrait captures pioneering American molecular biologist and geneticist Dr. Susan Lindquist (June 5, 1949 – October 27, 2016), a National Medal of Science recipient who revolutionized our understanding of protein folding, prions, and heat-shock proteins. Facing the camera with a warm, confident smile, her short brown hair frames an engaging, intellectual expression. She wears a structured, dark green textured blazer over a striking, light blue silk scarf patterned with vibrant illustrations of sliced limes, lemons, oranges, and cherries, accented by elegant gold hoop earrings.She stands directly in front of a white dry-erase board covered in hand-drawn, multicolored biochemical pathways and pathways tracking "sterol biosynthesis," "Erg3," "Ergosterol," and "Mutations Azoles" from her famous research into evolutionary adaptations and antifungal resistance using yeast models. The tight composition and bright ambient lighting emphasize a deeply intellectual, creative, and historic mood, celebrating one of the most influential scientific minds of the modern era.
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Magnificent
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Last year it was a fantastic: our group work was recognised with the falling-walls.com/breaking-wal...
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Breaking the Wall of Ocean Microbes’ Survival Secrets
Paola Laurino: Breaking the Wall of Ocean Microbes’ Survival Secrets
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New year, new group meeting… special cake 🥰 My lab members are the most supportive people I could have ever wished to work with
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Roberto Chica Lab @chicalab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
2/ Speakers of the 6th Protein Engineering Canada Conference include: Bill DeGrado Joelle Pelletier Tim Whitehead Anastassia Vorobieva Lucy Colwell Ai Niitsu @joannas.bsky.social @nickpolizzi.bsky.social @possuhuanglab.bsky.social @paolalaurino.bsky.social @stephanhammer.bsky.social and more!
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our banana tree fell because of the rain … we have 10kg of bananas 🍌😳🥺🤔
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Already #Christmas in #Germany and in #Japan
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Heildelberg
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#Berlin
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
At the #falling walls science summit in #Berlin, quite an experience!!
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
we just posted our new work on #SRC #kinase led by the superb Prashant Jain 🤩 Inspired by nature, we discover that the length of the catalytic loop and the autophosphorylation site can be engineered to fine-tune downstream pathway activation. 🙏🏻 @oistedu.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Minimal Perturbation of Activation Loop Dynamics Rewires Kinase Signaling
Enzymes are central to life, with their catalytic activity often shaped by the dynamic conformations of regulatory loops. In hub enzymes such as tyrosine kinases, the activation loop critically contro...
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In Hong Kong 🇭🇰
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Sergio @sebeao66.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
BRAVISSIME 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Back in 🇯🇵🥰
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OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) @oistedu.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Prof. @paolalaurino.bsky.social from OIST’s Protein Engineering & Evolution Unit was chosen as a finalist the Falling Walls #ScienceBreakthrough in Life Sciences for her research on SAR11 bacteria and how they thrive in nutrient-poor oceans. Congratulations! www.oist.jp/news-center/...
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Unveiling the molecular survival strategies of earth’s most abundant marine bacteria — A paradigm shift in life sciences
Prof. Paola Laurino became a finalist in the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough 2025 in Life Sciences.
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NEW POPULAR FRONT Survivor❤️‍🩹 Ally🏳️‍🌈 Ukraine Must Win🇺🇦 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
No one.
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
On my way back home after the #GRC Molecular Mechanisms in evolution. It was any first time and it was fantastic!
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Yesterday I visited #EPFL, amazing science going on there! Thanks again to @angelasteinauer.bsky.social and her team!
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@lowelab.bsky.social @paolalaurino.bsky.social @xujwet.bsky.social @georgiarapti.bsky.social @embl.org @ebi.embl.org @ncmbm.bsky.social @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social @mediacitybergen.no @unibergen.bsky.social @scienceandtechuib.bsky.social
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Made in Switzerland 🇨🇭😳
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hardcore #origami, #japan #kids
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The first #MSS2025 afternoon session was all about enzyme evolution 👏 @paolalaurino.bsky.social - live from @oistedu.bsky.social, Ida Helene Steen @cdeepsea.bsky.social and Ioannis Riziotis @ebi.embl.org shared their latest work, using very different approaches to this fascinating topic 🤩
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 16/05/2025
I’m with you in spirit!
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Frank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Registration for #MSS2025 closes in 2 days 🚨Join us for an exciting talk by Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social from @oistedu.bsky.social, who will present her latest work using chemical approaches and protein engineering to study protein evolution 👏 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz
A promotional card introducing a speaker for the Michael Sars Symposium 2025. It has a blue background, on the left-hand side, a portrait of a woman with short dark hair in outdoor gear, in a forest. On the right-hand side, text reads: 
MICHAEL SARS SYMPOSIUM 2025 
Decoding signals and unveiling architectures, from molecules to organisms 
How do proteins expand functionality?
Paola Laurino
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
June 6, 2025, Media City Bergen 
At the bottom, the logo of the Michael Sars Centre, of the University of Bergen, of EMBL preceded by the mention 'Partner of', and the hashtag MSS2025.
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Running Heidelberg
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Graduation 👨‍🎓 @oistedu.bsky.social ! I am so proud each time
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I work with such an amazing group of people, I am so lucky 😊
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Mother’s day
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#okinawa life
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
5yrs old soccer shoes
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Claudia Alvarez Carreño @claudiaalcar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We are pleased to announce that the next speaker in the ProSE seminar series will be Dr. Klara Hlouchova with a talk on "Protein Structure Before LUCA" May 13, 4PM CET Registration link: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar4 Please share!
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today I ate sea cucumber, it was delicious but I had to focus hard to not think what it looks like as an animal…
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just came back from #JST #AcademiaSinica meeting “Protein Science and Engineering in the Next Era” I got to know the amazing work protein scientists are doing in #Taiwan Looking forward to meet them again
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Running #Taipei
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Great to see our paper on SAR11 SBPs, published in Nature, selected as a 2025 national Frontiers Planet Prize champion!
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SAR11 Bacteria’s Role in Carbon Cycling and Climate Solutions — Frontiers Planet Prize
Paola Laurino from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, National Champion for Japan, reveals groundbreaking insights into SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant microbes on Earth. Her study unc...
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Back in #Taiwan after 6years:
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
5yrs old: “they are marrying” ♥️
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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“DeepMind CEO believes all diseases will be cured in about 10 years”. This is very irresponsible to give false promises like that to a millions of patients. If you are familiar with the complexity of the human diseases you know it's not possible. #unpopularopinion www.cbsnews.com/video/demis-...
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What's next for AI at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence lab | 60 Minutes
At Google DeepMind, researchers are chasing what's called artificial general intelligence: a silicon intellect as versatile as a human's, but with superhuman speed and knowledge.
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Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️ @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It is time to watch the Great Moose Migration. 🇸🇪 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sweden's Great Moose Migration: Millions watch 24-hour rolling livestream
Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years.
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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Insight exhibition of #Okinawa and #Antarctic pics @oistedu.bsky.social
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ssolo.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
In Shanghai airport…killing time
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is what I miss in #Japan
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The wonder of #australia
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Melbourne (for vacation)
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