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Irene Diaz

@pelicaen13.bsky.social
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Lost in translation. Scientific investigator at MRC-LMB. CryoEM/ET passionate.

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
MemBrain v2: streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-ET with tools for membrane segmentation, protein localization and spatial analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography - Nature Methods
MemBrain v2 enables streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography by providing user-friendly tools for membrane segmentation, membrane protein localization and spatial analysis, suppor...
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Eukaryotic-like microtubules and dynamic instability of Asgard archaeal tubulins
Asgard archaeal mini microtubules suggest an archaeal origin of eukaryotic microtubules.
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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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IMPRS for Living Matter @imprs-lm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📣 Physicists and engineers: apply your experimental skills to biology! Join the group of Katerina Naydenova @imprs-lm.bsky.social for a #PhD to develop new technologies that enable answering fundamental biological questions. Apply NOW!
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ImmuNoah's Ark (Noe Rodriguez) @immunoah.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Scientific excellence can be found everywhere. However, we need to encourage it & create spaces for it to blossom. The Rising Talent Fellowship offers such an opportunity @mrclmb.bsky.social. The call will be open soon so keep an eye & reach out the LMB labs! mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...
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Rising Talent Fellowship | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Rising Talent Fellowship In 2024 the LMB launched the first round of a three-year fully funded fellowship for scientists from Black heritage backgrounds. Wh ...
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Irene Diaz @pelicaen13.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Very excited to share this method from Ramakrishna lab! doi.org/10.1002/pro.... Here we present a method for high yield expression and purification of active and stable human eIF3 (all its 12+1 subunits!), one of the most complex and unknown translation initiation factor. Happy expressing!!
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Purification and characterization of recombinant human translation initiation factor eIF3
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is an essential factor in protein synthesis. In mammals, it is a ~800 kDa complex composed of 12–13 subunits. Biochemical and mechanistic studies of ...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 29/10/2025
25 years on from publishing the structure of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit, alumni, collaborators & friends of Venki Ramakrishnan’s group joined us for a symposium celebrating the legacy of this work. Read about the event and find photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/25-years-of-... #LMBNews
Large group of people gathered together at the LMB
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 22/03/2025
La manifestación marítima de 600 barcos contra Altri desde el ojo del dron de elDiario.es www.eldiario.es/galicia/mani...
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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer - Nature
In a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited marked lo...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New Scientist (@newscientist.bsky.social) wrote a feature on our work! 🧪✨🔬 We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing. newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/
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World’s first fully 3D-printed microscope made in under 3 hours
The microscope cost less than £50 to build using an open-source design and a common 3D printer
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Cooty McCootFace @cootymccootface.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Coot 1.1.11 Released o FEATURE: One can now dynamically edit SMILES in layla o FEATURE: Anisotropic atom representation [thanks to Global Phasing] o FEATURE: Electrostatic representation [Stuart McNicholas] o FEATURE: Function partition_map_by_chain() added and more. #coot
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Nogales Lab @nogaleslab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are excited to announce the first Salamanca Biophysics Summer Course organized by Carlos Bustamante and Eva Nogales. See the flyer below and consider applying!
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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