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Peter Mace

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Protein biochemistry, kinase and ubiquitin signalling, bikes and dogs

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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026
Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)
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Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New paper out today with @josephguhlin.bsky.social where we did penguin GWAS to better understand disease risk and found that these penguins represent three deep evolutionary lineages www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Population genomics of yellow-eyed penguins uncovers subspecies divergence and candidate genes linked to respiratory distress syndrome - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Whole-genome data from 249 yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho) identify three lineages with high geographical and genomic divergence, and candidate gene variants associated with differential susceptibility t...
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Massive Congrats to @pseudokinase.bsky.social for being named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ! Been great collaborating and enjoying niche 90s live music over the years. Also well done @peterkdearden.bsky.social and the new NZ-based fellows! www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/latest-...
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Latest cohort of Ngā Ahurei Fellows announced
Twenty-one new Ngā Ahurei Fellows have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, including one Honorary Fellow. Fellowship recognises researchers, scholars, and innovators through...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Now online! The E3-ome gene-centric compendium reveals the human E3 ligase landscape
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The E3-ome gene-centric compendium reveals the human E3 ligase landscape
The E3-ome defines the human repertoire of ubiquitin E3 ligases, creating a unified resource that maps their diversity across the ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like systems. By consolidating fragmented knowledge, this framework provides a foundation for studying ubiquitin signaling and accelerating discovery.
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Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.
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iubmb.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our biannual newsletter is out 📬 Insights, updates, and what’s ahead—read the latest edition here: bit.ly/4pY9jzA
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Peter Mabbitt @petermabbitt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We’ve made some new tools to manipulate N-recognins. Check them out in our preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Honour to have our Plenary from Nobel Laureate Sir Richard Roberts at our NZSBMB Conference 2025
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Dr. Natalia Riobo-Del Galdo @thehedgehoglab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We have a fully funded studentship to start your PhD in October 2026! Work with me, Elton Zeqiraj and Joe Cockburn to find new ways to treat diseases with high levels of Hedgehog signalling. Fantastic training in cell and structural biology, genomic screening and biochemistry at the Uni of Leeds!
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Stopping GLI transcription factors in their tracks: identifying regulators of proteolysis as therapeutic targets. at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Stopping GLI transcription factors in their tracks: identifying regulators of proteolysis as therapeutic targets. at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Otago Biochemistry @otagobiochemist.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Just confirming what we already knew: Otago Biochemist Associate Professor Lynette Brownfield is an awesome postgrad supervisor! This week awarded the Division of Health Sciences Supervisor of the year. Here she is with her group of young scientists enjoying a well-earned break amongst the rhodies.
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Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ready for a transformative research journey? 🚀 Join the vibrant, interdisciplinary PhD programmes at NTU College of Science in Singapore! We offer fully funded scholarships. Hear from our students and faculty in the video below 👇 youtu.be/JeZHiXu3fgE
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Is the alphafold database performing really poorly, and Uniprot alphafold links broken for everyone, or just me? I've tried clearing my cache, but any tips @ebi.embl.org?
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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Open Group Leader Positions at the IMB, UQ. Interested in joining us in sunny Queensland?
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Group Leader - Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Excellent course content for my scientific writing class!
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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach
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Meowtabolism - Examining Feline Behavior within Unicellular Algae on Steam
Explore the interior of an algal cell on your four paws. Built with experimental data and populated with actual protein structures, Meowtabolism offers a glimpse of the vast world inside the basic fun...
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Josh Hardy @joshuamhardy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign
ProteinDJ logo
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're hiring! Come join us as a Lecture/Senior Lecturer in the fantastic supportive Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago. Dunedin is a super-liveable city, which just happens to have some of the best access to nature (and biking) in Aotearoa...... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Mikhail Spivakov @mspivakov.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.
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Otago Biochemistry @otagobiochemist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Biochemistry Special Seminar Wed 27 Aug 1pm Rm BIG13 Distinguished Professor Natarajan Kannan, University of Georgia Evolution of regulation in signaling systems: From ancient cores to modern complexity
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Vinnie Tagliabracci kicking off the final morning of #iubmbkinases, post conference dinner crowd still strong (with coffee....)
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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Welcoming Grace Gong back to NZ to kick off afternoon number 3, lipid kinases at #iubmbkinases
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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Day 3 of #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social and many of us sprung up to take this photo through the conference room window - even during talks. Queenstown turning on a stunner of a day, matched only by some terrific science
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James Murphy @pseudokinase.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Flying start to the #iubmbkinases meeting in beautiful Queenstown, NZ. Jubilee Award from IUBMB to Kevan Shokat yesterday, and a kinase masterclass from Susan Taylor this morning
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Troy Baisden @troybaisden.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Robust debate in Parliament yesterday, with questions from Scott Willis to Shane Reti MP about cuts, job losses and whether reprioritisation will yield clarity or any benefits. The answers aren't reassuring but it is good to see this getting attention. youtu.be/Vam6UmnvtyY
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RSIT in Parliament – Oral Q5 14 Aug 2025
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Tigist Tamir @phosphotig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Four weeks left for abstract submission and early-bird registration for the NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting!! Adele Williamson and William Kelton are putting together an amazing program including outstanding plenary speakers! www.nzsbmb.org/conference-2025-rotorua
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited to see this work led by Cameron Reddington and Annabel Walsh out in @febsj.bsky.social — ASXL proteins share a PHD domain that is not a PHD domain, evolved to bind an MBD domain that is not an MBD domain! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A plant homeodomain (PHD) at the C terminus of additional sex combs-like (ASXL) proteins is recurrently truncated in disease. In the current study, the ASXL PHD was shown not to bind histone modifica...
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Amro Hussien @amrohussien.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
For every €1 invested in Horizon Europe programme, Europe is expected to get as much as €11 in GDP return Source: www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/horizon-euro...
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Horizon Europe delivers €11 GDP return for every €1 invested
Learn how Horizon Europe is driving innovation and growth across the EU, with up to €11 in GDP returns and sixfold societal benefits by 2045.
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A fantastic oral program is now in place, but you can still register and submit an abstract for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on (Pseudo)kinases in signal transduction! Outstanding setting, with ample chances to exchange ideas with the top kinase minds in the world! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/
A pseudokinase emerging from Lake Wakatipu at night
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's June 20 in New Zealand, which means it's the last day to have your abstract considered for oral presentations at the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on kinases and pseudokinases!
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Check out the view today from the venue—scoping for the IUBMB Focussed meeting on (pseudo)kinases! Abstracts and early bird registrations closes this week! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/ @pseudokinase.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Excellent article by Rock Morton in the Saturday Paper this morning, on consultants Nous. These guys are so endemic in university managements I ended up writing a whole paper about them. They're basically vampires www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
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‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities
Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking.
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Only one week left to submit your abstract and register at early bird rates for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting - (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction. Sign up and register by June 20!! Join @pseudokinase.bsky.social Natalia Jura, and a who's who of kinase research! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/
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Laura Edgington-Mitchell @lauraem-lab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The 13th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society will be held in Búsios, Brazil Oct 26-30, 2025. Training workshops will be held at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Oct 23-23. Register now! Links below. 1/3
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Peter Mace @petermace.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
With less than a month to submit abstracts for the @iubmb.bsky.social Focussed Meeting on (pseudo)Kinases in stunning Queenstown, we are delighted to announce travel scholarships for selected ECRs thanks to @biologists.bsky.social and the Maurice and Phyllis Trust! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In an age of triumphant managerialism, we must remember that giving researchers support, autonomy, and freedom results in miraculous things. Another point is that the government required AT&T to invest in basic research to avoid being treated as a monopoly. 1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-l...
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Why Bell Labs Worked.
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
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University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka @universityofotago.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Two Otago academics, Dr Olivia Harrison and Professor Jemma Geoghegan, have been awarded Prime Minister's Science Prizes for their outstanding work on managing viruses and managing anxiety. Ngā mihi nui! 👏 Read more here:
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Prime Minister’s prizes awarded to two Otago academics
Work on managing anxiety and managing viruses has resulted in two Otago academics receiving Prime Minister’s Science Prizes.
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iubmb.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congratulations to Professor Kevan Shokat from the University of California, San Francisco, 🇺🇸, recipient of the IUBMB Jubilee Award Lecture. His award lecture will be presented at the IUBMB Focused meeting on "The Emerging roles of (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction". @asbmb.bsky.social
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
For the first time in history, we can proudly show you a DOUBLE German bollarding. This has NEVER been seen before so congratulations to us. #WorldBollardAssociation
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iubmb.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📢Searching for REVIEWS EDITORS for IUBMB Life, BioFactors, and Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. ‼️Apply by May 31, 2025
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iubmb.bsky.social @iubmb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📢Searching for IUBMB Publications Committee members ‼️Apply by May 31, 2025
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 23/04/2025
By combining high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning, bespoke SpCas9 enzymes are identified that outperform evolution-based and engineered nucleases and base editors in human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBTHighlight
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Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning - Nature
Nature - Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning
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IECB Bordeaux @iecb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We are recruiting 🤩🤩🤩!!! If you are looking to establish ylur lab in a multidisciplinary institute with state-of-the-art facilities, horizontal structure and diverse faculty, apply!!!
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Molecular Cell @cp-molcell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions
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Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions
Schmid and Walter train a classifier that discerns functionally relevant structure predictions in proteome-wide protein-protein interaction (PPI) screens using AlphaFold-Multimer, and they use this confidence metric to curate a database of 40,000 predicted interactions among ∼300 genome maintenance proteins.
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Pablo Arantes @pabloarantes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I’ve just updated the BioEmu notebook to include the powerful LogMD. Now, you can generate equilibrium ensembles and explore the full ensemble directly in the notebook. A huge thanks to Alexander Mathiasen for the support! 🙌 🔗 Try it on Google Colab: lnkd.in/gcuqd-fT
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Uni of Wollongong Cryo EM job closes on Sunday people! @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social might be able to answer questions? 🧬🧶
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Associate Research Fellow - SEEK
Seeking an Associate Research Fellow to provide expert advice and support to UOW members of the ARC Training Centre for Cryo-EM of Membrane Proteins.
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Exciting news from the lab out today in Science - the structure of human PINK1 on a TOM-VDAC complex! @wehi-research.bsky.social
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