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Rashik Ahmed

@rashikahmed.bsky.social
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Enjoy hiking🥾, running🏃, playing the guitar 🎸and contemplating about the molecules of life 🥼 Postdoc in Lewis Kay and Julie Forman-Kay Labs. Opinions my own.

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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Check out Nick & @roesslph.bsky.social work on nucleosome electrostatics! More to come shortly 👀 #NMRchat
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NMR-Based Measurements of Site-Specific Electrostatic Potentials of Histone Tails in Nucleosome Core Particles
Electrostatics play a dominant role in guiding many biological processes. This is especially the case in the context of chromatin, where charge interactions modulate diverse activities such as DNA rep...
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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
While Lewis has written many academic papers I think this might be his first opinion piece (?). The US is definitely having its issues, but unfortunately so is Canada. Given that it’s election time let’s hope that the incoming federal government, whoever it is, takes science seriously.
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John Rubinstein @johnrubinstein.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Now published J. Med. Chem! @zestytoast.bsky.social's structure of type II NADH dehydrogenase from mycobacteria. A promising drug target for TB & other mycobacterial infections, Yingke demonstrates how an inhibitor can block transfer of electrons from NADH to the ETC. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Structure of Mycobacterial NDH-2 Bound to a 2-Mercapto-Quinazolinone Inhibitor
Mycobacterial type II NADH dehydrogenase (NDH-2) is a promising drug target because of its central role in energy metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other pathogens, and because it lacks a k...
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Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We’ll be there, and so should you!
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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Alex (@aimsever.bsky.social), Rashik (@rashikahmed.bsky.social) & Philip (@roesslph.bsky.social) review recent advances in biomolecular solution NMR and provide an outlook of what the future holds! Check it out here: #NMR #NMRchat
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Solution NMR goes big: Atomic resolution studies of protein components of molecular machines and phase-separated condensates
The tools of structural biology have undergone remarkable advances in the past decade. These include new computational and experimental approaches tha…
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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Big congrats to the boss!
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LEK Lab @lek-lab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Former Kay lab member, Prof. Robert Harkness is recruiting prospective graduate & undergraduate students for his lab @uofguelph.bsky.social! Rob is a great mentor and is an expert in biophysics and data modelling! #NMRchat theharknessgroup.com
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THE HARKNESS GROUP
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Alexander Sever @aimsever.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kay Lab is now live on 🦋 bsky.app/profile/lek-...
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