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Robin Bon

@rsbon.bsky.social
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Scientist, dad, carer. Interested in chemistry, biology, drug discovery, music and satire. Views my own.

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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
For a moment I wondered whether I had an impersonator (or a sleep-posting habit)
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The bureaucracy of science has grown so much, the system is collapsing upon itself: Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science. Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists. Administrators are eating the science budget.
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Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com · 16/01/2026
Pick a color to control TRP channels - Check out the associated News & Views by Jana Volaric and Wiktor Szymanski on photoswitchable compounds that can agonize or antagonize TRPC4/5 channels depending on the color of light used www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pick a color to control TRP channels - Nature Chemical Biology
Ideal efficacy photoswitching is introduced as a concept in controlling protein activity with light. Largely independent of the concentration of a light-responsive compound, it enables TRPC4 and TRPC5...
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Very happy that our group has been able to contribute to this fantastic study. @astburycentre.bsky.social @astbury-bsl.bsky.social
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PlessLab @plesslab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Time to sign up! Registration for the joint FEBS/EMBO course on ion channels and transporters in Erice, Italy (May 13-19th 2026) is now open: meetings.embo.org/event/26-ion... Please share and repost.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Had a great time at the first @rsc.org Peptide & Protein Science Group symposium. Thanks for organising @mitchellchem.bsky.social @louislukpeptide.bsky.social and Louise Walport. I hope there will be many more.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The latest from an honored member of the Royal Society. Every week he attacks the foundations of society in the UK and the EU and @royalsociety.org is apparently too worried about retribution to do anything about it.
A screenshot taken by someone on Twitter/X of Elon Musk agreeing with a tweet that shows the EU flag being peeled back to reveal a Nazi one. For Elon’s purposes here Nazis are apparently bad, but you can’t rely on that with him, of course.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The MRC DiMeN DTP welcomes applications from well-qualified international candidates, but the number of places for these students is extremely limited. For questions not covered on the MRC DiMeN DTP web site or in the advert, please contact me by email through the link in the FindAPhD advert.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Applications need to be made to the MRC DiMeN DTP: www.dimen.org.uk. Applications by email cannot be considered. While training in all aspects of the project will be provided, previous experience of synthetic chemistry research is desirable.
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HOME | DiMeN DTP
Utilising the combined expertise of five world-leading institutions, the Discovery Medicine North (DiMeN) partnership will train the next generation of researchers to tackle the major health problems ...
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We are looking for a PhD student in #chembio / #medchem to help progress our drug discovery project targeting incurable brain cancers. lnkd.in/eaGsgWVr You would use multi-parameter optimisation to improve drug leads and develop chemical probes to identify their (off-)targets and binding sites.
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Powerful messages about the opportunity to learn much more about these channels by studying structural dependence on various factors such as temperature and membrane environment. Experimental structural biology is far from finished!
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thanks to the @proteinsociety.bsky.social for organising an excellent virtual seminar on structural biology of #TRPchannels at different temperatures. Inspiring talks by Alexander Sobolevsky, Juan Du and David Julius, chaired by Yifan Cheng.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Congratulations to former PhD student Dr Aidan Johnson on winning the VC Jordan/PR Radford Prize 2025 for the best @astburycentre.bsky.social PhD thesis. Also congratulations to PhD student Catalina Onel on passing her transfer viva yesterday.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Great opportunity to perform a #PhD in the field of #OrganicChemistry or #CellBiology / #Biochemistry with a great mentor in the group of Steven Verhelst (@verhelstlab.bsky.social) at KU Leuven! #ChemBio #Academia
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot guess the journal withe the highest “impact factor” in organic chemistry last year. Really. Nor will you guess many of the other “winners”:
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Journal Impact Nonsense
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
(-)-Englerin A binds a conserved lipid site of TRPC5 and exposes a Met-aromatic motif in channel activation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We thank our BBSRC @ukri.org, @thebhf.bsky.social, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, and the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic for funding, and the incredible @astbury-bsl.bsky.social for facilities and support. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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(-)-Englerin A binds a conserved lipid site of TRPC5 and exposes a Met-aromatic motif in channel activation
TRPC4/5 cation channels are polymodal cellular sensors that play key roles in signal transduction/integration and have been implicated in various human pathologies, including anxiety, pain and cardiom...
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This work was led by #cryoEM wizard Seb Porav, in a fantastic collaboration with Sasha Ptakova, @claudiabauer.bsky.social, @kasiahammond.bsky.social, David Beech, Viki Vlachova and @stemuench.bsky.social. @astburycentre.bsky.social @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social @iphys-cas.bsky.social
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In summary, we believe that this work represents a leap forward in understanding the #MolecularPharmacology of TRPC1/4/5 channels that will prove instrumental in TRPC1/4/5 drug discovery programmes.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In addition, our analyses allow us to rationalise the selectivity of EA with respect to related ion channels, as well as the pharmacological profile of TRPC1/4/5 inhibitors in ongoing clinical trials.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Structural similarity between TRPC1, TRPC4 and TRPC5, and the conservation of the EA binding site, suggest that our results extrapolate more generally to the TRPC1/4/5 sub-family – an emerging class of therapeutic targets for the treatment of anxiety disorders, cardiometabolic disease and pain.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We show that EA binds to a conserved lipid binding site between TRPC5 transmembrane domains and alters the aromatic interaction network of Phe520 with surrounding methionine residues. This work underscores the critical function of Met-aromatic motifs in ion channel #StructuralBiology and function.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We present nine new, high-resolution cryoEM structures of the human #TRPC5 #IonChannel in various states that reveal where and how EA binds to TRPC5 and - in combination with functional studies of TRPC5 variants - allow us to understand key molecular rearrangements related to channel gating.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
#TRPchannels mediate cellular responses to various #NaturalProducts. #EnglerinA (EA), found in a plant used as a traditional medicine and a poison, is a potent and selective TRPC1/4/5 activator. However, how EA interacts with these channels has remained a mystery – until now.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We are proud to share our latest preprint: "(-)-Englerin A binds a conserved lipid site of TRPC5 and exposes a Met-aromatic motif in channel activation". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structure of human TRPC5 in complex with the plant nature product (-)-englerin A
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
To see all 16 articles, please follow this link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Current Opinion in Chemical Biology | Ion transport across biological membranes (2025) | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It has been great working with Matthew Langton to edit this themed issue of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology on Ion Transport across Biological Membranes. The collection of 16 articles is now complete. Thanks to all authors and reviewers! #ChemicalBiology authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHil4sz6M...
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
An absolute pleasure to host @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social in Leeds today for an amazing @astburycentre.bsky.social seminar.
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Couple trying unsuccessfully to use the self-scan passport gates at Schiphol, holding up the queue. Border guard over intercom: "Mr and Mrs Campbell, this is for European passports only - you voted for Brexit".
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"These look similar...let's mix them"
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They probably cannot believe you would not want to be a most distinguished speaker at the 3rd Global Summit on Greater Hog Badger Genetics
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Interesting paper that we discussed in a recent group meeting. A lot of the things we like: ROS, reactive Cys, S-palmitoylation, nicely designed bioresponsive probes, mitochondrial targeting, cell imaging.
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RSC Chemical Biology @rscchembio.rsc.org · 06/03/2025
RSC Chem. Biol. and @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org are proud to offer our support to the 2025 RSC Chemical Biology & Bioinorganic Group Postgraduate Symposium. Taking place 13 June in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, this meeting features exciting work from early career researchers: www.rsc.org/events/detai...
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2025 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group Postgraduate Symposium
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
May be a good one for the whole group...
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Oh this looks great!
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RSC CBBG Interest Group @rsc-cbbg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Nominations for the CBBG Lectureship Award are now open! Get your nominations in by 30th April, to recognise individuals who have made excellent contributions to both research and the UK chemical biology community. www.rsc.org/membership-a...
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Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Awards
Our community recognising scientific excellence.
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ChemKritzer @chemkritzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨 Chemical Biology & Probes study section (formerly SBCB, one of two NIH panels that reviews chemistry #chemsky 🧪) was abruptly POSTPONED w/no specific plans for rescheduling, less than 24h before start. If this affects you call your reps & senators, talk to local news, make your voice heard 📢 👩‍🔬
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How have I managed without these for 46 years?
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RSC CBBG Interest Group @rsc-cbbg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Nominations for this year's CBBG Lectureship Award will be opening in March - so get thinking of scientists who have made major scientific and community contributions to our chemical biology community! Self-nominations are permitted, we'll be back with further details when nominations open
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Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Amazing speaker lineup (Imperiali, Seeberger, Aye, Gonzalez Bello, Walport, Walport, Vendrell, Kele, Zeymer, Green, Thorn-Seshold, Biber) and beautiful venue - join us at #ESBOC58 in Gregynog/Wales on 28th-30th May for amazing #chembio and #bioorganic. Speaker/poster slots, registration 14th March!
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This one is mostly about the title subject (featuring a very interesting compound from academia) but it’s also about attacking the NIH:
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Attacking Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There goes a giant... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Welcome Matt!
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Adam Nelson @adam-s-nelson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Interested in applying a chemical biology approach to ubiquitin signalling? Elton Zeqiraj and I are currently recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in this area! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an established background in biochemistry or drug discovery? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading r...
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Ute Hellmich @hellmichgroup.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
😱 For every researcher at the ~420 German universities (nr includes applied science unis), there are certainly many respectable publishing options available, with serious peer review, both in the form of society journals or even with "commercial" publishers... 😥🧪
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The venue for the last day (the Aula of the University of Perugia) wasn't too shabby either. Excellent meeting: great science, stunning location, beautiful food, and lovely people.
Picture of the Aula of the University of Perugia
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Robin Bon @rsbon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
There's always an odd one out...
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Sascha Hoogendoorn @hoogendoornlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Job alert: fully funded postdoc position in chemical biology in beautiful Geneva! Do you have a PhD in Chemical Biology or related field with organic synthetic experience? Apply now! Details on how to apply can be found here: www.hoogendoornlab.org/joinus #chemsky #ChemBio
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Join us! | Hoogendoorn Lab
Openings for PhD students and postdocs will be advertized here
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