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Sarah Shammas

@sarahshammas.bsky.social
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Biophysicist who loves disordered proteins and transcription. PI at Univ of Oxford, UK. She/her.

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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
There are still spots left for dinner!
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Award honors outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows for research accomplishments with disordered proteins. APPLY by sending your nomination packet to idpsubgroupbps@gmail.com by Dec 15th! Info at: www.biophysics.org/awards-fundi...
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Subgroup Awards - The Biophysical Society
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
One week left to apply!
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Why are transcription factors disordered? Come join us in Oxford as a postdoc and we'll find out together! Help publish 3 mature projects, AND develop cool new single molecule fluorescence binding assays! biophysics transcription protein:DNA interactions my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Over 10% of human transcription factors are oligomeric. Stoichiometry might be dialled to modulate transcription. We show CREB searches in DNA mixtures as a dimer, and suggest this might be common amongst other members of the bZIP family which fold on binding DNA. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
All but one bZIP monomer, Jun, has significantly higher affinity for other monomers than its own DNA target, favouring the dimer pathway for target search at equilibrium.
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm excited to be invited alongside the fabulous Sonia Longhi to present at IDPseminars this Thursday. I will talk about some of our work with disordered DNA binding domains.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just one stop. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon - Nature
Ochre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation of non-standard amino acids into pro...
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IDPSeminars @idpseminars.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Announcing the Biophysics Week IDP Trainee Symposium on March 27 at 12pm CT hosted by @idpseminars.bsky.social & The BPS IDP Subgroup! Join via Zoom for talks by talented grad students & postdocs. Abstract submissions are open! See flyer for more details! #BiophysicsWeek @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
Information flyer for IDPSeminars/Biophysics week event - all details at https://idpseminars.com/
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Romain Koszul @rkoszul.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Our latest work: how can compartmentalization emerge in a eukaryotic genome lacking canonical heterochromatin? By investigating bacterial genomes put in yeast, we show that the presence or absence of transcription is sufficient! #chromatin #3Dgenome #generegulation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What happens to bacterial genomes when they're cloned into yeast? Do they transcribe, do they get silenced, do they get packaged away from the rest of the DNA? This cool study congrats to the Koszul lab team at Pasteur for this great work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
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Magnus Kjærgaard @proteinmagnus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
PhD opportunities (yes, plural!) We will launch a center of excellence “Plat-PATH” with @bjornppedersen.bsky.social this summer. We have an opening for some PhD students to work on plant hormone transporter mechanism. - Details and application link: tinyurl.com/44hf9zkd Please repost 💚
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Structural and biophysical analysis of plant hormone transmembrane transport
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Samrat Mukhopadhyay @samratmukhopadhyay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Attn. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup members: We are excited to host our IDP subgroup dinner on Feb 15 after the IDP symposium at a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles: Sol Agave L.A. LIVE. www.solagave.com/los-angeles You can purchase a dinner ticket: www.biophysics.org/store/produc...
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Los Angeles - Sol Agave - Mexican Restaurant in CA
Menu for Sol Agave in Santa Monica, CA. Explore latest menu with photos and reviews.
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Opportunity for postdocs in IDP related biophysics research! The deadline is coming up quite soon.
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Sarah Shammas @sarahshammas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A paper to cite!
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If you are a PhD student and like protein disorder (or want to learn more), Birthe Kragelund @bbkrage.bsky.social and Kristian Strømgaard are organizing a PhD course on How IDPs work 🧶🧬🧪 Note the cost if you are not at a Danish university. Details: phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus...
Flyer for the course Keeping up with the interactome - How IDPs work including a list of speakers:
Professor Tanja Mittag, St Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, US
Professor Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, BIO, SCIENCE, UCPH
Professor Ylva Ivarsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Michael Wehr, Systasy Bioscience, Munich, Germany
Professor Zsuzsanna Dostztányi, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Professor Kristian Strømgaard, HEALTH, UCPH
Professor Stefano Gianni, Sprienza University of Rome, Italy
Professor Per Jemth, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Franziska Schöppe, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark
Professor Benjamin Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Alfonse De Simone, University of Naples, Italy
Dr. Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen, CNRS, Grenoble, France
Alleyn Plowright, Chief Scientific Officer, Pangea Bio, London UK
Professor Birthe B. Kragelund, BIO, SCIENCE, UCPH
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amelie-iska @amelie-iska.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Improved protein binder design using ꞵ-pairing targeted RFdiffusion
Despite recent advances in the computational design of protein binders, designing proteins that bind with high affinity to polar protein targets remains an outstanding problem. Here we show that RFdif...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My first post on Blue Sky - moving over ! For all post-docs out there - fantastic opportunity @EMBL. Independent group leader position: Core funding, state-of-the-art core facilities, access to fantastic Ph.D. students, and of course amazing colleagues. Please apply www.embl.org/jobs/positio...
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EMBL Jobs
We offer a wide range of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions at all of our European locations and encourage applications from international candidates at all career levels.
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Rohit V. Pappu @rohitpappu68.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New collaborative work in collaboration with the labs of Robert Best & Tanja Mittag driven by Ben Schuler. Identifying Sequence Effects on Chain Dimensions of Disordered Proteins by Integrating Experiments and Simulations. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Identifying Sequence Effects on Chain Dimensions of Disordered Proteins by Integrating Experiments and Simulations
It has become increasingly evident that the conformational distributions of intrinsically disordered proteins or regions are strongly dependent on their amino acid compositions and sequence. To facili...
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
BONUS! If IDPs are your jam, check out an ever-expanding starter pack! go.bsky.app/J23B51L
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Black In Biophysics @blackinbiophys.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Register for the upcoming JUST-B Seminar on Nov. 19th at 11am PST / 2pm EST to learn about the science of two amazing PhD students❗️❗️❗️ Register here: biophysics.org/store/products… @blackinx.bsky.social
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Download our database of 313 different postdoctoral fellowships. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download our database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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