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Scott Rush

@scottrush.bsky.social
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Scientist interested in structural biology, vaccine design, antibodies, protein engineering… pretty much everything

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GlycoShape @glycoshape.org · 09/10/2026
Phenomenal #glycotime by Meg Lunn-Halbert, Joel Allen and colleagues demonstrates through de novo protein design how steric hindrance controls N-glycan maturation ⬇️ doi.org/10.64898/202... Protein design with RFdiffusionAA coupled with glycosylation with GlycoShape 🧪
screenshot of Fig. 2 in the paper, titled "Systematically altering steric restriction controls glycan processing" the following corresponds to the figure caption in the paper.
Panel a, AF3-predicted protein with GlycoShape-modeled Man9 glycan (green) for glycoproteins THRgly1-4. b-d, Deconvoluted intact
mass spectra for analyzing native glycosylation with 1–3 major peaks corresponding to glycosylation shifts labeled. Glycans
matching in theoretical molecular weight to the corresponding shift are schematically annotated as follows: mannose residues as
green circles, N-acetyl glucosamine residues as blue squares, galactose as yellow circles, sialic acid as pink diamonds, and glucose
as blue circles. Unglycosylated sizes are estimated based on predicted MW and labeled, when present. b: Native glycosylation. c:
Native protein digested with Endo H. d: Overlaid protein from kifunensine-treated cells (color, solid line) and digested with Endo H
(gray, dotted line). Estimated predominant glycans present are shown in MW (Da) differences from predicted unglycosylated size.
For peak table see Supplementary Data S3; amino acid sequences provided in Supplementary Data S1.
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Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Golgi-derived vesicles containing PI(3,4)P2 drive mitochondrial fusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Golgi-derived vesicles containing PI(3,4)P2 drive mitochondrial fusion
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that remodel their shape to regulate cell fate. Mitochondrial division involves interactions with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), lysosomes, and trans-Golgi network...
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We have 2 new preprints on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social that describe reconstitution of #Alzheimers paired helical filaments in experimental model systems: one in human brain organoids and one in murine primary cultures. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Templated seeding induces the formation of Alzheimer paired helical tau filaments in human brain organoids
The prion concept postulates that seeded aggregation results in the recruitment of soluble protein monomers and their assembly into amyloid filaments with the same structures as those of the seeds. He...
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Andrew Santiago-Frangos @asantiagofrangos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our lab's first preprint! The antiphage protein Tiamat is an ATPase and DNase with homologs across the tree of life. What started as undergrad Shirley Yuan's summer project grew into a paper and a collaboration with @jpkbravo.bsky.social's group. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Those who had a careful look at the methods section of our work on the #cryoEM structure of the CDK11-cyclin L-SAP30BP complex will have noticed that we added a short peptide to our sample before freezing. If you wonder why...
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026
Ancient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/46rOANl
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A viral origin for RNA-guided immunity
Ancient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems
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Chris H. Hill @chillzaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thrilled to share that our paper describing protein-dependent frameshifting is now out in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Huge congratulations to @jemmabetts.bsky.social for publishing the first research paper from her PhD 🧬🧪🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/8
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A protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting in cardioviruses
Programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is a translational control mechanism used by RNA viruses to regulate the relative abundance of proteins en…
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Structural Biology @actacrystd.iucr.org · 16/09/2026
Scotty can rapidly scan a metric-space index of the PDB archive for closely and distantly related crystal forms and will serve to rapidly phase these structures by difference FFT #Nonisomorphism #NiggliCell #CrystallographicContaminants doi.org/10.1107/S205...
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sobolevsky.bsky.social @sobolevsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AMPA receptor gating proceeds through an intermediate pre-active state that has structurally remained an enigma. We used cryo-EM as well as full and partial agonists to resolve this state and for the first time structurally reveal the complete gating pathway of AMPARs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Structure-based design of soluble prefusion-stabilized herpes simplex virus type 2 glycoprotein B antigens pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42709545/ #cryoEM
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am looking for a lab manager for my group that I will be starting at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in February! We will use in situ structural biology to investigate dynamic ciliary processes. More info here —> bsky.app/profile/comp... #cilia #teamtomo #proteomics #protistsky
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Alexis Rohou @alexisrohou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Come work with us at Genentech. We do drug discovery, pretty cutting edge cryoEM/ET stuff, and always learn a lot together. Any questions or recommendations, do let me know.
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Nicholas Bellono @nbellono.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
More weird RNAs! 🤯
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I will be hiring at all levels so if you are interested and want to learn more, please get in touch! 📻 ❄️ 🔬 🦠 🧬 #cilia #cryoet #proteomics #exm #protistsonsky
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Structural and kinetic insights into a metagenomics-derived Cas12a with high specificity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Open and closed forms of assembled henipavirus nucleoprotein suggest structural basis of genome access www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Open and closed forms of assembled henipavirus nucleoprotein suggest structural basis of genome access
Henipavirus nucleoprotein assemblies exist in different conformations, indicating temporary release of genome for RNA synthesis.
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Max Renner @maxrenner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
📢 We are now recruiting a PhD student in Structural and Molecular Virology in Sweden 🇸🇪 Work on RNA viruses using cryo-EM and in situ cryo-ET, with access to world-class microscopy infrastructure Perfect for candidates with backgrounds in biochem, structural bio, and virology More info ⬇️
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Alisia Fadini @alisiafadini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
ROCKET 🚀 inference-time optimization of AlphaFold to fit structural data is published! rdcu.be/fa9YH Since our preprint, we’ve pushed it to regimes where other methods break: low resolution, weak signal, real experimental edge cases. Here’s what we learned: 1/15
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AlphaFold as a prior: experimental structure determination conditioned on a pretrained neural network
Nature Methods - ROCKET improves experimental structure elucidation by integrating implicit structural knowledge from OpenFold, a trainable reimplementation of AlphaFold2, with X-ray...
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Joost Snijder @joostsnijder.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike in complex with its co-receptor the neuronal cell adhesion protein contactin1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out our new preprint. Cool structure by Sabrina Krepel with Bert Janssen. Thanks to @danielhurdiss.bsky.social @utrechtvirology.bsky.social #covid #pais
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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · 11/03/2026
New online! Reverse vaccinology 3.0
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Reverse vaccinology 3.0
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01286-yAndreano, McLellan and Rappuoli introduce ‘reverse vaccinology 3.0’, a transformative approach that could revolutionize the field of vaccinology and contribute to addressing global health challenges.
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Zunlong Ke @zunlongke.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#PostdocRecruiting: My group at the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Postdoc in virology and structural biology. Please see more details here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Informal inquiries are encouraged, and see more lab info here: zunlongke-lab.org
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow ---- Hiring Department: Molecular Biosciences ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt ---- Earliest Start ...
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Zunlong Ke @zunlongke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A bit late to post, but check out this peer-reviewed version at PNAS 2025 here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Structure and organization of full-length epidermal growth factor receptor in extracellular vesicles by cryo-electron tomography | PNAS
We report here transport of full-length epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Insulin Receptor, 7-pass transmembrane receptor Smoothened, and 13...
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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Our fourth installment on prefusion herpesvirus gB proteins is available as a preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202.... Working with Ivelin Georgiev's group, we isolated and characterized prefusion-specific HSV gB antibodies from humans!
Cryo-EM structures of prefusion HSV-2 gB in complex with human antibodies.
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Alexis Rohou @alexisrohou.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Question for the #cryoEM crowd: have you played with ModelAngelo, CryoAtom and EMProt, and would you care to offer thoughts/notes on the comparison? I have ModelAngelo installed and I love it, but the other two claim improved performance - which should I try first?
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Prefusion-specific glycoprotein B human antibodies protect against neonatal HSV-2 infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Gabriel Victora @victora.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
One more trick pulled off by antibody-mediated feedback www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
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Antibody-mediated feedback modulates interclonal competition in the germinal center
Antibodies generated by prior immune responses regulate B cell responses upon recall immunization. Barbulescu et al. examine whether antibodies produced by an ongoing immune response influence the out...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The vault particle is enclosed by a C13-symmetric cap with a positively charged exterior pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41706843/ #cryoEM
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Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The giant viruses surprised us at almost every turn of this project, but ultimately led us down a very rewarding path. Happy to share this work is now available online 🧪
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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100
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Max Renner @maxrenner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti spread viruses that cause major global diseases. We decided to have a closer look at a family of mosquito carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in infecting these vector species. We found some unexpected things 😁 Preprint out now 🦟🦟🦟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Phil Holliger @philholliger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
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David Bhella @dbhella.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...
Image of a herpesvirus structure
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629701/ #cryoEM
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Mari de Sautu @maridesautu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Check out our new preprint! We uncover the full molecular mechanism of rotavirus membrane penetration and cytosolic escape using cryo-ET, live-cell imaging, and single-molecule assays. (1/3) 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Structure-based design of soluble prefusion-stabilized herpes simplex virus type 2 glycoprotein B antigens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701809v1 #cryoEM
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧬🔬@science.org A genetically encoded device for #transcriptome storage in mammalian cells | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @broadinstitute.org
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A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells
Understanding how cells make decisions over time requires the ability to link past molecular states to future phenotypic outcomes. We present TimeVault, a genetically encoded system that records and s...
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 09/01/2026
A neutralizing human antibody induces movement of the HCoV-229E receptor binding domain www.nature.com/articles/s42... @wrapplab.bsky.social
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Juha Huiskonen @juhahuiskonen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I am pleased to share our new paper in Molecular Cell: “Capsid restructuring activates semi-conservative dsRNA transcription in cystovirus ɸ6.” We visualized, in structural detail, how a double-stranded RNA virus switches from a quiescent to a transcriptionally active state. Link in the comments
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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Video introduction to our new “Conformational Biasing” method for computational design of mutations that bias proteins towards desired conformational states CB part starts at 14:55 Thanks to Peter Cavanagh and Andrew Xue – amazing graduate students who co-led this work
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Alice Ting Rosettacon keynote 2025
YouTube video by Alice Ting
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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Can we design mutations that bias proteins towards desired conformational states? Today in @science.org, we introduce Conformational Biasing (CB), a simple and scalable computational method that uses contrastive scoring by inverse folding models to identify conformation-biasing mutations.
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Computational design of conformation-biasing mutations to alter protein functions
Conformational biasing (CB) is a rapid and streamlined computational method that uses contrastive scoring by inverse folding models to predict protein variants biased toward desired conformational sta...
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Structure and immunogenicity of an engineered soluble prefusion-stabilized EBV gB antigen pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41484092/ #cryoEM
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Structural basis for childhood antibody recognition of the human metapneumovirus fusion protein pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41455691/ #cryoEM
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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
De novo design of protein nanoparticles with integrated functional motifs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Katharina Geißler @kgeissler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s out! Using cryo-ET in Dicty cells, we take a fresh in situ look at vaults. Surprisingly, we uncover vaults associated with ER and NE membranes, and find that many vaults enclose ribosomes in defined orientations, opening new avenues to their cellular function! www.biorxiv.org/lookup/conte...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Now online! Generation of antigen-specific paired-chain antibodies using large language models
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Generation of antigen-specific paired-chain antibodies using large language models
MAGE is a sequence-based protein language model designed to generate diverse human antibody sequences targeting various pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, H5N1, and RSV-A. This AI-driven approach addresses traditional limitations by enabling efficient, target-agnostic antibody design with experimentally validated binding specificity.
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