Structure prediction (SPOC) classifier released! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.09.588596v1 These are the voyages of Ernst Schmid. His mission: to seek out new protein-protein interactions, to boldly go where no Cheetos-loving BBS student has gone before.
BBS student Olivia Sacco starts a rotation. Welcome Olivia!
Joyce accepts a job at Vertex. Congrats, Joyce! We will miss you!
Johannes’ and others’ ruminations about AlphaFold are published: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38306999/
Ben Stinson’s last paper on Lig4’s role in NHEJ is accepted. Look for it at https://rdcu.be/dyi84. Congrats, Ben!
Graduate Student Ernst Schmid launches https://predictomes.org/, which leverages AlphaFold-Multimer to comprehensively explore protein-protein interactions in genome maintenance. Amazing work, Ernst!
Our paper describing the use of AlphaFold to discover how DONSON promotes replication initiation was published today. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adi3448 Congrats to Team DONSON (Yang, Ernst, Olga, Rhian) and thanks to our fabulous collaborators in the Andrew Jackson lab!
Congratulations to Maksym and Natalia on the birth of their son Florian, and welcome to the world baby Florian!
Maksym has received the William W. Wellington Memorial Research Fund Fellowship. Congratulations, Maksym!
Pat Mannion joins the Walter lab as our new lab manager. Welcome, Patrick!