🧵Happy to present the FrustraEvo web server so everybody can use this new tool that we have developed in our recently accepted article on their own datasets (thread below: 1/n)
🔗Server:
🔗Preprint link
En Alemania nos pasamos 4 meses con toque de queda y desde noviembre que solo los negocios esenciales estan abiertos. Los que hacen cacerolazo en Argentina por las nuevas medidas, por 15 dias.. son o se hacen?
My "Ramon y Cajal" application was successful! I'm not sure if I can believe it yet but if I don't weak up in the following hours it means that I'm one step closer to fulfil my dream of becoming a group leader in science! Thanks to all my supervisors, students and collabs!! ☀️⭐️
When I was giving my 1st steps in bioinformatics (undergrad) I sent emails to world leading researchers asking for trivial stuff and.. they answered! Many years later I understand how kind they were to answer. Always take time to help younger people, it means so much to them 🙏🏽🌟
Wow, Nature! One thing is to charge 11k dollars for open access... But asking why there are no authors from the global south in open access papers is a bit evil. Maybe because 11k is the entire annual budget for many groups and then it becomes impossible to pay for it!
Now it's official! Since today I am happily starting a new postdoc position at the
@BSC_CNS
with
@Alfons_Valencia
as my supervisor! This is a very exciting and unique opportunity! So much to learn and so much to discover! Let's see what the future brings!
Wish me luck! 😃🙌🏽🥂🌟🧠
After 2 failed grants I got today the Beatriu de Pinos postdoctoral fellowship :)
Nice energy boost! Thanks a lot to
@giardina_simona
and Katia Pristin at
@BSC_CNS
for all the help to prepare the applications! An of course
@Alfons_Valencia
for sponsoring me! Time to celebrate!
Sorry but.. you can't determine the structure of a protein.. because proteins have many structures in a dynamic equilibrium, a.k.a the native ensemble. So, good luck with your annoying euphemisms to once more trying to diminish the value of bioinformatics. (+)
I have been going through it since I got to know the news. First of all, I wanted to confirm that Svante Pääbo truly was an openly member of the
#LGTBQI
+ community. And yes, he is! He has openly said he is bisexual. This is an unprecedented milestone for our community (+)
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
Para los que piden "dejar que la gente se contagie". Luego de ~2 meses en España hay mas de 27000 muertos y solo un 5% de gente en un muestreo poblacional muestra anticuerpos. Muy lejos de poder hablar de inmunidad de rebaño.
@norabar
@ValeriaRoman
@mdeambrosio
@rquiroga777
BREAKING NEWS: Preliminary results of Spain's seroprevalence study
#ENECOVID
.
>60,000 participants
Antibodies for
#SARSCoV2
:
5% of Spanish population
11% in region with highest incidence (Madrid)
So far from herd immunity in country with 2nd largest number of cases after U.S.
And 1 day, this little town boy, from a small university in a small town in the global south of the world.. reached 1k citations in Google Scholar.
I feel privileged to be able to research as my main occupation in life. Hopefully, the beginning of a long career!
#StarBoy
⭐️
Are you looking for a PhD position for 2023? We are opening a position soon!! Come with us to
@BSC_CNS
to study protein evolution applying state-of-the art machine learning techniques! If you want to know more abut the project write me an email & we can have a chat! Please RT 🌟
This makes Svante Pääbo the 1st ever openly
#LGTBQI
+ person to win the Nobel prize and the 1st one to do it outside of the Literature category. Representativity is crucial for people belonging to minorities to advance in their equality & inclusion compared to others (+)
Ayer di mi presentacion departamental en el EMBL. En cuanto termine entre en un asombro en espiral de lo lejos que llegue, gracias a la escuela y a la universidad publica. Me esforce en el medio? Claro que si.. pero el esfuerzo no alcanza, el estado acompaña. Gracias Argentina.
I'm very happy to have been elected as a new member of the
@ISCB
Board of Directors! This marks a very timely transition from my 12 years of service at the
@iscbsc
towards becoming an adult scientist! I'm very grateful for this opportunity! Cheers ⭐🎉🥂
Almost 1 year after the preprint, our article got finally published today in
@NatureComms
! ⭐️🤩
"Local energetic frustration conservation in protein families and superfamilies"
Great way to finish a very productive year! Thanks to the editor & reviewers!
Our latest work is finally online!
"The Evolution of Local Energetic Frustration in Protein Families". Dreamed project led by
@MFreiberge
and
@victoriaISruiz
!! A tweetorial🧵 1/n
1st Group Leader application sent. After some years of preparation I have overcome the adrenaline & fear of doing this &, without hurry, I'm ready to give the next step in my career. If you know opportunities in Barcelona (Structural Bioinformatics/Biophysics), let me know!
Our latest work is finally online!
"The Evolution of Local Energetic Frustration in Protein Families". Dreamed project led by
@MFreiberge
and
@victoriaISruiz
!! A tweetorial🧵 1/n
I wish some wet lab people would be so worried about making their data (and meta data) as available as they want our tools to be usable by them. Just saying 🙃
Do you want to calculate local frustration for your favourite proteins? Do you want to predict the effect of point mutations or analyse molecular simulations?
We have made this Google Colab so you can do it in your computer!
Vamos a hacer la propuesta inversa! Tengo un estudiante de bioinformatica buenísimo que mega recomiendo, pero con bajo promedio porque laburo toda la carrera. Quiere hacer doctorado. Si saben de becas agencia para bioinformatica me avisan! Porfa RT!
There are 202 new PDB entries this week, including this structure of the Human caveolin-1 complex (7sc0), a 'membrane-sculpting' structure which generates curvature in plasma membranes, published in Sci Adv
@sciencemagazine
. View all new entries:
A friend decided to not live anymore. I am pretty much fucked up.. Check on your friends, check on your family.. You never know what's going on. Tell people you appreciate them, tell them you love them.. Tell them they are important for you.. Don't take things for granted.
🧵Happy to present the FrustraEvo web server so everybody can use this new tool that we have developed in our recently accepted article on their own datasets (thread below: 1/n)
🔗Server:
🔗Preprint link
Our latest work is finally online!
"The Evolution of Local Energetic Frustration in Protein Families". Dreamed project led by
@MFreiberge
and
@victoriaISruiz
!! A tweetorial🧵 1/n
Here's our preprint about "Chromothriptic Medulloblastoma disease".
A great wet/dry collaboration between the Stegle (
@StatGenomics
,
@embl
) and Ernst (
@DKFZ
) groups.
Special cheers to my co 1st authors:
@HanaSusak
,
@PrzybillaMoritz
and Milena Simovic!
Estamos comenzando (somos approx 20 personas) una Red Argentina de Bioinformaticxs en el Exterior. Si sos bioinformaticx/biologx computacional (cualquier nivel de carrera) y estas interesadx, mandame un DM y te agrego al grupo de mails. En breve estaremos mas organizadxs.
Impostor Syndrome is to have worked for years in different aspects of a topic & not feeling good enough to accept to participate in a round table about it. Today I decided to break the circle & accepted. If I'm an impostor, so be it & let the audience decide, not my fears ✊🏽🙌🏽🌟
Es casi imposible ganar dado el nivel de lxs ganadorss de ediciones anteriores de este premio pero siento una gran emoción y felicidad de haber sido nominado por mi comunidad! Gracias eternas! Soy muy feliz! Apoyo a mi país y la patria grande siempre!
Paper accepted! The final version with the changes that were applied after revision will be online soon! Congrats to all the coauthors!
This has been my favorite paper so far and I'm extremely happy and proud of it! 🎉⭐
Our latest work is finally online!
"The Evolution of Local Energetic Frustration in Protein Families". Dreamed project led by
@MFreiberge
and
@victoriaISruiz
!! A tweetorial🧵 1/n
[1/n] Salio publicado nuestro libro Vida.exe! Es un libro de divulgacion acerca de la bioinformatica, en español!
Mas de 10 cientificxs argentinxs escribiendo juntxs!
Intentamos acercar al publico general a diversos topicos de la disciplina.
As Churchill said: “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Mi Caixa application as a junior group leader was unsuccessful 😢
However, I'm happy with my research proposal & it was my 1st official application as group leader! I'll keep trying! ✊🏽
To commemorate Pride Month & show our support for the LGBTQ+ community, EMBL is flying the Progress Pride Flag at its headquarters in Heidelberg – an initiative led by EMBL’s LGBTQ+ group and supported by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team.
#Pride
#PrideMonth
Grant application submitted!!! Thanks to the colleagues that have helped with previous applications and that have been sending support all these past days! I feel happy, regardless of the results! Good luck to all the colleagues that have submitted or are about to do it! 🙌🏽🌟🥂
Finally our FrustratometeR is accepted to be published in Bioinformatics (
@OUPBioinfo
)! So happy about it! Great work by
@AtiRausch
who has just started his undergraduate thesis! And of course the rest of the team!
We'll post a proper tweetorial once the paper is online!
I have been the whole week trying to mentally prepare for a rejection.. But I guess we are never really prepared for that.. Rejected by MSCA again. Nice scoring though...
So, for all those who also did not get the MSCA, cheer up! This is just another lesson to learn.
in 2008 I remember to be waiting for weeks until getting an homology model from the I-Tasser server. Now I'm running hundreds of AlphaFold2 models in batch & they take each less than 1 hour to be ready!!! Progress in science exceeds science fiction movies!!
#Amazed
#ILoveScience
Very happy to have the opportunity to serve as the
@iscbsc
board of directors representative! I'll work very hard for the next 3 years to further develop our global community!! This will be my swan's song before retirement from the council! 🖤🌟
We are honoured to be part of the
@iscb
Student Council (SC) community, and for the opportunity to invest our efforts and energy to contribute to the growth and development of
#Bioinformatics
and
#ComputationalBiology
across the globe.
Great to have this out! Highly frustrated interactions are usually a hint for localized function in protein structures. Here we combined local frustration with the notion of pockets to predict ligand binding! Great work led by
@CamilaMClemente
and
@MFreiberge
! Tool available!
Today I spent more than 10 hours working.. Nothing, NOTHING went well or was productive... I won't lie, I'm tired and frustrated.. But that is also science.. to fail, to fail a lot in wrong directions... Today I did not accomplish much but I am one step closer to do so.. ✊🏽🥂
The football worldcup starts today in an explicitly homofobic country.
Qatar says they want their culture to be respected. Sorry but NO! WE CAN'T RESPECT TO BE CONSIDERED ILEGAL. This worldcup is a disgrace. FIFA is a disgrace. White, straight men at their worst.
#loveislove
We met 10 years ago at ISCB Latin America when we were PhD students! I was
@RSGArgentina
's president and she was at the SOIBIO student council! Now, a decade later, we are both going to work together at the
@iscb
board of directors!! Good to meet you again
@AleMedinaRivera
!! 🙌🌟
My boyfriend is not a scientist and I really love explaining complex scientific concepts to him. Today over breakfast I explained to him about the Mithocondrial Eve and the Y-Chromosomal Adam and how this helped to track human origins to Africa! 🤓
Arriving to the USA to my 1st in person conference after +3 years. And what a better start than
#ISMB2022
?? I'm so happy to attend this
#bioinformatics
festival! 🌟
Also my 1st time attending as the
@iscbsc
board of directors rep 🙌
I hope to meet many of you there!
Our article reporting on our largest
@iscbsc
virtual event during the pandemics is finally published! Great work led by
@CleidyOsorio
And
@VictorGrentz
! Congrats to the entire team!
"Protein designers who understand protein biophysics and the limits of data behind the AI models could best serve the community as fact checkers to the tools, all while making every attempt to make them better!" "
@PossuHuangLab
"
It's been 1 year since I arrived to live in Barcelona! I can't be happier! After so many moves (+15 years) I feel for the 1st time that I live where I want to stay for a long time!
Thanks to all the friends and colleagues that have made this one of the best years of my life!! 🙌🏽
After some months of paperwork, I am officially a resident in Barcelona!!
Now I need a Spanish bank account. Any bank recommendation for those living in Spain?
For my next paper, I will include all my favourite music bands in the acknowledgements section.. without them my work would be, literally, impossible! 🌟🎧
Monthly international food lunch with the
@Alfons_Valencia
's group at
@BSC_CNS
! We have such a nice lab! Cheers and good weekend to all! This time we had a Turkish edition ñam ñam!
I am starting to coordinate an international webinar series project co-organised by different organisations in the field of structural bioinformatics.
If you could listen to any speaker.. who would you love to hear about in a webinar? A paper link is appreciated also!
Today I want to explain a very useful concept in
#proteins
#biophysics
. "Energetic Frustration". What does it mean that a protein is frustrated? Why is it useful to know it? What have we learned over the years about this concept? Let's go!
Next 3DBioinfo
@ELIXIREurope
/ 3DSig
@iscb
webinar! December 5th, 10 am CET / 9 am UK time.
Register:
This time we feature 2 recent preprints:
Prof. Roland Dunbrack
(…)
Prof. Michael Stumpf
(…)
A colleague of mine from university contacted me because his 14 years old son was interested in Bioinformatics. We arranged a zoom interview and we talked for 1.5 hours. It was so stimulating! He made all kind of (difficult) questions! Kids curiosity seems to be infinite! 🙌🌟🚀
After a long process, lots of learning in a new field... Paper submitted!! Let's see how it goes but it feels like I got years of life back! 😱🥂🌟
#TGIF
!!!!
I attended the 1st combined 3DBioinfo
@ELIXIREurope
/ 3DSig
@iscb
conference in Prague! I shamelessly asked Prof. Janet Thornton for a picture! She's been for so many years such an inspiration! Thanks to the organisers for bringing her on site! ⭐👑🎉
I've just been appointed as 1 of the
@ISCB
3DSig COSI co-chairs! Nice transition period from the
@iscbsc
leadership towards more senior communities!
I'm happy to be given the chance to shape the future of structural bioinformatics & biophysics globally! Wish me luck! ⭐️🤞🙌
Mi amigo y colega Leonardo (
@LeonardoL87
) acaba de publicar un paper en "Nature Human Behaviour" sobre el riesgo de re-emergencia del COVID19 post cuarentena. Leo es Dr. en Bioinformatica, especializado en modelado matematico.
@ValeriaRoman
@pablooesteban
It's official!
@ISCB
will have its 1st LGBTQI+ Symposium on June 17th! We have been able to get an amazing group of people to organise it! Find more information in the link below and send your abstracts!! We will celebrate our diversity, big time!
After 3 years, today it was my final day at the
@StatGenomics
group under
@OliverStegle
's supervision! I can only be thankful for such an amazing opportunity! Being at
@embl
and
@DKFZ
has been such a privilege! Time for this Argie boy to fly again! I'll miss you all very dearly!
Ya acepté mi nominación al premio RAICES del MINCyT Argentina
@ciencia_ar
! Voy a perder como en la guerra.. pero no importa! 🌟✊🙏 Gracias totalas. por el voto de confianza a quienes me nominaron con mi corta carrera!! Soy muy feliz!
#ProfetaEnMiTierra
Neanderthals might be extinct but parts of their DNA has survived till today in our genomes, due to interbreeding with ancient homo sapiens. A genetic cluster on chromosome 3, inherited from Neanderthals, is the major genetic risk for developing a severe version of COVID19
#DHPSP
In 1952 Alan Turing was chemically castrated & committed suicide 2 years later because of being homosexual. 70 years later, an openly LGBTQI+ person wins the most important prize in science & becomes a role model for so many of us! Today is a great day for the LGBTQI+ community❤️
Congratulations to the newly elected
@ISCB
board of directors members! Especially, I wanna congratulate
@AleMedinaRivera
a Latin American colleague that I met 10 years ago and that I admire a lot given all her work to improve our community!!
#LatinAmericanPower
To survive in academia, one needs to develop a thick skin to become resistant to failure and frustration... The problem with that is that one also becomes resistant to joy and happiness for when good things happen as well.
#randomthoughtsduringconferences
Since last week and for the next two years I will be serving as the ISCB Student Council (
@iscbsc
) Vice Chair! Really excited to keep contributing to the development of the new generation of computational biologists and bioinformaticians!
#Bioinformatics
#ComputationalBiology
Can people stop attacking UMAPs? It's a tool.. Period. It's like having a personal fight against a hammer claiming that it's not useful to be used as a screw driver...
I'm writing a proposal for a grant.. yes it is stressful.. I'm tired.. But also, some friends, who have achieved that grant, have been helping me.. OMG, I'm so happy to be surrounded by so many incredibly smart and cool colleagues! Seriously, I feel very thankful right now! 🙌🏽
Permafrost might contain uncountable ancient pathogens for which we have no defenses at all.. We should not mess with it.. It's clear that a single infection can have cataclysmic consequences at global scales.. Scientific responsability is a must
#LeavePermafrostAlone
#DHPSP
Coming to BioRxiv next week! This has been my most important project up to date. It's been such a wonderful journey since 2017. A stellar team!! I can't be happier! Next week preprint and tweetorial for you to navigate the landscapes of frustration and protein evolution! 🌟🎉
After a few months
@nursebnem
's internship with us at
@BSC_CNS
came to an end! She bravely jumped into bioinformatics from a strong experimental background! The lab was really colorful while you where here Nur! All the best in your career & come back soon! Bring baclavas 😋🌟❤️
I was just reviewing my last year sent grant proposals and I just got back to my Marie Curie fellowship application that was rejected with an overall score of 92.4%/100. How do you fail an exam with a 92.4%??haha.. As we say in Spanish: I laugh to not cry.. Anyways... Keep going!
The 22nd
@NAR_Open
Web Server issue has been published! It contains 74 web servers!
Happy to have contributed our new FrustraEvo () tool as part of this new issue!!!
Accepted to review a review on the main topic of my PhD. I thought it was going to be easy.. I'm horrified! Not only the bibliography is mega skewed and incomplete.. They have completely ignored my work in the field! 😱😤😭That's how Anakin becomes Darth Vader, aka Reviewer2 ☠️
Deeply unappreciated fact: the most "impactful" person in science right now is this Kazakhstani hacker queen. She is the one-woman bridge to the largest repository of scientific knowledge ever collected.
It's been already like the 4th time this year that somebody approaches me asking me if they are maybe too old to start a career in bioinformatics. It can be more difficult yes, you may need economic help from others.. BUT THERE IS NOT SUCH A THING AS BEING TOO OLD! 🙌🏽✊🏽
FrustraEvo accepted as part of the NAR WebServer issue 2024!! Thanks to all co-authors and reviewers! We are eager to see how the community uses this new tool! Do not hesitate to report bugs or to let us know feedback or suggestions! ⭐️🙌
🧵Happy to present the FrustraEvo web server so everybody can use this new tool that we have developed in our recently accepted article on their own datasets (thread below: 1/n)
🔗Server:
🔗Preprint link
We have a PhD spot for an applicant interested in "Understanding The Principles Of Protein Evolution With Deep Learning Methods". Please help us with a RT
Read our project:
The thesis will be co-supervised by me and
@Alfons_Valencia
👩💻Do you want to start a top scientific career with us?
👉BSC opens applications for 8 predoctoral INPhINIT fellowships
@FundlaCaixa
📆Deadline for applications: 24 January
👀Check out our projects:
🙌Join us!
@BecariosFLC
#laCaixaFoundation
General comment: If you really like a group & you would like to work with them.. just send an email to the Group Leader!! Most of my positions i got them like that.. I only applied to one open position taking into account Msc + PhD + 3 postdoc positions. What do you have to lose?
Critical to understand this. Specially when global south early career researchers wanna apply to international funding. One middle tier paper is a great odisey to publish. Not only because of money but also because of biases during revision towards lastnames, institutions, etc
Most scientists from the Global South are not able to afford Open Access (OA). An OA article can equal 3 or 4 of our monthly salaries or the full yearly amount of one of our grants. This discriminatory situation creates a double-standard in science dissemination.
After a long time without talking after my coming out, my father told me that he is proud of me & that he loves me the way I am. I'm a very strong person. & I think I was ok living without his acceptance..still it made me cry like a child.Tell your kids u love them, they need it
Did you know that NMR structures "determination" is assisted by computational techniques as Simulating Annealing??? So, it seems determination is not so determined anymore..(? Epistemologically speaking, nothing is determined and everything is a model!
I've been thinking the whole day why is the
#LGBTQSTEMDay
important if we work in a very open minded part of society and our sexual/gender identity should not affect our scientific performance. Here I share some very personal thoughts about it [small thread].
Happy new year to all! In special to my scientific collaborators in all projects: the sucesfully finished, the ongoing & the ones that didn't work out!! It's so great to work with & learn from so many talented people! For another year full of great science and projects! 🎉🌟🍻