ChimeraX Contact Circos plot.
The new circoscontacts ChimeraX command shows circular residue contact plots. Created by Peter Carlton at Kyoto University and available from ChimeraX menu Tools / More Tools... cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera...
Q-score as a reliability measure for atomic coordinate models
Q-scores are calculated for atomic models derived from 3D electron microscopy maps, measure how well the model fits the map and reflect the quality of the map itself.
🔗 Find out more:
https://ow.ly/4Vkx50Ynrxi
@ucsandiego @ActaCrystD @IUCr #CryoEM #QScores #Validation
Join us on March 24 at 18:30 h at @ibfg.bsky.social
“Biophysics in Salamanca: Can Biophysics Explain Life?” Three short talks, a live optical tweezers demo, and a pizza party! #BiophysicsWeek @csicdivulga.bsky.social @usaloficial.bsky.social @csiccyl.bsky.social
Este fin de semana no dejéis de escuchar el programa "A hombros de gigantes". Durante el desarrollo del mismo, Manuel Seara y yo charlaremos sobre las tubulinas, proteínas clave del citoesqueleto que, entre otras cosas, mantienen la morfología celular.
🌞🧬👩🔬¿Eres un/a posdoc joven (2-7años tras PhD) en biología estructural y deseas recopilar datos preliminares para tu próximo grant?
@instruct-eric.bsky.social ofrece <15k€ a pequeños proyectos I+D de desarrollo tecnología o software dentro de la biología estructural integrada.
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🔬 El @ibfg.bsky.social organiza mañana el encuentro “ConCiencia Café”, una actividad abierta a todos los públicos para conocer de cerca a las científicas de nuestro centro de investigación ☕️
#11F #DíaMujeryNiñaEnCiencia
📅 #20DeFebrero
🕟 16:30
📍 Cafetería, IBFG
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FCHo2, not talin, enables inside-out activation of integrin ɑvβ5 in curved adhesions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
PERSON OF THE DAY. 10 February 1923. German-born Wilhelm Röntgen died (aged 77). He produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays which earned him the 1st Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. It’s one of the greatest diagnostic medical advances of all time.
Remember: the day after Valentine’s Day is the deadline to apply for our PhD studentship!! Highly important topic and a fantastic opportunity to learn a lot!!! Don’t even think about it!!
Clement E. Blanchet et al.: SASBDB reaches 5000 data sets: empowering open science and next-generation SAS analysis #SmallAngleScattering #BiologicalDataBanks #OpenData ... #IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798326000641
#IQFSeminario #IQFSeminar
Segmented Droplet Sample Delivery for Serial Crystallography
🗣️ Alexandra Ros, from Arizona State University
🗓️ Wednesday, 4 February
🕛 12:00 h
📍#iqf
My personal obituary for Richard Hynes now live on the Manchester Cell-Matrix Centre website. www.manchester-matrix.org/news/profess...
Vibrant color portrait of Jane S. Richardson, the visionary biophysicist and artist who revolutionized structural biology with her invention of ribbon diagrams. She gazes warmly at the camera with a bright, knowing smile that radiates quiet brilliance and decades of curiosity. Her silver-blonde hair woven with gentle waves. Large, elegant dangling earrings catch the light, and she wears a richly patterned brown blouse embroidered with intricate turquoise paisley motifs and delicate beadwork that echoes the molecular elegance she has spent her life depicting. Behind her floats a luminous, dreamlike backdrop of glowing molecular structures--interlocking hexagonal and ribbon-like forms in electric blues, teals, and greens--blending science and art in a single, living canvas.
Hand-drawn and hand-colored (by Jane Richardson) scientific artwork known as a Richardson ribbon diagram (or “ribbon model”), one of the iconic visual inventions of Jane Richardson that transformed the way we see and understand protein structures. A graceful, three-dimensional tangle of protein backbone ribbons twists and spirals through space, rendered in soft pencil lines and luminous watercolor hues. Smooth golden-brown coils represent α-helices that curl like elegant ribbons, while broad teal-green arrows trace the flat, pleated strands of β-sheets slicing through the molecule with directional purpose. Thin, looping golden threads connect the secondary structures, creating a delicate, almost dance-like choreography of biology’s hidden architecture. The entire form is framed by a simple olive-green mat and dark border, giving the drawing the quiet dignity of both fine art and precise scientific illustration—a timeless bridge between molecular reality and human imagination.
Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941
+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012
#WomenInSTEM
🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
Register for the January 26 Webinar on Advanced Search
Learn what is new in the redesigned Advanced Search feature and how to use it in this free event
8–11 June 2026 | 📍 Heraklion, Crete 🇬🇷
Get ready for Machines on Genes 2026, the 94th Harden Conference by the @biochemsoc.bsky.social — four days of molecular mechanisms and friendly discussions! 🧬☀️🔬❄️
Organised by @lapassmore.bsky.social, Dana Branzei, me.
Missed the 43rd Structure Meets Function webinar with talks from ALBA and BESSY, showcasing the new Instruct Centres?
Find the full recording here to see it all again!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdD...
A great talk today from Jose Luis Vilas Prieto of @cnb-csic.bsky.social, outlining the use of the @instructi2pc.bsky.social for cryo-EM and cryo-ET at the RI-Hubs webinar on Cryo-ET!
Find out more about CNB-CSIC here - instruct-eric.org/centre/instr...
Check out our new Talin Infographic!
The poster summarises why we think there is a binary code in animals.
Great artwork made by Josh Hawley @golgigraphics.bsky.social
AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop thenode.biologists.com/https-www-yo...
#SeminarioDeInvestigación 🔬 | El @ibfg.bsky.social organiza el seminario "Combining structural and functional data: the many controls of the enzyme tyrosine hydroxilase".
🗣️ José Mª Valpuesta, @cnb-csic.bsky.social
🕛 12:00
📍 Salón actos, IBFG
Más información 👉 ibfg.usal-csic.es/index.php
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social
🧬The Second Salamanca International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology Course, #BioPhySal, will take place at @usaloficial.bsky.social from June 22 to June 28.
👩🔬 #IRNASA-CSIC is part of the scientific committee.
🗓️ Registration closes on January 20.
🔗 biophysal.org
Excited to share our new preprint! and the surprising finding that the second integrin-binding site (IBS2) does not bind integrin.
IBS2 can be better explained as talin-talin interactions mediated via a cryptic talin-binding site in R11.
We also show a new role for vinculin as a mechano-chaperone
Integrative Structural Biology in the new Instruct-ES
🧪Arriba "Integrative Structural Biology in the new Instruct-ES"
Punt de trobada per a investigadors i experts en tècniques de #cryo-EM, #RMN i #XRAY
📅29 i 30 de gener
✍️Inscripcions: instruct-eric.es/2025/10/10/2...
@instruct-eric.bsky.social @iqf-csic.bsky.social
#ICTSNews #NMRchat #NMR
KANK2 at focal adhesion regulates their maintenance and dynamics, while at fibrillar adhesions it influences cell migration via microtubule-dependent mechanism prelights.biologists.com/highlights/k...
📢 External seminar at the IBFG!
🥼Talk by Dr. José Mª Valpuesta - CNB-CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
🔬Topic: Combining structural and functional data: the many controls of the enzyme tyrosine hydroxilase
🗓 Jan 16, 2026 – 12:00 PM
📍 IBFG Auditorium, Salamanca
Saddened to learn of the death of Richard Hynes. A giant of cell biology, Richard made a massive contribution to extracellular matrix and cancer biology - in particular early work on fibronectin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Excited to introduce the Salamanca Consortium for Structural Biology and Biophysics (SCBBS), a collaborative network bringing together CSIC and University of Salamanca researchers to advance interdisciplinary molecular and biophysical science.
