The latest on NALCN pharmacology, now out in PNAS. Big thanks to everyone involved, in particular Chow for leading the effort!

Happy to share our results on how the plant lectin Concanavalin A helped to open the channel of kainate receptor for the first time! Shanti Pal Gangwar Maria Karela Kirill Nadezhdin Laura Yen Maria Kurnikova disq.us/t/4oqzkgx

Excited to announce our 1st International Symposium 'New Horizons in Membrane Biology' in Frankfurt in October, featuring 24 distinguished speakers. Poster presentations, flash talks and short lectures are further highlights of this event. Register here: sfb1507.de/symposium-2024/

Now formally published: our latest efforts on engineering of ASICs - big thanks to everyone involved!

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So much fun to catch up with current and former Pless lab and Center for Biopharmaceuticals members - big thanks to the Twitter/X-less Federica Gasparri, Iacopo Galleano Christian Bech-Bartling for the initiative and for making it happen!

Leak channels in placozoans and solely glutamate-gated rat NMDA receptors via natural and lab mutations in iGluRs. Congrats OksanaSintsova, Sandra, Yuhong Michael Sars Centre and our fav chemist Hassan. Paper now at home in Structure reviewed by Biophysics Colab

Very excited to co-organize GCE2024 with Abhishek Chatterjee and Mehl lab at GCE4ALL Research Center!
Come to Corvallis, Oregon to hear about the newest in genetic code expansion! We have a stellar speaker lineup from academia and industry!👇
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How come people in the world of MDs are apparently not concerned with what constitutes even the most basic requirements for authorship?

Register now for the Genetic Code Expansion workshop and symposium at OSU, hosted by Mehl lab, Kathrin Lang, and Abhishek Chatterjee. Fantastic opportunity to learn more on unnatural amino acid incorporation and applications: gceworkshops.org

10 Years of Chemical Biology at the Center for Biopharmaceuticals, DRA symposium 3 May 2024: dra.ku.dk/activities/202…

Congrats to everyone involved, especially Stephanie Heusser for leading this elegant effort on deciphering molecular motions in acid-sensing ion channels during desensitization!

Just returned from a fabulous visit at ⁦Washington University in St. Louis⁩. Big thanks for the many interactions and in particular ⁦Baron Chanda⁩ for hosting! (special treat to be sharing the table with two VCF heroes of my PhD days, Baron and Yongchang)

Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the 1906 medicine prize for his work on the structure of the nervous system. His co-laureate Camillo Golgi developed a staining technique that made it possible to colour nerve cells using silver nitrate.

I am looking for a postdoc. Please email or DM me if you are interested: slu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/SL…

a timely extension of the Vaughan Williams classification of antiarrhythmic drugs by Chris and colleagues...will update my lectures in near future accordingly
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Happening tomorrow! 👇

Genetically encoding negatively charged lysine PTMs succinylation/glutarylation and studying their funcional roles! Great team effort by first authors Marie-Lena Jokisch and Maria Weyh! Congrats Maria Weyh Marie-Lena Jokisch Max Fottner and Anh! 🥳🤩🙌👨‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Kathrin Lang
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📢The April ⭐️EpIC seminar⭐️ is coming up! Don't miss this opportunity to hear Dr. Abderemane-Ali Fayal Abderemane-Ali speak about birds, frogs, toxins, and sodium channels. As always, registration is free and everyone is welcome. Please RT!

A postdoc position is available in our lab to study how ion channels communicate with one another. Cryo-EM, electrophysiology, protein biophysics. A great opportunity for structural biologists to learn electrophysiology methods or vice versa.
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