Congratulations to Bjørn Panyella Pedersen with the DKK 10 M grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to promote sustainable agriculture by exploring how plants can adapt and develop throughout their growth period through the analysis of cellular function and interaction tinyurl.com/y4fvd5m8

Molecules inside brain synapses are bustling around for information processing & storage. How can you visualize these fascinating memory molecules? Check out this Perspective from Chao Sun at DANDRITE Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology
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It was a great pleasure to host Sine Lo Svenningsen and Maria Selmer from Uppsala University at Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology Aarhus University for the PhD defence of Adriana Chrenková. Wonderful discussions about bacteria, phages, lyases, and kinases.

New knowledge about cholesterol contributes to the understanding of the neurodegenerative Niemann-Pick type C disease – also called “childhood Alzheimer’s. tinyurl.com/9pcum37f Emil Dedic Bjørn Panyella Pedersen Kelly Frain Lynette

👉Ny #dkforsk viser, hvordan menneskets celler forsvarer sig i stressede situationer - og åbner samtidig fornye veje til at forstå sygdomme bit.ly/3vOBPNT Aarhus Universitet Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology

We demonstrate evidence of a glycocalyx in the yeast vacuole (glycocalyx: the polysaccharide coating that maintains the integrity of the lysosomal/vacuolar membrane).

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🥳Finally out in PNASNews.🥳
Our paper on sterol transport to the lysosomal/vacuolar membrane by NPC proteins:
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Amazing team effort by shared first authors Kelly Frain, Emil Dedic and Lynette. This was 4+ years underway. Tons of data and analysis!

Conformational changes in the Niemann–Pick type C1 protein NCR1 drive sterol translocation | PNAS

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.ulf orom et al. have discovered how certain proteins can attach to special structures in RNA, called G-quadruplexes. Additionally, they have developed computational tools capable of predicting these protein-RNA interactions. In Nature Communications tinyurl.com/24dyxv3j

Our new perspective The Journal of Physical Chemistry looks into an expanding toolbox that accesses molecular information inside brain synapses. It is biology. It is also chemistry! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… DANDRITE Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology

Lab members contemplating internationality in science together with Taro Kitazawa lab DANDRITE Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology

We DANDRITE Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology Nordic EMBL P'ship are soon looking for two joint postdocs with Charlotte Boccara from NCMM and Lassi Paavolainen from FIMM HelsinkiUni for the final selection of NORPOD fellowships from NordForsk: nordforsk.org/projects/colla…

Biologists are approaching a new – and more natural - way of studying proteins ⁦DANDRITE⁩ ⁦Poul Nissen🇩🇰🇺🇦⁩ ⁦Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology⁩ dandrite.au.dk/display/artike…

Dr. Silvia Turchetto from our lab DANDRITE Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology got a postdoc fellowship from Lundbeckfonden!

In Materials Today Physics ⁦Elsevier Materials Science⁩, ⁦Poul Nissen🇩🇰🇺🇦⁩ and I offer a perspective on Observing A Protein in Its Natural Habitat ⁦DANDRITE⁩ ⁦Molekylærbiologi - Molecular Biology⁩ ⁦Aarhus University⁩ ⁦Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies⁩ ⁦iNANO - Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out Chao Sun's new results describing a set of cutting-edge technologies that are so powerful that they can visualize individual molecules at synapses.

Congratulations to Esben Lorentzen on his appointment as full professor in Computational Structural Biology at Aarhus Universitet as of 1 May 2024. tinyurl.com/59chfdpc

Congratulations to Kasper Røjkjær Andersen on his appointment as full professor in Plant Structural Biology at Aarhus Universitet as of 1 May 2024. His research focuses on understanding how plants form symbiosis with bacteria and fungi. tinyurl.com/59chfdpc

Congratulations to Bjørn Panyella Pedersen on his appointment as full professor in Membrane Protein Biophysics at Aarhus Universitet as of 1 May 2024. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern developmental plasticity in plant growth. tinyurl.com/pbbxd2kr

Oh, I am so hooked.
Fishing crystals might be my new favorite thing ever. Except looking at resulting diffraction patterns of course. This structural biology is as cool as one could have dreamt.
#XRD #crystallography