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This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Researchers can craft their own polished, professional figures and images with the help of these tools and design principles go.nature.com/3C3Lsez

wow, snow-making machines depend on this bacterial protein to nucleate ice thank you P syringae for enabling snowboarding on the East coast science.org/content/articl… uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P066…

Gotta love eels!!!❤️😀 I reckon there's just enough biochemistry in here that we can repost it... youtu.be/TzN148WQ2OQ

Journal Club – TODAY, 12pm, Rm BIG13 Nihar Naik: A Tale of Doritos, Chicken, and Mice. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Gabrielle Chieng: No Meds, No Problem: How to Hack Your Brain to Kill Pain. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Wondering what you might do with your biochemistry degree? Take a look at what some of our graduates have done with theirs. Just added new videos to our playlist: Careers with a biomedical sciences degree youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Latest publication from Otago Biochemistry Structural and biophysical characterisation of ubiquitin variants that inhibit the ubiquitin conjugating enzyme Ube2d2 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fe…

Latest publication with a contribution from Otago Biochemistry Activity and cryo-EM structure of the polymerase domain of the human norovirus ProPol precursor journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

Holly Pinkney, an Otago Biochemistry PhD candidate, has identified some RNAs that could help to guide the treatment of colorectal cancer patients. Bowel cancer breakthrough otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality! With Luciano Abriata and Lucien Krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon! Three.js #WebXR #Quest3

Should we be teaching coding to basic science students? Coding is an essential skill that our students and post-docs need to develop as they prepare for their future. Please share your perspectives, interests and experiences docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Department of Biochemistry Seminar Mon 11 Nov, 4pm, Rm BIG13 Prof Renwick C.J. Dobson, Biomolecular Interaction Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury TRAPped in an elevator: amino-sugar uptake and utilisation by bacteria

Don't forget to submit your abstract and award nominations for the GO Symposium by the 14th of November. Full details here: blogs.otago.ac.nz/go/events/

Wetter in than out. Otago Biochemists reached work this morning only to find large puddles on the floors. An issue with a pipe in the kitchen led to water gushing through the building through Thurs night. The clean up started promptly so we can return to a dry building on Mon

The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments nature.com/articles/d4158…

A team of researchers from the Department of Biochemistry have been given a big boost for their inspiring plan... Otago Biochemists plan protein nanotechnology to make better crops otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

PDB files: not just beautiful protein structures!!! Bitesize Bio shows you what extra goodies you can find in a pdb file and how to access them. Structure Analysis: Extra Information in a Protein Data Bank File bitesizebio.com/61389/protein-…