Jan Gebauer

Just returned from a small collagen symposium in Freiberg/Sachsen hosted by the FILK Freiberg institute. It was mostly steered towards application, with me being one voice of the basic researchers. It was interesting to see a completly different crowd working on a different aspect of collagens!

Ich teile selten so was, aber diese hier halte ich aber für extrem wichtig für den Erhalt unserer Demokratie - und ich befürchte nicht viele interessiert es ...😬 (🇬🇧 in Germany there is massive attack on transparency by the current goverment...) 👇 #IFG weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Sylvie Ricard-Blum started the last workshop for today at #MBE2026 — a fabulous talk on known and maybe-not-yet-known interactions of endostatin, and the wider scope of PPIs in the ECM. Now eagerly waiting for the publication of the teased tool created in collab with @valerioizzi.bsky.social 😉

The UniProt database has network problems for the second time in 3 weeks. Anyone know anything? This DB is so essential to a protein biochemist's daily work, I can hardly imagine working without it 😬 #biochemistry #protein

Workshop #1 at #MBE2026 featured @tranejoan.bsky.social and @collagenyoshi.bsky.social back-to-back: first a wonderful talk on collagen trafficking, then a deep dive into lysine hydroxylation in collagens — asking the important question of how lysyl hydroxylases recognise their specific targets.

@nabalabuic.bsky.social starts the second day at #MBE2026. I already spotted the first protein structure so I am in 😉

What a wonderful first #ECR session hosted by @themeshwork.bsky.social! Join in the vibrant community and the future of #ECMatrix is super bright! #MBE2026

Just arrived at #MBE2026 in time for Fiona Watt's talk. Missed @valerioizzi.bsky.social's intro and the first session though — today literally every part of my transport chain was delayed 🤷 Looking forward to an exciting week of science at beautiful @oulu.fi.

Yesterday on my way to work... Who else thinks "Astrid Lindgren"? 🤣

This year's #crystallography course is in full swing. We swapped experimental phasing for #NMR and, for the first time, local #AlphaPulldown. But the real essential for an IT-heavy course is the snacks — and we're well stocked.

First full day of the #GRC #Collagen, obviously can't share anything, but there were already amazing talks!

This sounds really interesting! Eager to test it with some structures we have lying around. 👍

Okay, it's officially summer in Cologne, when I have to move our CryoEM machine from my office to an air conditioned room... ☀️(In Winter I am using it's heat for saving a little on heaters)

There is an #science feed and #ML in structural biology feed, but is there an protein #crystallography feed? And if not would we need one 🤔

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the Young Investigator Award: Kristina Bubb from Cologne! @nystromlab.bsky.social

I added support for Boltz1 so we can calculate ipSAE and other scores for pairwise protein-protein interactions on AF2, AF3, and Boltz1 models. Will add nucleic acids eventually. github.com/DunbrackLab/...

A worrying talk about the (planned) deregulation of synthetic biology by the EU commision (and worldwide) from Margret Engelhard (from BfN ) at the #38C3. I am working with GMOs daily, but IN the lab and I am not a fan of releasing them ... media.ccc.de/v/38c3-let-s...

Just heard a talk about #AquaCloning , sounds more like magical cloning. Mostly, Gibson without ANY enzymes. Has anyone tried it in realilty? How good does it work? #Genetics #MolecularBiology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Christmas is getting closer, and even our crystals are getting into the festive spirit! 😉 #ProteinCrystallography