Syma Khalid

Syma Khalid

@sykhalid.bsky.social

Prof of Computational Microbiology. Oxford Biochemistry & St Anne’s College. Bacterial Cell Envelopes. LFC fan 🌈

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Syma Khalid
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Revisiting Yeats’ The Scholars today it really hits home for me in terms of scientific research: how much are we really ‘getting’ what we are doing/measuring/simulating? Let’s really get inside the problem, the approach and the data - beyond the publication/ conference talk- the real meaning

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival
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Please spread the word @classicsatstannes.bsky.social Henry Power St Peter's College Oxford is bringing #HomerHaunted to our 18th Festival 3-8th May 2027 Learn more by signing up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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What an excellent, engaging interview! Here is an updated link: www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV... @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @vbivar.bsky.social

youtube.comL'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher NolanYouTube video by London One Radio

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Oxford Biochemistry
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Amazing news for the The Vaccine Identity Evaluation Consortium, which includes researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and partner institutions: a £3.7 million MRC DPFS grant to advance innovative technologies for detecting substandard and falsified vaccines. Congratulations 🙌 ⬇️

bit.ly£3.7 million grant to advance devices for detecting substandard and falsified vaccinesThe three-year project builds on research that began during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Syma Khalid
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Italian @vanityfair.com’s article on Nolan’s The Odyssey, featuring a reading list by @stannescollege.bsky.social JRF in Classics; Dr Francesca Beretta. @classicsatstannes.bsky.social www.vanityfair.it/article/odis...

vanityfair.itDopo l'Odissea di Christopher Nolan, i nove libri per ritrovare Ulisse: da Omero a Margaret Atwood e Madeline MillerTra classici, saggi e nuove voci, le storie che riportano al centro Ulisse, le sue donne e le domande universali che il poema di Omero continua a porci. La guida di Francesca Beretta, ricercatrice a O...
Syma Khalid
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What an excellent, engaging interview! Here is an updated link: www.youtube.com/live/BTMBlHV... @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @vbivar.bsky.social

youtube.comL'Odissea: da Omero a Christopher NolanYouTube video by London One Radio
St Anne's College, Oxford@stannescollege.bsky.social

The Odyssey is one of 2026's biggest films, but it was written nearly 3,000 years ago. Why does Homer's epic still resonate today? Find out with Francesca Beretta on London One radio at 17:00pm today. https://share.google/PJm7ut0W6Ag51VmQB

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Classics at St Anne's College
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Elise Stringfellow has just completed her MSt in Classical Languages and Literature and is off to read for a Graduate Diploma in Law. Prof. Syma Khalid and Dr Francesca Beretta rock the dark glasses. Francesca leaves us after 2 wonderful years for a Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social

A functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the US's founding, we've published five essays about the interpretative skills required of participants in a democracy. style.mla.org/the-mla-demo...

style.mla.orgThe MLA Democracy Project: Essays on Teaching Democracy and Literature | MLA Style CenterA functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. The knowledge and skills that come from MLA disciplines–language, literature, writing, a...
Syma Khalid
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Congratulations to Colin and @robklose.bsky.social. Not only excellent scientists, but also good colleagues and friends. Delighted for both of them.

Oxford Biochemistry @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social

Today we celebrate our colleagues Colin Kleanthous and Rob Klose as they join the Fellowship of the Royal Society, one of the highest honours in the scientific world, in recognition of their impactful contributions to knowledge. Congratulations! 👏 👏 👏 Read more ⬇️

bit.lyCongratulations to Colin Kleanthous and Rob Klose on joining the Fellowship of the Royal SocietyThe two scientists have been selected for outstanding contributions to their fields
Syma Khalid
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Really fun multidisciplinary project with Enrique (Fadri) Martinez-Perez’s lab. Simulations by Punam Rattu, who did her PhD with me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social and is now in @philbiggin.bsky.social’s group here at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comTwo structurally mobile regions control the conformation and function of metamorphic meiotic HORMAD proteins - Nature CommunicationsMetamorphic HORMA-domain proteins are essential components of meiotic chromosomes required for fertility. Here, the authors show that meiotic HORMADs contain a flexible loop region that is essential f...
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Check this out Oxford folk! Wholesome science & music family event.

Helen Arney@helenarney.bsky.social

Book free workshop places here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/disco... And concert tickets here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/the-c...

thegapfestival.orgDiscover. Create. Perform! Family Physics Singalong - science and music in harmonyBring your voice and your curiosity to a <strong>free family workshop</strong> that combines songs and STEM in perfect harmony! <br><br>Sing your heart out to well-known tunes with a science twist, in...
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Now out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comAssembly of two functionally-distinct protein import complexes in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts - Nature CommunicationsChloroplasts import thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins via multiprotein translocons. The authors elucidate the assembly and molecular architecture of the outer-membrane TOC translocon (the import “...
Jarvis Lab@pauljarvislab.bsky.social

Our new study characterises the assembly of two functionally distinct chloroplast protein import complexes (TOC-P and TOC-N) in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts. Huge thanks to @Ivan Ahel's lab and @sykhalid.bsky.social's lab, for a fantastic collaboration! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Syma Khalid
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Careful social media campaigns designed to cause divisions have helped Reform. It’s not ok to keep silent, folks. The louder voices are getting heard by idiots who can vote.

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Phil Biggin
@philbiggin.bsky.social

Congratulations to Bjarne Feddersen for his work on benchmarking umbrella sampling workflows for PMF calculations of membrane permeation! Systematic work that provides guidance on how to approach these to minimise compute resource. @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

pubs.acs.orgUmbrella Sampling Workflows for Fast-Converging PMF Calculations without Artificial WHAM ConstraintsUmbrella sampling is a powerful tool to investigate the underlying free-energy landscapes that govern the permeation properties of small molecules through complex lipid bilayers. However, obtaining co...
Syma Khalid
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Anyone been to Japan? How easy is it for an English muppet like me, to get from the Haneda airport in Tokyo to Shinagawa station to get the Bullet train to Shin-Kobe station? I’d be grateful for any advice

Syma Khalid
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Thrilled to see my group’s work feature in this report on the returns on the UK’s investment in High Performance Computing

EPCC@epcc.bsky.social

ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB

Syma Khalid
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Investment in HPC makes scientific, societal and economic sense.

EPCC@epcc.bsky.social

ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB

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Peter Sarkies
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Happy pi (RNA) day everyone! And what better way to enjoy than to revisit the unusual features of nematode piRNAs: www.cell.com/developmenta...

cell.comComparative Epigenomics Reveals that RNA Polymerase II Pausing and Chromatin Domain Organization Control Nematode piRNA BiogenesispiRNAs are an important genome regulatory mechanism conserved across metazoans. In the nematode C. elegans, piRNA biogenesis evolved several differences from other metazoans. Beltran et al. study the ...
Syma Khalid
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Our latest paper in which we use multiple force fields to recover various conformations of the ribose transporter from E. coli. The work of DPhil student Nikolai Juraschko and postdoc Florencia Klein Rocha pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

pubs.acs.orgCharacterizing the Conformational Dynamics of the Ribose Transporter B Protein in Escherichia coli: Enhanced Sampling via Multiple Force FieldsWe present a molecular dynamics simulation study of the E. coli ribose transporter protein B (RbsB), a conformationally labile protein found in the periplasm of the bacterium. The ribose transporter e...
Syma Khalid
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Go talk to your Iranian friends, students, postdocs, colleagues. Offer to take on their tasks at work. There is little contact with Iran right now from outside - most of us have no idea what it is like not to have contact with family members while they are being attacked.