Gaston Courtade
@gcourtade.bsky.social
Associate Professor in biopolymer science at NTNU, Trondheim 🇳🇴. Working with CAZymes, NMR and MD simulations. Coordinator for the biotechnology study programs at NTNU.
🔗 https://courtade.folk.ntnu.no/
🔗 https://courtade.folk.ntnu.no/
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The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has reported that it was hit during an Iranian air strike on Sunday. cen.acs.org/people/Missi...
Missile strike hits Weizmann Institute of Science lab buildings
Extent of damage unclear as conflict between Israel and Iran continues
cen.acs.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has reported that it was hit during an Iranian air strike on Sunday. cen.acs.org/people/Missi...
PhD position in Bergen on MD+NMR of oligosaccharides with Markus Miettinen, an excellent supervisor. DL: June 1st. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
PhD position in Bergen on MD+NMR of oligosaccharides with Markus Miettinen, an excellent supervisor. DL: June 1st. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Finally, we're recruiting!
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
May 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Finally, we're recruiting!
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...
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NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest Substack post. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/artediso...
This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country
Academic science in the US is being gutted by Trump
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest Substack post. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/artediso...
Happy to see that the 5-year biotech master’s (which we coordinate) tops Norway's 2025 natural sciences programs in applicants-per-spot! It’s great to see that biology & bioscience are popular at other unis too. Thanks to all students & colleagues—looking forward to welcome you to NTNU in August!
May 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy to see that the 5-year biotech master’s (which we coordinate) tops Norway's 2025 natural sciences programs in applicants-per-spot! It’s great to see that biology & bioscience are popular at other unis too. Thanks to all students & colleagues—looking forward to welcome you to NTNU in August!
😳 "This manuscript is an embarrassment to the reader"
(Happened to us)
(Happened to us)
May 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
😳 "This manuscript is an embarrassment to the reader"
(Happened to us)
(Happened to us)
Never have I ever embarrassed reviewer #2.
𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻
𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻
April 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Never have I ever embarrassed reviewer #2.
𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻
𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻
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We have an open PhD position in molecular modeling to work on the recognition of pollutants by fish receptors. More information and application procedure: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Come and work with us ;)
Come and work with us ;)
PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
April 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We have an open PhD position in molecular modeling to work on the recognition of pollutants by fish receptors. More information and application procedure: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Come and work with us ;)
Come and work with us ;)
Work from Ingrid M. Bolstad's MSc thesis is now a preprint! We show how protein secretion from V. natriegens can be used to screen for PET hydrolases. Also, we include negative results on de novo enzymes generated with RFdiffusion+ProteinMPNN.
Development of a Vibrio natriegens-based plate-clearing assay for rapid screening of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646774v1
April 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Work from Ingrid M. Bolstad's MSc thesis is now a preprint! We show how protein secretion from V. natriegens can be used to screen for PET hydrolases. Also, we include negative results on de novo enzymes generated with RFdiffusion+ProteinMPNN.
TIL that business cards weigh about 80 mg, thanks Microsoft Word.
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
TIL that business cards weigh about 80 mg, thanks Microsoft Word.
- Very interesting peak shapes, what kind of spectrometer do you have?
- Microsoft Paint
- Microsoft Paint
🤨 another hand-drawn 1H-NMR spectrum in #chemsky with unphysical nonsense (e.g. black line, 3.3 ppm) 🙁
...all junk, and no one at this "scientific journal" cares about #researchintegrity
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
...all junk, and no one at this "scientific journal" cares about #researchintegrity
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
February 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
- Very interesting peak shapes, what kind of spectrometer do you have?
- Microsoft Paint
- Microsoft Paint
From CERM, Florence: selective aliphatic 1H decoupling in 15N-detected TROSY experiments results in significant increases in sensitivity and resolution for IDPs
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
15N-detected TROSY for 1H-15N heteronuclear correlation to study intrinsically disordered proteins: strategies to increase spectral quality - Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions are central to many biological processes but difficult to characterize at atomic resolution. Nuclear magnetic resonance is particularly well-suite...
link.springer.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
From CERM, Florence: selective aliphatic 1H decoupling in 15N-detected TROSY experiments results in significant increases in sensitivity and resolution for IDPs
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Me: procrastinating by reading fantasy
George RR Martin:
George RR Martin:
George RR Martin and the physicist Ian Tregillis published a paper deriving a Lagrangian to model the spread of the wild card virus
Goes to show both the power of the variational principle and how creative G.RR.Martin has become in avoiding to write winds of winter
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
Goes to show both the power of the variational principle and how creative G.RR.Martin has become in avoiding to write winds of winter
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe
Editor's Note: Looking for a new way to engage your students' imagination, encourage their exploration and curiosity around open-ended physics research question
pubs.aip.org
January 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Me: procrastinating by reading fantasy
George RR Martin:
George RR Martin:
PhD position in molecular modeling at NTNU with Titus S. van Erp. The position is part of the ∞RETIS project, developing algorithms for faster molecular simulations, integrating path sampling simulation techniques with novel parallelization methods. DL: 1st March
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Candidate in Molecular Modeling (274181) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD Candidate in Molecular Modeling (274181), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Saturday, March 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
PhD position in molecular modeling at NTNU with Titus S. van Erp. The position is part of the ∞RETIS project, developing algorithms for faster molecular simulations, integrating path sampling simulation techniques with novel parallelization methods. DL: 1st March
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
I present to you the Catto-Pagnotta barostat. My go-to solution for anisotropic pressure coupling of cardboard boxes.
December 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I present to you the Catto-Pagnotta barostat. My go-to solution for anisotropic pressure coupling of cardboard boxes.
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Perspective by Higman et al: deposition of data for titrations, relaxation rates, PREs, etc in a standardized way, e.g. the NEF format could help develop AI models to accurately predict the dynamic behaviour of a protein from the primary sequence alone. #NMRchat
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
Perspective: on the importance of extensive, high-quality and reliable deposition of biomolecular NMR data in the age of artificial intelligence - Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are revolutionising scientific data analysis but are reliant on large training data sets. While artificial training data can be used in the context of NMR processin...
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Perspective by Higman et al: deposition of data for titrations, relaxation rates, PREs, etc in a standardized way, e.g. the NEF format could help develop AI models to accurately predict the dynamic behaviour of a protein from the primary sequence alone. #NMRchat
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
Looking forward to catching up with everyone here. You can also see what we're up to on our website: www.ntnu.edu/ibt/courtade...
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Looking forward to catching up with everyone here. You can also see what we're up to on our website: www.ntnu.edu/ibt/courtade...