Martin Fossat
mfinscience.bsky.social
Martin Fossat
@mfinscience.bsky.social
Theory and Computation team leader in Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
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Last week, Washington University made the perhaps questionable decision to award me tenure.
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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New paper from my group! We show that membrane surface hydrophobicity, driven by lipid packing defects, can be just as important, and possibly even more important, than surface charge in governing alpha-synuclein binding.

Here is the open-access link:

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Felicitations à Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet, ancien directeur du CBS et directeur du Pole Biologie-Santé de l'Université de Montpellier, reçu mardi dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
@umontpellier.bsky.social
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@inserm.fr
May 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Now published! Big congrats to first author @gginell.bsky.social

We are actively working improving/updating various aspects of FINCHES; don't hesitate to reach out if you run into issues, have questions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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And @bornanovak.bsky.social has only gone and won the BPS Student Research Achievement Award in the IDP section for his STARLING work (along with Vicky Liu of the Pappu lab - WashU represent!!)
Excited to announce the newest member of the flock - STARLING (conSTruction of intrinsicAlly disoRdered proteins ensembles efficientLy vIa multi-dimeNsional Generative models).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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María Aristizabal from Queen’s University in Canada tells us how combining experiments and simulations informs on why histone modifications are involved in cancer #BPS2025 @mgo-bps.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Happy to announce my first publication as a independent researcher. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions !
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
MEDOC: A Fast, Scalable, and Mathematically Exact Algorithm for the Site-Specific Prediction of the Protonation Degree in Large Disordered Proteins
Intrinsically disordered regions are found in most eukaryotic proteins and are enriched with positively and negatively charged residues. While it is often convenient to assume that these residues foll...
pubs.acs.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM