Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪
@alexis-verger.cpesr.fr
Molecular & structural biologist CNRS with a big respect for Transcription Factors, RNA Pol II & Mediator

#CryoEM #ESR

Advocating for #basicresearch #womeninSTEM #preprint
Message in English or French.

https://bsi-lille.cnrs.fr
My phone is also my lab book 😬
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The devil is in the details

Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

success rates against each target range from 0% to 2% 😆

for SARS-CoV2 RBD target, 9000 designs screened, 5 SPR confirmed binders.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Everyone knows the story of Photo 51, but who remembers Florence Bell? #DNA #Franklin #Watson #Crick

X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA fibres taken by Florence Bell in 1938

www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/pe...
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
wait, wait, what 😱

Direct targeting and regulation of RNA polymerase II by cell signaling kinases in @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"cette croissance est principalement tirée par l’emploi de chercheurs non permanents (CDD-chercheurs, contrats de projet, contrats postdoctoraux) au sein des EPST et des EPIC"

#ESR #veilleESR
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Turn the volume up 😬
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#proteindesign #proteinbinder

😀

Now time to see if it binds what it is supposed to bind 🫣
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Dans le Canard de cette semaine 😬
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Scientific Large Language Models: A Survey on Biological & Chemical Domains

arxiv.org/abs/2401.14656
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Je.Non.Rien.
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Chauffage en rade depuis 3 jours, 15°C dans le bureau et le labo, elle est pas belle la vie ? #ESR 🥶
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Coucou @phbaptiste.bsky.social

Vous avez oublié de dire que les taux de succès de l'ERC sont en baisse, certains atteignant à peine 10%. Le nombre de dossiers déposés explose et dépasse largement les fonds disponibles. #ESR

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy 40 million members 🦋 @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team ! 🥂
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is fun - speak to a protein

arxiv.org/abs/2510.17826
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
La blague du jour vous est présentée par @franceinfo.fr 🤪

Laurent Alexandre, spécialiste de l'intelligence artificielle..... #IA

www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/fr...
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Academic freedom index

academic-freedom-index.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I am quite an avid reader, and for years I have tried to read at least one article a day. Despite this, my reading list never seems to get any shorter. I find it increasingly difficult to keep up, and I always feel like I am missing out on something.
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
😋
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
2 jours d'échange très enrichissant, c'était vraiment super. Et les sous-titres en temps réel en fr/en gérés par une IA, bluffant
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM