Scott William
@behiew.bsky.social
Director of Research Programs, Bio2Q.
Interested in microbiomes, science communication, hockey, and cats.
PhD - Brock University, Post Doc - UC Berkeley PMB
Opinions are my own
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Interested in microbiomes, science communication, hockey, and cats.
PhD - Brock University, Post Doc - UC Berkeley PMB
Opinions are my own
🇨🇦🇺🇸🇯🇵
Check out this amazing new work from Bio2Q’s quantum researchers who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in computational biology!
#QuantumComputing #ComputationalBiology #Biotech #SystemsBiology #AI #PrecisionMedicine
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#QuantumComputing #ComputationalBiology #Biotech #SystemsBiology #AI #PrecisionMedicine
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Quantum Algorithm for Metabolic Network Analysis
Biological systems, such as cellular metabolism, involve thousands of reactions that together determine how cells grow, respond to their environment, and produce energy. Modeling and analyzing these s...
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Check out this amazing new work from Bio2Q’s quantum researchers who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in computational biology!
#QuantumComputing #ComputationalBiology #Biotech #SystemsBiology #AI #PrecisionMedicine
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#QuantumComputing #ComputationalBiology #Biotech #SystemsBiology #AI #PrecisionMedicine
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is absolutely the most significant glycobiology paper so far this year. Increasing cell surface N-glycosylation makes viable allo CAR-T cells without deleting the endogenous TCR #glycotime
Glycan shielding enables TCR-sufficient allogeneic CAR-T therapy
SPPL3 deletion modifies glycosylation on primary T cells, reducing allogeneic immune
responses without impairing tumor control by anti-CD19 allogeneic CAR-T cells. SPPL3-null,
TCR-sufficient anti-CD19...
www.cell.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is absolutely the most significant glycobiology paper so far this year. Increasing cell surface N-glycosylation makes viable allo CAR-T cells without deleting the endogenous TCR #glycotime
Let me know who’s going to this! 🧫🦠
#EMBL #humanmicrobiome #microbiome #microbiology
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBL #humanmicrobiome #microbiome #microbiology
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
The human microbiome
www.embl.org
August 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Let me know who’s going to this! 🧫🦠
#EMBL #humanmicrobiome #microbiome #microbiology
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBL #humanmicrobiome #microbiome #microbiology
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
New Bio2Q Connect newsletter is out!
From breakthroughs in cryo-EM to gut-brain collabs, and reflections from our retreat in Shuzenji, get a behind-the-scenes look at the science and people driving Bio2Q forward.
📖 Read Below!
#Bio2Q #Microbiome #CryoEM #GutBrainAxis #ScienceCommunity
From breakthroughs in cryo-EM to gut-brain collabs, and reflections from our retreat in Shuzenji, get a behind-the-scenes look at the science and people driving Bio2Q forward.
📖 Read Below!
#Bio2Q #Microbiome #CryoEM #GutBrainAxis #ScienceCommunity
June 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
New Bio2Q Connect newsletter is out!
From breakthroughs in cryo-EM to gut-brain collabs, and reflections from our retreat in Shuzenji, get a behind-the-scenes look at the science and people driving Bio2Q forward.
📖 Read Below!
#Bio2Q #Microbiome #CryoEM #GutBrainAxis #ScienceCommunity
From breakthroughs in cryo-EM to gut-brain collabs, and reflections from our retreat in Shuzenji, get a behind-the-scenes look at the science and people driving Bio2Q forward.
📖 Read Below!
#Bio2Q #Microbiome #CryoEM #GutBrainAxis #ScienceCommunity
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Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @cellpress.bsky.social, @harvardmcb.bsky.social, @harvardmed.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @cellpress.bsky.social, @harvardmcb.bsky.social, @harvardmed.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Join cutting-edge research at Bio2Q!🚨
The Nillegoda Lab seeks postdocs to study protein disaggregation & neurodegeneration via the gut-brain axis!
📍 Tokyo | bio2q.keio.ac.jp
Apply here 👉 nadinath.nillegoda@keio.jp
Include: CV, research list, motivation & rec letters
#Neuro #Microbiome #TokyoJobs
The Nillegoda Lab seeks postdocs to study protein disaggregation & neurodegeneration via the gut-brain axis!
📍 Tokyo | bio2q.keio.ac.jp
Apply here 👉 nadinath.nillegoda@keio.jp
Include: CV, research list, motivation & rec letters
#Neuro #Microbiome #TokyoJobs
Bio2Q : Keio University Human Biology-Microbiome-Quantum Research Center
Bio2Q will develop novel research techniques to understand the interactions between multiple organs and the microbiome, and develop methods to apply quantum computing to human biology.
bio2q.keio.ac.jp
June 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Join cutting-edge research at Bio2Q!🚨
The Nillegoda Lab seeks postdocs to study protein disaggregation & neurodegeneration via the gut-brain axis!
📍 Tokyo | bio2q.keio.ac.jp
Apply here 👉 nadinath.nillegoda@keio.jp
Include: CV, research list, motivation & rec letters
#Neuro #Microbiome #TokyoJobs
The Nillegoda Lab seeks postdocs to study protein disaggregation & neurodegeneration via the gut-brain axis!
📍 Tokyo | bio2q.keio.ac.jp
Apply here 👉 nadinath.nillegoda@keio.jp
Include: CV, research list, motivation & rec letters
#Neuro #Microbiome #TokyoJobs
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“This single receptor is responsible for our insatiable, never-ending attraction to sugar”
https://go.nature.com/42RrDCb
https://go.nature.com/42RrDCb
How we taste sweetness: long-sought structure of human receptor mapped at last
3D structure of the tongue’s sweet-sensing protein could guide future food designs.
go.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“This single receptor is responsible for our insatiable, never-ending attraction to sugar”
https://go.nature.com/42RrDCb
https://go.nature.com/42RrDCb
Awesome plant-microbe work in the issue!!
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The new issue is out! 👉 www.cell.com/cell/current
The cover image depicts the crop root microbiome as the “dark matter” of the universe, symbolizing the scientific endeavor to decode the hidden aspects of root ecosystems.
Cover 📷: Binglei Wang and Yang Bai
The cover image depicts the crop root microbiome as the “dark matter” of the universe, symbolizing the scientific endeavor to decode the hidden aspects of root ecosystems.
Cover 📷: Binglei Wang and Yang Bai
May 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Awesome plant-microbe work in the issue!!
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The flamboyant cuttlefish undulates with a hypnotic combination of reds, yellows, and browns.
The Hanlon lab studies flamboyant cuttlefish to learn more about camouflage and the sensory environment of the marine world.
📹 MBL/Bioquestproductions
The Hanlon lab studies flamboyant cuttlefish to learn more about camouflage and the sensory environment of the marine world.
📹 MBL/Bioquestproductions
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The flamboyant cuttlefish undulates with a hypnotic combination of reds, yellows, and browns.
The Hanlon lab studies flamboyant cuttlefish to learn more about camouflage and the sensory environment of the marine world.
📹 MBL/Bioquestproductions
The Hanlon lab studies flamboyant cuttlefish to learn more about camouflage and the sensory environment of the marine world.
📹 MBL/Bioquestproductions
From Dean’s Mother Goose Book of Rhymes, illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone and Ann Grahame Johnstone. This book was published in 1977 but it was a compilation of several volumes from throughout the 70s.
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
One of the coolest papers, and cutest covers, of the year!
Koalas ✅
monitoring viral evolution in real time ✅
and did I mention koalas?
🐨 ❤️
shorturl.at/oxP2S
@umasschan.bsky.social
#virology #koala #evolution
Koalas ✅
monitoring viral evolution in real time ✅
and did I mention koalas?
🐨 ❤️
shorturl.at/oxP2S
@umasschan.bsky.social
#virology #koala #evolution
The new issue is out! 👉 cell.com/cell/current
In this issue of Cell, Yu et al. capture evolution of KoRV-A transcriptional silencing as the virus transitions from a pathogen to a stable endogenous retrovirus. The cover features an adult koala with a joey.
📷 Credit: Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
In this issue of Cell, Yu et al. capture evolution of KoRV-A transcriptional silencing as the virus transitions from a pathogen to a stable endogenous retrovirus. The cover features an adult koala with a joey.
📷 Credit: Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
April 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One of the coolest papers, and cutest covers, of the year!
Koalas ✅
monitoring viral evolution in real time ✅
and did I mention koalas?
🐨 ❤️
shorturl.at/oxP2S
@umasschan.bsky.social
#virology #koala #evolution
Koalas ✅
monitoring viral evolution in real time ✅
and did I mention koalas?
🐨 ❤️
shorturl.at/oxP2S
@umasschan.bsky.social
#virology #koala #evolution
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Bite-sized chunks of chicken meat can now be grown in lab.
www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Shoji Takeuchi & colleagues
@cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Shoji Takeuchi & colleagues
@cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Bite-sized chunks of chicken meat can now be grown in lab.
www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Shoji Takeuchi & colleagues
@cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/biote...
Shoji Takeuchi & colleagues
@cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social
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The new issue is out! 👉 www.cell.com/cell/current
On the cover: A light sheet microscopy image of the posterior aspect of a co-dominant human fetal heart with coronary arteries in black.
Cover 📷: Pamela E. Rios Coronado and Mira Moufarrej, using the Miltenyi Ultramicroscope Blaze and MACS iQ 3D.
On the cover: A light sheet microscopy image of the posterior aspect of a co-dominant human fetal heart with coronary arteries in black.
Cover 📷: Pamela E. Rios Coronado and Mira Moufarrej, using the Miltenyi Ultramicroscope Blaze and MACS iQ 3D.
April 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The new issue is out! 👉 www.cell.com/cell/current
On the cover: A light sheet microscopy image of the posterior aspect of a co-dominant human fetal heart with coronary arteries in black.
Cover 📷: Pamela E. Rios Coronado and Mira Moufarrej, using the Miltenyi Ultramicroscope Blaze and MACS iQ 3D.
On the cover: A light sheet microscopy image of the posterior aspect of a co-dominant human fetal heart with coronary arteries in black.
Cover 📷: Pamela E. Rios Coronado and Mira Moufarrej, using the Miltenyi Ultramicroscope Blaze and MACS iQ 3D.
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Miso made in space tastes nuttier!
Researchers successfully make miso at the #InternationalSpaceStation, confirming that making fermented foods in space is possible. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@medialab.bsky.social Maggie Coblentz
@novo-nordisk.bsky.social Joshua D. Evans
@cp-cell.bsky.social
Researchers successfully make miso at the #InternationalSpaceStation, confirming that making fermented foods in space is possible. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
@medialab.bsky.social Maggie Coblentz
@novo-nordisk.bsky.social Joshua D. Evans
@cp-cell.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
Revealed: first DNA profiles of ancient people who roamed a lush Sahara
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population.
go.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Amazing stuff from @leibniz-hki.de 🧫 🤩
Now online! A chemical radar allows bacteria to detect and kill predators
A chemical radar allows bacteria to detect and kill predators
Pseudomonas syringae can detect and kill microbial predators via a chemical radar (Cra), which also allows the bacterium to infect plants despite predation pressure.
dlvr.it
April 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Amazing stuff from @leibniz-hki.de 🧫 🤩
This is so cool!
March 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is so cool!
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The new issue is out👉 cell.com/cell/current
On the cover: Hindmarsh Sten, Li et al. show that male-male competition strongly influences mate choice. In the cover image, Drosophila engages in social interactions on an orchid at the Field Station La Gamba, Costa Rica.
📷: Philipp Brand (Ruta lab).
On the cover: Hindmarsh Sten, Li et al. show that male-male competition strongly influences mate choice. In the cover image, Drosophila engages in social interactions on an orchid at the Field Station La Gamba, Costa Rica.
📷: Philipp Brand (Ruta lab).
March 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The new issue is out👉 cell.com/cell/current
On the cover: Hindmarsh Sten, Li et al. show that male-male competition strongly influences mate choice. In the cover image, Drosophila engages in social interactions on an orchid at the Field Station La Gamba, Costa Rica.
📷: Philipp Brand (Ruta lab).
On the cover: Hindmarsh Sten, Li et al. show that male-male competition strongly influences mate choice. In the cover image, Drosophila engages in social interactions on an orchid at the Field Station La Gamba, Costa Rica.
📷: Philipp Brand (Ruta lab).
Reposted by Scott William
I am happy to share that our review has now been published in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social!🎉
@indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social Laura Epp @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @mikkelwp.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social Laura Epp @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @mikkelwp.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the utility of palaeogenomics for exploring past biodiversity trends and ecosystem responses to a changing world, including natural climate cycles and increasing human activity.
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am happy to share that our review has now been published in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social!🎉
@indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social Laura Epp @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @mikkelwp.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@indianadiez.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social Laura Epp @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @mikkelwp.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Scott William
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.@petterbrodin.bsky.social and colleagues at KI and Karolinska University Hospital have determined how the immune system reacts to different kinds of #ChildhoodCancer. The study published in @cp-cell.bsky.social can lead to new tailored cancer treatments #PrecisionMedicine news.ki.se/new-study-pa...
New study paves way for immunotherapies tailored for childhood cancers
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Sweden have determined how children’s immune systems react to different kinds of cancer depending on their age. The ...
news.ki.se
January 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
.@petterbrodin.bsky.social and colleagues at KI and Karolinska University Hospital have determined how the immune system reacts to different kinds of #ChildhoodCancer. The study published in @cp-cell.bsky.social can lead to new tailored cancer treatments #PrecisionMedicine news.ki.se/new-study-pa...
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New paper alert 📢! (Cell) @cp-cell.bsky.social
- How does immune responses to solid tumors vary by age and tumor characteristics in children?! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵1/8
- How does immune responses to solid tumors vary by age and tumor characteristics in children?! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵1/8
January 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New paper alert 📢! (Cell) @cp-cell.bsky.social
- How does immune responses to solid tumors vary by age and tumor characteristics in children?! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵1/8
- How does immune responses to solid tumors vary by age and tumor characteristics in children?! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵1/8
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The new issue is out!! 👉 cell.com/cell/current
Featuring the engineering of source-sink relations to
create climate-smart crops, how ongoing chromothripsis drives tumor evolution across sarcomas and carcinomas, and the intercellular propagation of pyroptosis!
📷: Jake Watson
Featuring the engineering of source-sink relations to
create climate-smart crops, how ongoing chromothripsis drives tumor evolution across sarcomas and carcinomas, and the intercellular propagation of pyroptosis!
📷: Jake Watson
January 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The new issue is out!! 👉 cell.com/cell/current
Featuring the engineering of source-sink relations to
create climate-smart crops, how ongoing chromothripsis drives tumor evolution across sarcomas and carcinomas, and the intercellular propagation of pyroptosis!
📷: Jake Watson
Featuring the engineering of source-sink relations to
create climate-smart crops, how ongoing chromothripsis drives tumor evolution across sarcomas and carcinomas, and the intercellular propagation of pyroptosis!
📷: Jake Watson