Filip Van Petegem
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Filip Van Petegem
@filipvanpetegem.bsky.social
Protein Biochemist. Structural Biology. Cardiac arrhythmias. Muscle excitation-contraction coupling. MTB and road biking. Music arrangements.

https://www.vanpetegemlab.com
For the aficionados: we find that 3 statin molecules bind per subunit of RyR1 (12 for a full tetramer). The statins also interact with one another, highlighting an unusual binding mode.

Work spearheaded by Steven Molinarolo.

Special thanks to people at our in-house EM facility
@hrmem.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hope this isn't going to apply to anyone already on H-1B, but only future ones.
September 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
unconscious bias...
March 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
seems you can definitely forget about BLAST with an entire RyR sequence...
March 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
hopefully not a symptom of funding cuts and resignations at NIH
March 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
an invitation to talk on the Galapagos Islands?
November 29, 2024 at 4:50 AM
seconding this. It also applies to presentations. The perfect way to throw off your audience is to use highly specific jargon and acronyms to an audience that is not (fully) in your field
November 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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