Julia Varga 🎗
@jvarga92.bsky.social
PhD student at @HebrewU, working on SLIMs of the ubiqutin system. Member of @UbiMotif network, @RosettaCommons and @FurmanLab
Come and join us for the next seminar!
Don't forget to tune in to our next seminar on Monday Nov 10 at 3pm CET!
Catch our next seminar on November 10 at 3pm CET! You'll see presentations from Prof. Gideon Schreiber (@weizmanninstitute.bsky.social) and Alessandro Lussana (@alussana.bsky.social).
Register to attend: tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2
Recordings of previous seminars: www.youtube.com/@PMCModularity
Register to attend: tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2
Recordings of previous seminars: www.youtube.com/@PMCModularity
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Come and join us for the next seminar!
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Are the Chemistry @nobelprize.bsky.social prizes being awarded to too many #Biologists or now #AIResearchers ?
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Are the Chemistry @nobelprize.bsky.social prizes being awarded to too many #Biologists or now #AIResearchers ?
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I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
beta.ideas.lego.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Our new measure for AF-s got an upgrade! Now also usable in local AF3 installation.
🚨 actifpTM is now in AF3!
Since our new metric, actifpTM, was determined to be the best for predicting success in designed proteins refolded by AF2 (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @tpjenkins.bsky.social
), we made it available also in AF3!
Since our new metric, actifpTM, was determined to be the best for predicting success in designed proteins refolded by AF2 (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @tpjenkins.bsky.social
), we made it available also in AF3!
Predicting Experimental Success in De Novo Binder Design: A Meta-Analysis of 3,766 Experimentally Characterised Binders
Designing high-affinity de novo protein binders has become increasingly tractable, yet in vitro prioritisation continues to depend on heuristics in the absence of systematic analysis. Here, we present...
www.biorxiv.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Our new measure for AF-s got an upgrade! Now also usable in local AF3 installation.
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Remember to tune in to our next Seminar on Monday September 8!
We are back with an exciting seminar on September 8 at 3pm CEST! We’ll hear from Prof. Birthe Kragelund and Maximilian Vieler (@uu.se).
Register to attend:
tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2
Recordings of previous seminars: www.youtube.com/@PMCModularity
Register to attend:
tinyurl.com/PMCseminar2
Recordings of previous seminars: www.youtube.com/@PMCModularity
September 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Remember to tune in to our next Seminar on Monday September 8!
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Along with this: it's tempting to collect technical skills like pokemon, and there certainly is focus on work with breadth that rewards this. But don't forget about the value of depth. Hard to do good science without deep understanding of what you're doing. That only comes from years of immersion.
Same with bioinformatics, honestly. Doing a two-month rotation in a lab that uses computation is going to give you a taste, but don't fool yourself into thinking you'll develop meaningful transferrable skill in that time
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Along with this: it's tempting to collect technical skills like pokemon, and there certainly is focus on work with breadth that rewards this. But don't forget about the value of depth. Hard to do good science without deep understanding of what you're doing. That only comes from years of immersion.
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Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.
August 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.
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🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference
Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions.
Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.
Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions.
Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.
Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.
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I am super excited to announce that I will be starting my lab at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland next year!
July 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I am super excited to announce that I will be starting my lab at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland next year!
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NEW from me at STAT:
We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.
More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...
🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.
More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...
🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
AlphaFold developer Google DeepMind to fund CASP as NIH funding falls short
Protein structure prediction contest CASP gets temporary funding from Google DeepMind as NIH grant runs out.
www.statnews.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NEW from me at STAT:
We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.
More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...
🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out.
More @statnews.com:
www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c...
🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML
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Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - here is how we did it using short linear motif prediction, AlphaFold, and experimentation. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome
Variant effect prediction remains a key challenge to resolve in precision medicine. Sophisticated computational models that exploit sequence conservation and structure are increasingly successful in t...
www.biorxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - here is how we did it using short linear motif prediction, AlphaFold, and experimentation. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD student in Biochemistry - Uppsala University
PhD student in Biochemistry, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
June 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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AKA the best conference ever
From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference
@natanellae.bsky.social gives us a glimpse of what happened during #TCTeAC @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social 👀🎵💃
thenode.biologists.com/from-posters...
@natanellae.bsky.social gives us a glimpse of what happened during #TCTeAC @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social 👀🎵💃
thenode.biologists.com/from-posters...
From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference - the Node
A fever dream of science and spirit wrapped in the forests of Bohemia. Here’s an escalating list — starting with the standard (though nothing was standard
thenode.biologists.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
AKA the best conference ever
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The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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"A missile attack is not going to hold back science, science is held back by itself" 🤣
youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...
youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...
couldn't complete the assignment, my lab was destroyed | אין מעבדה, תרקדו עכשיו עם כתוביות
YouTube video by Shahar Halevi | שחר הלוי
youtube.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"A missile attack is not going to hold back science, science is held back by itself" 🤣
youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...
youtube.com/shorts/FMOi-...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Indeed Oded. Some Will think of #TCTeAC as escapism, but I think it was showing us how beautiful we can make this world if the guiding values are respect & trust, and if world leaders would adopt a vision that is based on hope instead of hatred. On collaboration instead of competition. 💚
June 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Indeed Oded. Some Will think of #TCTeAC as escapism, but I think it was showing us how beautiful we can make this world if the guiding values are respect & trust, and if world leaders would adopt a vision that is based on hope instead of hatred. On collaboration instead of competition. 💚
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Pluralism at its best playing “theology or biology” game by @hagenom.bsky.social #TCTeAC
June 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Pluralism at its best playing “theology or biology” game by @hagenom.bsky.social #TCTeAC
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Three days ago at Woodstock Bio in the woods of Soběšín, Czech Republic. Science in the sun. So much fun, so sorely missed.
Thank you @odedrechavi.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social and all the instigators, speakers and revellers.
Thank you @odedrechavi.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social and all the instigators, speakers and revellers.
June 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Three days ago at Woodstock Bio in the woods of Soběšín, Czech Republic. Science in the sun. So much fun, so sorely missed.
Thank you @odedrechavi.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social and all the instigators, speakers and revellers.
Thank you @odedrechavi.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social and all the instigators, speakers and revellers.
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It's hard to describe how amazing this conference has been, the final day had everything including a wedding, a boxing match and a great performance of Y.M.C.A. Thanks to all the organizers @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social, this has been a once-in-a-lifetime event!
#TCTeAC
#TCTeAC
June 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
It's hard to describe how amazing this conference has been, the final day had everything including a wedding, a boxing match and a great performance of Y.M.C.A. Thanks to all the organizers @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social, this has been a once-in-a-lifetime event!
#TCTeAC
#TCTeAC
