marialukarska.bsky.social
@marialukarska.bsky.social
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New from Ugrappa Nagalakshmi and Jorge Rodriguez 🌱✂️– Gene editing in plants just got a lot easier! Using engineered TnpB, they demonstrate high-efficiency, heritable, transgene-free editing in plants. (1/7)
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🌱🚨 Funded PhD for UK students 🇬🇧🌿
Take a look at this Plant BioDesign Doctoral Training Program.
Come work with me and @michaelwebster.bsky.social to study plant rubiscos. High throughput biochem at Cambridge and Cryo-EM techniques at the John Innes Centre.

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Engineering plant rubisco enzymes through high-throughput enzyme assays and cryo-EM (Plant BioDesign Cambridge project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Engineering plant rubisco enzymes through high-throughput enzyme assays and cryo-EM (Plant BioDesign Cambridge project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Excited to finally share this work!
We noticed a pair of genes - a nuclease and a protease - shuffles between antiviral systems. We show how proteolysis activates the nuclease, triggering defense in known and unknown immune contexts.
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Recurrent acquisition of nuclease-protease pairs in antiviral immunity
Antiviral immune systems diversify by integrating new genes into existing pathways, creating new mechanisms of viral resistance. We identified genes encoding a predicted nuclease paired with a trypsin...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Check out our pre-print on ProteinGuide, a new method for conditioning protein generative models on experimental data! Thanks to the amazing team: @junhaobearxiong.bsky.social, @hnisonoff.bsky.social, Ishan, Luke, @jlistgarten.bsky.social and @davesavage.bsky.social! @savagecatsonly.bsky.social
Guide your favorite protein generative model with experimental data? Meet ProteinGuide - a method to condition pre-trained models on properties without retraining. We validated it both in silico by guiding ProteinMPNN and ESM3 on 3 tasks and in vitro by engineering base editors.
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM