Paula Prado
@paulafprado.bsky.social
Enjoying the little things in life — like the first flowers of spring, a good cup of cafezinho, and amino acid side chains fitting perfectly into a nice map.
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We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
August 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...
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When particles have orientation bias, the resulting maps are often streaked along the missing directions. In this case study, we cover why orientation bias produces anisotropic #cryoEM maps and how you may be able to recover from it!
guide.cryosparc.com/processing-d...
guide.cryosparc.com/processing-d...
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
When particles have orientation bias, the resulting maps are often streaked along the missing directions. In this case study, we cover why orientation bias produces anisotropic #cryoEM maps and how you may be able to recover from it!
guide.cryosparc.com/processing-d...
guide.cryosparc.com/processing-d...
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MEU PROJETO VIROU LEI! PROTEÇÃO PARA AS MÃES CIENTISTAS 💖
Hoje tive a alegria de estar com o Presidente Lula para a sanção do meu Projeto que protege mães cientistas de discriminação na seleção de bolsas de estudo e de pesquisa. +👇🏽
Hoje tive a alegria de estar com o Presidente Lula para a sanção do meu Projeto que protege mães cientistas de discriminação na seleção de bolsas de estudo e de pesquisa. +👇🏽
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
MEU PROJETO VIROU LEI! PROTEÇÃO PARA AS MÃES CIENTISTAS 💖
Hoje tive a alegria de estar com o Presidente Lula para a sanção do meu Projeto que protege mães cientistas de discriminação na seleção de bolsas de estudo e de pesquisa. +👇🏽
Hoje tive a alegria de estar com o Presidente Lula para a sanção do meu Projeto que protege mães cientistas de discriminação na seleção de bolsas de estudo e de pesquisa. +👇🏽
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Happy to share out latest collaborative work with the groups of Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein and Peter Rehling just out in
@natcomms.nature.com. Great work led by two very talented PhD students - Franziska Finke (our lab) and Marleen Heinrichs (Richter-Dennerlein lab).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com. Great work led by two very talented PhD students - Franziska Finke (our lab) and Marleen Heinrichs (Richter-Dennerlein lab).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coupling of ribosome biogenesis and translation initiation in human mitochondria - Nature Communications
Mitochondrial ribosome biogenesis requires the assistance of multiple assembly factors. Here, the authors provide insights into the essential role of the GTPase MTG3 during small subunit biogenesis an...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Happy to share out latest collaborative work with the groups of Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein and Peter Rehling just out in
@natcomms.nature.com. Great work led by two very talented PhD students - Franziska Finke (our lab) and Marleen Heinrichs (Richter-Dennerlein lab).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com. Great work led by two very talented PhD students - Franziska Finke (our lab) and Marleen Heinrichs (Richter-Dennerlein lab).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Today in colonial Paleontology, German collectors illegally bought a Brazilian fossil but where duped into thinking it was rarer than it was, so they sent it to a Museum, which named it “Irritator” (cuz it’s irritating to be scammed in your illegal purchases). Now Germany refuses to repatriate it.
Have you heard the story of the Brazilian dinosaur Irritator challengeri? 🦖🇧🇷
This dinosaur, a relative of Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil 🌵🇧🇷, had its fossil remains taken to Germany 🇩🇪 — and that’s where they remain to this day.
Let’s talk about it? ⚒️🧪 #IrritatorBelongstoBR
This dinosaur, a relative of Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil 🌵🇧🇷, had its fossil remains taken to Germany 🇩🇪 — and that’s where they remain to this day.
Let’s talk about it? ⚒️🧪 #IrritatorBelongstoBR
April 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today in colonial Paleontology, German collectors illegally bought a Brazilian fossil but where duped into thinking it was rarer than it was, so they sent it to a Museum, which named it “Irritator” (cuz it’s irritating to be scammed in your illegal purchases). Now Germany refuses to repatriate it.
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Press release in German by UMG:
www.umg.eu/news-detail/...
and in English by MPI-NAT:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4947945/pr_2...
Short thread below.
www.umg.eu/news-detail/...
and in English by MPI-NAT:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4947945/pr_2...
Short thread below.
Molekulare 3D-Struktur viraler „Kopiermaschine“ entschlüsselt
Forschende der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG) und des Max-Planck-Instituts (MPI) für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften konnten erstmals zeigen, wie sich das Erbgut des Nipah-Virus in infizier...
www.umg.eu
March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Press release in German by UMG:
www.umg.eu/news-detail/...
and in English by MPI-NAT:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4947945/pr_2...
Short thread below.
www.umg.eu/news-detail/...
and in English by MPI-NAT:
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4947945/pr_2...
Short thread below.
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The peer-revied version of our paper on the structure of the Nipah virus RNA polymerase in complex with RNA is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Congratulations to first-author @salafernanda.bsky.social and many thanks to the reviewers for their constructive comments!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural basis of Nipah virus RNA synthesis - Nature Communications
Sala et al. report the first structural snapshot of the Nipah virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the actively elongating state, uncovering key mechanisms of RNA synthesis by non-segmented negative ...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The peer-revied version of our paper on the structure of the Nipah virus RNA polymerase in complex with RNA is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Congratulations to first-author @salafernanda.bsky.social and many thanks to the reviewers for their constructive comments!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing work! So proud of @salafernanda.bsky.social ! 🔬❄️🦠 Congratulations Fer and @haukehillen.bsky.social!
Structural basis of Nipah virus RNA synthesis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40050611/ #cryoem
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Amazing work! So proud of @salafernanda.bsky.social ! 🔬❄️🦠 Congratulations Fer and @haukehillen.bsky.social!
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In case you wondered what it looks like "in real life" when the FluScreen of a Krios cryoEM is retracted/inserted: here you go. ❄️🔬
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In case you wondered what it looks like "in real life" when the FluScreen of a Krios cryoEM is retracted/inserted: here you go. ❄️🔬
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December 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
December 9, 2024 at 3:21 PM
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov