Vojtech Dvorak
vojtechdvorak.bsky.social
Vojtech Dvorak
@vojtechdvorak.bsky.social
Chemical biologist & drug hunter, keen on membrane transporters and metabolism
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OBS SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT👩‍🔬
How Skin Injury Primes Distant Immunity
🗣️ @mariemradhouani.bsky.social
@starkllab.bsky.social lab.bsky.social
@cemm-vienna.bsky.social @meduniwien.ac.at

📆 Thu, June 5, 11 pm ET
👉 Registration:
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June 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Even though this essay is supposedly a classic, I only discovered it a few days ago. It’s a great (short) read, indeed!

www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis
As a freshly minted Assistant Professor, I feared that everything in my field would be discovered before I even had a chance to set up my laboratory. Indeed, the field of apoptosis, which I had recent...
www.cell.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Paper(s) alert from our RESOLUTE project – In a compilation of four papers in @molsystbiol.org we show how we were deciphering cellular logistics and present a comprehensive systematic blueprint of chemical transport pathways with #SoluteCarrier transporters
May 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Want to know how the ligands interact with proteins beyond model cell lines, e.g., in tissues or bacteria? Interested in membrane targets? Check out our High-Throughput PELSA method which allows you do all these cool screenings for dozens of ligands within two hours! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-throughput peptide-centric local stability assay extends protein-ligand identification to membrane proteins, tissues, and bacteria
Systematic mapping of protein-ligand interactions is essential for understanding biological processes and drug mechanisms. Peptide-centric local stability assay (PELSA) is a powerful tool for detectin...
www.biorxiv.org
April 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I'm excited to share my first-author PhD paper, now out in Science Immunology! @science.org
We show that S.aureus skin infection leaves a lasting imprint on bone marrow eosinophils, fueling allergic responses in the lungs.
📄 Read the full study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Let’s dive in 🧵 1/9
Eosinophil innate immune memory after bacterial skin infection promotes allergic lung inflammation
Staphylococcus aureus skin infection induces eosinophil innate immune memory to exacerbate allergen-induced airway inflammation.
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Lactate homeostasis is maintained through regulation of glycolysis and lipolysis: Cell Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
Lactate homeostasis is maintained through regulation of glycolysis and lipolysis
Lactate elevations are a hallmark of human disease, but the mechanisms regulating lactate levels remain poorly understood. Here, Lee et al. elucidate the mechanisms of lactate homeostasis. These invol...
www.cell.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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🔬 Calling all PhD students & postdocs in chemistry/biology!
Join us at the Chemical Probes Hackathon 🧪:

🗓️ Feb 20, 2025 | 10:00–14:30
📍 Vienna, Austria

💡 Evaluate chemical probes w/ experts & improve global science 🌍.
🎓 Earn a Certificate of Attendance!

Learn more & register 👇
January 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Kicking off the new year: A collaboration between @giuliosupertifurga.bsky.social and @alessiociulli.bsky.social using a transporter-focused genetic screens revealed that the efflux pump ABCC1/MRP1 restricts PROTAC sensitivity in cancer cells. Out now in @CellChemBiol www.cell.com/cell-chemica...
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM