Weria Pezeshkian
@weria-lab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Website: commicgroup.ku.dk
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Website: commicgroup.ku.dk
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Weria Pezeshkian
@weria-lab.bsky.social
· Sep 18
A new preprint from my group by my PhD student Adria:
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
the Martini Pumpkin by my PhD student Isabell Lindahl.
Too much fat though!
TS2CG, Martini3, Martini
@cg-martini.bsky.social
Too much fat though!
TS2CG, Martini3, Martini
@cg-martini.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
the Martini Pumpkin by my PhD student Isabell Lindahl.
Too much fat though!
TS2CG, Martini3, Martini
@cg-martini.bsky.social
Too much fat though!
TS2CG, Martini3, Martini
@cg-martini.bsky.social
The 3rd Annual Danish Workshop on Advanced Molecular Simulation. This time in Aarhus
Registration now open for the '3rd Annual Danish Workshop on Advanced Molecular Simulation'
Join us in beautiful Aarhus for a 2-day workshop on biomolecular simulations!
9-10 December 2025
Link for registration: aias.au.dk/events/show/...
Join us in beautiful Aarhus for a 2-day workshop on biomolecular simulations!
9-10 December 2025
Link for registration: aias.au.dk/events/show/...
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The 3rd Annual Danish Workshop on Advanced Molecular Simulation. This time in Aarhus
Reposted by Weria Pezeshkian
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
1/10
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
1/10
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
1/10
Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360
PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!
Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:
1/10
A new preprint from my group by my PhD student Adria:
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A new preprint from my group by my PhD student Adria:
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No attraction between proteins, they do not induce curvature, but they cluster on membranes.
One of the reasons why mesoscale modeling matters.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Weria Pezeshkian
Martini on top of the world ! TS2CG as a Membrane Builder | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
September 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Martini on top of the world ! TS2CG as a Membrane Builder | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
New collaborative preprint, Helfrich Monte Carlo Flexible Fitting: physics-based, data-driven cell-scale simulations. By Valentin J. Maurer, Marc Siggel, Jan Kosinski, Julia Mahamid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New collaborative preprint, Helfrich Monte Carlo Flexible Fitting: physics-based, data-driven cell-scale simulations. By Valentin J. Maurer, Marc Siggel, Jan Kosinski, Julia Mahamid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint: TS2CG version 2, building and simulating membranes with any shape and lateral organisation. We got Martini Globe, Martini Möbius strip and again mitochondrion.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cg-martini.bsky.social @janstevens.bsky.social @fabianschuhmann.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cg-martini.bsky.social @janstevens.bsky.social @fabianschuhmann.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
New preprint: TS2CG version 2, building and simulating membranes with any shape and lateral organisation. We got Martini Globe, Martini Möbius strip and again mitochondrion.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cg-martini.bsky.social @janstevens.bsky.social @fabianschuhmann.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cg-martini.bsky.social @janstevens.bsky.social @fabianschuhmann.bsky.social
Reposted by Weria Pezeshkian
interesting preprint from Weria Pezeshkian on general material properties of membranes
Lateral tension can lead to membrane neck constriction at low tension & dilation at high tensions
relevant to nuclear pores, ER, mitochondria, Golgi etc
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lateral tension can lead to membrane neck constriction at low tension & dilation at high tensions
relevant to nuclear pores, ER, mitochondria, Golgi etc
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
interesting preprint from Weria Pezeshkian on general material properties of membranes
Lateral tension can lead to membrane neck constriction at low tension & dilation at high tensions
relevant to nuclear pores, ER, mitochondria, Golgi etc
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lateral tension can lead to membrane neck constriction at low tension & dilation at high tensions
relevant to nuclear pores, ER, mitochondria, Golgi etc
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A new preprint from my group by my PhD student Beatrice Geiger. The main message: increasing tension can lead to constriction of the pore in nuclear envelope like shapes, and for larger tension, the pore dilate.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Complex mechanical response of stomatocyte morphology: Implications for the nuclear envelope.
Among the fascinating shapes that biomembranes exhibit are stomatocytes, found for example in nuclear membranes and open autophagosomes. These morphologies, characterised by a high topological genus, ...
www.biorxiv.org
March 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A new preprint from my group by my PhD student Beatrice Geiger. The main message: increasing tension can lead to constriction of the pore in nuclear envelope like shapes, and for larger tension, the pore dilate.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The event concluded with a workshop on FreeDTS, but I didn’t have time to take a selfie.
December 10, 2024 at 3:13 PM
The event concluded with a workshop on FreeDTS, but I didn’t have time to take a selfie.
The final short talk by Adria Bravo Vidal my PhD student,
On the sampling of simulations of membrane shape
On the sampling of simulations of membrane shape
December 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM
The final short talk by Adria Bravo Vidal my PhD student,
On the sampling of simulations of membrane shape
On the sampling of simulations of membrane shape
Now active system. Dr Dmitry Fedosov (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Wilhelm Johnen StraßeStraße, Jülich Germany) is talking about:
Simulations of active vesicles
Simulations of active vesicles
December 10, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Now active system. Dr Dmitry Fedosov (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Wilhelm Johnen StraßeStraße, Jülich Germany) is talking about:
Simulations of active vesicles
Simulations of active vesicles
Short talk by Tatiana Morozova, CNRS/Institut Pasteur,
Role of the sequnce length in the coil-to-globule transition of elastin-like polypeptides
Role of the sequnce length in the coil-to-globule transition of elastin-like polypeptides
December 10, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Short talk by Tatiana Morozova, CNRS/Institut Pasteur,
Role of the sequnce length in the coil-to-globule transition of elastin-like polypeptides
Role of the sequnce length in the coil-to-globule transition of elastin-like polypeptides
Second day, exciting talk by Prof. Cecilia Clementi (@cecclementi.bsky.social) Clementi from Free University of Berlin Berlin, Germany.
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine learned transferable coarse-grained model
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine learned transferable coarse-grained model
December 10, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Second day, exciting talk by Prof. Cecilia Clementi (@cecclementi.bsky.social) Clementi from Free University of Berlin Berlin, Germany.
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine learned transferable coarse-grained model
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine learned transferable coarse-grained model
Great first day of the workshop! Excellent participation both onsite and online. Tomorrow, we start again at 9:00 a.m. CET with a talk from Prof. Cecilia Clementi.
December 9, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Great first day of the workshop! Excellent participation both onsite and online. Tomorrow, we start again at 9:00 a.m. CET with a talk from Prof. Cecilia Clementi.
And the final talk (short talk) by Leonhard Starke (Aarhus University)
Pore formation in complex biological membranes
Pore formation in complex biological membranes
December 9, 2024 at 3:57 PM
And the final talk (short talk) by Leonhard Starke (Aarhus University)
Pore formation in complex biological membranes
Pore formation in complex biological membranes
Ali Asghar Hakami Zanjani from University of Southern Denmark.
Advanced Sampling Methodology for Investigating Early-Stage Amyloid Aggregation Structures.
Advanced Sampling Methodology for Investigating Early-Stage Amyloid Aggregation Structures.
December 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Ali Asghar Hakami Zanjani from University of Southern Denmark.
Advanced Sampling Methodology for Investigating Early-Stage Amyloid Aggregation Structures.
Advanced Sampling Methodology for Investigating Early-Stage Amyloid Aggregation Structures.
After a small break enforced by the projector, Lorena Zuzic from Aarhus University is talking about PINning down the elevator-type mechanism of auxin transport
December 9, 2024 at 3:26 PM
After a small break enforced by the projector, Lorena Zuzic from Aarhus University is talking about PINning down the elevator-type mechanism of auxin transport
(Short talk) Dimitrios Kolokouris from University of Copenhagen, is talking about
Investigating the role of cholesterol in regulating the SLC7 family of amino acid transporters
Investigating the role of cholesterol in regulating the SLC7 family of amino acid transporters
December 9, 2024 at 3:04 PM
(Short talk) Dimitrios Kolokouris from University of Copenhagen, is talking about
Investigating the role of cholesterol in regulating the SLC7 family of amino acid transporters
Investigating the role of cholesterol in regulating the SLC7 family of amino acid transporters
Now we have a 4 short talks. First, Fabian Schuhmann from my group is talking about
An integrative MD model reveals protein complexes and protein distribution in mitochondria
An integrative MD model reveals protein complexes and protein distribution in mitochondria
December 9, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Now we have a 4 short talks. First, Fabian Schuhmann from my group is talking about
An integrative MD model reveals protein complexes and protein distribution in mitochondria
An integrative MD model reveals protein complexes and protein distribution in mitochondria
Reposted by Weria Pezeshkian
Dr. Paulo Cesar Telles de Souza's Workshop on Mastering Parameterization in Martini3 is happening right now. Absolutely one of the most insightful talks I've attended.
December 9, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Dr. Paulo Cesar Telles de Souza's Workshop on Mastering Parameterization in Martini3 is happening right now. Absolutely one of the most insightful talks I've attended.
Now Prof. Siewert Jan Marrink from University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands.
Simulating entire cells with Martini
Simulating entire cells with Martini
December 9, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Now Prof. Siewert Jan Marrink from University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands.
Simulating entire cells with Martini
Simulating entire cells with Martini
and finally the first workshop by Prof. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen from University of Copenhagen.
Combining experiments and simulations: theory and practical examples for disordered proteins
December 9, 2024 at 9:54 AM
and finally the first workshop by Prof. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen from University of Copenhagen.
Combining experiments and simulations: theory and practical examples for disordered proteins
First short talk by Eva Smorodina from University of Oslo.
Structural modeling of antibody variant epitope specificity with complementary experimental and computational techniques.
Structural modeling of antibody variant epitope specificity with complementary experimental and computational techniques.
December 9, 2024 at 8:56 AM
First short talk by Eva Smorodina from University of Oslo.
Structural modeling of antibody variant epitope specificity with complementary experimental and computational techniques.
Structural modeling of antibody variant epitope specificity with complementary experimental and computational techniques.
First talk by Prof. Franca Fraternali from University College London. Uncovering antibody sequences and structures, their assembly and their conformational flexibility!
December 9, 2024 at 8:17 AM
First talk by Prof. Franca Fraternali from University College London. Uncovering antibody sequences and structures, their assembly and their conformational flexibility!