Postdoctoral researcher with an interest in protein structure determination. Views are my own.

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined June 2015
A great team to work with!
Interested in #ionchannel research, #cryoEM, #MassSpectrometry, #microscopy or #pharmacology? Check out these 3 #PhD projects. As part of the the @UoL_LICAMM @TheBHF 4-year PhD programme: 1) phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/861-… with @PiruthiviS and @stemuench @Astbury_BSL @AstburyCentre 1/5
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Any budding #IonChannel biologists interested in this #PhDposition studying channel function? This is a brilliant interdisciplinary team to be part of - working with #CryoEM #Electrophysiology and #MDSimulations
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I really recommend the team and the project is really well set up for the next postdoc
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If you would like to contribute to the next stage of this research, we have a short-term postdoc position available with potential further extensions subject to funding. See jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp… for details. Closing date 7th December.
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A really great opportunity with a fantastic team!
Phd opportunity alert ⬇️👍🎉 Want to come and work with @stemuench @MDarrow7 and myself, developing and using cool #cryoEM technologies to study membrane and membrane associated proteins? Read on... findaphd.com/phds/project/de… #phdlife #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat
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Congrats, really nice work!
Very proud that our paper 'Xanthine-based photoaffinity probes allow assessment of ligand engagement by TRPC5 channels' has now been published in @rsc_chembio pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… We provide new tools to study the pharmacology of TRPC1/4/5 channels in cells.
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PhD positions are available in my lab! Looking for candidates brave enough to study protein aggregation at the molecular level in C. elegans disease models :-) uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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During the #lockdown I made a stop motion animation movie on #PROTACs showing how they can target proteins for degradation! It's on the brand new version of the Crews lab website crewslab.yale.edu/
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1/ I am a third-year medical student. Yesterday, I was assigned a new patient. I hadn’t met them yet, but knew they had presented with liver-related symptoms. In preparation for morning rounds, I flipped through their chart and checked their lab work.
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Are you considering a career in startups and spinout companies? Join our event on 16th June 2-3.30pm. We have speaker Leeds/York from Grow MedTech, Neotherix and Keracol. A Q&A session with the Astbury Exec will follow regarding concerns over the current COVID19/work situation.
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Congrats @PeterJPeters1 and colleagues! 🙂👍 Sample prep is the main hurdle in #cryoEM and it is great to see such new developments! 😃
Raimond Ravelli, Peter Peters & colleagues developed VitroJet, a device that enables cryo-EM structure determination from sub-nl volumes of samples using pin-printing and jet vitrification @PeterJPeters1 @MaastrichtU go.nature.com/2XJlk25
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Looking to racism in my own field, molecular biology, here are all the institutions that still support James Watson — one of the world's most powerful scientists & Nobel winner who thinks that black people have a lower intelligence than white people.
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Why is ending racism a debate?
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Do you love outer membranes? Then you can't miss our review on the properties of the OM and OMP folding! jbc.org/content/early/2020/0…
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Excited to share our latest #preprint! Cryo-EM structure of the MlaFEDB #ABCtransporter in #nanodiscs, revealing an #exporter fold and two bound #phospholipids within. Joint first with Nicolas Coudray and @_markmacrae, all from @BhabhaEkiertLab! #teamwork biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Just found out that George Floyd was originally stopped by the police because he handed over a counterfeit note in a shop. I did that once! They handed me back the note as a souvenir, and later I told the story on stage in a comedy routine. That’s some privilege right there.
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George Floyd and I were both arrested for allegedly spending a counterfeit $20 bill. For George Floyd, a man my age, with two kids, it was a death sentence. For me, it is a story I sometimes tell at parties. That, my friends, is White privilege.
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Saturday evening beer. Does anyone else see what I see?
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Similar paper here but with a challenging membrane protein complex: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A couple of years ago, Norbert Volkmar in my lab envisioned what the EMC might look like based only on our biochemical data. He drew this for a poster at an EMBO meeting. Great to see the @voorheeslab and make his vision finally come to life...
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