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BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.

Congrats Blair, Christian, and Mat on publishing a simple and useful tool or improving single-channel burst analysis. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23…

dacosta]:[lab went curling today with The Boddy Lab and Molecular Medicine Lab. Lots of spills, thrills, and chills. Look familiar? #pentameric #ligand #gated #ionchannel

Check out our latest paper: "Contingency between historical substitutions in the acetylcholine receptor pore". Congrats Johnathon! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out our latest work in PNAS combining single-channel recordings and evolutionary biochemistry. uOttawa Chem & Biomolec Sci // Chimie & Sci Biomol CCSB uOttawa MusgaardLab pnas.org/content/118/7/…

uO Giving Tuesday campaign is underway! Support bioGARAGE and the next generation of Synthetic Biologists here: app.simplyk.io/en/peer-to-pee…

Three profs, daCosta, Campbell-Valois and Shuhendler, have built the bioGARAGE to enhance student experience. Support the bioGARAGE with a gift through Giving Tuesday. See here: Faculté des sciences app.simplyk.io/fr/peer-to-pee… #GivingTuesdayCA #uOttawa #uOscience #bioGARAGE

Derek Bowie daCostaLab Corrie daCosta The biophysics of ligand-gated ion channels: from structures to drug discovery!

"The Biophysics of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels: From Structures to Drug Discovery" preliminary program online. Join us in person or via livestreaming! event.fourwaves.com/jointbsc2022iu….

Ancestral acetylcholine receptor β-subunit forms homopentamers that prime before opening spontaneously doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Excited to share our latest work published in eLife... Final and HTML versions now available! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

Check out Christian's latest work posted on bioRxiv! Derepression masquerades as activation in a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This week we’re reading a #preprint by Christian Tessier, @CorriedaCosta and colleagues daCostaLab on the muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/4

Check our latest work in Communications Biology! Big shout out to all our collaborators John Baenziger Roberto Chica Lab, and Jesús and Michael, in particular, for making it happen! nature.com/articles/s4200…

Check out our latest work published in Nature Communications. Congrats to Christian Tessier , Johnathon Emlaw, and Mich for all the hard work. nature.com/articles/s4146…

dacosta]:[lab's first single channel recordings! Congrats Javi... You are now a living legend! #bestnightssleepever

Group photo 2017... We call it "Pro-Ponder-Us"! #proponderus #posed

Check out our 1st paper describing an Evo. Biochem. approach to AChRs! cell.com/structure/full… #ionchannels #ASR #proteinevolution #AChR

Benefits to being in a Chemistry Department... Thanks to The Boddy Lab for "Periodic Table of the Cupcakes". #ediblelements #cupcakes