Wonderful end to a busy week hearing about the work we do in our MaxPlanckBristol centre for minimal biology. Thank you to the Berger, Mann and Woolfson groups for demonstrating what happens when you share facilities and ideas so openly and effectively.

Friday submission day - Katherine and Rokas enjoying their celebratory cold beers at Bristol’s iconic suspension bridge, kudos to them both for their hard work!! Check it out biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Xiyue and Katie Foster are attending the 8th Symposium on Foldamers in Munich this week, both giving short lectures to a star-studded foldamers line-up! It’s looking to be an excellent couple of days!

New publication in Nature Chemistry Assembling membraneless organelles from de novo designed proteins From researchers in MaxPlanckBristol Bristol BioDesign Institute Bristol Chemistry Bristol Biochemistry School of Physics - University of Bristol Article: nature.com/articles/s4155…

📢 New paper out in Nature Chemistry, well done to Alex, Andrey and the team! Read more to see the de novo designed proteins that form membraneless organelles in E. coli nature.com/articles/s4155…

Last week Dek and Xiyue Xiyue presented at the 8th Foldamers symposium in Munich, engaged with great science and had lots of interesting discussions with the wider foldamer community! Many thanks to the organising committee The Ivan Huc Group and Universität München for the conference✈️

I delivered my first international confidence short lecture last week Universität München at the 8th Foldamer symposium! I received lots of inspiring comments and look forward to sharing more results on 310 helical bundles with the foldamer community soon🤞🏻🌟

Check out our latest collaborative work with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on understanding the molecular mechanism of oligomerisation of a peptide representing the STIL coiled-coil domain. Freddie Martin Hebrew University mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/1…

New preprint out in bioRxiv, in collaboration with Mark Dodding . Check out Jess's work on engineering an allosteric switch into kinesin-1 motors through de novo protein design. Congrats to Jess and the team! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This year's meeting will be on Modern Methods in Peptide Synthesis, to be held on 22nd Mar 2024, in honour of Dr Eric Atherton, one of the pioneers of the Fmoc solid phase peptide synthesis. As usual registration is free. pepsoc.uk

I am so excited to share this news! I am extremely grateful and feel immensely privileged to return to the department where my fantastic professors and mentors taught me how amazing protein chemistry is and inspired and encouraged me to pursue academic research.

Excited to see our work in print at Nature Chemical Biology today! We are using protein/peptide design to manipulate the activity of kinesin-1 motors in cells. Mark Dodding WoolfsonLab Bristol Biochemistry nature.com/articles/s4158…

Last week we said (a very difficult) goodbye to Dr Katherine Albanese. 3 years has passed since she joined us, she’s been such an inspirational leader and mentor. As Katherine starts her independent career WFU Chemistry, we cheer her on every step of the way. Go shine, Katherine!!💖🌟

We are pleased to announce the release of The Protein Design Archive. Our comprehensive database of designed proteins highlights the triumphs and challenges of the field: pragmaticproteindesign.bio.ed.ac.uk/pda/ Preprint:biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Michael Stam Marta Chronowska WoolfsonLab #proteindesign