Stephen Matheson🌵🌲 · @sfmatheson
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Following up on yesterday's post about the vast universe of protein sequence space. I mentioned Dan Dennett's brilliant Library of Mendel, itself a subset of the famous Library of Babel.

Today I go more deliberately through the Library of Babel concept, and rename the protein library to The Library of Maynard Smith. (Frances Arnold at Caltech already did that, more than 10 years ago!)





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#adaptivewalk #scienceblogging #blaugust2023 #proteinevolution #evolutioniseasy

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Stephen Matheson🌵🌲 · @sfmatheson
668 followers · 571 posts · Server fediscience.org

Yet evolution has found thousands of functional proteins, some marvels of design.

Evolution is easy.

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#blaugust2023 #proteinevolution

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Emile Dingemans ☑️ · @emiledingemans
456 followers · 992 posts · Server mastodon.nl

According to the Boston Consulting Group increasing the global market share of alternative proteins from 2% to 8% by 2030 could yield an emissions reduction equivalent to decarbonising 95% of the aviation industry.

#bcg #proteinevolution #climatechange

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Katherine Reiter · @kreiter
86 followers · 4 posts · Server mstdn.science
Lucas C. Wheeler · @lcwheeler
36 followers · 2 posts · Server ecoevo.social

I'm an evolutionary biologist studying floral traits in the plant families and . I've done a lot of hopping between sub-fields. My background is in and . PhD work on the evolution of binding specificity following . Postdoctoral work on evolution and . Broader goal is understanding and outcomes across .

#plantaginaceae #Solanaceae #biochemistry #proteinevolution #geneduplication #FlowerColor #Phylogenomics #metabolicpathway #adaptiveintrogression #evolutionaryprocesses #scalesofbiologicalorganization

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Dowdwilson · @dowdwilson
59 followers · 168 posts · Server toot.community

Research retrospective for mastodon! Here is the paper that really started it all for my lab. In it, we introduce our extremely weird, but also very useful, way of doing Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectromerty to study rapid protein conformational dynamics.

Since then, we've applied this technique to study , support drug development in 's and and to improve .

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/a

#proteinevolution #Alzheimer #cancer #epitopemapping #massspec #teammassspec #massspectrometry #Science

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