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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 16d

Are you interested in graduate studies in plant science? UGA is looking for perspective graduate students to participate in Integrated Plant Science Access Preview Week hosted by graduate students affiliated with the UGA Plant Center..

Applications are due October 14th

tinyurl.com/IPS-Access

Plant Center – University of Georgia

plantcenter.uga.edu

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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 28d

🍭 Glycans are biology’s sugar code—super complex, super important. Thanks to AlphaFold3, we can now model their interactions with proteins! 🧪 Our new workflow unlocks fresh ways to explore immunity, infection & disease.

doi.org/10.1093/glyc...

#BioFGREAT #NSF #glycotime

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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 27d

The team at BioF:GREAT is always on the lookout for new protein design models that care about more than just the backbone! We are excited to try the new RFdiffusion3 (RFD3)! 🚀 New preprint from David Baker!🚀 🧪 #ProteinDesign #DeepLearning #ComputationalBiology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3

Deep learning has accelerated protein design, but most existing methods are restricted to generating protein backbone coordinates and often neglect interactions with other biomolecules. We present RFd...

www.biorxiv.org

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BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 27d

Meet the BioF:GREAT Team at The Society for Glycobiology's Annual Meeting in San Diego this November and be part of the future of glycoscience! Register for SfGlycobiology here:

www.glycobiology.org/annual-meeting

See you there!
#SfGlycobiology #glycotime #biotech #glycotime #glycosylation

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · Sep 16

Our work @benschulz.bsky.social on the specificity and the mechanism of activation of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is now on Glycopedia ⬇️🎉🥳, the largest repository of #glycotime news and educational material online!

Thank you Serge Perez 🤓❤️

glycopedia.eu/2025/09/09/r...

Regulation of N-glycosylation efficiency by eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase - Glycopedia

Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) catalyses the key step of N-glycosylation, transferring immature N-glycans to select Asn residues in nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Asn are more li...

glycopedia.eu

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 27d

Sweet science, serious impact!! Check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry the BioF:GREAT. #glycotime 🧪

BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 28d

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · 27d

Who knew the kinome has a dark side? To find out more- check out this new paper from our NSF Biofoundry. #glycotime #kinase 🧪

BioF:GREAT @biof-great.bsky.social · 28d

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Aug 2

Check out our new paper unraveling the structure of Rhsmnogalacturonan I in Arabidopsis. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... 🧪🌱

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jul 25

GRC Lobstertime!! #CAZyme GRC #glycotime

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jul 25

So proud that Kristen Thorne in my group won an award for best poster at the CAZyme GRC today!! #glycotime

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jul 18

Enjoyed a tour of the #UGA Georgia Electron Microscopy facility to see the new #Sigray x-ray microscope that me and a group of PIs acquired through the support of #NSF MRI
We’re ready to look at plant cell walls! 🧪

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jun 12

Had a wonderful evening celebrating my friend and colleague Robin Buell’s election into the National Academy of Sciences! So proud to be part of UGAs plant science community. 😊

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · May 20

Really excited to have this new capability at UGA thanks to the support of the NSF! The Eclipse XRM-910 Micro-CT from Sigray Inc., will allow us to create 3D models of plant tissues from a series of 2D X-ray images, preserving the original sample. #plantbio #glycotime 🧪

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · May 15

Celebrating 2 new PhD candidates in the Plant Biopolymers Group this week. Congrats to Zeina and Charlie!!!

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · May 13

We are still accepting applications to attend the GRC on CAZymes for Glycan Conversions. This year's theme is ‘Unlocking CAZyme Interfaces’. This is one of my favorite meetings and I am excited to be the vice co-chair elect this year. #glycotime #biochemistry 🧪

www.grc.org/carbohydrate...

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ALT: a cartoon of a pitcher and a cup of sugar on a table with the words `` sweet '' written on it .

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Mar 2

It’s not just about this or that nameserver or browser, or how long it’s down, or if it’s intermittent (though those things are important, especially to clinicians and their patients); it’s this: “What if NCBI is not a permanent repository?” 🧪 🧬

Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧 @aridideas.bsky.social · Mar 2

It sounds like things are functional atm but what if NCBI is not a permanent repository?

Are existing NCBI projects preserved in European Nucleotide Archive if NCBI goes down? 🧬 🖥️

#sequencing #microbiome

Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Mar 2

The NIH website, including NCBI, GenBank, and BLAST are down. I thought it might be a brief outage so waited 12 hours and checked again before posting this. They’re still down.

It is hard to express just how fundamental these tools are to biology and medicine: research, applied, public and private.

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jan 15

Had a great time hosting @ArielOrellana this week for a wonderful visit! Lots of cool work going on with NDP-sugars in plants.

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Cezary Waszczak @cezarywaszczak.bsky.social · Jan 14

Have you ever wondered how pectin acetylation affects cell adhesion? Together with @breeannau.bsky.social we have the answer! Check our our joint preprint!
@treebiocoe.bsky.social
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...

www.researchsquare.com

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Jan 1

Read our new #preprint on @researchsquare: TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Pectin synthesis is much more complex than we think! #glycotime 🧪 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

TBR is an RG-I rhamnose O-acetyltransferase required for epidermal cell adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pectins are enriched in primary cell walls and the middle lamella, determining cell-to-cell adhesion. O-acetylation of pectin backbones influences their physicochemical properties and plays a role in ...

www.researchsquare.com

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Dec 15

Had a blast at our holiday lab Bingo party!! Great people 🧪 and great fun 🎉🍻

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Dec 1

You totally need the expansion packs. Knights and Seafarers are the best

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Nov 30

Our colleagues at the Jülich Plant #Phenotyping Center #JPPC (@fz-juelich.de) have an open #PHDposition.
Apply on the link 👇 untill 10.1.2025.
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantScience 🧪
#Roots
Re-post please.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

PhD Position – Characterization of the Phenotypic Diversity of Root and Shoot Traits in Rye Heterotic Pools

Are you passionate about science? Would you like to contribute to research on breeding crops resilient to climate change? Come to work with us at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Plant Sciences...

www.fz-juelich.de

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Nov 30

Neat 🧪

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Nov 30

Should have tagged this 🧪 Follow along to see some of our labs new insights into how cells change shape and move

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Nov 30

While our bodies seem static, our cells are constantly changing shape or on the move during tissue homeostasis or wound repair & even more dramatically during embryonic development, during events like gastrulation. Defining how cellular machines mediate these events is a key task for our field 1/n

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Nov 30

I want to give @carrieaeckert.bsky.social a big shout out for leading our teams effort to work with scientists across academia, government, industry, and US funding agencies to suggest science roadmaps to drive the emerging bioeconomy. Check out our roadmap here!! www.casa-bio.net

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Breeanna Urbanowicz @breeannau.bsky.social · Nov 30

Our new preprint is out on developing ML models to study glycosyltransferaes #glycotime 🧪 Thank you to DOE for supporting our work on glycoenzymes.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Decoding substrate specificity determining factors in glycosyltransferase-B enzymes - Insights from machine learning models

Substrate specificity is an essential characteristic of any enzyme's function and an understanding of the factors that determine this specificity is crucial for enzyme engineering. Unlike the structur...

www.biorxiv.org

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