Michael Prattes
@hexamergraphics.bsky.social
Molecular Biologist, Graphic Designer, Science Communicator
Inspired by the vast beauty of proteins and nature in general
Blender enthusiast & hobby photographer.
#SciArt #SciComm #ProteinStructures
Inspired by the vast beauty of proteins and nature in general
Blender enthusiast & hobby photographer.
#SciArt #SciComm #ProteinStructures
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Hi Bluesky 👋
I thought, I'd say hello with a protein butterfly 🦋 (pdb 6of3)
I'm a scientist, graphic designer, blender enthusiast, science communicator, media relations specialist ... a bit of everything. Looking forward to the journey here! 🎶 "blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies ..."
I thought, I'd say hello with a protein butterfly 🦋 (pdb 6of3)
I'm a scientist, graphic designer, blender enthusiast, science communicator, media relations specialist ... a bit of everything. Looking forward to the journey here! 🎶 "blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies ..."
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I was considering writing some thoughts to help cis people understand what's going on and what's needed... but I see who likes my posts about trans news and I can extrapolate who doesn't, so what's the point? Other than a very few allies who already know the things, who's going to read it?
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I was considering writing some thoughts to help cis people understand what's going on and what's needed... but I see who likes my posts about trans news and I can extrapolate who doesn't, so what's the point? Other than a very few allies who already know the things, who's going to read it?
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Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
April 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
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🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with a focus on birth and hopeful futures.
🔗 Read the full multimedia story: buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll #WomensHealth #FertilityResearch #preeclampsia #GestationalDiabetes #breastfeeding #BreastMilk
🔗 Read the full multimedia story: buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll #WomensHealth #FertilityResearch #preeclampsia #GestationalDiabetes #breastfeeding #BreastMilk
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with a focus on birth and hopeful futures.
🔗 Read the full multimedia story: buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll #WomensHealth #FertilityResearch #preeclampsia #GestationalDiabetes #breastfeeding #BreastMilk
🔗 Read the full multimedia story: buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll #WomensHealth #FertilityResearch #preeclampsia #GestationalDiabetes #breastfeeding #BreastMilk
Reposted by Michael Prattes
🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with pregnancy
🤰 During #pregnancy the health of mother and baby become closely connected. Understanding genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors is key to ensuring the best possible care.
🔗 buff.ly/AbrNQ3s
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll
🤰 During #pregnancy the health of mother and baby become closely connected. Understanding genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors is key to ensuring the best possible care.
🔗 buff.ly/AbrNQ3s
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll
April 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 📣 Our #WorldHealthDay series continues with pregnancy
🤰 During #pregnancy the health of mother and baby become closely connected. Understanding genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors is key to ensuring the best possible care.
🔗 buff.ly/AbrNQ3s
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll
🤰 During #pregnancy the health of mother and baby become closely connected. Understanding genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors is key to ensuring the best possible care.
🔗 buff.ly/AbrNQ3s
#HopefulFutures #HealthForAll
Reposted by Michael Prattes
🌍📣 It's #WorldHealthDay, a global initiative by WHO to promote health and well-being. This year’s theme, “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” highlights the importance of supporting mothers and babies, reminding us that healthy starts build #HopefulFutures.
#HealthForAll
🔗 buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HealthForAll
🔗 buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
April 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🌍📣 It's #WorldHealthDay, a global initiative by WHO to promote health and well-being. This year’s theme, “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” highlights the importance of supporting mothers and babies, reminding us that healthy starts build #HopefulFutures.
#HealthForAll
🔗 buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
#HealthForAll
🔗 buff.ly/AbaU7Vk
Reposted by Michael Prattes
ChimeraX can be used to find pockets and cavities in protein structures using the Find Cavities tool or kvfinder command. This feature is available in daily builds from 10 March 2025 or later.
March 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ChimeraX can be used to find pockets and cavities in protein structures using the Find Cavities tool or kvfinder command. This feature is available in daily builds from 10 March 2025 or later.
👋 Amidst all these troubling and challenging global developments at the moment, it was time for a little uplifting fun #Blender3D #Protein project for me again. So, welcome with me the world’s most famous protein swing quartet:
#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #FundScience
🧵 1/9
#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #FundScience
🧵 1/9
March 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
👋 Amidst all these troubling and challenging global developments at the moment, it was time for a little uplifting fun #Blender3D #Protein project for me again. So, welcome with me the world’s most famous protein swing quartet:
#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #FundScience
🧵 1/9
#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #FundScience
🧵 1/9
Reposted by Michael Prattes
Reposted by Michael Prattes
The IIB Awards long list is LIVE! Enough incredible #dataviz to distract you for the rest of the day (or week)...
Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards.
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...
Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards.
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...
Showcase
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The IIB Awards long list is LIVE! Enough incredible #dataviz to distract you for the rest of the day (or week)...
Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards.
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...
Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards.
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...
Reposted by Michael Prattes
Reposted by Michael Prattes
"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers
Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.
apnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
Reposted by Michael Prattes
Reposted by Michael Prattes
🪶🌎🧪 Try to take a break and watch some birds this weekend.
February 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🪶🌎🧪 Try to take a break and watch some birds this weekend.
👋 Lace up your virtual hiking boots and join us on a little #biobank tour across Europe 👇
🎗️ On International Childhood Cancer Day #ICCD25, we took you on a journey to visit BBMRI-ERIC #biobanks with paediatric cancer collections 🇸🇪🇱🇻🇳🇱🇩🇪🇭🇺🇪🇺
📢 Now, you can explore the entire series of biobank portraits in a multimedia story here:
🔗 https://buff.ly/3XcSaGD
#childhoodcancer #cureall
📢 Now, you can explore the entire series of biobank portraits in a multimedia story here:
🔗 https://buff.ly/3XcSaGD
#childhoodcancer #cureall
BBMRI-ERIC biobanks' contribution to paediatric cancer research
The Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank (BTB)
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
👋 Lace up your virtual hiking boots and join us on a little #biobank tour across Europe 👇
Reposted by Michael Prattes
Been thinking about creating a collection of good protein structure figures, as inspiration for my own work.
#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 3, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Been thinking about creating a collection of good protein structure figures, as inspiration for my own work.
#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michael Prattes
💼 #WeAreHiring - Scientific Senior Project Manager - Graz
Responsible for the scientific management & project management of international projects in the #LifeSciences including biobanking and biomolecular resources field.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3EB382i
Responsible for the scientific management & project management of international projects in the #LifeSciences including biobanking and biomolecular resources field.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3EB382i
February 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
💼 #WeAreHiring - Scientific Senior Project Manager - Graz
Responsible for the scientific management & project management of international projects in the #LifeSciences including biobanking and biomolecular resources field.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3EB382i
Responsible for the scientific management & project management of international projects in the #LifeSciences including biobanking and biomolecular resources field.
🔗 https://buff.ly/3EB382i
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I was laughing so hard, when i saw and HEARD this animation...obviously we have the same taste in background music 😁😊
Reconstruction of mitochondrial inner and outer membrane from FIB-SEM data. Had to shorten the vid bc of 🦋-limits.
#Blender #3DAnimation #SciComm
Reconstruction of mitochondrial inner and outer membrane from FIB-SEM data. Had to shorten the vid bc of 🦋-limits.
#Blender #3DAnimation #SciComm
January 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I was laughing so hard, when i saw and HEARD this animation...obviously we have the same taste in background music 😁😊
Reconstruction of mitochondrial inner and outer membrane from FIB-SEM data. Had to shorten the vid bc of 🦋-limits.
#Blender #3DAnimation #SciComm
Reconstruction of mitochondrial inner and outer membrane from FIB-SEM data. Had to shorten the vid bc of 🦋-limits.
#Blender #3DAnimation #SciComm
👇 Great, empathic approach to connect with your audience(s) by @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social 👏💚
"Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”
"Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”
“Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”
Read my piece on Geoscientist on the use of art for scicomm > geoscientist.online/sections/une...
Read my piece on Geoscientist on the use of art for scicomm > geoscientist.online/sections/une...
December 17, 2024 at 8:12 AM
👇 Great, empathic approach to connect with your audience(s) by @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social 👏💚
"Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”
"Communication, to succeed, requires empathy. Empathy requires not just understanding what someone knows, but what drives them, and what connects them to you and the science you are presenting to them”
Reposted by Michael Prattes
1/ A new series of #CryoSPARC tutorial videos from this year’s S2C2 #cryoEM image processing workshop are now online! These videos will be interesting to all users and especially those newer to #cryoEM.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
2024 S2C2 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Workshop - YouTube
This playlist contains six recordings covering single particle cryo-EM data processing in CryoSPARC from the 2024 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Wo...
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
1/ A new series of #CryoSPARC tutorial videos from this year’s S2C2 #cryoEM image processing workshop are now online! These videos will be interesting to all users and especially those newer to #cryoEM.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Michael Prattes
OpenOrganelle is a repo of #CellBiology data, segmented from electron #microscopy at #HHMIJanelia by Aubrey Weigel and the CellMap team, the Saalfeld lab ( @herrsaalffeld.sky.social) and the Hess lab. Here's a macrophage cell, rendered with #Blender driven by neuVid (helpful for more than neurons).
December 9, 2024 at 10:06 AM
OpenOrganelle is a repo of #CellBiology data, segmented from electron #microscopy at #HHMIJanelia by Aubrey Weigel and the CellMap team, the Saalfeld lab ( @herrsaalffeld.sky.social) and the Hess lab. Here's a macrophage cell, rendered with #Blender driven by neuVid (helpful for more than neurons).
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🎥 Sit back and watch this insightful canSERV Annual Meeting Midterm Video 2024 to get an overview of the consortium's achievements & developments 💪
🔗 video: https://buff.ly/3ZwDp1U
👀 And don´t forget to apply to the call: "Training the next generation of cancer researchers"
⏰ Dec 17, 2024
🔗 video: https://buff.ly/3ZwDp1U
👀 And don´t forget to apply to the call: "Training the next generation of cancer researchers"
⏰ Dec 17, 2024
canSERV on LinkedIn: canSERV Annual Meeting Midterm video 2024
#canSERV_EU has published a video on the highlights and milestones of the canSERV project as presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting in October in Brussels. It…
buff.ly
December 13, 2024 at 9:00 AM
🎥 Sit back and watch this insightful canSERV Annual Meeting Midterm Video 2024 to get an overview of the consortium's achievements & developments 💪
🔗 video: https://buff.ly/3ZwDp1U
👀 And don´t forget to apply to the call: "Training the next generation of cancer researchers"
⏰ Dec 17, 2024
🔗 video: https://buff.ly/3ZwDp1U
👀 And don´t forget to apply to the call: "Training the next generation of cancer researchers"
⏰ Dec 17, 2024
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High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 PM
High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.
Reposted by Michael Prattes
Check out our structure of the archaeal virus HFTV1! Amazing work by two students - Daniel Zhang and Becky Davies, supported by @mathewmclaren.bsky.social. Great collaboration with T. Quax & S. Schwarzer, @hanna-m-oksanen.bsky.social, @the-gold-lab.bsky.social, @misha-isupov.bsky.social & W. Stuart.
December 10, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Check out our structure of the archaeal virus HFTV1! Amazing work by two students - Daniel Zhang and Becky Davies, supported by @mathewmclaren.bsky.social. Great collaboration with T. Quax & S. Schwarzer, @hanna-m-oksanen.bsky.social, @the-gold-lab.bsky.social, @misha-isupov.bsky.social & W. Stuart.
Was playing around with #virus strucures in #blender #b3d and #MolecularNodes ... this one turned out to look like a dying star 😅💥
not really scientifically accurate, but this was rather for fun at the moment and to try out a few things for future projects 😇
not really scientifically accurate, but this was rather for fun at the moment and to try out a few things for future projects 😇
December 10, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Was playing around with #virus strucures in #blender #b3d and #MolecularNodes ... this one turned out to look like a dying star 😅💥
not really scientifically accurate, but this was rather for fun at the moment and to try out a few things for future projects 😇
not really scientifically accurate, but this was rather for fun at the moment and to try out a few things for future projects 😇