Iain Wilson
@iainwilsonwien.bsky.social
Associate Professor interested in molecular glycobiology, glycomics of lower eukaryotes, glycan arrays, chemical glycobiology, classical music. Viva la libertà!
My former student 闫石 Yan Shi is now Privatdozent - he successfully held his Habilitation lecture today!
#ProudofAlumni
#ProudofAlumni
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My former student 闫石 Yan Shi is now Privatdozent - he successfully held his Habilitation lecture today!
#ProudofAlumni
#ProudofAlumni
Autumn fog, Niederösterreich
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Autumn fog, Niederösterreich
My student's paper on enzymatic remodelling to generate anionic glycan arrays has just been published online in @jbiolchem! Various recombinant glycosyl- or sulphotransferases were employed to prepare glycan motifs tested with various lectins. #glycotime
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My student's paper on enzymatic remodelling to generate anionic glycan arrays has just been published online in @jbiolchem! Various recombinant glycosyl- or sulphotransferases were employed to prepare glycan motifs tested with various lectins. #glycotime
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Today visited Fudan University, Shanghai, and gave a talk as a guest of Prof. Cao (known, e.g., for pGlyco3). Nice interactions, discussion and lunch! Also viewed the campus MS facility.
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Today visited Fudan University, Shanghai, and gave a talk as a guest of Prof. Cao (known, e.g., for pGlyco3). Nice interactions, discussion and lunch! Also viewed the campus MS facility.
Excellent dinner tonight in Tachikawa, Tokyo - 8 different courses and very good beer from the Tachihi brewery.
tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/
tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Excellent dinner tonight in Tachikawa, Tokyo - 8 different courses and very good beer from the Tachihi brewery.
tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/
tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/
It’s a pleasure again to visit @kiyokof‘s lab - to input more into Glytoucan - and to go to an all-you-can-eat/drink (within 2 hours) dinner!
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s a pleasure again to visit @kiyokof‘s lab - to input more into Glytoucan - and to go to an all-you-can-eat/drink (within 2 hours) dinner!
Dinner and breakfast at the Isana resort, Jogasaki coast, Japan
October 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Dinner and breakfast at the Isana resort, Jogasaki coast, Japan
Shimoda, Japan - good food and seaside
October 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Shimoda, Japan - good food and seaside
Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms.
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms.
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
Congratulations to the four ACS CARB division awardees: Stacy Malaker, Matt Macauley aka @siglecdude.bsky.social, Anthony Serianini and Steve Sucheck #glycotime
September 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Congratulations to the four ACS CARB division awardees: Stacy Malaker, Matt Macauley aka @siglecdude.bsky.social, Anthony Serianini and Steve Sucheck #glycotime
End of the visit to Türkiye:
Efes followed by raki.
Efes followed by raki.
August 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
End of the visit to Türkiye:
Efes followed by raki.
Efes followed by raki.
Göreme, Uçhisar and area, Türkiye.
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Göreme, Uçhisar and area, Türkiye.
Aspendos, Selge, Perge, Termessos
Roman/Greek ruins near Antalya, Türkiye
Roman/Greek ruins near Antalya, Türkiye
August 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Aspendos, Selge, Perge, Termessos
Roman/Greek ruins near Antalya, Türkiye
Roman/Greek ruins near Antalya, Türkiye
Today at the Salzburger Festspiele
The Wiener Philharmoniker under Andris Nelsons:
Mahler #10 Adagio and Shostakovich #10 - great performance spoiled slightly by someone’s alarm at 12:00 and 12:05!!
The Wiener Philharmoniker under Andris Nelsons:
Mahler #10 Adagio and Shostakovich #10 - great performance spoiled slightly by someone’s alarm at 12:00 and 12:05!!
August 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Today at the Salzburger Festspiele
The Wiener Philharmoniker under Andris Nelsons:
Mahler #10 Adagio and Shostakovich #10 - great performance spoiled slightly by someone’s alarm at 12:00 and 12:05!!
The Wiener Philharmoniker under Andris Nelsons:
Mahler #10 Adagio and Shostakovich #10 - great performance spoiled slightly by someone’s alarm at 12:00 and 12:05!!
Today Salzburg Festival
Premiere of Eötvös‘ Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) with three countertenors in the main roles. Two hours of sometimes dramatic and unusually orchestrated music to accompany the drama on the stage.
Premiere of Eötvös‘ Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) with three countertenors in the main roles. Two hours of sometimes dramatic and unusually orchestrated music to accompany the drama on the stage.
August 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Today Salzburg Festival
Premiere of Eötvös‘ Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) with three countertenors in the main roles. Two hours of sometimes dramatic and unusually orchestrated music to accompany the drama on the stage.
Premiere of Eötvös‘ Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) with three countertenors in the main roles. Two hours of sometimes dramatic and unusually orchestrated music to accompany the drama on the stage.
Tonight‘s Croatian 🇭🇷 craft beer 🍺
Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad
Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad
July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Tonight‘s Croatian 🇭🇷 craft beer 🍺
Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad
Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad
Croatian 🇭🇷 IPA 🍺
Varionica Deep Dive IPA
Varionica Deep Dive IPA
July 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Croatian 🇭🇷 IPA 🍺
Varionica Deep Dive IPA
Varionica Deep Dive IPA
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Finally, some 10 years after bringing this wild honeysuckle plant in a bucket from Denmark and planting it on my balcony trough, a flower has been produced.
July 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Finally, some 10 years after bringing this wild honeysuckle plant in a bucket from Denmark and planting it on my balcony trough, a flower has been produced.
Glycoproteomics of a lobster: My explanation would be that a Man2GlcNAc2Fuc2 is on the Asn, not that there's some adventurous O-glycan.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Glycoproteomics of a lobster: My explanation would be that a Man2GlcNAc2Fuc2 is on the Asn, not that there's some adventurous O-glycan.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My last opera visit of the season @WrStaatsoper
Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!
Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!
June 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My last opera visit of the season @WrStaatsoper
Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!
Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!
Long „Corpus Christi“ weekend in Croatia. I am starting to read Aucoin‘s book about opera.
June 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Long „Corpus Christi“ weekend in Croatia. I am starting to read Aucoin‘s book about opera.
We experienced the end of the world at the Wiener Staatsoper tonight - Wagner‘s Götterdämmerung! Andreas Schager is perhaps almost the best Siegfried I’ve ever heard!
June 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We experienced the end of the world at the Wiener Staatsoper tonight - Wagner‘s Götterdämmerung! Andreas Schager is perhaps almost the best Siegfried I’ve ever heard!
Final scientific event of my time in Canada/USA: brief visit and Glycobiology Interest Group seminar at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to Natasha Zachara & Ron Schnaar! Now waiting for Amtrak to Newark airport.
June 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Final scientific event of my time in Canada/USA: brief visit and Glycobiology Interest Group seminar at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to Natasha Zachara & Ron Schnaar! Now waiting for Amtrak to Newark airport.