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xiuqichen.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft.
Trying to sequence proteins with #nanopore
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Additional conclusions are available here
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
xiuqichen.bsky.social
Thanks for the kind words! It's challenging to acquire sufficient signals for cotranslational folding. I was lucky to find a strong reporter with high expression levels and nice FACS experts to help me. It's quite a journey for sure.
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🧠 I learned a lot with this project. Glad this is finally published. Check it out below:
#OpenAccess Paper link: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Arrest Peptide Profiling resolves co-translational folding pathways and chaperone interactions in vivo - Nature Communications
Protein folding is facilitated by cellular machinery, but studying folding in the cellular context is challenging. Here, the authors developed Arrest Peptide Profiling to map co-translational folding ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
xiuqichen.bsky.social
🤣 I found this fun picture from a few years back. To ensure high coverage of the protein truncation library, each plate can have 50K - 100K colonies 🦠. 🧵5/6
July 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM