Using CryoEM to study viruses
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shee-mei lok retweeted
28 Mar 2025
We are looking for a PhD student/Postdoc to develop methods of cryo-ET and/or study the structure and function of membrane proteins. Great team at the MDC in Berlin.
It's a broad call, please apply and share!
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19 Mar 2025
Want to attend the HCV-Flavi symposium and also to visit the beautiful Singapore? #flavivirus #dengue #zika #arbovirus hcv-flavi2025.org
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shee-mei lok retweeted
8 Feb 2025
1) Since there is a lot of confusion about the reduction of the overhead rate on NIH grants to 15% (see here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…) I'll do a little tweetorial (or X-torial?) about it.
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shee-mei lok retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Save the date for #HCVFlavi2025, a joint Asia-Pacific meeting to be held October 13-16, 2025 in Singapore @dukenus! More info to come!
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shee-mei lok retweeted
17 Jan 2025
Brain-gut-pancreas axis uncovered! 🧠➡️💡| @ScienceMagazine
Neuron-activated #ILC2s migrate from the gut to the pancreas, driving glucagon production through cytokine signaling. A groundbreaking link between #neuroimmune pathways & glucose regulation! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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13 Jan 2025
How research funding unlocks the future of discovery youtu.be/LhDSRZjrgf0?si=r6dz… via @YouTube
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Postdoctoral fellowship in Singapore for applicants who are citizens from South East Asia countries.
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shee-mei lok retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Excited to say we have the first seminar of the series with Lars-Anders Carlson of @umeauniversity , a leader in using cryo-EM to show how virus replicates, in unprecedented and beautiful detail. All welcome. Please do RT.
THIS THURSDAY on Zoom.
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shee-mei lok retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Congratulations to the 2025 ASM Awards and Prize recipients! We're honored to recognize your contributions to the advancement of the microbial sciences in the areas of research, education and leadership. Get acquainted with these outstanding awardees at asm.social/242
ALT List of names of the 2025 ASM Awards and Prize recipients.
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21 Aug 2024
An IT system administrator position is available in the Duke-NUS (Singapore) duke-nus.edu.sg. The job scope involves taking care of our computer clusters. Interested applicants can submit their applications to careers.nus.edu.sg/DukeNUS/j…
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Exciting program for the Keystone symposia for Positive sense RNA viruses, happening in the beautiful Ireland😍. #virus #KSRNAVirus25 keysym.us/KSRNAVirus25
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shee-mei lok retweeted
8 Aug 2024
#SPACEtomo - a small step towards fast robotic exploration of the vast universe of #cryoET. 🌃🦠❄️🔬
Congrats @EisFabian !🥳🎉
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shee-mei lok retweeted
6 Aug 2024
It was an honor to be recognized w/the 2023 Pantheon Award - I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the life sciences and inspire future innovators. As I pass the torch, I encourage you to nominate the next trailblazers here: bit.ly/3YaDBom
#PantheonAwards
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shee-mei lok retweeted
4 Aug 2024
We are excited to share our @NatureComms paper by postdoc Pan @an32169364 and @VirologyHarvard grad student Wanyu @wanyuviridae on the structural binding mode of eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) and Semliki forest virus (SFV) with receptor VLDLR
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shee-mei lok retweeted
21 Jun 2024
I will soon advertise a #postdoc position to recruit an immunologist or virologist @dukenus, Singapore.
Ideally, someone who wants to study inflammation in the lungs during allergic, infectious and/or fibrotic diseases.🫁It's funded! Please share & reach out if interested!
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shee-mei lok retweeted
3 Jun 2024
A physical model for M1-mediated influenza A virus assembly. A combination of #cryoEM and theoretical modelling from @jpeukes and @bio_physics. Preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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