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Ronald Koder @RonaldKoder

James Peace Chair of Physics at @CityCollegeNY. Posting biodesign, synthetic biology, and biomaterials research. He/him. KoderLab.org

Joined February 2022
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Happy Pi day from @CCNY_Science! Favorites this year were the key lime pie and the Milk Bar pie. Thanks to Chris Li for setting up such a fun event. I think they're still going if you want some pie.
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We just put our latest #elastin manuscript up on bioaRxiv. Great work, Nour! And it's always both fun and a learning experience to work with Richard Wittebort. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Elastin Recoil is Driven by the Hydrophobic Effect

Elastin is an extracellular matrix material formed when the precursor protein, tropoelastin, undergoes coacervation and crosslinking. It is found in all vertebrates where its reversible elasticity,...

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I went into elastin research because I thought it would be fun to do NMR on an entropic spring driven by configurational entropy loss like rubber. But it's not! The entropic recoil is the result of hydrophobic exposure upon stretching. Cool mechanism!
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CCNY Planetarium@CCNYPlanetarium
26 Jan 2023
Here's what today's Close Approach looks like: 🟡In yellow, our numerous geostationary satellites 🔴In red, the path of Asteroid 2023 BU 🌎Earth in the middle, with LEO satellites also shown. [Simulated with @OpenSpaceProj / Data from @NASAJPL Horizons] #asteroid #datavis
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CCNY Planetarium@CCNYPlanetarium
4 Jan 2023
It is Perihelion today - when the Earth is the closest to the sun during an orbit. But, since our orbit is oh-so circular (e = 0.0167) it can be hard to notice. Here's a made up Earth orbit on the right with an eccentricity e = 0.35 in sync with our real one, on the left.
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Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle@SElbaumG
6 Dec 2022
Thanks @nchembio for highlighting our recent work on elastin condensates! nature.com/articles/s41589-0… @alfredovidal_94 @RonaldKoder

A solid transition

Nature Chemical Biology - A solid transition

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Daniel Keedy@DanielKeedy
29 Oct 2022
Hell yeah: nytimes.com/2022/10/25/opini… People often look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them the subway is my favorite part of NYC... but c'mon: it's a whole train network, under the ground (!), that takes you anywhere in the city you wanna go, 24/7, for less than a cup of coffee!

Opinion | An Ode to the New York Subway (Published 2022)

Despite recent problems, it’s a great asset for New Yorkers, and America.

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Anne-Frances Miller from @ukychem came to @CCNY_Science on Monday to talk to our lab about electron bifurcation in flavin enzymes. Really cool stuff that's going to be important moving forward in enzyme design for renewable energy.
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What a great time at the first in-person Gibbs conference since 2019. Super interesting biophysics in a beautiful setting. (I especially enjoyed the campfire s’mores.) Thanks to @LuciusLab, James Horn and all the other organizers!
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Alexy Silakov from @psu_chemistry just gave a great talk here on oxygen-insensitive hydrogenases. I think these are a great target for protein design!
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Reviewer 2@GrumpyReviewer2
8 Sep 2022
#AcademicChatter #academictwitter
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Jonathan Preston in my lab getting us in the mood for @Halloween.
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Justas Dauparas@JustasDauparas
15 Sep 2022
ProteinMPNN paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… Github: github.com/dauparas/ProteinM… Colab notebook: github.com/dauparas/ProteinM… HuggingFace notebook: huggingface.co/spaces/simond… Hallucinating symmetric protein assemblies paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… Thanks to all collaborators!
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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
9 Sep 2022
Stories like these are so valuable. There will always be a guy who says “Women just don’t want to go into those careers. Maybe people have different preferences?”, but when you see the reality, it’s instantly clear how far from a free choice/preference the decision actually is.
Fifty Shades of Whey
@davenewworld_2
22 Aug 2022
A space industry expert on how women are discouraged from pursuing STEM
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Oxford Journals
@OxfordJournals
10 Sep 2022
Browse the latest article addition to the Hot Topics collection of reviews from @ProtEngDesSel. The article dives into how #protein stability, dynamics, & function are intricately linked. View the full collection of free-to-read articles: bit.ly/3BJW1On @Chica_lab
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CCNY Planetarium@CCNYPlanetarium
19 Aug 2022
A waning moon entering the last quarter behind a grotesque on Wingate Hall, CCNY. #nyc #ccny
Moon and Grotesque, August 19th 2022. Photo by J. Hedberg

ALT Moon and Grotesque, August 19th 2022. Photo by J. Hedberg
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Simon Duerr@simonduerr
19 Aug 2022
In addition to *fold, there are lots of structure➡️sequence models out there for "inverse folding". @ginaelnesr and I tried to collect them here: github.com/duerrsimon/foldin… Let us know if we missed any!

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The last days of a very productive summer are passing quickly. I feel lucky to have such a smart and hard-working group!
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Chad Popik@Astro_Chad
16 Aug 2022
Overseen in the astro lab
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