Dr. Gillian Leigh Dornan
@GilleighD
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#Postdoc with @Volkerhaucke. PhD with @Jeburke2. Lipid kinase enthusiast. 🇨🇦🇩🇪
Berlin, Germany
Joined February 2010
You see our bottle? We keep it very classy, very mindful, very demure.
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Structure of Calcineurin bound to PI4KA reveals dual interface in both PI4KA and FAM126A https://t.co/M4vre9H55l
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Dear all, we have 3 (!) independent research group leader positions with startup available at our University - If you are interested in lipids and membranes this one is for you - please retweet and reach out for questions
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When I first joined the @MDC_Berlin I was told we couldn't collect data on ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status and even power abuses..Things have changed! 🗣️Fill the survey https://t.co/wkaNPyhx2W MDC wants to address REAL PROBLEMS in academia. "Silence won't protect you"
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Unexpected results often lead to fascinating discoveries! Have a look at this new paper from our lab where @timaguirre_chem developed an inhibitor for IP6Ks and found out some really cool mechanistic details about the inhibition https://t.co/DnOwacNXMI
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A subtle mutation in the ATP-binding site of inositol hexakisphosphate kinases increases their conformational flexibility and thereby makes them susceptible to isozyme-selective, allosteric inhibit...
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It's official🤩! I'm looking for an excellent PhD student and a research assistant in molecular neuroscience and membrane biophysics to support my @NeuroCureBerlin project at the @LeibnizFMP in the fantastic interdisciplinary department led by @VolkerHaucke. Please repost!
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Want to know more about how the presynaptic compartment is formed and assembled in human neurons? Please see Sila's new paper form our lab just out in Science: DOI: 10.1126/science.adg1075.
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Interested in doing a PhD with us? We and many other labs are offering a range of exciting PhD projects for October 2024 start.
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Checklists for publishing images and image analysis! Published now in @naturemethods: https://t.co/PhQiU0xoPs Clear and easy instructions for scientists to publish reproducible, understandable and accessible images and image analysis from @QuarepLimi @helenajambor
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Fire danger is high that means NO BURNING SHIT I SWEAR TO GOD DO NOT BURN DOWN MY FUCKING FOREST
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One of my hobbies in lab is to create perfectly balanced chaos.
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Global survey on #Postdocs! @Nature second global survey of postdoctoral researchers is now live, with new questions to reflect seismic changes to the world of work since 2020 https://t.co/uGGsnytrRc
nature.com
Nature - Our second global survey of postdoctoral researchers is now live, with new questions to reflect seismic changes to the world of work since 2020.
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Max Perutz figured out how to help scientists be the most successful version of themselves & put that knowledge right there for everyone to read.
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Excited to start recruiting postdocs + research assistants to my lab @sangerinstitute Massive mutagenesis to make biophysics + human genetics predictive? allostery, affinity, stability, splicing, receptors, TFs, cancer. pls RT https://t.co/aPX4ZTXhcx
https://t.co/r5QiBRliyo
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We passed it a couple days ago, but it has been 10 years since "On Fire", the strip I did that became the meme "this is fine". https://t.co/AxZxDYkICs
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I'm reading faculty job applications and am BEGGING y'all to list your academic positions (two applicants I had to infer they were post-docs from the writing) and grants. Unsolicited advice for headers to always have in your CV: Headers you should always have: 1. Education
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It is reckless and illegal to give your true love any amount of wild birds for Christmas.
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In science there are no failures, only ✨optimizations✨ (yes my western blot didn't work again)
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