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            @MeganClapperton
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              Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐งซ Expect science, hobbies, pets and food. All opinions are my own.
              
              Cambridge, England
            
            
              
              Joined May 2018
            
            
           I've ported over to the Blue place ๐ต -- same username, same profile picture. Come find me there ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ... Cat picture for clout 
          
                
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             Thanks to @royalsociety and @MRC_LMB, @lab_baum and I are looking for a student to develop the next generation of fluorescent proteins for live and super-resolution imaging, as part of the LMB's four-year PhD programme.  https://t.co/HcbNL5hRrQ 
          
          
                
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             BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker โfor computational protein designโ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper โfor protein structure prediction.โ 
          
                
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             2024 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. In recent years, one incredible protein creation after the other has emerged from Bakerโs laboratory. They range from new nanomaterials 
          
                
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             Very proud to have won the Early Career Award from the @RoyalMicroSoc! Had a great day at the AGM and heard some fantastic talks! Science is a team effort so thanks to @JamesDManton @DeriveryLab @KerrieMcNally1 @MeganClapperton and our collaborators (as well as my wife/family)! 
           Big congrats to Akaash Kumar @_Akaash_Kumar who emerged as our Early Career Award-winner! ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ A tough job for our judges after such a brilliant range of talks from our shortlisted speakers. #microscopy #EarlyCareer
            
            
                
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             Big congrats to Akaash Kumar @_Akaash_Kumar who emerged as our Early Career Award-winner! ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ A tough job for our judges after such a brilliant range of talks from our shortlisted speakers. #microscopy #EarlyCareer
          
          
                
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             Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain ๐ฅณ Using cryo-electron tomography๐ฌ, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!ย   https://t.co/cxHl1j20CJ 
          
          
                
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             I've now made a few small changes to our parameter-free deconvolution code to better handle low SNR data, and to add MIPs to the notebook so you have a feeling for the results without needing to download images from Google Drive.  https://t.co/dYkihjPuL8 
          
           We (@AndrewGYork, @RunningPhoton, @microRussell and I) are still working on the manuscript describing our automatic parameter-free deconvolution approach, but we've made a Google Colab notebook where you can try it out without needing to install anything:  https://t.co/7NpsTQrwBO 
            
            
                
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             Pier Andrรฉe Penttilรค (@MRC_LMB Flow Cytometry facility), Rose Morag Hunter (@AstraZeneca) and I are looking for a postdoctoral scientist to develop a multispectral light-sheet imaging flow cytometer and apply this to phenotypic cell sorting: 
          
            
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              Postdoctoral Researcher (Fixed-term) โ Flow Cytometry Facilityย  Salary ยฃ39,375 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Applications are ...
            
                
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             The sunshine and warmth of the south of England is pretty nice. HOWEVER, the sheer number of spiders in my house is not ok. 
          
                
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             Check out this fantastic opportunity in the McDole lab here at the LMB. Right at the interface of imaging and development! 
          
                
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             My first (& first, first author!!) pre-print is now available on BioRxiv๐๐ ๐  https://t.co/wciC5CpW7e 
          
          
            
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              Super-resolution microscopy overcomes the diffraction limit of light to achieve higher spatial resolutions than are typically available when using light microscopy techniques. However, these methods...
            
                
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             Oxygen Microenvironments in E. coli Biofilm Nutrient Transport Channels: Insights from Complementary Sensing Approaches  https://t.co/rnWcZgH81J 
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             Women are born with all their oocytes, which need to stay viable for decades to ensure fertility. How are they maintained for that long? Our latest research in @NatureCellBio reveals that oocyte maintenance involves exceptional protein longevity.  https://t.co/ZiByc9F4hS  (1/9) 
          
                
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             Dr Megan Clapperton, officially now on paper ๐๐๏ธ ๐ 
          
                
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             ๐จCalling all Postdocs working in diabetes and endocrine research๐จ Join us for this immersive week of lectures from field leaders, presenting your own research and discussing the issues facing postdocs today on the beautiful island of Bornholm! Abstract submission below! 
           Professors Jens Juul Holst & Jens Brรผning are keynote speakers at DDEA Postdoc Summit 2024! ๐ Join us to learn from these giants in metabolism research. Don't miss this chance to enhance your skills and make connections! ๐
 Dates: 22-27 Sep ๐ Sign up:  https://t.co/rqhPeE6mCW 
            
            
                
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