Carlos R. Escalante
@crescalantelab
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Escalante Group at VCU School of Medicine, X-ray Crystallography, Cryo-EM, SAXS, AUC, AAV, Transcription Factors. All opinions, my own.
Richmond VA
Joined February 2019
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
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Nature - The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
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Jeremy M. Berg: Life-saving medicines begin in the basic research DOGE wants to stop funding via @PittsburghPG.
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We should not lose sight of how wonderfully productive the biomedical research enterprise — now under threat — can be. The interplay between...
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It's a sad day for many young scientists around the country. NIH just sent termination notices for MARC, GRISE, PREP, IMSD, IRACDA, and BRIGES.
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RT @GoogleDeepMind: Scientists are increasingly turning to AI to tackle problems related to scale and complexity - from synthesizing the ev….
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RT @li_yilai: 1/ Very excited to present cryoSTAR, a novel approach for continuous heterogeneity in SPA cryo-EM. In brief, cryoSTAR leverag….
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RT @SciencNews: Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists. #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdoc….
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Happy to share the latest preprint from our Lab. The Cryo-EM structure of AAV-2 Rep68-AAVS1 complex. COngratulations to Rahul and all the team. doi:
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Congratulations to the Aggarwal lab.
Just published from the Aggarwal Lab in @NatureSMB! Congrats to my labmates! 👏 Great work on the bacterial antiphage #CBASS system’s Cap5 endonuclease activation. @jitheshkottur 🎉 .#bacteria #phage #nsmb
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RT @LindorffLarsen: Happy to share the publication of our paper in @Nature. Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered….
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Looking Forward to what's ahead. Understanding the cell: Future views of structural biology: Cell
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The limits of the main techniques used in structural biology and the concept of cellular self-organization are reviewed in this article; a perspective of simulating cells in virtual reality that...
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RT @EricTopol: "We are standing on the cusp of a new era of biology, where the integration of multimodal structural datasets with multiscal….
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RT @LANEVOL: Here's our new research in @ScienceAdvances by @LANEVOL postdoc @rorylcooper & Michel! We reveal that transient sonic hedgehog….
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For many years, the one of the best if not the best book about how science is make and the human side of the people who make it. A must have in any personal library.
I’m super excited to dive into this 1979 classic on the early history of molecular biology. Thanks to CSH Press for releasing a commemorative edition in 2011! @cshperspectives
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Good to know, next time I have a long layover at Newark, I now know where to wait!.
Who’s in charge of the playlist here at Newark Airport (@EWRairport) Terminal C? Over the last several months, I’ve heard everything from Andrew Hill to @Joshua_Redman to @bmarsalis and now they’re blasting ESP. This is how you get the morning started! (Now I hear Stanley
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RT @PeterDaszak: This is a horrible story worth reading.
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More than 100 U.S. biomedical scientists whose collaborations with China were once encouraged have lost their jobs
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RT @PeterDaszak: 🧵of the year! A real eye opener - If there’s just one article you read this year, make it this! @PhilippMarkolin lays out….
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RT @mcbridesworld: “From the Buddhist perspective, life and death are two phases of a continuum. Life does not begin at birth nor end at de….
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Great work, congrats.
Resolving the AAA+ ATPase Puzzle in Slow Motion. Cutting-edge cryoEM, time-resolved studies and slower burning fuels. Big thanks to the heroes of the M-team; esp. @JirkaWald @DirkFahrenkamp. Enjoy! (
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Origin of life theory involving RNA–protein hybrid gets new support
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Nature - Structure that links amino acids suggests that early organisms could have been based on an RNA–protein mix.
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