Maxim Igaev
@maxotubule
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Computational Biophysicist and Royal Society University Research Fellow at @UoDLifeSciences @dundeeuni studying kinetochore-microtubule magic. Views are my own.
Dundee, UK
Joined February 2019
Excited to share our latest work in @PNASNews! Combining simulations and cryo-ET, we reveal how microtubules decide between growth and shortening. https://t.co/VOA0hQSmxD
@KalutskiyMaksim @microtubule_guy @CompBioPhys @mpi_nat @QMUL @UoDLifeSciences
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MDZip: Neural Compression of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories for Scalable Storage and Ensemble Reconstruction 1. MDZip is a novel neural compression framework that achieves over 95% reduction in storage size for molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories while preserving essential
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Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @KrunoVuk at @institutrb, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @NatureComms
https://t.co/oUwguXWRUN
https://t.co/bCnHSvthbQ
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A PhD position within the @spp2389 is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 https://t.co/faB0tobyMp
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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I am thrilled to share that the work from my PhD is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv. Follow the link below to find out more about the role of PANEM in facilitating interaction between chromosomes and the mitotic spindle! https://t.co/eyXdb6fnJU
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I have a poster at CCPBioSim presenting our new development on GCMC RBFE. See you in Southampton. #CCPBioSim
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🚨 Apply now for the 63rd Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics! 📍 @AuburnU | 📅 Aug 4–8, 2025 🔬 Learn #NAMD & #VMD from experts 👩💻 In-person | Free | 35 spots only ⏳ Apply by June 20 🔗 https://t.co/UAb4HCQQnj
#CompBiophysics #MolecularDynamics
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The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group is pleased to announce the 63rd "Hands-on" Workshop on Computational Biophysics ( https://t.co/8ZdbS1u3j5) to be held August 4-8, 2025 at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
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Bavarian blonde #beers may trace their origins to #Patagonia. In PNAS Journal Club: https://t.co/GQbduyVnq1
#yeast #Bavaria #beer #fermentation
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New online! The mechanochemical cycle of reactive full-length human dynein 1 https://t.co/Qa8FEAximv
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#compchem New preprint: "The Q-AMOEBA (CF) Polarizable Potential". https://t.co/h6ujSUgN3C Improved Q-AMOEBA polarizable water model with inclusion of quantum nuclear effects and its extensions (ions + organic molecules). Great work by @MaugerNastasia & another nice
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Another wonderful collaboration with @alanbrownhms lab. The Zhang lab together with @PolinaLishko lab (co-first author @QingweiN) contribute the doublet microtubule structure from Crithidia fasciculata, a model organism that infects mosquitoes. https://t.co/eDieZsYzaz
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The movement and pathogenicity of trypanosomatid species, the causative agents of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis, are dependent on a flagellum that contains an axoneme of dynein-bound doublet...
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Learn about Biomolecular modelling and simulations.
🚀 Hybrid Training on Biomolecular Simulations! 📅April 9-10, 2025 | 📍 Online & Sabancı University 🔗Register by March 24: https://t.co/KXAJBFliNs 💡HADDOCK, GROMACS, BioBB, PMX ⚡Limited hands-on spots! #ComputationalBiology #HPC #MolecularSimulations @BioExcelCoE
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Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying to our wonderful team in Dundee! https://t.co/yhUUfzYt5R
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The BioEmu-1 model and inference code are now public under MIT license!!! Please go ahead, play with it and let us know if there are issues. https://t.co/K7wwHmCt2o
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Inference code for scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning - microsoft/bioemu
Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @MSFTResearch AI for Science. #ML #AI #NeuralNetworks #Biology #AI4Science
https://t.co/yzOy6tAoPv
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Very happy to announce that our featured review on thermodynamics-informed learning of slow CVs has finally been published in Chemical Physics Reviews as part of the Special Collection on AI and Machine Learning in Chemical and Materials Science! https://t.co/kRXpWoKvlY
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Understanding the long-time dynamics of complex physical processes depends on our ability to recognize patterns. To simplify the description of these processes,
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🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole! Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏 More details below... 🧵 1/3
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"... individuals without a hit paper as a postdoc are significantly less likely to pursue a faculty career than those with at least one... " Interesting #publication in @PNASNews
#Sciencetwitter #phdlife #postdoclife #Science #academia
https://t.co/L1mGQsFZoO
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More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate.
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Postdoctoral training is a career stage often described as a demanding and anxiety-laden time when many promising PhDs see their academic dreams sl...
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