Akul Mehta
Glycoscientist @theNCFG BIDMC-Harvard Medical School
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- This is amazing work! #glycotime
- 🚨 Our new paper is out today in Nature Chemical Biology: “Pan-specific antibodies to uncover bacterial pseudaminylation” doi.org/10.1038/s415... This is the product of a collaboration between many teams, led by @nickescott.bsky.social, @payneresearch.bsky.social and myself. 1/6
- Reposted by Akul MehtaScience update from my postdoc Peiyuan Chai - his work “glycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signaling” is now published @nature.com uncovering a new layer or glycoRNA-regulation of growth factor mediated control physiological processes rdcu.be/e1bBX
- Reposted by Akul MehtaEnzyme catalyzed bioorthogonal chemistry published at ACS Cent Sci pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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- #Glycans probably have more "copies/cell" than #proteins and changes in #glycosylation could potentially be remarkable biomarkers for diseases as well as targets for therapeutics. This post explores the abundance of glycans on the cell surface and it is worth a read to recognize these #biomolecules.
- Reposted by Akul MehtaThe rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Akul MehtaHappy new year 2026 #glycotime! 🥳 We just introduced some useful options to Re-Glyco Ensemble. In the Advanced Settings you can now select a seed (positive integer) to reproduce structural ensemble of your favourite glycoforms such as the one below that you will see soon in an upcoming paper,
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- Reposted by Akul MehtaCannot hide my joy, relief, excitement being able to share the outcome of persevering (to say the least) collaborative work. So... the MS glyco(proteomics) guidelines are published!! www.mcponline.org/article/S153... Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
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- Reposted by Akul MehtaAnother bump for the postdoc and PhD positions still open at the center and postdoc specifically within my group (same link to apply). We’re looking for wet/dry lab, and I’m specifically after people who do magic with computers!
- employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
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- Most people think that #glycosylation is only extracellular. But there is increasing evidence for the existence of intracellular proteins also being glycosylated. Check out this blog post to learn more about this topic!
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- A colleague received an 18 page review for a manuscript they recently submitted. They took several days to respond to all the comments meticulously (even though some of them didn't make any sense to them). When I saw the review, I was able to immediately recognize that this was AI generated. 🧵
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- Reposted by Akul MehtaNew paper! The characterisation of PNGaseL published in The Royal Society Open Science New Talent Collection. This paper describes a successful bioprospecting-to-commercialisation project royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #glycotime @cassiebakshani.bsky.social
- Reposted by Akul MehtaSpread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
- Open faculty position! We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
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- Reposted by Akul MehtaBy deep characterisation of 186 N-glycan standards, we @thencfg.bsky.social have made the most comprehensive targeted LC-MS glycomic assay to date. Non-reduced native glycan analysis is key. We hope this enables anyone with QqQ and interest in #glycotime to measure specific N-glycan structures.
- Reposted by Akul MehtaWell, it turns out that you can actually make PyMOL do quite a lot of stuff. Here's the full workflow, integrating the amazing ReGlyco into PyMOL to re-glycosylate the LDLA linker. There's some serious magic needed to get it running as fast as it is within PyMOL. @elisafadda.bsky.social
- Check out our latest interesting fact post where you can discover some weird dangerous carbohydrates.
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- Check out the latest interesting fact in our blog where we discuss 2 essential tiny #glycolipids #glycotime
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- Come work with us! Check out this opportunity...
- Reposted by Akul MehtaWell said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”
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