Iain Wilson
Associate Professor interested in molecular glycobiology, glycomics of lower eukaryotes, glycan arrays, chemical glycobiology, classical music. Viva la libertà!
- A well-deserved Czech APA after tonight’s premiere of Smetana‘s „Devil’s Wall“ (Čertova stěna) in Brno.
- New paper in a MDPI journal on a nematode fucosyltransferase. No mention of the linkage, but as it can utilise phenyl-galactoside as substrate, one can guess it's an alpha-1,2-fucosyltransferase (digging a bit more, the nearest C. elegans homologue is B0205.4). www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/17...
- Interesting, considering how much Researchfish was loved … buy it, close it down is also often what big companies do … how will the Austrian FWF now deal with final reports?
- OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...
- Congratulations to Lance Wells @docgatordawg1.bsky.social upon his election as an @asbmb.bsky.social fellow! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
- The brewers and craftsmen fighting to save Britain’s beer heritage Will there be anywhere to drink beer in the UK (except at home) when the current government is finished? www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...
- Pleased to get this project funded (second attempt!) by the @fwf-at.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with a Swiss partner on #Caenorhabditis mutants affecting Golgi trafficking!
- The new #Shostakovich cycle with Noseda conducting the @londonsymphony.bsky.social I’ve listened to this album online over the past few weeks - certainly recommendable! music.apple.com/at/album/sym...
- A discussion about Franz Schreker, a today underperformed composer! youtube.com/watch?v=ELbo...
- I once had someone pull something similar on me - then he claimed he wasn’t using my constructs, but his own „proprietary clones“ encoding the same enzymes … www.science.org/content/arti...
- Younger colleague Johannes Stadlmann held his habilitation lecture yesterday - on the subject of his glycoproteomics software.
- In Memoriam: The Academic Journal doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- Today’s Aurora was particularly intense!
- Screenshots of today’s selection of WeChat bridge construction videos …
- Aurora borealis, Andørja, Norway Cameras exaggerate, but the shifting green light can be seen with the naked eye.
- My abstract was selected for a spotlight talk at the @asbmb.bsky.social annual meeting in March 2026 during one of the chemical biology sessions!
- Andørja, Norway - 10:00 and 12:00 midday! Which one is which?
- Frohe Weihnachten … Stille Nacht am Friedhof …
- Last opera visit this year - Elektra at the Vienna State Opera.
- Today was a holiday in Austria - the Immaculate Conception. So I could go to the 11:00 Philharmonic concert in the Musikverein. 2 Czech & 2 Hungarian works, incl. the possibly wildest of musically wild chases - #Bartók‘s Miraculous Mandarin under the baton of Jakub #Hrůša. 👏 👏
- It was a pleasure to welcome Ken Kitajima 北島健 again to Vienna (I co-hosted him together with @SMereiter). New insights into sulphation of #sialic acid in mice and fish and degradation of KDN-containing glycoconjugates by bacteria. #glycotime
- Italian craft beer 🍺 from Fano, near Pesaro - bought during the Easter holiday, great taste! www.birrificiorenton.it
- Contrasting Macroevolutionary Patterns in the Human N-Glycosylation Pathway Global phylostratigraphic analysis of GM genes in humans revealed that glycosylation is an evolutionary old process most likely common to all life. #glycotime doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
- My former student 闫石 Yan Shi is now Privatdozent - he successfully held his Habilitation lecture today! #ProudofAlumni
- Autumn fog, Niederösterreich
- Why Can’t New York Fix Penn Station? www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Having used Penn station as a visitor a few times, I can only agree that this cramped rabbit warren needs a revamp & that Madison Street Gardens should be demolished! Moynihan hall was only a beginning!
- ASBMB announces a new journal for biochemistry and molecular biology: do we need another journal or is it a chance to indirectly support a scientific society? www.asbmb.org/journals/asb...
- My student's paper on enzymatic remodelling to generate anionic glycan arrays has just been published online in @jbiolchem! Various recombinant glycosyl- or sulphotransferases were employed to prepare glycan motifs tested with various lectins. #glycotime www.jbc.org/article/S002...
- Today visited Fudan University, Shanghai, and gave a talk as a guest of Prof. Cao (known, e.g., for pGlyco3). Nice interactions, discussion and lunch! Also viewed the campus MS facility.
- Impressions of #Nara, Japan 🇯🇵 I’m not sending deer 🦌 photos!
- Excellent dinner tonight in Tachikawa, Tokyo - 8 different courses and very good beer from the Tachihi brewery. tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/
- It’s a pleasure again to visit @kiyokof‘s lab - to input more into Glytoucan - and to go to an all-you-can-eat/drink (within 2 hours) dinner!
- Dinner and breakfast at the Isana resort, Jogasaki coast, Japan
- Shimoda, Japan - good food and seaside
- Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms. First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday). #Caenorhabditis
- Is craft beer losing its way? „Today’s overwhelmed consumer doesn’t have time to decode a beer called Sour Me Unicorn Farts (a glittered sour), Purple Monkey Dishwasher (a chocolate peanut butter porter), or Hopportunity Knocks (a perfumed, piney I.P.A.).“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
- A New Organ Is Shaking the Pews at Trinity Church in NYC: Trinity’s organ was severely damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. At last, its replacement has been unveiled. Hear the sound of its 8,041 pipes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a...
- Congratulations to the four ACS CARB division awardees: Stacy Malaker, Matt Macauley aka @siglecdude.bsky.social, Anthony Serianini and Steve Sucheck #glycotime
- End of the visit to Türkiye: Efes followed by raki.
- International Glycoimmunology Online Symposium 2025 1 December 2025 Online via Zoom www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
- Göreme, Uçhisar and area, Türkiye.
- Das „Schwarzbuch der Denkmalpflege – ein Verzeichnis verlorener Geschichte 2023/2024“ schildert rund 40 solcher Einzelbeispiele für folgenschweren Umgang mit Denkmalen. Pull it down rather than restore? How Germany deals with historic buildings. www.denkmalschutz.de/pressemeldun...
