Giessen Lab

RT @RezwanSidd: Nature has a trick to evolve multimeric proteins via gene duplication. 🧬One copy compensates, the other explores.🧬 Although this has only been a theory so far. Until now: Directed evolution of multimeric proteins by dual-compensatory gene duplication.

New paper out @NatureComms. Tremendous work by postdoc Mike Andreas, congrats!

New review out @ChemBioChem. Learn all about encapsulin shells!

New paper out at @acsnano. Awesome work by PhD student Seokmu Kwon (@smkwon6) and postdoc Mike Andreas!

Recent paper out at Protein Science (@ProteinSociety). Congrats to now graduated PhD student Robert Benisch (@robertbe_)!

New preprint out @biorxivpreprint. Great work by PhD student Seokmu Kwon (@smkwon6) and postdoc Mike Andreas. Congrats!

New preprint out @biorxivpreprint. First two-component encapsulin system. Incredibly complex assembly. Congrats to PhD student Cassie Dutcher and postdoc Mike Andreas!

New preprint out @biorxivpreprint. First structure of a Family 2B encapsulin. Congrats to postdoc Mike Andreas!

New paper out @NatureComms. Congrats to postdoc Mike Andreas, great work!

New paper out @NatureComms. Congrats to postdocs Jesse Jones (now faculty at Idaho State) and Mike Andreas!

New publication from the lab. Congrats to PhD student @robertbe_ and postdoc Mike Andreas. Great work!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions in cryo-EM | microbial biochemistry | protein engineering | natural product sciences available in our lab!

RT @mcianfro: 1/ We’re excited to share our work on HIV-1 trafficking by dynein! Led by the amazing @badieyan in the lab with wonderful collaborations with @EdcampbellLab, @GiessenLab, Aiken Lab, Böcking Lab, and @morgan_desantis. TL;DR HIV-1 hijacks the dynein motor protein for motility 🧵

HIV-1 binds dynein directly to hijack microtubule transport machinery #bioRxiv

Happy to have this paper published in @ACSSynBio Congrats to my student @smkwon6

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New preprint is out on @biorxivpreprint: We characterize a highly acid-stable and dynamic encapsulin nanocage exhibiting pH-dependent all 'open' or all 'closed' pore states. #encapsulin #nanocage

New preprint is out on @biorxivpreprint: We engineer novel nanocages to package RNA and protein in vivo at the same time for future drug co-delivery applications. Congrats to my student @smkwon6 #RNA #drugdelivery #encapsulin #nanocage

RT @vanhest_lab: Thanks to @GiessenLab and Prof Schiller @FRIAS_UFreiburg for the external examination

Happy that our review on the structure, function, and basic biology of encapsulins is now available @AnnualReviews of Biochemistry: #encapsulin #nanocompartment #stressresistance #naturalproducts

RT @YuHengLau: Our study on pore structure and molecular flux into #encapsulin nanocompartments with @GiessenLab is now in shiny typeset format in @ScienceAdvances Congrats @nurentasneem, Lachlan, Regi, @taylorszyszka and Eric @MyxXanthus from our lab, and... 🧵