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Gerald F. Audette

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Structural Biologist & Crystallographer; Professor of Chemistry at #YorkU; Study bacterial secretion systems, in my spare time I practice #kendo.

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The Call for Abstracts for IUCr2026 closes today at 12am ET.

Ensure your work is considered for presentation in Calgary.
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15.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Call for Abstracts for IUCr2026 closes soon.
πŸ“… Submission deadline: February 15, 2026

Ensure your work is considered for presentation in Calgary.
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10.02.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well, I made it. Excited to get started at the #LACAABCr2025 meeting. #IUCr2026 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social @iucr2026.bsky.social

14.10.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well, I'm on my way to the LACA-ABCr meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. And "Calgary Cal" is tagging along for the fun! #WhereIsCal #iucr2026 #ScienceWithoutBorders @iucr2026.bsky.social @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

13.10.2025 00:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for IUCr 2026 are officially OPEN πŸŽ‰

πŸ—“ Deadline: February 15, 2026
πŸ“ Location: Calgary, Canada

πŸ”— Submit your abstract today: www.iucr2026.org/

#IUCr2026 #CallForAbstracts #Crystallography #StructuralScience #science #IUCr

03.10.2025 00:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ§ͺ The countdown to IUCr2026 is officially on. The Call for Abstracts opens October 1, 2025, & this is your opportunity to share your discoveries on the global crystallography stage.

Stay informed and get the details first at πŸ‘‰ iucr2026.org
Let science, structure, and scenery collide.

17.09.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm looking forward to taking Calgary Cal with me to the upcoming #LACA-ABCr2025 meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. Looking forward to meeting with colleagues and promoting @iucr2026.bsky.social and @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels

09.09.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A very big thank you to the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social team for making the #ACA2025 meeting such a success! Looking forward to seeing everyone at @iucr2026.bsky.social in Calgary, AB, next year!

23.07.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Calgary | Canada's Alberta Learn about the amazing things to do and placed to go in Calgary, Alberta. Contemporary Canadian culture meets the Wild West in Alberta's largest city - only a short drive from the Canadian Rockies.

Experience world class structural science at the gateway to the Canadian Rockies at 2025 Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography #IUCr2026
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22.07.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our #ACA2025 Tuesday sessions include our biannual Fiber Diffraction session. I really enjoy this session! Leading off is Joseph Orgel talking on fiber diffraction of collagen and paleontologic studies. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

22.07.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our 2025 Fankuchen Mermorial Award lecture by Prof. Chris Malliakas #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

21.07.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not at #aca2025? Sign up for updates using the "expression of interest" form at www.iucr2026.org

20.07.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our #ACA2025 Bau Neutron Diffraction Award Winner, Dr Craig Brown, and his talk "Adsorption and separations of small molecules in porous media". @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

20.07.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And now @biophyskrys.bsky.social giving a hot strucutres talk on BoPDA, a polysaccharide deacetylase. Another great study and talk! #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

20.07.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Another Etter Student talk at #ACA2025 ... This time in our Hot Strucutres Session (2.1.2) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

20.07.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cal the stampede horse inside a 3D printed model of the VIPP1 thylakoid membrane structural protein assembly

Cal the stampede horse inside a 3D printed model of the VIPP1 thylakoid membrane structural protein assembly

Cal the stampede horse next to a liquid handling robot and cocktail mixer

Cal the stampede horse next to a liquid handling robot and cocktail mixer

Cal the stampede horse next to some unipucks

Cal the stampede horse next to some unipucks

Cal the stampede horse at the IUCr2026 booth along with some other great IUCr2026 merch

Cal the stampede horse at the IUCr2026 booth along with some other great IUCr2026 merch

Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!

19.07.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Starting Sunday with the session on combining predictive models with experimental data for structure determination (2.1.6) #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

20.07.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our #ACA2025 YSIG Mixer was a great success! Apparently the YSIG has an informal games night tonight after the poster session. I may have to check it out πŸ€”πŸ˜€ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

20.07.2025 11:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Transactions part 2 ... An update on the PDB-IHM and structures from integrative methods #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

19.07.2025 19:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting our #AC2025 Transactions session is Simon Billinge from Columbia discussing AI/ML methods in PDF Analysis, signal analysis etc. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

19.07.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Professor Stephen Burley @rcsbpdb.bsky.social gave an amazing Keynote at the opening of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social 75th Annual Meeting this evening! @gfaudette.bsky.social
#structure #research #impact #science #ACA2025

19.07.2025 04:37 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And away we go! #ACA2025 is a go! A great Keynote from Stephen Burley form the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social to kick off our opening ceremonies. Then our reception ... Great to see everyone! @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Tomorrow ... Sessions begin!

19.07.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On my way to #ACA2025! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Lombard and a great scientific progam!

17.07.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lecture 6 – N. Bragagnolo – Canadian National Committee for Crystallography

I'm looking forward to Nick's talk as the CNCC's 6th instalment of the Penelope Codding Lecture Series on Jan. 30th. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social xtallography.ca/index.php/co...

14.01.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our final issue of 2024 is out: tinyurl.com/4efts8bb

The cover shows the refinement of the coordination of a magesium cation in a cryoEM structure of chlorophyll using metal-coordination restraints extracted from the Crystallography Open Database tinyurl.com/3w8zrdmf

10.12.2024 13:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A very productive day at the @aip.bsky.social for their Society Leadership Workshop with Kristin and Danielle (our incoming VP) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

09.12.2024 22:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The 1.3β€…Γ… resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P1 The structure of a type IV pilin from a human-pathogenic strain of P. aeruginosa was solved to 1.3β€…Γ… resolution using molecular replacement with an AlphaFold-generated search model. It is the first st...

Happy to have my first Bluesky post be to report that some excellent work by Nick Bragagnolo in my group has been published in @actacrystd.bsky.social @acastructuralsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1107/S205...

05.12.2024 15:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟 Meet the next American Crystallographic Association Early Career Scientist Spotlight: Naba Krishna Das! A grad student, he researches RNA structural biology. Formerly a chemistry teacher with a passion for research, collaboration, and connecting with others. www.amercrystalassn.org/ys-spotlight...

03.12.2024 21:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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American Crystallographic Association on LinkedIn: #crystallography #structuralscience Join us Friday, Dec13th at noon ET for the next YSIG Popup Series, featuring two ACA2024 poster prize winners! πŸŽ‰ Read more about the event and register now!…

(not to get all proud PI and everything, but...)

One of our very talented lab undergraduates Nancy An will be presenting during the ACA YSIG Zoom Event on Dec 13th at 12PM ET - come hear her talk about a very neat poxvirus protein!

www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

05.12.2024 01:12 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟#EarlyCareerSpotlight🌟Meet @acastructuralsci.bsky.social member Alexander Paredes, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, breaking barriers and driving innovation in bioinorganic chemistry. Discover his inspiring journey and impactful work! www.amercrystalassn.org/ys-spotlight...

20.11.2024 15:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1