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Professor of Biophysics, Drug Discovery, Photographer, Traveller and a Cultural succupus. Tweets are personal.

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Perhaps it’s wise to approach the subject cautiously. #thermodynamics #statisticalmechanics #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
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We have a new minted PhD graduate from our lab at @School_Pharmacy . What makes this day even more special is that her first paper was also accepted today in @MedChemRes (more on that later) Congratulations Dr Abeer @abeeralanaziucl
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After reading about what Alphafold3 can do all day yesterday, I have designed a series of 10 attempts (max daily limit) that I will try out today. I shall push AF3 limits on non-canonical nucleic acids-protein complexes. Will keep posting results as they appear.
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Who did this ? #babas
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Both junior boys and girls champions at US Open 2022 are from @rnadalacademy . Now how cool is that.
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I find it odd when authors on MD papers mention that data is available on request, yet they have all sorts of excuses not to share the data. Data deposition prior to publication should be mandatory. Editors of open access journals please note. #openaccess #moleculardynamics
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My mother tells me that He was amazed when I went after the pen in his pocket instead of his glasses on my first meeting with him as a 1 yr old.
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Syed Ubaidur Rahman
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Professor Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at AMU, has been made Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford from where he had done his D.Phil. His books include: The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556–1707 An Atlas of the Mughal Empire The Economic History of Medieval India etc
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Our latest collaborative work on allosteric communication in Class A β-lactamases is out in @eLife
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Working from home ? - via Twitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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@nelsabbey My offence to this placard was that Dame Preeti Patel was not included.
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Nov 2nd, 1917. The root cause of all problems #BalfourDeclaration
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From all the noise, @barbaraslavin1 gives the best explanation
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Here to discuss the consequences of the death of Soleimani: The director of the Atlantic Council’s, “Future of Iran” initiative @barbaraslavin1
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23 years, over 50 publications and G-quadruplexes between us. @School_Pharmacy
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Biomolecular simulations at @CCP5UK summer school 2022.
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I think my protein is a split personality (and has a pretty cool hair do) #ProteinImager #PDB50 @buildmodels
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No trials, no studies to support it. Efficacy data for adult usage yet to be published and now some expert panel approves #Covaxin usage in children. Astonishing how approval works in India.
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NDTV
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The Pfizer vaccine was developed by #BioNTech . A German company started by two Turkish Immigrants - Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci in 2008. It just could be some immigrant who might come to our rescue. #coronavirusvaccine
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My alma mater.
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Restoration of Constantia, home of Claude Martin in Lucknow, now La Martiniere (est.1845) accomplished by Dr Neeta Dass conservation architect with help from school alumni. Painting work by local restoration artist Ansar-ud-din #Architecture #Heritage
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The beauty of #Deepmind Alphafold DB is that it has now permanently taken care of those short missing loops from the experimentally solved structures. They were such a nuisance to model before starting any simulation.
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No more memory issues in visualising MD trajectories. Using ⁦ @mdanalysis ⁩ and #pymol . Excellent tool from ⁦ @lorenz_lab
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I read a lovely post on how AF3 can predict electrolyte RDFs. So I digress from protein-NA complexes to just NA complexes. (Will come back to it) Case 3: 1JRN oxytricha bimolecular G4T4G4. My fav since I solved it. Perfect prediction with loops and 5 ions.
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Probably the best riverfront in all of India
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An evening view of Jhelum.
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Bumped into a physicist this afternoon. #london
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Shozeb Haider
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My dear #keshavdesiraju you will be dearly missed. Trips to Paudhar will never ever be the same again.
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What a delight to be back around colleagues at the @School_Pharmacy Teaching away day.
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A wonderful lunch date with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. Historian, Author and an expert on all things about #Lucknow .
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And here is a pic I took recently @MrHusayn @IraqiPic @Iraqesque #malwiya
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@IndiaExplained Modi would never forget how the press cornered him on his first visit to UK. He wouldn’t dare have an open session in a university. Only prescreened fans at Wembley.
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Last of the day has to be our latest structure due to come out any time now. Not seen yet by AF3 Case 10: 8AYG the first intramolecular ILPR iMotif The C-stem is predicted correctly, but again the loops are just collapsed on the stem. Not quite right.
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The most important part is the junction. There are certain structural rules that govern how and what sequences form the junction. They all break down in the AF3 prediction (pink).
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@nanome_inc exhibit has to be the best at #bps2022 Do check the models in VR
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we know from experiments that telomeric G4 can adopt multiple topologies Case 5: 2HY9 Incorrect prediction. The strand polarity changes and AF3 pushes towards propeller instead of hybrid1
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As a result, AF3 (pink) is clueless about the base pairing. It randomly starts placing bases. An incorrect purine:pyrimidine swap occurs.
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Shozeb Haider
2 years
Just a tweet of appreciation for my local councillor @NeilGarratt for paying attention to his constituent’s issues. #Sutton
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Shozeb Haider
6 years
Even better - This advert should be spammed into every Indian Whatsapp account in multiple languages @waglenikhil
@waglenikhil
nikhil wagle
6 years
Today WhatsApp has given full page advertisement about how to fight fake news. This advertisement should be published in regional languages too.
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Here I give you ⁦ @Imamofpeace ⁩ aka the #fakesheikh . Didn’t take long to track that one ⁦& btw Tommy Robinson, rw British islamophobe criminal is his hero @t_d_h_nair ⁩ ⁦ @khanumarfa ⁩ ⁦ @iamrana ⁩ ⁦ @irenaakbar ⁩ ⁦ @OmairTAhmad
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Case 1: PDB 2QNC. A DNA Holliday junction in complex with T4 endo IV resolvase. Amazingly AF3 predicts the complex within 1.3A. The protein is spot on although one arm is slightly splayed outwards. Not unexpected as this protein was used in training. Pink-AF3 Green-2QNC
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This is by far the grandest mosque in the whole of Xinjiang. The interiors are exquisite.
@PicsSilkRoad
Photos of Silk Road
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The Ceiling of Altun Mosque. Yarkand, Xinjiang/East Turkestan, China, Silk Road. #silkroad #NGSilkRoad
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Our latest work on identifying druggable cryptic pockets on #NSP1 in #SARS -CoV2 and other beta coronavirus. We back our prediction using X-ray crystallography paving way for structure-based drug design. Led by @gervasiolab Frank Kozielski and teams
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Excellent talk on computational approaches to study biomolecular systems by @lab_colombo . Hosted by @AriannaFornili and @ccpbiosim
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Shozeb Haider
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If you want to understand what has caused this Covid catastrophe in India, then just read this thread 👇🏻 #NewIndia
@Kill_BillPandey
Kill Bill Pandey
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#IndiaCOVID19Update TIMELINE OF THE COVID CATASTROPHE Why is India alone so badly affected by covid this time round? ◾March 2020: Fosun Pharma of China invests $135 million with BioNTech to collaborate and develop 300 million doses of mRNA vaccines.
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A wonderful delegation from @astar_research Singapore came over show casing some of the finest research they are doing.
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Will continue with complexes again.
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This got me thinking: how about the human telomeric sequence that forms 6 different topologies Case 4: 1KF1 The intramolecular 21mer Pretty impressive so far.
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There’s another one in the neighbourhood called the Turpan kazakhana @PicsSilkRoad #silkroad
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Local mosque in Turpan, East Turkestan/Xinjiang, China, Silk Road. #silkroad #NGSilkRoad
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However, the DNA is a mess. AF3 pushes the strands up by 2 bp.
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War will never solve problems #NoToWar
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2 years
Ever wondered what DNA looks like? #DNA #nucleicacids
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A billionaire defending his wife of plagiarism, which he himself advocated to oust the president of Harvard is the most amusing thing happening in the academic world right now. Read his whims in the demand letter. Highly entertaining.
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Bill Ackman
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Over my 35-year career, I have been the subject of many thousands of articles, including extremely negative, inaccurate, and libelous articles, yet I have never sued a media organization or a journalist. Beginning in early January of this year, Business Insider released a series
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Neighbours smashing it this Halloween.
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It’s good to see old friends again #BPS2023
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@NickKyrgios The moment you realize you are not bigger than the sport, everything will fall in perspective #arrogance
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And so ends #EMBOFuncNucleicAcids with a gala dinner. Lovely to see old colleagues and friends. Thank you @ambadasrode
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I truly believe the business of scientific publishing is broken. #AcademicChatter
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What if I trick AF3. Change a BrU to T in one of the bimolecular structures which AF3 has never seen before. Case 7: 1K8P bimolecular human telomeric G4 AF3 goes crazy. It now predicts 2 hexads and 1 AT tetrad.
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@HeathrowAirport A suggestion: given the current situation at the airports, you should give an hourly update of Security and immigration queues or get a live tracker on your website. #heathrow
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Most handsome Zafar portrait from the #HowardHodgkin collection 24.10.1775-7.11.1862 @DalrympleWill @BL_VisualArts
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What a pigeon house!!!
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Inside the centuries-old Pigeon Tower of Meybod, Iran, Silk Road. #silkroad #NGSilkRoad
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@kittusen Clearly you haven’t been to La Martiniere, Lucknow
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Our latest work in collaboration with Neidle group on G-quadruplex-targeting clinical candidate QN-302 & analogs. QN-302 was given IND clearance by FDA to initiate Phase 1a clinical trials for Pancreatic Cancer ⁦ @School_Pharmacy ⁩ ⁦ @QualigenTx
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The ions are perfectly placed.
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How does it fare with bimolecular telomeric RNA Case 6: 3IBK Telomeric RNA The G4 backbone fits well, however there is a bit of wobbling of bases in the loops. So far, so good since the model would be trained on these systems.
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If I submit an article to the Int Journal of Secret Agents then do I need to provide an author list? #JustAsking @AcademicChatter
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2 years
Speak up against fake medicines where ever you are. Read all about #FightTheFake here. Excellent work @OksanaPyzikUCL and @ProfIAbubakar
@DiseasePrimers
Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2 years
In this Comment, @OksanaPyzikUCL and @ProfIAbubakar discuss the impact of circulating falsified medicines, particularly on the African continent, and that a global, cross-border response is needed to reduce extensive humanitarian and economic harm.
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@theBekku Coding? That’s so year one.
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Congratulations @dikshaparwanaa on winning the first prize for flash talks. Not a bad start for your first conference. #EMBOfuncNucleicAcids
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Remembering Girish Karnad on his birthday. India’s finest playwright.
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Our latest work on the the cryptic pockets in NSP1 using MD and validation through X-ray crystallography. It’s the first such structure of NSP1+fragment, opening avenues for structure-based drug design #covid19 #nsp1
@gervasiolab
Gervasio's Research Group (Protein Dynamics)
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Our preprint on cryptic pockets in coronavirus Nsp1 is now on @biorxivpreprint We combined SWISH, MD and Xray to reveal the pockets. Many thanks to @shozeb_haider , @c3starellas , @igaldadas , @albertobors and Frank Kozielski for the successful collaboration!
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My PhD student Aishat giving her talk on structure-based enzyme engineering #uclpharmphd19 @School_Pharmacy
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Had a great time at #ullasummerschool2022 with @gervasiolab and @igaldadas . Time to head back from #Uppsala . See you all in Leiden. @ullanetwork
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It’s been a good day today for publications from our group. Two papers accepted with minor and one subject to major corrections.
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Case 2: what happens if you change the sequence of DNA to equal length? The protein again is perfectly predicted, however the DNA becomes long rods.
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@mithelesh @iamrana the churning of the ocean 'samudra manthan' in Khemer temples #Cambodia #khemer
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A full house at the @School_Pharmacy Research Away Day. Kick off by @DrZoeWaller
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Perfect for purine-ated cycles.
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Sadly no more. They are now banned.
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Driving a donkey cart. Hotan, Xinjiang/East Turkestan, China, Silk Road. #silkroad #NGSilkRoad
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My domestic help, who is from Gujarat & has made 2 appeals against her expired visa tells me she wants Brexit because there are too many Europeans here. #Brexit #oxymoron
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Our first preprint of the year; in collaboration with @AdrianMulholla1 and @gervasiolab . Happy to take suggestions. #lactamases
@biorxivpreprint
bioRxiv
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Allosteric communication in Class A β-lactamases occurs via Cooperative Coupling of Loop Dynamics #bioRxiv
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What if I give it the telomeric G4-duplex hybrid that AF3 has never seen before. Case 9: 5DWX It predicts the duplex part and the G-Stem correctly but has no clue what to with the super important loops. However if I give it what it saw in training, it gives a perfect fit.
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And look who joined me in Goodenough College. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. The founder of Aligarh Muslim University, India. My alma mater for my UG and PG courses #AMU @AMUofficialPRO
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A first hand account of molecular simulations by Prof Jorgensen @JorgensenWL #UCL
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Attempt 8, was wasted on 3SC8. I should have known better that all G4 structures with ND compounds will be predicted parallel stranded. What a cheap waste of precious resources :0) Oh well, on to the next difficult case.
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While the rest of us recover from 2023, the bar has been set really high by @DrZoeWaller and team on day 2 of 2024.
@OrgBiomolChem
OBC
5 months
📢Our first issue of 2024 is now online! Check out the #openaccess research behind the cover by Stephen Neidle, @DrZoeWaller & co @School_Pharmacy on how QN-302 has opposing effects between i-motif & G-quadruplex DNA structures in the S100P gene promoter
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