@paulschanda.bsky.social

@paulschanda.bsky.social

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Passionate for integrated structural biology, including NMR and many more. Particularly interested in protein dynamics, and therefore chaperones, enzymes and mitochondrial protein import. Fortunate to lead a great research team at IST Austria.

Structures from AlphaFold3 - while often impressively good - tend to fail representing the dynamic ensembles accurately. And often parts of the structure are not correct.
Adding experimental data, directly in AlphaFold's diffusion step, provides physically realistic protein ensembles. This image shows two cases where AlphaFold3-only structures were largely improved by guiding with experimental data.

Distribution of participants' location. The vast majority of participants comes from Germany, UK, France and Switzerland (i.e. rather far from Oulu). But there are also a >60 participants from Finland, so having the conference there is certainly great for the location NMR community.