Christine Cardin
@christinecardin
X-ray crystallographer and nucleic acids fan. Ruthenium is still my favourite element. Still proud mum of two. Pro EU.
Count Binface at the Clacton count. Thank you for your service to democracy and recycling, with your friendly intergalactic charm and quick wit. #binface
A comment from the Guardian. And fits with what I heard from someone who knew him as a student.
This was a wonderful occasion! Thank you so much to Zoe, Shozeb Haider and Gary Parkinson for your organisation!
used a gif to mp4 converted and it works. Colour code - red- adenine, green -guanine, yellow -cytosine, blue- thymine. The bis-acridine ligand is in magenta and the green molecules are spermine. Original reference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
And here's the bound Holliday junction structure we did a while back with Mark Searcey #DNAJunctions
Especially of course @dmonchaud.bsky.social for all the inspiration and perspiration to get to this point.
Wonderful day yesterday in the @UniofReading ! Both @PrietoTayler and @AbdullrahmanAmd received their PhDs in glorious sunshine and with their friends and families in support. Thank you @ETN_Nature and @andrew_kellett for making it all possible 👋
Delighted that our double mismatch structure is online. Great collaboration with @andrew_kellett (and thank you @ETN_Nature ) and @DiamondLightSou to give such lovely data. Well done @PrietoTayler ! https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/SC/D4SC01448K
Happy to share the lovely springlike colour graphic now on the cover, many thanks to @andrew_kellett for providing such a reminder that growing a crystal is indeed a bit like growing a plant. Lots of patience and care.
Great day at #NAF2023 yesterday. Always inspiring to see this thriving community. And this time, well done @PrietoTayler on your talk, and thank you @DrZoeWaller for chairing the session, and all your work as secretary of the Nucleic Acids Group of the RSC.
Thank you Jose Trincao for showing us your beamline, designed for very small crystals.@Diamond_MX
A cheer goes up from the @ETN_Nature students when a crystal is successfully fished 😀
Nice teamwork from @McquaidKane and @PrietoTayler to run our crystal fishing and freezing demo at the @ETN_Nature training week.
Many congratulations to @McquaidKane on receiving an Ohtsuka medal at ISNAC2023 in Tokyo for an outstanding talk by a young researcher. He talked about our @UniRdg_Research collaboration with @konanfiber funded by @BBSRC. Excellent meeting too.
Now over 4000 views! Very encouraging for us. And we really appreciate the collaboration with Neil Paterson of @DiamondLightSou , which is ongoing.
Bailleul, French town rebuilt after WW1, part of the WW1 war zone near Ypres.
A different orientation. Guanines are green, thymines are blue, and the two adenines are red.
And there is @McquaidKane with Lena Baumgärtner, discussing the synthesis of qdppz, now a student in Karlsruhe.
And that is our little celebration a couple of weeks ago. Before the wonderful spring weather this week.
With all the talk about the return of the well known Herr Fahrenheit, how many of you know about the R scale ?
Great to see my colleague Jeremy Spencer pop up on my TV screen, talking about flavonoids in chocolate. @UniofReading