Roberto Morán-Tovar
@R_MoranTovar
🇨🇴 Bio &. Stat Physics | Immunology 🧫 Bici de ruta | Literatura | Salsa 📍Köln 🦜 #FckAfd
The interplay between proliferating pathogens and the huge diversity of immune receptors, makes the problem of antigen recognition very interesting. The stat mech density of states + noneq binding give a nice framework to study it. Check it out @PhysRevX journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1…
No hay migrantes ilegales porque migrar sencillamente no es un delito. Qué importante es que en Colombia estemos hablando de dignidad humana en relación con la migración. Pero hablemos del tema sin máscaras. Hemos escuchado a periodistas y opinadores decir que se debe respetar la…
“No zone of alpine vegetation in the temperate or cold parts of the globe can well be compared with that of the Páramos in the tropical Andes.” Alexander von Humboldt
🎉🏅We congratulate 🌟Roberto Morán-Tovar (University of Cologne, Germany), on winning the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the recently held EMBO/EMBL Symposium 'Theory and concepts in biology' #EESTCBio! 🎉👏👏👏 We wish you all the best, Roberto! @R_MoranTovar @EMBLEvents
If you find the work of J. Hopfield on neural networks cool, go and look at his paper in kinetic proofreading! #StatPhys #BioPhys
Our story is online in Immunity now, with updated mAb reactivity data authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…
A new analysis identifies a specific molecular recognition process that allows B cells in the human immune system to produce a potent, specific, and fast response during acute infections. Read go.aps.org/4fQiOwM @R_MoranTovar @UniCologne #PRXbio #PRXimmunology
30 days challenge accepted! 🤠🦜
30 Essays to Make You Love Biology Day 1. "I should have loved biology" by James Somers. "It was only in college, when I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, that I came to understand cells as recursively self-modifying programs."
I had the chance to hear about this project from Alvaro recently in Cologne. It was a great discussion and it's really nice to see it now published. Kudos to Alvaro and all authors! Reallyyy recommended! 🧫🦠
Out today after peer review: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Congratulations @jdiazc9 @metaboli3am @jccvila & Abby Skwara
🤯🤯 A cell opens new directions in the field 🤣
ATTENTION! Immunologists discover a new immune cell, A cell, produced in the appendix. Its surface receptor, Apr1R, is highly reactive to antigens of all types and could be the Trojan horse of adaptive immunity. #AprilFools #immunology #antibuddiespodcast
Doing science, like many other things in life, is a slow journey in a rugged landscape. We always end up in local minima, usually driven by a combination of experience and luck. So the best way to be innovative is to shake off the routine and land somewhere else.
Had the chance to meet old Colombian friends, Nico and Juanfe, during the 2024 @APSphysics March meeting. Such a pleasure to see you guys!
Nice new high throughput technique to measure neutralization curves for hundreds of virus strain - serum pairs 🤩
In new study led by Andrea Loes, we develop sequencing-based neutralization assay that measures replicate curves for hundreds of virus-serum pairs per 96-well plate (see image below) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We apply assay to characterize response to repeat influenza vaccination
Happy to be in Minneapolis for my first @APSphysics March Meeting. I will be speaking about real-time antigen recognition by B cells during acute infections. Wed at 16:36 on the focus session "Physics of the Immune System I: from Repertoire to Function" #apsmarch
Amazing essay @AsimovPress about the range of time scales that we experience, study, and try to imagine in physics and biology.
Fast Biology 🚀 Cells are crowded, frenzied places. Sugar molecules cruise at 250 mph. ATP synthase whips around 134 times per second. But these numbers seem made up. How do we know they're real? My first editor's column for @AsimovPress. asimov.press/p/fast-biology
Fast Biology 🚀 Cells are crowded, frenzied places. Sugar molecules cruise at 250 mph. ATP synthase whips around 134 times per second. But these numbers seem made up. How do we know they're real? My first editor's column for @AsimovPress. asimov.press/p/fast-biology
Anyone willing to share accommodation in Minneapolis for the March Meeting week? US hotels are crazy expensive!
It has been a wonderful week talking about parasites, vaccines, evolution, the immune system, and much more. A very stimulating way to start 2024! 🪱🦠🧫
The 1st Andean School on Host-Pathogen Dynamics is around the corner. Looking forward to welcome all the participants at @Uniandes sites.google.com/view/andean-ho…
A partir de hoy es un hecho que se construirá la Sede para la @filarmonibogota Ha sido adjudicada la APP. En nombre de toda de la Filarmónica y el arte quiero agradecer a la alcaldesa @ClaudiaLopez❤️🎶 Habrá 46 conciertos al año de Filarmónica y la boletería será para Filarmónica