Carlos Cortez
@carway2nar
this is a personal account but I do science
My first first-author paper is out! It was an amazing collaborative effort with a lot of amazing people including @ArvindSPillai1 and @JoeThorntonLab. Please read if you like things involving evolution and biochemistry. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Absolutely phenomenal work from a phenomenal scientist and friend. Take a read if you are into all things protein and Allostery.
Excited to announce our new paper on designing allosterically regulated protein assemblies from scratch, now published in @Nature! This collaborative effort included key contributions from @FloPraetorius, Abbas Idris, @AnnikaPhilomin, @cweidle1 and others! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Excited to share a new preprint we just released on the de novo design of allosterically controllable protein assemblies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
#SMBE2023 If you're interested in evolutionary convergence and/or bioluminescence, I'll be giving a talk tomorrow at 10 AM in AD1, as part of the "Evolution on repeat in the genomics era" session!
This is so awesome. Thank you @ATJCagan
Carlos Cortez on simple mechanisms for the evolution of heterospecificity in the hemoglobin complex #smbe23 #smbe2023
Congratulations to the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners 2023: Carlos R. Cortez-Romero University of Chicago, USA @carway2nar Simple mechanisms for the evolution of heterospecificity in the hemoglobin complex #SMBE23 @SMBEmeetings
So honored to have been selected! To all attending #smbe2023, I can’t wait to share my work with you.
Congratulations to the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners 2023! Join us for the GSE symposium during #SMBE2023 in Ferrara, Italy in July smbe2023.org
Congratulations to the Graduate Student Excellence award winners, outstanding group of speakers for the symposium in Ferrara!
Congratulations to the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners 2023! Join us for the GSE symposium during #SMBE2023 in Ferrara, Italy in July smbe2023.org
Congratulations to the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Winners 2023! Join us for the GSE symposium during #SMBE2023 in Ferrara, Italy in July smbe2023.org
Adaptive ratchets and the evolution of molecular complexity biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv
We are hiring 1-2 postdocs in molecular evolutionary biology / evolutionary biochemistry. Strong support for creativity and independence. Constantly working to be inclusive and supportive. More below and at thorntonlab.org. DM me to discuss. RT please! 1/5
Our new paper on experimental evolution of reconstructed ancestral proteins: Historical contingency is the dominant factor in evolution of protein sequence variation, even under strong selection. Out today in @eLife. 1/ elifesciences.org/articles/67336
Submitted my HHMI Gilliam Fellowship application today! No matter what happens I am proud of myself for giving it my all.
Congrats Georg!
Our paper on a hydrophobic ratchet that preserves useless molecular complexity is out in Nature today. I am excited and nervous in equal parts. A not so short thread on what we found. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read the new Thornton Lab paper in Nature today! (Our lab is full of some absolutely astounding scientists)
Our new paper on the evolutionary persistence of useless molecular complexes, out today in @nature. 1/6 nature.com/articles/s4158…
We just published this cautionary tale about ancestral protein reconstruction and evolutionary biochemistry. science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
We wrote this about a recent ASR article. A quick thread follows below on what I think we can learn from it. science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
nature.com/articles/s4158… Hey! I almost never post on twitter about my science stuff but here is a new Nature article that I’m on that talks about how hemoglobin evolved from a monomer to a heterotetramer!
WHAT??? RIP THE GOAT
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