STRUCTURAL PATHWAYS: COMPREHENSIVE MECHANISTIC MOVIE
Spliceosome machinery and pre-mRNA splicing cycle
Presented at:
"Forty Years of mRNA Splicing: From Discovery to Therapeutics"
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium (New York)

Movie created for: Prof. Yigong Shi, Ph.D.
Director of Innovation Center for Structural Biology
President, Co-founder, Westlake University & Institute for Advanced Study
Full narrated movie feature 16 min 45 sec
Molecular Mechanisms of Splicing:
Spliceosome Machinery and Pre-Messenger RNA Splicing Cycle
Musical montage 2 min 01 sec
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MOLECULAR SYSTEMS LANDSCAPE: BACTERIA vs. PHAGE
Defence machinery: motor captures viral DNA for degradation
Created for: Prof. Nicholas M.I. Taylor, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Taylor Lab website
Created for: Prof. Nicholas M.I. Taylor, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Taylor Lab website
Created for: Prof. Nicholas M.I. Taylor, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Structure and mechanism of the Zorya anti-phage defence system.
Nature, 2025
STRUCTURAL MECHANISTIC BREAKTHROUGH
Transporter: enigma of bioenergetic membrane biogenesis solved
Journal cover created for: Schara Safarian, Ph.D.
Max Planck, Institute of Biophysics
Wu et al. Dissecting the conformational complexity and mechanism of a bacterial heme transporter.
Nature Chemical Biology, 2023
MECHANISM, NON-LINEAR TRANSITIONS: MOVIE
Membrane-tethered protein synthesis in human mitochondria
Narrated movie 2 min 20 sec
Movie created for: Prof. Alexey Amunts, Ph.D.
Stockholm University & Karolinska Institutet
Traversal of tunnel milieu probed by simulation. "Birth of a mitochondrial membrane protein"
Itoh et al. Mechanism of membrane-tethered mitochondrial protein synthesis.
Science, 2021
ATOMISTIC MODEL, CONCEPTUALIZATION COLLAB
Microtubule cytoskeleton & traffic: general MAP code

Presented at:
"Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems"
EMBL|EMBO Symposium (Heidelberg, Germany)

Molecular model created for: Prof. Kassandra Ori-McKenney, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
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Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Davis


FLASHBACK
DCX MAP: 3D domain swapping pathways

Microtubule Associated Protein (MAP) – Doublecortin (DCX)
MODEL SYSTEM CONSTRUCT
Bacterial flagellar system and rotary nanomotor machinery
Created for: Prof. Nicholas M.I. Taylor, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen, Danmark
Structure and function of stator units of the bacterial flagellar motor.
Cell, 2020
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Single Molecule Laboratory
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Nano-Science Center
University of Copenhagen


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Chromatin remodeling machinery

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Conserved architecture and unifying mechanism
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(W)HITHER GHOST IN THE MACHINE?
DNA synapse: NHEJ/DNA-repair
Created for: Prof. Yuan He, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Structural basis for long-range to short-range synaptic transition in NHEJ.
Nature, 2021
STRUCTURAL MECHANISTIC BREAKTHROUGH
Mitoribosome: synthesis of bioenergetic membrane proteins
Journal cover created for: Prof. Alexey Amunts, Ph.D.
Stockholm University & Karolinska Institutet
Itoh et al. Mechanism of membrane-tethered mitochondrial protein synthesis.
Science, 2021
MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING IMPLEMENTATION
Decoding pathways via liposome fusion, DNA-guided nanoreactors
Machine learning decoding of >500 reaction sequences from 16,000 real-time TIRF observations. Click for detail.
Created for: Prof. Nikos Hatzakis, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen
Malle et al. Single-particle combinatorial multiplexed liposome fusion mediated by DNA.
Nature Chemistry, 2022
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Biotherapeutic Drug Development & Protein Engineering
Fraunhofer ITMP

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Max Planck, Institute of Biophysics


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