Nooshin Sheidaei

Since peanuts are shaped like chromosomes, here is a mitotic peanut cake. If we wait long enough there will be two cakes :)

I am thrilled to share that the work from my PhD is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv. Follow the link below to find out more about the role of PANEM in facilitating interaction between chromosomes and the mitotic spindle! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our pre-print "Comparative evaluation of methods for the prediction of protein-ligand binding sites" is out on Research Square. Check it out! 🔗 tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS-comp On this paper we benchmark 11 ligand binding site prediction tools on our curated reference dataset: LIGYSIS!

It has been an exciting few weeks. Successfully defending my PhD in May, visiting @TheCrick and presenting a poster at the Cell Cycle Club, and hiking Ben Nevis!

@mstavridis Congratulations Professor Stavridis👏🏻🎉

Some good news to end the week: I have been promoted to Professor! I am grateful to be working with amazing colleagues and students who have enabled this. It is genuinely a dream come true. (1/3)

@goldenpipette @JavierUtges @UoDLifeSciences Thank you Mattie!

@JavierUtges @Noosh_Sheidaei @UoDLifeSciences Congrats Nooshin!

Congrats to @Noosh_Sheidaei for an excellent #PhD seminar and for successfully defending her work at the Viva. Her PhD focused on how perinuclear #actomyosin regulates #chromosome interaction with the mitotic #spindle in early #mitosis. Well done!

@harinath_d @JavierUtges @UoDLifeSciences Thanks Hari! ☺️

@JavierUtges @Noosh_Sheidaei @UoDLifeSciences Congratulaitons, Nooshin!!

@JavierUtges @UoDLifeSciences Thanks Javier!

@AJ_Brenes @EdinUni_CIR Congratulations and good luck on the new journey in Edinburgh :)

at the same time I'm happy to say I'll be joining the Walmsley lab within @EdinUni_CIR to further expand my work on the proteomic characterisation of human neutrophils, and maybe a few other innate cells (looking at you macrophage people 😁 )

with sadness at the end of next week I'll bid farewell to Dundee. SLS has been my alma mater, introducing me to research, proteomics & immunology. Thanks to all of you who have helped me along the way and made these years as great as they were.

Look at Shi go! 🥊

Come and join us this Saturday in the @dundeeuni Botanic Gardens! There will be games, painting and learning about cells! Make sure to book your tickets so you don’t miss out on the fun 🧫🧬🌿 @UoDLifeSciences dundee.ac.uk/events/playful…

It was a wonderful experience to attend the #BMT2023 meeting today! Thanks to the organisers for giving me the opportunity to present my work.

This is the story of one woman’s battle against a global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research. Listen to the Library of Alexandra here: bit.ly/40OgWgg

@HajraBibi_ @seanorphoto 🤩

@seanorphoto @Noosh_Sheidaei

Ursa Major constellation over Doonagore Castle in Co Clare. Magic starry nights

A thread on our recent paper with Vitelli and @squishycell1 labs. It’s got biology, physics, machine learning… a little something for everyone! It all started with a simple question: Can we predict traction forces directly from images of proteins? arxiv.org/abs/2303.00176

NEW ONLINE: Schuh & co show that, in human and porcine oocytes, actin cables and microtubule loops move chromosomes into a cluster before spindle assembly to ensure fast and complete chromosome capture in meiosis. nature.com/articles/s4155…

A fantastic opportunity, not to be missed, for anyone (even remotely) interested in founding their own company!

Were you taught that CDK1 is a proline-directed kinase? We think that's only half the story. Join us as a postdoc to discover the functions of non proline directed CDK1 phosphorylation in human cells.  jobs.ac.uk/job/CWC909/pos…

Finally after 2 years Tanaka Lab celebrated the holidays in person with nice food, sustainable presents and Mario Party!

@sophiebarron09 @LabGanley @mrcppu @UoDLifeSciences 8pm update!

Welcoming the coolest new member to the lab ☃️🥼 @LabGanley @mrcppu @UoDLifeSciences

Last month, our postgraduate society, PiCLS held their first symposium since 2019. Guest speakers were Dr Malcolm Skingle, Prof Teresa Lambe, Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano, Dr Katherine Duncan and Prof Fiona Watt. Students presented posters & gave flash talks. buff.ly/3Hvu3fs