The Tortured Proteins Department
A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 6: Open Science and the Future of Engagement
We chatted about the recent meetings, latest news, open science, social media, and, of course, the recent engagement.
Preprints:
Aromatic Ring Flips Reveal Reshaping of Protein Dynamics in Crystals and…
Episode 5: NIH Ghosting, Open Access Policies, and Scientists' interaction with LLMs
We chatted about the latest news, including the new NIH open access policy, trends observed with scientists using LLMs, & the Montpelier Mile race.
"The new Administration began weaponizing what shou…
Episode 4: Conformational Ensembles & Teaching Vibe Coding
- News round-up
- Conformational Ensembles Conference
- Preprints discussed:
Multiscale guidance of AlphaFold3 with heterogeneous cryo-EM data (https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.04490)
Boltz-2 Towards Accu…
Episode 3: Travels, Protein Folding, Side Chain Dynamics, and Strava Kudos
The preprints discussed in this episode.
Structures of protein folding intermediates on the ribosome:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.07.647236v1.full.pdf
AF2χ: Predicting protein side-…
Episode 2: Cool Science Among Continued Uncertainty
We chatted about the continued chaos of science infrastructure and dived into some cool science from recent meetings Jaime and Stephanie attended. We introduce two new segments: preprints and how to …
Scientific Uncertainty and Graduate Education
Episode 1. We discuss the declining support of science in the US and how it may impact the future of graduate science education. Recorded- 3/14/2025