Announcements, milestones, and updates from the BioDE Lab.
Vangelis Daskalakis spoke on "Where Crystallography Fails: Probing Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Computational Tools" at the 12th Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association (HeCrA), Athens, 23–25 October 2026.
Karvounis IG and Daskalakis V describe a dual gating mechanism controlling target-strand cleavage in Cas12j, with implications for engineering efficient nickases. Protein Science 35(10): e70792.
Daskalakis V and Zender B presented "When Structural Diversity Converges: Functional Macrostates of Diatom Light Harvesting Complexes" at the Light Harvesting satellite meeting, Liverpool, UK.
The MSCA Doctoral Network SPROUT (2027–2031) — "Stress and Photosynthesis: Research to Optimize Understanding, Training and Applications" — has been funded with a total budget of €4,269,525, with the University of Patras as a partner.
The lab's paper "Role of Small Membrane Proteins in the Green Sulfur Bacterial Reaction Center" (ACS Phys. Chem. Au) was selected for the cover marking 150 years of the American Chemical Society.
Sousani TI, Zender B, Maity S, Kleinekathöfer U and Daskalakis V show how conformational plasticity enables functional switching in diatom light-harvesting complexes. Communications Chemistry 8, 392.