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THOMAS SHAFEE
Catalytic triad of TEV protease


THOMAS SHAFEE
Evolution and Evolvability




Mutation of PRNP

Hi, I wanted to know, what is the name of the highly resistant glycoprotein particles formed due to mutation in gene PRNP. Help me please. Ankit2299 (talk) 19:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ankit2299: To my understanding the PRNP gene encodes a protein that is usually called prion protein (PrP). Its alternatively sometimes "cluster of differentiation 230" based on what we know of its native function. This naming is because the protein was first identified for its prion disease and its native function is actually still pretty poorly characterised. It's typically called PrPC when in its cellular isoform, performing whatever its native function is. It's called PrCPr once it converts to a prion isoform. There are a great many different mutations that increase the likelihood of conversion PrCC→PrCPr, and each of them is typically named X#Y (where native amino acid "X" at sequence position "#" is mutated to amino acid "Y", e.g. "D178N"). I hope that helps a little! The PRNP article has more info but for details on specific mutations you'd probably need to do a Google Scholar search. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 03:44, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. But I think you could still help me. Actually, I am solving a biology crossword puzzle, so the clue to this glycoprotein is, it is a 6 letter long word. ending with letter S, its seceond letter is R and fourth one O. Hope this time you come up with a specific answer. Thank you. Ankit2299 (talk) 06:32, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
@Ankit2299: Ah, well in that case the I suspect your crossword puzzle is looking for the generic term for those proteins, which is "prions". Just a note, you might want to state in your original question that you're asking about a crossword clue (as opposed to e.g. help with an exam question, or writing an essay). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 09:35, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Yeah of course it ought to be the right answer. Thank you very much. Well the question states : "The highly resistant gycoprotein particles formed due to mutation in gene PRNP.(6)" Ankit2299 (talk) 11:47, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Serpin/sandbox

Hello! I've moved Serpin/sandbox from main article space to User:Evolution and evolvability/Serpin/sandbox for now, as the main space WP:Subpages feature has been disabled in English Wikipedia. Thanks, NeemNarduni2 (talk) 01:56, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@NeemNarduni2: Ah, thanks for letting me know. I'd not seen the WP:Subpages policy. Thanks for fixing. Do oldIDs still point to the same page versions at their new locations? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 02:09, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
That's a good question about oldIDs, but I'm afraid I don't know. Perhaps you could add an intro, and retitle it in mainspace to "List of...(something about serpin here)", then link it to the article, if you don't want to merge it into Serpin? Please let me know if I can help with any WP bits on that, although sadly I'll not be of much help on the protein chemistry content. :-) NeemNarduni2 (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
@NeemNarduni2: Thanks anyway! They are just some alternative versions of the table that I made for a discussion on the article's FA nomination. I've done some tests and the old ids for the original page now point to the correct, equivalent versions on the target page. Clever. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 02:22, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Sandbox

Hi, that page actually suggests going elsewhere to try the visual editor. Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback also redirects to mw.org (it's ok if we want to give a local target, but let's pick one and use that everywhere :) ). Finally, please format the link so that it actually invokes the visual editor for IP editors as well, as that's the entire point of pointing to a sandbox in a visual editor-enabled namespace :) TY! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

@Elitre (WMF): You're quite right! I've updated the link to be target to the "veaction=edit" page. I've left it targetting Draft:sandbox for the moment, since I'm aiming to make that the default VE sandbox on Wikipedia for the moment (since User:sandbox is a less logical namespace for a sandbox, and displays a message about changing your username to 'sandbox' which is confusing to new editors. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 23:54, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Hi again, a note about this edit. On Oct 7th we just confirmed that the VE preference switched from the Beta to the Editing tab, while the rollout to newbies was completed around Sep 1st. Have a nice weekend! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 15:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
@Elitre (WMF): Thanks! I've now update the VisualEditor article. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 13:15, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit at Tac Promoter

I wondered a little more, could you help me a little, Sir? Please contact me on: aks23121990@gmail.com if you wish to listen my story. Atul Kaushal 13:13, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Congrats on the Serpin FA promotion

The Science Barnstar
I know how much of a pain in the ass it can be to get an article promoted to FA. It's a big accomplishment, so congrats! Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 01:15, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! Getting a complicated article up to FA was an interesting experience, and I think will improve my general editing habits. Either way, it's a pretty satisfying milestone accomplishment, and feels like a solid contribution to the science sections of the encyclopaedia. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 09:47, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Protein expression

Hello, the changes you made to Protein expression led to a lot of links that are now pointing to the disambiguation page. There are two ways to fix this. Either it is decided that one of the articles can be considered to be the primary topic, as protein production was before, or the links need to be redirected to either of both articles. Since you were the one who has made this change, could you please figure out what would be the best solution here? Since the topic is very specific, ordinary editors won't be able to do it. Thanks, --Midas02 (talk) 02:24, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Midas02, I've gone through the pages. It was probably a useful opportunity to disambiguate the language used in them anyway. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 09:41, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Great, thanks! --Midas02 (talk) 15:51, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Precious

science made visible

Thank you for quality articles such as serpins, sharing your scientific expertise on evolution and evolvability ("experimental protein evolution"), for making it accessible by fascinating illustrations, for more accessibility by meaningful redirects, for a clear and informative user page, - Thomas, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Gerda! I very flattered, and glad that the contributions I've made so far are helping! T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 11:55, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Good choice, Gerda, I agree ;) Opabinia regalis (talk) 04:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1359 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Two years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: - Great memories. I'm proud of how Wikipedia has continued to grow since then. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 07:16, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Punning in scientific illustration

Hello, I came across your illustration

and it immediately looked familiar, a well-known Toulouse-Lautrec pastel of a woman with a hat wearing a corset or striped blouse? I can't find the exact prototype, but it's something like this one. So I'm not quite sure how much of the illustration actually shows some scientific property (why the kinks in the dark-blue line?, why the waist-like compression of the parallel blue arrows?) and how much it's just having fun. --Macrakis (talk) 20:28, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Macrakis! I'd never viewed it like that, but I see what you mean. The likeness is simply a surprise coincidence! Indeed, just as the pastel image is merely a snapshot of the woman, the illustration is a snapshot of the dynamic serpin (the blue and white portion). The serpin's function is that the kinked dark blue section (which is highly flexible) whips downwards into the blue arrows (which are stressed a bit like a spring). This breaks the protease (the grey hat), which is why the serpin acts as a protease inhibitor! The image is directly based on experimental data gathered by firing X-rays through crystals of the protein and measuring their diffraction. When generating the protein image, I merely decided on the viewing angle, colouring and rendering! T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 04:53, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Signpost polar wikibomb

Hi! I was wondering if I could interview you for the Signpost about your work and the polar women wikibomb. Please ping me! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 14:13, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl: Hi! I'd love to. I'd also suggest talking to user:Janstrugnell as the originator of the idea! I'm happy to chat on or off-wiki (I also made a note on the Special_desk). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 03:57, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Awesome! I'll shoot both you and Janstrugnell an email shortly. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:51, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
I'd also be very happy to chat more about this. Some pages accepted today, some not :( I have much to learn about wikipedia! :) Janstrugnell (talk) 02:02, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: I've put together a draft signpost article. If you have a moment, it'd be good to have an outside's view into whether it's a good focus, or whether we should highlight other elements. Is it a bit dry? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 07:43, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Evolution and evolvability, hi! Am I too late? I've been on vacation till today. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:19, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: Not at all. You can see what I was sort of thinking of saying on the draft signpost article. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts. If you'd like to convert it to a an interview format I'd be happy to answer questions too! I'm hoping to be ready for the 28th of August issue. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:26, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I went ahead and took a look and made only a minor copyedit. I think it's really good. Have you thought about talking about the responses you've gotten from participants in the event? I know that learning how to edit Wiki isn't always easy. BTW, do any Antarctic women drafts need looking at right now? I can help with that too. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: Thanks! Great plan getting a couple of quotes from the volunteer writers and got some lovely responses! I'll get back to you this afternoon with a little list of drafts I'd love you to take a look at. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

I saw the excellent timeline graphic in Signpost and just wanted to thank you for creating it. – Brianhe (talk) 16:54, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

@Brianhe: Thank you - I enjoy making diagrams, so it was no bother! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 09:22, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

THANK YOU!

The first image of yours that I admired, was the one in directed evolution. As more as I started to read about evolution, I was thinking: Oh wow, great artwork for the whole topic! Soon I realized it was all yours. Thank yo for putting in the effort and those wonderful graphics. And especially of allowing to use them. They have found a way into my teaching slides :)

A lecturer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.248.151.39 (talk) 11:42, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm very touched, and extremely glad that my images have been so useful. I've been really happy at their uptake! T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 23:52, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Elizabeth Truswell

On 4 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elizabeth Truswell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elizabeth Truswell used ancient pollen to show that plants existed in Antarctica before the ice cap formed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Truswell. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Elizabeth Truswell), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:18, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Lois Jones (scientist)

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:19, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Justine Shaw has been accepted

Justine Shaw, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

SwisterTwister talk 06:20, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ingrid Christensen

On 13 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ingrid Christensen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1937 Ingrid Christensen became the first woman to set foot on mainland Antarctica? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ingrid Christensen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ingrid Christensen), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

File:Glycolysis metabolic pathway 3 annotated.svg

Hello. If it's not too difficult for you, can you change the properties of the inscription "Glycolysis" in the image so that the link can be inserted on top of it? I'm translating Template:Glycolysis summary in Ukrainian. In any case, thank you. --Dctrzl (talk) 12:22, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

@Dctrzl: Thanks for bringing this to my attention - I'd left it in by accident, so I'm happy to have corrected the image. File:Glycolysis metabolic pathway 3 annotated.svg Should now have no annotations. I'm thrilled to know that it's finding uses in other languages! T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:39, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your work on revolutionizing our help pages, they have become way much friendlier and easy to browse for newbies. Nice work. Moushira!! —Preceding undated comment added 09:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

@Melamrawy (WMF): I'm really glad to have made a difference! I'm hoping to eventually replace the current and horrible WP:Introduction with the newer Help:Introduction. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:37, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Thanks for all your tireless work on the Antarctic Women Wikibomb. Without your help we would have managed about 10 pages I reckon. Thanks so much for guiding us through the process. You are a legend. Janstrugnell (talk) 07:06, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Thomas, you are our hero! Thank you for making the Antarctic women wikibomb a roaring success! NGWilson (talk) 08:03, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thomas - for all the work you did making the Wiki Bomb go with a bang - despite it being out side your area of science interest - you put up with all the dumb questions... you've made a good thing happen! WavyGeek (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you so much for helping to inspire thousands of budding young female scientists from about the world - and for teaching us more about Wikipedia than we ever thought we would know! Baeseman (talk) 08:29, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
Thomas - your contribution to showcasing the role of women scientists in Antarctic research has been outstanding. Thank you so much for your efforts!! Shawjustine (talk) 06:47, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
@Janstrugnell, Ngwilson, WavyGeek, Baeseman, and Shawjustine: Thank you all! It's been a pleasure to be a part of this project, and I'm thrilled that it went so well! I'm proud of what we accomplished and I feel like I was present at an important moment in history. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 07:14, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
May I add my own congratulations to all the above. It certainly has been a successful exercise but it seems to me that it's an ongoing story. There still seem to be quite a number of eminent female scientists, researchers and administrators associated with Antarctica, not to mention several explorers and adventurers mentioned in the literature, who are still not specifically covered in Wikipedia. I also have a feeling that more careful searches in some of the other languages, e.g. French, German, Norwegian, Russian and Spanish, would reveal names which have not yet been covered in English. I for one would be happy to spend at least another couple of weeks on the job. Are there any members of your team who are still interested? If so, we could continue our collaboration. In any case, there are still quite a few drafts which could be enhanced and moved into the mainspace.--Ipigott (talk) 16:14, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
@Ipigott: I plan to send an email around to our volunteer group this week, and do another round of from-scratch recruitment in the antarctic community, now that we've shown them what the project is capable of. The group Polar Educators International was very keen on helping out too, and I'm hopeful that there'll be a good group of writers. Hopefully this will all happen next week. I'm hopeful that the Antarctic sections of Wikipedia will become an example of one of the most thoroughly covered fields. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:23, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
That's excellent news. When you have more details, please keep us informed on the WiR talk page. In the meantime, we can continue adding biographies anyway.--Ipigott (talk) 07:20, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
@Ipigott: Absolutely - Just let me know if I start to spam the talk page too much! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:10, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thanks for the improvements to the "pubmed indexed" template. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:08, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you! Hopefully it'll become increasingly useful as more articles are subjected to peer review by various routes. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:41, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

rkishony video

External videos
video icon The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish, Harvard Medical School[1]

Hi,

I'm the guy who put this external video into the Evolution and Antimicrobial resistance articles. I've put them back in, but I'm not trying to edit war here. User:Rkishony at Commons uploaded a copy of the original video to Commons, and you replaced my external video with the newly uploaded video. That video was then deleted at commons, leaving nothing in the articles. I'll try to contact Rkishony and explain the situation to him. IMHO opinion the video shouldn't have been deleted as we usually accept uploads from the author in good faith, and he appears to be the author. Nevertheless, I probably understand why the folks at Commons deleted it - it was his first (and only) upload, the video is a pretty prominent work, and it's even conceivable that somebody other than Rkishony owns the copyright (HMS? Science?). I'll try to contact him directly, but he has no e-mail link on his user page.

A couple of minor points:

  • though an uploaded file is generally better (we have it "permanently"), often the video quality is better via an external link
  • I noticed you make diagrams. Could you make a diagram similar to the tree of life I added. The one I added is too tall and too abstract. I'd like the aspect to be more like a TV screen. And the perfect "tree" would be very similar to the one at the end of the Kishony video - very realistic (time 1:45, maybe rotate 90 degree clockwise and just take the bottom half as a model). Of course the new diagram shouldn't be a copyright violation!

Thanks for any help.

Smallbones(smalltalk) 14:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Thanks for the message! I'm already in touch with Kishony (I suggested to upload in the first place), so can let him know about the current situ. I'll send him an OTRS copyright form to fill in. I'm currently a bit swamped over at the WikiJournal of Medicine, but I'll try to put together a phylogeny diagram in the next couple of weeks. All the best! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 22:32, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ "The Evolution of Bacteria on a "Mega-Plate" Petri Dish". Harvard Medical School. September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2016.

Editing News #3—2016

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Thank you

English Wikipedia editors with >100 edits per month[1]


The Cure Award
Thank you for all the great work you are doing promoting Wikipedia and medicine. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:32, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
The Medicine Barnstar
Thanks for the great work that you are doing and would continue to do for medical content on Wikipedia as well as on WikiJournal of Medicine. DiptanshuTalk 08:17, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you so much to both Doc James and Diptanshu.D! It has been a very productive few months. I feel that the work that we're putting in now will pay dividends in terms of recruiting new content creators over the next few years. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:54, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ "Wikipedia Statistics (English)". stats.wikimedia.org.

Teamwork is probably not the answer

I thank you for pointing out that the CRISPR page is high-traffic. I assure you that it is high-traffic because the word "CRISPR" is in the news. My latest thoughts are to move that article to "CRISPR (biology)" and split to "CRISPR (technology)". The redirect created by the move could then be turned into a disambiguation page. The moment the native Cas9-gRNA complex molecule is artificially modified in any way, you move that info to the technology page. That would be easy to understand. I expect that the biology page would then become low-traffic. This article shows that some form of CRISPR can be used to edit RNA as well. It does not really make sense to spread such info out to a bunch of other pages. The reader would never be able to sort it out if we did that.

This idea that there is mass of experts eager to engage in teamwork is probably an illusion. To demonstrate this to yourself, look at this diff and you will see that the error I posted about on the noticeboard was introduced in January. It has been sitting for ten months. Thousands of readers a day have been following that link to "CRISPR interference" to search for info about the technology and just run into a time-consuming dead end. They probably gave up and went to some other site that has its act together.

You might want to Google "jytdog" to see how much unwelcome attention that mediocre guy has attracted to himself. He reverts anything he thinks might be by me, which is why I have to post on your talk page rather that on the noticeboard or on Talk:CRISPR.

I guess what I am hoping for is that you will do the split. I expect that nobody besides jytdog would mind and very likely jytdog would let your edits stand because of your credentials (and because you do not hide behind the mask of anonymity the way he does).--172.56.33.212 (talk) 13:20, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Awesome templates: Template talk:Eukaryote gene structure & Template talk:Prokaryote gene structure!

Thank you for visualising all this information! I just had a thought that maybe mentioning reverse transcription, as information flow from RNA (mRNA, ncRNA) to DNA (cDNA) could be worth it? I started the discussion here: Template talk:Eukaryote gene structure#Reverse transcription.

Kind regards, Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 10:49, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm glad that the diagrams are helpful! I've replied on the template's thread. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:34, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Your work is being translated

This should look familiar to you: w:es:Ayuda:Introducción. Sadads tells me that it's being ported there to support the #1lib1ref project in particular, and is getting positive feedback. I've also heard uniformly positive comments about your introduction system from tech writers and related professionals. Thanks, again, for doing this. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:26, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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