Updated: Sept. 30, 2014
When Tim Stevens finished his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1999, he needed a job to tide him over for a few months. When he discovered that his department …
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Updated: Sept. 29, 2014
Emil Pai trained as a classical chemist in the mid-1970s at the University of Heidelberg. He spent his time learning messy, inefficiently named chemical reactions. "A 60 percent yield was cause for celebration," …
Updated: Sept. 29, 2014
As a child growing up near Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, surrounded by physicists and chemists, Anna Pyle had an unconventional sort of chemistry set. Among her playthings was a cube of …
Updated: Sept. 29, 2014
When Zbyszek Otwinowski, who joined SBGrid in the Spring of 2012 along with 8 other laboratories at the University of Texas Southwestern, came from his native Poland to the United states 31 years …
Updated: Sept. 29, 2014
Axel Brunger joined SBGrid in the early days, in 2006, but he may be best known among structural biologists as the man behind CNS (the Crystallography & NMR System), which he contributes to …
Updated: Sept. 29, 2014
For several years now, the lab of structural biologist Pamela Bjorkman, Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology, has been trying to find a new way to stop HIV with …
Updated: Sept. 15, 2014
Tuesday, September 9th at 12:00pm EDT -- please join us to hear Christian Olsen, Field Application Scientist at Biomatters, Inc., give the first in a two-part webinar on Geneious R7. In this first …
Published: Aug. 29, 2014
As a post-doc at Columbia University, John Williams and his wife-to-be wanted a pet. They ended up with the unlikeliest of companions. "We started a reef tank," says Williams. Williams, now an associate …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
“I was an angry young man,” says Gerard Kleywegt of his early days in the 1990s as a structural biologist. He’d found his way from the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, where …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
Wes Sundquist got his first taste of structural biology as a doctoral student in chemistry at MIT in Cambridge, MA, designing small molecules to bind to DNA and using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
An unexpected side-effect of Alywn Jones's decision to write Frodo, one of the first computer graphics programs written for Xray crystallography, was learning to swear in German. His teacher? Johann Deisenhoffer, the 1988 …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
As Wolfgang Kabsch headed for the darkroom, facing another day of developing films of Xray diffraction patterns, he passed by a new machine sitting on a bench, unused. It was the mid-1980s and …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
It took Victor Lamzin nearly a year to solve his first structure, an 800-residue enzyme formate dehydrogenase. Later, as a post-doc, he asked his supervisor to let him re-solve it, but this time …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
In graduate school at Boston University, Meng-Chiao (Joseph) Ho nearly quit science. He had chosen to focus on a difficult problem, solving a perfectly twinned protein crystal without a homology model to use …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
Beta-lactamase disarms penicillin, breaking it down before it can do its antibacterial work. But the beta-lactamase inhibitor protein, BLIP, interferes, paving the way for penicillin to do its work. Exactly how is no …
Updated: Aug. 18, 2014
When Ning Zheng got side-tracked from his studies of protein degradation, he never expected to end up in the plant world. Today, Zheng, associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington and …
Updated: July 23, 2014
Thursday, July 17th at 5:00pm EDT -- please join us to hear Kazutaka Katoh and Daron Standley describe "Web services for structure-informed multiple sequence alignment." Drs. Katoh and Standley will join us from …
Updated: June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26th at 12:00pm EDT -- please join our webinar to learn about DSSR, a new 3DNA program for Defining the Secondary Structures of RNA from three-dimensional coordinates. Xiang-Jun Lu, Associate Research …
Updated: May 15, 2014
Tuesday, May 13th at 12:00pm EDT -- please join our webinar to hear the latest on Refinement of challenging structures with Rosetta and Phenix. Nathaniel Echols, Computational Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, …
Updated: April 14, 2014
Thursday, April 10th at 11:00am EST -- please join our webinar to hear Matt Baker, Instructor at Baylor College of Medicine, give an introduction to Modeling Macromolecular Structures with Gorgon. Modeling Macromolecular Structures …