Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
Marc Kvansakul decided to become a structural biologist as a young teen after watching a documentary that described proteins as assemblies of Lego-like blocks. Today Kvansakul’s newly formed lab in the department of …
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Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
Peter Kwong was putting the finishing touches on his work at the University of Chicago solving the structure of ?-bungarotoxin, a neurotoxin in snake venom, when structural biologist Wayne A. Hendrickson called from …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
They say the shoes make the man. For Mishtu Dey, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa, the shoes made the science. In 2007, during the last year of her postdoc …
Updated: Nov. 4, 2014
Mac and Linux users will have new operating systems available soon. We'll be adding support for these new operating systems and phasing out support for older versions in the coming months. Please read …
Updated: Nov. 4, 2014
Wednesday, October 29th tune in to get a primer on Getting Started with SBGrid. Our Technical Project Leader, Jason Key, will give a brief presentation on the basics of getting around the SBGrid …
Updated: Oct. 20, 2014
Frank Delaglio knew he wanted a career in biomedical research at age 7, in 1968, when he saw his baby brother in an incubator being prepared for open heart surgery. Today, he is …
Updated: Oct. 7, 2014
Rescheduled for Tuesday, September 30th at 12:00pm EDT -- please join us to hear Christian Olsen, Field Application Scientist at Biomatters, Inc., will present part II of his webinar on Geneious R7. In …
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 …
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 …