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User Tale: The Crystal Whisperer

Published: Nov. 29, 2023

In structural biology. there are few more onerous tasks than coaxing reluctant proteins into crystals. “Unfortunately, that is really a huge bottleneck,” says Sarah E.J. Bowman, who heads the National High-Throughput Crystallization (HTX) …

User Tale: Data in Motion

Published: Sept. 29, 2023

For nearly a century, protein crystallography has focused on certain X-ray signals to reveal the atomic architecture of proteins. But even a structure solved to the reigning gold standard of X-ray diffraction does …

User Tale: The Monstrous Maw

Published: June 28, 2023

André Hoelz was visiting The Rockefeller University in New York on a graduate school scouting trip when he heard an unforgettable talk. The lecture centered on an immense molecular complex essential to the …

NE-CAT Practical Crystallography Course

Published: March 23, 2023

NE-CAT is pleased to offer our Practical Crystallography Course, June 21-23, 2023 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The course will be a three day workshop hosted in conjunction with SBGrid. We …

Developer Tale: Second Takes

Published: Feb. 28, 2023

Andrea Thorn had been a junior group leader for a less than a year when, in early January 2020, researchers in China identified the cause of a mysterious contagious illness with pneumonia-like symptoms. …

User Tale: Radical reactions

Published: Jan. 31, 2023

The periodic table may be an icon of chemistry, but a cluster of elements at its center gives biology some essential pop and sparkle. Yvain Nicolet at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) …

User Tale: Floppy Physics

Published: Nov. 30, 2022

At the heart of human cells, tiny protein tubes radiate out in all directions. Anchored near the nucleus, they help cells hold their shape, organize internal components, and in dividing cells, tug apart …

User Tale: Structure of Equity

Published: Sept. 28, 2022

Numbers speak clearly to Jamaine Davis. As a boy growing up on Long Island, math came so easy to him that one of his family nicknames was "the professor." Other numbers have shaped …

User Tale: Life and Death of a Cell

Published: July 28, 2022

About age 16, pondering his future, Evripidis (Evris) Gavathiotis decided he wanted to work as a chemist in drug discovery. It was personal. Growing up in Greece, he had witnessed his mother suffer …

Animation Workshop with Janet Iwasa

Published: June 7, 2022

Animation Workshop August 1-5, 2022 Boston MA Instructor: Prof. Janet Iwasa Organizers: Prof. Janet Iwasa, The Animation Lab, University of Utah Prof. Piotr Sliz, SBGrid, Harvard Medical School SBGrid and Janet Iwasa of …

User Tale: Follow the glow

Published: April 29, 2022

By great luck, the laboratory of Kurt Krause, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand is only an eight-minute drive to a waterfall on Nicols Creek famous for an abundance of native glowworms. A …

SBGrid presentation at USNC/Cr

Published: March 7, 2022

We're looking forward to presenting in the upcoming USNC/Cr workshop series - Exploring Structural Database Use in Crystallography - where we'll introduce attendees to the tools and services available to SBGrid Consortium members: …

Developer Tale: Resolution solutions

Published: Feb. 25, 2022

A childhood gift of a microscope appears in the origin stories of many scientists, but usually it’s the seen object, with its startling new clarity, that inspires life-long curiosity. For Willy Wriggers, the …

SBGrid Spring Webinar Mini-Series - CryoEM of membrane proteins: from sample to structure

Published: Feb. 24, 2022

We're excited to announce a new webinar mini-series starting March 15th - CryoEM of membrane proteins: from sample to structure - with a terrific group of speakers including opening and closing keynotes from …

SBGrid Webinar Series

Updated: Nov. 12, 2021

Join us for our Software Webinar Series - Tuesdays at 12pm ET - to hear from software developers about what's new in structural biology. Community members connect via Zoom. Subscribe to SBGridTV to …

BioGrids for SBGrid Users Tutorial

Published: Nov. 5, 2021

For SBGrid users who are already familiar with the SBGrid software installation platform, members may opt-in in to include the BioGrids software stack in their installation. BioGrids in an SBGrid-style collection of ~ …

User Tale: Of enzymes and membranes

Published: Oct. 28, 2021

When people see the results of blood tests that predict their risk for heart disease and stroke, they may exclaim “egads!” Maybe they should say “DGAT!” instead, especially when they look at their …

User Tale: Step-by-step

Published: Sept. 26, 2021

From the viewpoint of her undergraduate classmates at University of Amsterdam, Gabby Rudenko might as well have been relocating to Siberia when she sought training in protein structure at the northern tip of …

User Tale: Moving muscle

Published: July 26, 2021

The parents of Montserrat Samso could not have predicted the symmetry of her name and her future work as a scientist. She is named for a large geologic structure near Barcelona where she …

Developer Tale: Particle catcher

Published: June 28, 2021

If insects had horror movies, one of the scariest would feature tiny monsters. The grisly drama would spotlight the real-life threat to insects from young threadworms, smaller than eyelashes, and their symbiotic gut …