Updated: July 31, 2018
On a recent visit to the laboratory where he worked as an undergraduate, Gaya Amarasinghe thought about his scientific journey from student to professor. At first glance, his research interests seem to have …
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Updated: June 29, 2018
Thickly forested slopes define the environs around Heidelberg, Germany, the headquarters of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. In her hillside EMBL laboratory, Orsolya Barabas probes the small pieces of moveable DNA that define …
Updated: May 31, 2018
Like others in her sporty college town, Karolin Luger heeds the call of the mountains she can see from her laboratory at University of Colorado Boulder. Trail running and a daily 20-mile round-trip …
Published: April 29, 2018
Join us on May 22nd to hear from Giovanni Bussi from SISSA, Trieste and Massimiliano Bonomi, from the University of Cambridge, on Analyzing and enhancing molecular dynamics simulations with PLUMED. Analyzing and enhancing …
Updated: April 29, 2018
After graduate school, Jacqueline Cherfils attended a Jacques Monod Conference, a prestigious small scientific meeting in France named after a Nobel Laureate. She knew no one. Her goal: To find an interesting molecule …
Published: March 29, 2018
Until recently, a vaccinated llama has been a membrane protein crystallographer’s best friend. That was before Andrew Kruse and his co-authors showed that yeast can be a faster, cheaper, and possibly better tool …
Published: Feb. 23, 2018
Cell biologist Tom Rapoport may be best known for studies of how proteins get in and out of a convoluted compartment inside cells called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). But his personal backstory rivals …
Published: Jan. 27, 2018
If the rhythm of bacterial genes being transcribed was set to music, it might sound like the asymmetric beat of Bartok, a favorite composer of structural biologist and pianist Seth Darst. In bacteria, …
Updated: Nov. 28, 2017
To find an analogy for his studies of how genes are turned on and off, Daniel Panne turns to the prehistoric drawings he viewed on a recent family vacation. The famous Lascaux Cave …
Updated: Nov. 20, 2017
Join us on November 14th to hear about the latest updates to EMAN2.2 from Baylor College of Medicine Professor, Steven Ludtke. - EMAN2.2 for Single Particle Analysis and In-situ Structural Biology Tuesday, November …
Published: Oct. 23, 2017
Like many of James Fraser’s scientific interests, his lab motto, “Beer and Tacos,” arises from baseball statistics. A sports writer invoked the beer-and-tacos analogy to describe the false dichotomy between statistical analysis—such as …
Updated: Sept. 21, 2017
Join us on September 19th to hear from SBGrid's technical lead Jason Key. Jason will introduce some of the newest tools available to SBGrid users, including our new user environment and installation tools. …
Updated: Aug. 21, 2017
Join us on July 25th to hear from Jesse Hopkins, Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University will talk about Analyzing Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data Using RAW. Analyzing Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering …
Updated: Aug. 3, 2017
Celia Schiffer | University of Massachusetts Medical School Approximately 200 million people are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide. While novel drugs, such as protease inhibitors, are effective against the virus, resistance …
Updated: June 29, 2017
Leemor Joshua-Tor got her first introduction to chemistry in 7th grade. The Weizmann Institute of Science had created an introductory chemistry class for the local middle school in Rehovot, Israel, where Joshua-Tor was …
Updated: June 28, 2017
A year ago, Bridget Carragher and Clint Potter’s group broke the so-called three-angstrom barrier for electron microscopy (EM). Prior to their work, so many structures had been solved using EM at 3.4 or …
Updated: May 31, 2017
In his lab at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, John K. Buolamwini designs drugs. He’s currently focused on reformulating drugs called nucleoside analog drugs, which have been …
Updated: May 9, 2017
Sit down in front of a newly installed copy of CCP4 today, and you will find approximately 250 computer programs for solving protein structures. The list of programs includes several with catchy names, …
Updated: May 9, 2017
Back in the mid-1970s, the British government funded several collaborative computing projects. Among them (14 in all) was Collaborative Computing Project 4, known by structural biologists as CCP4. "The idea was that computers …
Published: April 28, 2017
James Holton first got interested in structural biology in the late 1980s at a biochemistry summer camp as a high school sophomore. He was flipping through the textbooks and ran into the protein …