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Schrodinger Webinar Working Group

Updated: July 20, 2015

Schrodinger Users, please join us on Tuesday, July 7th for our first Schrodinger Working Group. Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science at Schrodinger, Inc, will give a 30-minute presentation on applications available …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Thomas White

Updated: July 20, 2015

Join us on July 14th to hear Thomas White's presentation on CrystFEL, data processing software for use with data acquired "serially". Dr. White is a Research Scientist at the Center for Free-Electron Laser …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Willy Wriggers

Updated: June 22, 2015

POSTPONED - we will try to reschedule for August or September Willy Wriggers will join us on COMING SOON to discuss his application SITUS, a tool for modeling atomic resolution structures into low-resolution …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Erik Lindahl

Updated: May 28, 2015

Join us on May 19th to hear from Erik Lindhal on the molecular dynamics software application GROMACS. Dr. Lindahl is a Professor at Stockholm University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. GROMACS …

User Tale: Two Labs, Many Methods

Updated: May 25, 2015

Two Labs, Many Methods Michael Sattler / Technical University Munich, Helmholtz Zentrum München In 2011, Michael Sattler took a look at an RNA binding protein that was known, based on earlier X-ray crystallography …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Steven Ludtke

Updated: April 28, 2015

Join us on April 14th to hear Dr. Steven Ludtke give "A quick introduction to EMAN2.1 for CryoEM Single Particle Analysis." Dr. Ludtke is Professor of Biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine. A …

User Tale: The Natural Bridge

Updated: April 6, 2015

In 2013, Piotr Sliz and the team at SBGrid published a paper in eLife describing, for the first time in a formal, academic fashion, the SBGrid model. In existence since 2000, SBGrid now …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Sjors Scheres

Updated: March 28, 2015

Join us on March 24th to hear Dr. Sjors Scheres's presentation on the Cryo-EM software application RELION. Dr. Scheres is Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. RELION Tuesday, …

User Tale: Picture This

Published: March 20, 2015

When Georgios Skiniotis arrived at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute in 2008, his first task as a new professor was to build a cryo-electron microscopy lab. Since then, he’s made good …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Harry Powell

Updated: March 6, 2015

Join us on February 17th to hear from Dr. Harry Powell, Scientific Programmer from the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, as he presents on: iMosflm - a tool for data reduction. …

User Tale: Intron Intrigue

Published: Feb. 20, 2015

When Navtej Toor started searching for a post-doc in 2004, he applied to just one lab, that of Anna Pyle at Yale University. It was a long distance from the University of Calgary, …

User Tale: Cut and Paste

Published: Jan. 28, 2015

In January 2013, Martin Jinek published a paper in eLife showing that the CRISPR endonuclease Cas9, molecular scissors that silence the DNA of invading viruses in bacteria, could also be used to edit …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Pawel Penczek

Updated: Jan. 26, 2015

Join us on January 20th to hear from Pawel Penczek, Professor and Director of the Structural Biology Imaging Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, for his presentation on …

User Tale: Basics and Beyond

Updated: Jan. 20, 2015

As a chemistry graduate student at Harvard University, Qing Fan made the rounds of laboratory open houses. She stopped after she saw a short talk by the late Don Wiley about how major …

User Tale: In Search of…New Drugs

Updated: Jan. 16, 2015

When Doug Daniels finished his chemistry degree at the University of Michigan and set off for The Scripps Research Institute for graduate study, he’d already made a key career decision. "I decided I …

User Tale: Bloodletting and Other Studies

Updated: Jan. 16, 2015

When searching for a graduate program, Pedro José Barbosa Pereira was drawn to the lab of Nobel Laureate Robert Huber at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich for obvious reasons. But …

Open Position: SBGrid Scientific Software Curator

Updated: Jan. 12, 2015

The SBGrid Consortium at Harvard Medical School has an immediate opening for a Software Curator. The curator will engage with a dynamic and rapidly advancing research community to meet their expanding needs for …

OS: Bugs, Upgrades, and Support changes

Updated: Dec. 2, 2014

Many of our Mac and Linux users now (or will soon) have new operating systems with the release of Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and version 7 from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Thomas Grant

Updated: Nov. 20, 2014

Join us on November 18th as Thomas Grant, staff scientist for the BioXFEL Science and Technology Center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, returns to discuss Advanced Applications of Biological Small Angle Scattering …

User Tale: Brush with Fame

Updated: Nov. 5, 2014

In 2006, Yizhi Jane Tao accepted an award for being one of the most influential Chinese at her undergraduate alma mater, Peking University. Other awardees included Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and actress Zhang …