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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
Graeme Winter, author of the xia2 x-ray crystallography data processing software, got his start programming during a stint as an astrophysics graduate student working on software to simulate galaxies. He left astrophysics behind, …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
A little over a decade ago, Paul Emsley, biochemistry professor at the University of Oxford, was looking to ditch his white coat. What he really wanted was to spend more time programming in …