Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
James Chen was raised by mathematicians who taught him at an early age to program computers and to think analytically. “Everything had to be formulated. Instead of speaking in natural language, we sometimes …
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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 …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
In the late 1960s, only a dozen or so proteins had been solved using x-ray crystallography. Jane Richardson and her husband, David, solved one of them (Staphylococcal nuclease), while working at MIT and …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
In the mid-1960s when Stephen Harrison began to determine the structure of the tomato bushy stunt virus, SBGrid didn't exist. There was no need for it. They didn't even have a hard disk …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
In college at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in the early 1990s, Tamir Gonen’s business classes bored him so much that he had his sister enroll him for his future classes. …
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 …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
After studying chemistry at Vassar College, Catherine Drennan took a leap from her native New York to a Quaker-run farm school in Iowa. Being the high school’s only science teacher, she taught physics, …
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. 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
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
Karin Reinisch had being doing structural biology since graduate school, and as a post-doc solved the reovirus core in the lab of Stephen Harrison. But it wasn't until she arrived at Yale in …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
Brian Crane was all set to stay in Canada to attend graduate school when he heard about a new program at the Scripps Research Institute billed as graduate studies "at the interface of …
Updated: Nov. 5, 2014
While the bacterial toxin that causes anthrax has been used as a deadly biological weapon, from a scientific point of view, it has an upside. "The nice thing about anthrax is that separate …
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
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," …