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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 …

Developer Tale: The Lure of the Sandbox

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 …

Developer Tale: New Kid on the Block

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 …

User Tale: Toxic Avenger

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 …

User Tale: Surprise, Surprise

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, …

Developer Tale: The Fixer

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 …

User Tale: From Curiosity to Cure

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 …

Developer Tale: The Raw and the Cooked

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, …

User Tale: Structural Storyteller

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 …

User Tale: Sensing a Change

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 …

User Tale: Pushing the Boundaries

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 …

User Tale: Membrane Master

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. …

User Tale: Inside the Box

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 …

User Tale: Gone Viral

Updated: Nov. 5, 2014

After studying membrane proteins in an NMR lab as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, Olve Peersen went to Yale for graduate school. The year was 1988, the heyday of crystallography at Yale, …

User Tale: Vacc-elerator

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 …

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 …

Operating System Upgrades on the Horizon

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 …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Jason Key

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 …

Developer Tale: All Who Wander Are Not Lost

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 …

SBGrid Tea Break with Christian Olsen (2)

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 …