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 …
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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, …
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
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 …