PPB’s New Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Facility!

Ribbon Cutting for the opening of our new Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Facility A big thank you to: Jamie McKnight, Hee-Young Park, Venetia Zachariou, Andrew Taylor, Jamie Vinciguerra, William Lehman, Hannah Peretsky, Esther Bullitt, Dean Karen Antman, Chad Hicks, and Christopher Akey

BU CryoEM Core Facility workflow validation achieves a structure of apoferritin at 2.04 Å!

The BU CryoEM Core Facility validated its Glacios II microscope and Vitrobot plunge-freezing sample preparation device for high-resolution data acquisition by freezing a sample of apoferritin and determining its structure to a resolution of 2.04 Å from a dataset of 930 exposures. The core facility’s external processing workstation running cryoSPARC LIVE provided a preliminary structure […]

Congratulations to William Lehman!

Congratulations to Professor and Vice Chair William Lehman for being honored as one of the BU Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine Educators of the Year Award recipients.