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Dissertation Defense of PhD Candidate Jennifer Freire

Jennifer Freire PhD Pharmacology Student’s Dissertation Defense Seminar Tuesday, 2 December, 2025, 12-00 PM – 1:00 PM, Keefer Auditorium, E-111, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics Join Zoom Meeting Option: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/94337551209?pwd=flDhErJzb0HbmsFp0IF6ODJKzlCKRr.1 Meeting ID: 943 3755 1209 Passcode: 315363

Pharmacology PhD Student Jenna Libera’s Dissertation Defense Seminar

Jenna Libera PhD Pharmacology Student’s Dissertation Defense Seminar Friday, 21 November, 2025, 9-00 AM, Keefer Auditorium, E-111, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics:    Join Zoom Meeting Option: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/97723926902?pwd=KJLfbPUPK63GWkQ9U4z4RG6TFeDM5D.1 Meeting ID: 977 2392 6902 Passcode: 690090

Congratulations to Chad Hicks!

Congratulations to Chad Hicks for his EM structure determination of cardiac amyloid, and the first PDB submission to our new CryoEM core facility (PDB ID: 9OKA): Hicks CW, Prokaeva T, Spenser B, Jayaraman S, Huda N, Wong S., Chen H, Sanchorawala V, Lavatelli F, Gursky O. Cryo-EM of cardiac AL-224L amyloid reveals shared features in […]

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 […]