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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 […]
GMS Faculty Spotlight: Esther Bullitt, PhD
GMS Faculty Spotlight: Esther Bullitt, PhD
The new cryo-EM Core is open for grid freezing and sample screening!
The new cryo-EM Core is open for grid freezing and sample screening! Fully automated data collection will be ready soon.
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.
‘First Light’ at PPB’s new Cryo-EM Core Facility!
Celebrating the ‘First Light’ of the New Cryo-EM.
Congratulations to Esther Bullitt and Clint Makino!
Congratulations to Esther Bullitt and Clint Makino for their recent promotions to Professor.
Congratulations to Chris Akey!
Molecular Cell selected his paper entitled Implications of a multiscale structure of the yeast nuclear pore complex as one of 20 for their Editor’s Choice 2023. The listed papers were chosen as examples of “how molecular biology can be used to go beyond basic mechanisms to discover new biology, understand diseases, and to create new tools”.
Congratulations to Vanna Zachariou and Philipp Mews!
Congratulations to Vanna Zachariou and Philipp Mews for their recent 2024 Spivack Neurosciences Awards that support clinical or basic research in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurological disorders. Dr. Zachariou was named as a Distinguished Neuroscience Award receipient and Dr. Mews received a Spivack Pilot Award.
Congratulations to Michelle Wiggins!
Congratulations to Michelle Wiggins for being named June 2024 Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Distinguished Staff of the Month.
Congratulations to Chinyere Kemet!
Congratulations to Chinyere Kemet, a PhD student in the Feng lab, whose abstract “UFD1: A Novel Target Against MYC-driven Cancers” was selected for a cancer talk at the 16th annual Zebrafish Disease Models conference in Durham, North Carolina. Chinyere also won a travel award for this conference.