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Introducing the First GMS Cohort of ACS Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellows!
Introducing the First GMS Cohort of American Cancer Society Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellows.
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
Science On Tap: Pain, Sex and Death
Jeffrey Mogil’s important discussion on pain, sex and death, details of how pain studies are performed and how the outcomes matter.
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”.