Published: Nov. 30, 2022
At the heart of human cells, tiny protein tubes radiate out in all directions. Anchored near the nucleus, they help cells hold their shape, organize internal components, and in dividing cells, tug apart …
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Published: Sept. 28, 2022
Numbers speak clearly to Jamaine Davis. As a boy growing up on Long Island, math came so easy to him that one of his family nicknames was "the professor." Other numbers have shaped …
Published: July 28, 2022
About age 16, pondering his future, Evripidis (Evris) Gavathiotis decided he wanted to work as a chemist in drug discovery. It was personal. Growing up in Greece, he had witnessed his mother suffer …
Published: June 7, 2022
Animation Workshop August 1-5, 2022 Boston MA Instructor: Prof. Janet Iwasa Organizers: Prof. Janet Iwasa, The Animation Lab, University of Utah Prof. Piotr Sliz, SBGrid, Harvard Medical School SBGrid and Janet Iwasa of …
Published: April 29, 2022
By great luck, the laboratory of Kurt Krause, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand is only an eight-minute drive to a waterfall on Nicols Creek famous for an abundance of native glowworms. A …
Published: March 7, 2022
We're looking forward to presenting in the upcoming USNC/Cr workshop series - Exploring Structural Database Use in Crystallography - where we'll introduce attendees to the tools and services available to SBGrid Consortium members: …
Published: Feb. 25, 2022
A childhood gift of a microscope appears in the origin stories of many scientists, but usually it’s the seen object, with its startling new clarity, that inspires life-long curiosity. For Willy Wriggers, the …
Published: Feb. 24, 2022
We're excited to announce a new webinar mini-series starting March 15th - CryoEM of membrane proteins: from sample to structure - with a terrific group of speakers including opening and closing keynotes from …
Updated: Nov. 12, 2021
Join us for our Software Webinar Series - Tuesdays at 12pm ET - to hear from software developers about what's new in structural biology. Community members connect via Zoom. Subscribe to SBGridTV to …
Published: Nov. 5, 2021
For SBGrid users who are already familiar with the SBGrid software installation platform, members may opt-in in to include the BioGrids software stack in their installation. BioGrids in an SBGrid-style collection of ~ …
Published: Oct. 28, 2021
When people see the results of blood tests that predict their risk for heart disease and stroke, they may exclaim “egads!” Maybe they should say “DGAT!” instead, especially when they look at their …
Published: Sept. 26, 2021
From the viewpoint of her undergraduate classmates at University of Amsterdam, Gabby Rudenko might as well have been relocating to Siberia when she sought training in protein structure at the northern tip of …
Published: July 26, 2021
The parents of Montserrat Samso could not have predicted the symmetry of her name and her future work as a scientist. She is named for a large geologic structure near Barcelona where she …
Published: June 28, 2021
If insects had horror movies, one of the scariest would feature tiny monsters. The grisly drama would spotlight the real-life threat to insects from young threadworms, smaller than eyelashes, and their symbiotic gut …
Published: Feb. 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has schooled scientists in unexpected ways. Ho Leung Ng, for example, was surprised to learn coronavirus infections are common and often fatal in cats. “I’m more of a dog person,” …
Published: Jan. 29, 2021
As a kid, Ernesto Fuentes lived in Brazil just long enough to stock up on the soccer skills he now shares with his kids. His affinity for structural biology may have arisen at …
Published: Nov. 27, 2020
The story of how a viral protein meets a cell membrane has become a compelling narrative during the COVID-19 pandemic. James Hurley at University of California, Berkeley, understands the appeal better than most …
Published: Nov. 12, 2020
Many thanks to all who joined our most recent mini-series - Cryo-electron microscopy: from Sample to Structure - hosted in collaboration with Prof. Kurt Krause of University of Otago, Prof. Piotr Sliz of …
Published: Sept. 28, 2020
Inside cells, DNA is coiled around histone proteins, making spools of nucleosomes. Cynthia Wolberger studies the molecular machines that unwrap the chromatin packing to transcribe or repair genes. The structures reveal complicated biological …
Published: July 31, 2020
Priyamvada Acharya studies how proteins on the surface of HIV move to invade cells and evade the immune system. For many years her research has been focused on the HIV-1 envelope (Env), a …