As 2026 chair of the Biophysical Society Cryo-EM subgroup, I am thrilled to announce that Dr. Melanie Ohi has been selected as the recipient of the June Almeida Award: an honor recognizing women scientists whose leadership, scholarship, and mentorship have profoundly shaped the field of cryo-EM.

Nominations for the June Almeida award for Mid/Senior-Career Women in Cryo-EM are now open! Submit your nomination via this link www.biophysics.org/awards-fundi... by November 14th to recognize an exceptional woman in our community.

Blanchard lab and I are looking for a driven postdoctoral fellow to lead our efforts combining single-molecule biophysics with cryo-EM to understand important mechanisms of novel genome-editors. We have an exciting project that addresses key questions in the field, see link below! shorturl.at/rGioB

These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.

our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Was my pleasure to chair the #crispr2025 meeting earlier this year in my hometown in NZ @crisprmeeting.bsky.social

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

Kellogg lab seeks an outstanding bioinformaticist passionate about the dark matter of the genome. St Jude combines the best of academia and industry… I've been so thankful for the stability provided by my institute. We are unwavering in our mission… Join us!! talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...

Can't wait to see you all at #BPS2025 for the #cryoem subgroup symposium! 8:30am-12:30pm, Sat Feb 15, Room 515B See detailed program at the link below. We have some superb science lined up, so please join us for what I hope will be a fantastic morning of science!

If you're coming to #BPS2025, please come check out the #CryoEM symposium on Sat Feb 15th, 8:30AM-12:30PM, Room 515B. Also! Join us for the CryoEM happy hour in the evening, 6:30-8:30PM at 33 Taps DTLA. Get your tickets *now*, as ticket sales end Feb 10th! www.biophysics.org/store/produc...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Kellogg lab, and watch out for us in 2025! 🎄🥂🍾

Structural and energetic analysis of stabilizing indel mutations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629072v1

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 The #Nucleic25 Programme is now live! 🎉 Short talk slots are still available. To be considered, simply register for the conference and upload your abstract before the deadline of 23rd January 2025. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity!🌟 Click Here: bit.ly/4ii5diZ

1/ Thrilled to announce Dr. Elizabeth Wright as the inaugural winner of the June Almeida Award for #cryoem! 🎉Elizabeth’s pioneering work in both cryo-ET methods and structural virology made her a perfect fit for this award. Congrats, Elizabeth!

2/ Thanks to all who nominated superb scientists – it was a very tough decision! We hope to make this an annual tradition. Huge thanks to @lizkellogg.bsky.social for proposing the award & to the BPS #cryoem Subgroup committee for their hard work evaluating applications! 🙏

There is no "committee on science" that will impose a new order or set of incentives. No one is going to "fix" peer review or incentivize it differently in one fell swoop. We have to BE the change - the tools already exist for everyone at every level to make an impact and change the incentives

Meet one of our speakers: Elizabeth Kellogg is an assistant professor in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell. There's still time to register and get to hear Elizabeth speak at CRISPR 2025 in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, NZ. lnkd.in/gds9sURN

What a watershed moment for protein design!! All the blood, sweat, and tears from all these amazing scientists made the impossible possible! Thank you David, for teaching us to dream big and to live large… we made it to the summit… now on to the next one!