Let there be light! The U Alberta titan Krios has a beam!

A colder frontier in cryo-EM 🧪🔬 Chris Russo’s group, inc. Joshua Dickerson, adapted #cryoEM to work at liquid helium temperatures (13 kelvins), where every frame captured contains more information than the equivalent using liquid nitrogen (81 kelvins). Read more: tinyurl.com/mwwcunkc #LMBResearch

Some movies don’t need high definition, some movies don’t need to be seen in the theater. I believe the best way to watch US Marshals is a 17 inch black and white tv on your kitchen counter and I’ll debate Scorsese on that any time

The new Titan Krios is in its edgy emo phase.

Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday

In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more: scim.ag/41PWgYc

Same energy

First lecture in the bag for @justinditrani.bsky.social’s Cryo-EM theory and practice course! Looking forward to convincing more young minds to travel down the Cryo-EM pipeline!

University of Alberta CryoEM facility is getting closer and closer to being operational! It’s a very exciting time for CryoEM in Alberta!

Apoferritin on the rocks ❄️🧊🔬

NSFW shot of a Titan Krios

Next stop. NYC for NCCAT cryoEM workshop

This week in cool-looking science stuff

We got alpha helices ❄️🔬

Dendrite? Or tree in the wind?

Oh dear….this might take a minute ❄️🔬

Successful screening access completed at the PNCC. The expertise of the team at the PNCC have provided me with so much knowledge and training that I am coming home a lot more confident in my abilities. I am very excited to apply this knowledge to the budding SPP-ARC facility!

Welcome to Canada, Eh?

A physicist’s perspective on structural biology. Cross-discipline science ultimately leads to innovation like Alphafold! Very fortunate to listen to Dr.Jumper talk about his work and contribution with Deepmind at the Gairdner lecture series.

I love academia because it’s full of people who are so, so smart about one specific thing and so, so dumb at all other aspects of life

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Perfectly balanced. As all things should be 🧪

Life with a 3 month old

A crooked smile for a wild side project

Gotta make one for “Calciome”

Pick your warrior

Reconstruction of the SARS COV2 Spike protein using a cryoEM dataset from EMPIAR. Some smearing in the NTD suggests that the imposed symmetry is probably not correct.

Throwback friday to a micrograph of Some bacteria. Notice the pili!

Primitive bird drone

Update. Aluminum foil contains real aluminum, as shown by the mercury amalgam formed.

Someone in the lab killed a mercury thermometer

This image has been sitting on my desktop for so long I no longer remember why I saved it but it seems like bad luck to delete