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Stay tuned - Calgary Cal and I got delayed at O’Hare but we are in route to the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting! ✈️🧪🔬💎 #WhereIsCal #IUCr2026

Fun Friday update from the lab - Chris Campomizzi won a David Goodsell print for filling the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Annual Meeting survey! How cool is that!! 💎🎨✅

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Seconded. For those of us watching closely, it's a massive and impressive effort in the face of strong headwinds.

This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress! We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below. Read on for details... 1/x

Really incredible effort by the indefatigable @nurseteria.bsky.social to raise awareness of what we are going to bring back by stripping access to vaccination 👇🏻

Dear scientific community, I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🚨 registration deadline today 9/8! 🚨

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Exciting news 🎉! Notice of Award from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for a new instrument in the National Crystallization Center! Stay tuned for more details... hint: 🦟 🤖 @getacrystal.bsky.social

SSRL/LCLS User Meeting at SLAC is scheduled from September 21-26, 2025. Excited that the 8th iteration of Metals in Structural Biology Workshop is on Tues 9/23 (organized by Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb & myself). 🚨⏰ Registration deadline is Monday Sept 8: web.cvent.com/event/460e7d...

I’ll be taking Calgary Cal with me to conferences, meetings & data collection trips until #IUCr2026!! #WhereIsCal 🐴🗺️ ✈️🚞🚙

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

Great to see HeXI starting to appear on the experimental hall at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social. HeXI will be a 1 MeV electron diffraction instrument that will complement complement the capabilities of VMXm.

Cool story on the re-purposing of a protein I worked on in graduate school! Curious about other work that led to this? See: tinyurl.com/56mybjmd tinyurl.com/ksmau4xm tinyurl.com/yw9av9yh tinyurl.com/yuujhajc tinyurl.com/5987f53r Way to go Burstyn Group alumni!! And check out: tinyurl.com/mvvpzj3f

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍

I'm working on double checking citations for my book right now. Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:

Made it to Poznan for the European Crystallography Meeting. Looking forward to presenting at the Science Slam on Thursday with the help of my cat Rosalind. #Crystallography #ECM35 #StructuralBiology #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ScienceSlam

Cooler mornings means sleepy bees on flowers in perfect poses

Excited to share the latest work by outstanding PhD student @kdc509.bsky.social. This was one of our first forays into experimental evolution and uncovered some cool connections between potassium transport and antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. Major kudos to Killian!

New preprint from us! The latest part of our C. difficile vancomycin resistance story. We identified a new two-component system (VnrRS) that can control expression of the vanG pathway - just needs one amino acid change @buddlejess.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @claireyt.bsky.social

Join me in donating to ABRCMS. For many of us early in our careers (and for many of us now), this is THE conference. Let’s make sure future generations get the same experience. I was told if each poster judge donated $25, their goal would be quickly met, but I think we can do better! 🙏🏾💪🏾

The remainder is due to the hardworking NIH grants management specialists and program officers getting awards released now that they are allowed to do their jobs. Thanks for all of their efforts. I will continue to track this going forward... /fin

Feeling awed and a bit starstruck that @science.org chose to run a book review on #LabworkToLeadership!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sofia Lövestam's vault structure is now online in Structure @cellpress.bsky.social. 🥳 How beautifully explorative is #cryoEM! We never planned to do this. The vaults just came down with #amyloids from human brain tissue, and Sofia decided to have a closer look. www.cell.com/structure/fu...

Do you want to analyze mass photometry (MP) count data with Python scripts? Try pyPhotoMol, a package to process, fit, and visualize the MP data 👨‍💻 github.com/osvalB/pypho... pyPhotoMol is derived from PhotoMol, our web tool for MP: spc.embl-hamburg.de/app/photoMol #massphotometry #Python #code

NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at: osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....

Cicada emergence

"Did I remove track changes?"

BIOCHEMISTS! We are looking for a new post-doctoral colleague at BU who will be devoted to a combination of teaching Biochemistry and engaging in Research. Ask me anything! The deadline is short, but the job is awesome. #ChemJobs You can apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/BU/CH/PA...

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

My second NCR was awarded, one day early. NIH staff must be working around the clock to push funding out. Let's thank our POs and SROs and all NIH staff for working selflessly to keep science progressing in this sh*tshow.

Lovely to catch up with my postdoc mentor @drennanlab.bsky.social at ICBIC! & great to meet Balyn Muffley, former Drennan Lab undergrad now doing some amazing graduate work in @joanbroderick.bsky.social Lab! 🧪🧫🧬🔬

Hell yeah, keep the pressure on. If you live in one of these states, call your Senators, thank them, and remind them that there are related issues where their states and the nation needs their support and willingness to stand up.

The 3rd NYC Integrative Structural Biology Symposium (#NYCISB25) will be Oct 9-10, 2025. Register today: nyc-isb25.eventbrite.com This event will be focused on integrative structural biological techniques and limited to 100 attendees.

The @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Service SIG community is here at #ACA2025 Chicago, IL with Chairs past+2 (Ed), past+1 (Dan), past (Josh), present (Nate) & future (Carla) with other officers. See you at IUCr (iucr2026.org) & learn about ACA’s Scientific Interest Groups: amercrystalassn.org

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:

Congrats to postdoc Chris Campomizzi for winning the Structural Dynamics poster award and a Travel Award at the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Poster award presented at the closing banquet on the Spirit of Chicago. #ACA2025 🛳️💎✈️🎉

As part of the 75th Annual @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Meeting, over 100 attendees participated in a tour of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory! Thanks for the amazing tour! 💎🦠🔬🔋🧬 #ACA2025

Great Hot Structures session at #ACA2025! ACA Etter Student Award winner Sarah Narehood, @biophyskrys.bsky.social, Nikolas Capra, Rachel Kretsch, Debanu Das, Daniel Richman @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

Giddy up to Calgary! Stop by our #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to gear up for the 2026 Conference to get some Calgary Stampede merch, plan your trip, meet other attendees and more!

Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!

Enhancements of the intensity-clustering algorithms available within DIALS and utilized by xia2.multiplex are described and demonstrated #MultiCrystalDataSets #DataProcessing #Clustering doi.org/10.1107/S205...

Professor Stephen Burley @rcsbpdb.bsky.social gave an amazing Keynote at the opening of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social 75th Annual Meeting this evening! @gfaudette.bsky.social #structure #research #impact #science #ACA2025

The best cover🥰, paired cats & paired helical filaments.