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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 5d

This is incredibly beautiful, and the fact that the resolution is sufficient to follow the path of DNA spooling inside the virion head and through the tail is amazing

The Daum Lab @daumlab.bsky.social · 5d

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail

This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.

www.science.org

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 7d

👏🏻 Alec Follmer, Emily Scott, Ritimukta Sarangi, Romila Mascarenhas, M. Jake Pushie, Wei-Chen Chang, @rajnandani.bsky.social, Roseanne Sension, Ilme Schlichting, @lbackman.bsky.social, Flora Meilleur, Sandra Mous, Macon Abernathy 👏🏻

sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to the amazing speakers & panelists for making the 8th iteration of the ⚡️Metals in Structural Biology Workshop⚡such an engaging part of the User Meeting!

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 7d

Last week the SSRL/LCLS Annual User Meeting at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory had a record turnout for a week of workshops, talks, posters, networking, and 🔥 science! 🧪 💎 🔬💡

Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
#IUCr2026

Calgary Cal, IUCr 2026 mascot, at SLAC for SSRL LCLS User Meeting - attended the Metals in Structural Biology workshop

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getacrystal @getacrystal.bsky.social · 8d

🚨💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎🚨
Reservation deadline for the October 2025 high-throughput crystallization screen at the National Crystallization Center is today Friday October 3!
www.getacrystal.org

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 20d

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View from a square looking down a city street. There are apartments on each side. The buildings are white stone. A red tile pixel art space invader with googly eyes looks down from a wall.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 20d

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

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22d

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!!
💎🎨✅

Scientist holding a painting by David Goodsell

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24d

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

www.cell.com

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25d

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!

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 25d

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

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25d

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!

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Oli Clarke @olibclarke.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Sep 9

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 👇🏻

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 8

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

www.kgw.com

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Antoni Wrobel @agwrobel.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 registration deadline today 9/8! 🚨

sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting 2025.

web.cvent.com

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 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...

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Food Trucks for lunch!

Poster Session: Thurs Sept 25

Facility Tours: Tours of SSRL and LCLS facilities

NEW Outreach Initiative – Student Discovery Pass: web.cvent.com/event/460e7d...

SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting 2025.

web.cvent.com

sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Other amazing sessions during the week include:
⚡️LCLS-II HE: Sample Environment and Delivery
⚡️LCLS Data Analysis Workshop
⚡️Using DIALS at Synchrotrons and XFELs
⚡️Serial Crystallography Workshop
⚡️Computational Methods
⚡️The Evolving Role of Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) in Structural Biology

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

⚡️Metals in Structural Biology Workshop⚡️
Speakers: Alec Follmer, Emily Scott, Ritimukta Sarangi, Romila Mascarenhas, M. Jake Pushie, Wei-Chen Chang, Rajnandani Kashyap, Ph.D, Kyle Lancaster, Ilme Schlichting
Panelists: Lindsey R. F. Backman, PhD, Flora Meilleur, Sandra Mous, Jocelyn Richardson

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting 2025.

web.cvent.com

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ll be taking Calgary Cal with me to conferences, meetings & data collection trips until #IUCr2026!!

#WhereIsCal 🐴🗺️ ✈️🚞🚙

IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · Sep 1

Where in the world is Calgary Cal? 🌍🐴

Take him with you — from lab bench to mountain peak!

🚨 First 20 people to DM or comment get a Calgary Cal sent their way.
Let’s see how far science can travel. ✈️

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

The HeXI hutch being assembled on the experimental hall at Diamond.

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