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scientist, structural biologist, poet, reader, gardener, cat lover
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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Nov 17
👋. Since there are so many new faces here on bluesky, a quick reintroduction. Structural biologist using X-Ray crystallography, XFEL, electron diffraction, spectroscopy.💎 Metals in biology. 🧪
Support DEI & women in science.
Scicomm & science art 🎨
Poet ✒️ Reader 📚 Gardener 🌿 Cat lover 🐾
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
A flurry of snowflakes with text reading 'Virus Snowflakes: a collection of paper art viruses by Ed Hutchinson - Download now!' along with the logo of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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amgulick-lab.bsky.social
Happy 100th, structural biology pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/arti...

Delightful perspective by George Phillips and Ed Lattman. Have a piece of cake everyone.
Happy 100th, structural biology
About 100 years ago, the field of structural biology was born, led by James B. Sumner who recognized that enzymes were molecules with specific functions. In its
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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I have posted about this before, but...

Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.

graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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arianebriegel.bsky.social
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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natchembio.nature.com
A new Review discusses how degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-order structural ones, regulate substrate-E3 interactions and how their dysregulation is linked to human diseases

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Degrons and degradation signals beyond short linear motifs - Nature Chemical Biology
Degrons are degradation signals in target proteins to direct recognition and degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome system. Wang et al. introduce degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
xtalmaker.bsky.social
@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️

Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
Picture of Gabrielle Budziszewski, candidate for ACA Communications Committee
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
CSR, which handles this process, is no doubt missing a lot of employees due to the doge shenanigans. Be patient (I remind myself) if your #NIHgrant application remains in limbo for a few weeks.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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getacrystal.bsky.social
The National Crystallization Center is hiring for two positions: a research scientist position focused on progressing our crystallization optimization projects, and a research support specialist to support operations of the Crystallization Center!
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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johnrubinstein.bsky.social
New lab preprint!
@zestytoast.bsky.social tagged a scarce mycobacterial protein in M. smegmatis with TwinStep but got… something? @kjamali.bsky.social's ModelAngelo built models & @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's FoldSeek IDed them as the biotin-containing MCC & LCC complexes
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Cryo-EM maps and atomic models of the biotin-containing 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC) complex and long-chain acyl-CoA carboxylase (LCC) complex
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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iucr2026.bsky.social
Interested in Biological Macromolecules?
IUCr2026 has you covered with NINETEEN symposia, including cryoEM/cryoET innovations; membrane proteins; protein design/engineering; drug discovery; 21st century structural enzymology; and more!
Join us in Calgary:
event.fourwaves.com/...
PDB ID 6j8j Structure of human voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7 in complex with auxiliary beta subunits, ProTx-II and tetrodotoxin (Y1755 down)
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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kristiellingsen.bsky.social
Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
Most of a wolf spider, taken from directly above. The last segments of a few legs have been cut off by the frame. It is standing on holy salty sand, so the background looks like a solid slab of black specked beige. The spider is a mainly soft grey body with four black eyes showing. The abdomen is marked with a grey line and black rimmed blobs all over it. This made it incredibly hard to see if you weren't paying close attention. The legs are a more pinky white with diffuse black barring. If it was big enough people would be wearing the "pelt" as luxury coats. It's gorgeous. The same spider taken from a low angle, looking at the face slightly angled. This shows the female palps and the entire set of 8 black eyes. It also showed how the spider was right up on its "toes" ready for a fast get-away (or maybe the blinding white salt was hot to stand on). There is a bit of a shadow from the intense sunlight. Spider description is on the other photo.
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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bronwynalucas.bsky.social
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.
Subgroup Awards - The Biophysical Society
www.biophysics.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
xtalmaker.bsky.social
Last week I was thrilled to attend the 2025 Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference hosted at @brookhavenlab.bsky.social!

Thanks for the invitation to speak in the ‘Metal Matters’ session @Sarah Perry!!

Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
@iucr2026.bsky.social
Poster from 2025 Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference with Calgary Cal, the IUCr 2026 mascot.
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
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
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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
daumlab.bsky.social The Daum Lab @daumlab.bsky.social · Oct 6
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
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
xtalmaker.bsky.social
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 Group photo from user meeting
October 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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getacrystal.bsky.social
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Reservation deadline for the October 2025 high-throughput crystallization screen at the National Crystallization Center is today Friday October 3!
www.getacrystal.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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rwmartin.bsky.social
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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.
September 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
xtalmaker.bsky.social
Stay tuned - Calgary Cal and I got delayed at O’Hare but we are in route to the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting! ✈️🧪🔬💎
#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026
Calgary Cal at O’Hare airport
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
xtalmaker.bsky.social
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!!
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Scientist holding a painting by David Goodsell
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
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
September 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM