#sbgridtales — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sbgridtales, aggregated by home.social.
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Our June member tale features Dhirendra Simanshu, who spent the last 12 years building the structural biology program at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research RAS Initiative and leading research on the KRAS protein.
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Our member tale for March features Andrés Palencia from the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM in Grenoble, France where his group is harnessing the matchmaking qualities of the LeuRS enzyme in efforts to advance a new class of drugs to tackle drug-resistant bacteria and parasites.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/structure-guided-antibiotics-cc4718d658d8?postPublishedType=repub
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Our January member tale features Jean-Philippe Julien from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, who interrogates antibodies in the science of global heath, following their stories to guide interventions against infectious diseases like malaria.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/the-stories-antibodies-tell-ed6016762f74
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Melanie Ohi is the focus of our November member tale, who you may find outside her University of Michigan laboratory cycling the gravel paths around Ann Arbor. Ohi stuck with cryoEM, despite warnings that becoming a "blobologist" would limit her options, and is excited by the immediacy and the range of resolutions that cryoEM offers in her study of membrane proteins.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/reshaping-membranes-95816c6617a5
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Our member tale for October features Gira Bhabha. Now at The Johns Hopkins University, Bhabha's laboratory is joined with that of Damian Ekiert, her partner in science and in life, where she studies MCE proteins in tuberculosis and the interactions between microsporidia parasites and host cells.
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The focus of our July member tale is Emina Stojković. She spoke with us from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago where she has resumed marathon training. Today Stojković is exploring new frontiers in photoreception and signaling while seeking new opportunities to advance the careers of her undergraduate and master students after three NIH grant terminations.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/drawn-to-the-light-258847d08e64
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For our May member tale we met up with George Phillips from Rice University, who looks back on the many phases of his career and ahead to the space that his second retirement will bring to tinker, around the holistic garden at Rice and with new computational approaches to solve the "phase problem" in crystallography.