I’ve been offline for a while for the reason below. But I’m back in the lab, with more motivation and joy than ever before! The last year has been a wild ride, but everything has worked out brilliantly!

Different author, but this was one of the worst ones I found, deposited as 3.2A, published in NSMB. I emailed the authors and they saw no issue depositing the structure where only half the density was there...

There are certainly worse office views

If your new year resolution is doing a PhD, there is still time left to apply for a project in my group looking at how the condensin complex undergoes such large conformational changes while making loops. I mean look at how cool the starting model is:

New house might have a friendly cat!

I designed an outreach activity to teach people about DNA structure and supercoiling using the medium of friendship bracelets! It went down really well, so thought I'd share the instructions for anyone interested. DM if you want the word version or any other details.