Gabby Budziszewski
@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social
Operations Manager @ UB-HWI National Crystallization Center
professional protein crystal whisperer, pipet tip chaos agent, buffalonian
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professional protein crystal whisperer, pipet tip chaos agent, buffalonian
views my own
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@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!
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
@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!
Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
Come work with us at the National Crystallization Center! Housed in the vibrant research community of UB-HWI, we are looking for new coworkers to help us expand our structural biology offerings 💎🔬
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 3:57 PM
Come work with us at the National Crystallization Center! Housed in the vibrant research community of UB-HWI, we are looking for new coworkers to help us expand our structural biology offerings 💎🔬
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Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠
Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service!
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠
Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski
Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service!
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service!
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮
Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski
In our #BIBPSWeek 2025 #BIBPSSpotlight Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird, we learned about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work. We also discussed the barriers that fellow #BlackInBiophysics scholars @jjalston.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social faced when pursuing careers in science.👇🏾
We are in this odd climate where people are pretending no barriers exist to careers in science for some groups, but this conversation with 2 outstanding emerging scientists highlights that is just not true.
youtube.com/watch?v=u850...
youtube.com/watch?v=u850...
BIBPSSpotlight - 2025 Black In Biophysics Week
YouTube video by Black In Biophys
youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In our #BIBPSWeek 2025 #BIBPSSpotlight Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird, we learned about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work. We also discussed the barriers that fellow #BlackInBiophysics scholars @jjalston.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social faced when pursuing careers in science.👇🏾
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Not being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest?
Now that's scary. 😱
Try our high-throughput screen!
October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations)
Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd
Package Acceptance & Plate Setup:
Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th
Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th
Now that's scary. 😱
Try our high-throughput screen!
October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations)
Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd
Package Acceptance & Plate Setup:
Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th
Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest?
Now that's scary. 😱
Try our high-throughput screen!
October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations)
Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd
Package Acceptance & Plate Setup:
Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th
Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th
Now that's scary. 😱
Try our high-throughput screen!
October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations)
Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd
Package Acceptance & Plate Setup:
Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th
Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th
interpreting electron density or foraging for mushrooms -- you decide.
#structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology
#structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology
August 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
interpreting electron density or foraging for mushrooms -- you decide.
#structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology
#structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology
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A thread of protein-themed card, board, and video games 🧵
Play the PDB board game that explores the process of structure discovery and deposition. Then, move on to the next project...but keep an eye on the competition and try not to get scooped! #GenCon
pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...
pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...
PDB101: Learn: Other Resources: PDB50 the Game
A PDB “worker placement” board game that explores the process of structure discovery
pdb101.rcsb.org
August 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A thread of protein-themed card, board, and video games 🧵
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I'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!
"It’s because of my community and Land connections that my postdoctoral work is flourishing." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/45l1RGx
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!
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Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing.
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
July 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing.
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski
There's also a primary paper on dating of the crystals that goes into some of the chemical processes involved and how they can be modeled here:
Ultraslow growth rates of giant gypsum crystals | PNAS
Mineralogical processes taking place close to equilibrium, or with very slow kinetics,
are difficult to quantify precisely. The determination of ul...
www.pnas.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There's also a primary paper on dating of the crystals that goes into some of the chemical processes involved and how they can be modeled here:
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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
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As the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...
Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments
YouTube video by International Union of Crystallography
youtu.be
July 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
As the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...
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Here are some nice mushrooms
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org!
Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff!
Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff!
Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
The July issue is out! tinyurl.com/y25fxe86
The cover shows a rainbow of protein crystals taken from a Topical Review on 'Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments'. Take a look at doi.org/10.1107/S205...
The cover shows a rainbow of protein crystals taken from a Topical Review on 'Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments'. Take a look at doi.org/10.1107/S205...
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org!
Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff!
Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff!
Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
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Last week @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social and I had an amazing time running experiments at CXI at LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on nanocrystal protein samples! Our protein nanocrystals looked like little stars 🌟 💎
June 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Last week @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social and I had an amazing time running experiments at CXI at LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on nanocrystal protein samples! Our protein nanocrystals looked like little stars 🌟 💎
having some fun with nanocrystals at LCLS CXI beamline! safe to say I’m a little excited for my first shift on an XFEL🎇
June 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
having some fun with nanocrystals at LCLS CXI beamline! safe to say I’m a little excited for my first shift on an XFEL🎇
Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski
To be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.
June 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
To be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.
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Does crossing the pond affect crystal quality?
No!
No!
June 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Does crossing the pond affect crystal quality?
No!
No!
I'm used to purifying colorless proteins, so it's a treat to have a metal-binding protein I can see IN my resin!
#metalloprotein #biochemistry
#metalloprotein #biochemistry
June 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm used to purifying colorless proteins, so it's a treat to have a metal-binding protein I can see IN my resin!
#metalloprotein #biochemistry
#metalloprotein #biochemistry
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@getacrystal.bsky.social & SSRL are out in force teaching at the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research Workshop in TN this week!
Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite!
Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy!
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite!
Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy!
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@getacrystal.bsky.social & SSRL are out in force teaching at the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research Workshop in TN this week!
Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite!
Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy!
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite!
Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy!
@ubuffalo.bsky.social
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Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart