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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 🐾
Support DEI & women in science.
Scicomm & science art 🎨
Poet ✒️ Reader 📚 Gardener 🌿 Cat lover 🐾
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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/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
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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
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!
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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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tinyurl.com/ukny4ptz
@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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tinyurl.com/ukny4ptz
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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
🧵
tinyurl.com/ukny4ptz
@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
🧵
tinyurl.com/ukny4ptz
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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/...
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/...
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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/...
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/...
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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
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
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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
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.
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
Thanks for the invitation to speak in the ‘Metal Matters’ session @Sarah Perry!!
Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
@iucr2026.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
Thanks for the invitation to speak in the ‘Metal Matters’ session @Sarah Perry!!
Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
@iucr2026.bsky.social
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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
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
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
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
Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
#IUCr2026
October 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
Meeting attended by Calgary Cal 🐴
#WhereIsCal
#IUCr2026
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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
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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Reservation deadline for the October 2025 high-throughput crystallization screen at the National Crystallization Center is today Friday October 3!
www.getacrystal.org
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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Stay tuned - Calgary Cal and I got delayed at O’Hare but we are in route to the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting! ✈️🧪🔬💎
#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026
#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stay tuned - Calgary Cal and I got delayed at O’Hare but we are in route to the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting! ✈️🧪🔬💎
#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026
#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026
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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September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
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
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
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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!
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
September 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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!
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
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Seconded. For those of us watching closely, it's a massive and impressive effort in the face of strong headwinds.
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!
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
September 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Seconded. For those of us watching closely, it's a massive and impressive effort in the face of strong headwinds.
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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
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
September 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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
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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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 👇🏻
"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...
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
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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 👇🏻
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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...
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...
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...
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...
🚨 registration deadline today 9/8! 🚨
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...
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
September 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🚨 registration deadline today 9/8! 🚨
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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...
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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...
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
@getacrystal.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
@getacrystal.bsky.social
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...
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
September 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
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...