Sentences with word «crystallographer»

The x-ray crystallographer at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, is leading an international effort to develop a potent mix of monoclonal antibodies against the virus, some of which have already shown promise in animals.

«It's really a brilliant experimental achievement,» says Eaton Lattman, an x-ray crystallographer at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

In particular, Alwyn Jones at Uppsala University in Sweden took on the task of answering the needs of crystallographers for electron density fitting tools.

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By working with Craig Bingman, a protein crystallographer in the UW — Madison Department of Biochemistry, the team also captured new snapshots of this protein in action.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a British x-ray crystallographer who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her cutting - edge work determining the molecular structures of complex organic molecules, was born on 10 May 1910.

First, the play Photograph 51, a fictionalized account of the discovery from the perspective of x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, is now playing off - Broadway.

All these technical advances made it easier for expert crystallographers to tackle bigger and more difficult problems.

With approximately 100 nonhydrogen atoms, vitamin B - 12 was the most complex molecule yet tackled by crystallographers.

Now a team led by x-ray crystallographer Wayne Hendrickson at Columbia University in New York City and molecular virologist Joseph Sodroski at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has determined gp120's atomic structure to a resolution of 2.5 angstroms.

It was great to see so many crystallographers at ASCA in Hanoi.

«The lack of robust, automated sample handling techniques prevents crystallographers from fully realizing the power of these technological advances.

Dr. Elzbieta Nowak, Chief Operating Officer Dr. Elzbieta Nowak is an experienced crystallographer and a laboratory work coordinator in PRO Biostructures.

«Most crystallographers, including myself, considered this stuff junk — they were things you had to get rid of to obtain the crystals,» said James Hurley at the University of California, Berkeley.

At the last minute, however, he decided to stay in Auckland to work with Ted Baker, a renowned crystallographer who had just relocated to the University of Auckland, and his current advisor Joerg Kistler, an expert in membrane proteins and electron microscopy.

«For every ton of cement we make, we are sequestering half a ton of CO2,» says crystallographer Brent Constantz, founder of Calera.

Now, Eaton — along with chemist Mao - Xi Zhang and crystallographer Richard Gilardi of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. — has discovered a more efficient way to construct the seven - nitro heptanitrocubane, as well as the magic mix of ingredients and conditions that tacks on the eighth to form octanitrocubane.

But many crystallographers note that new cryogenic techniques can freeze very small crystals and yield comparable data sets.

Gouaux is an internationally recognized crystallographers in the area of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter structure.

Protein crystallographer Mishtu Dey, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, is facing that decision now.

In response to a long - standing SAC request that the board appoint members who are active scientists, it appointed distinguished x-ray crystallographer Peter Colman, currently at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Crystallographer Maria Arménia Carrondo will take over from Seabra, the Ministry of Education and Science announced in a statement yesterday.

LiWang's lab also collaborates with X-ray crystallographers like Carrie Partch at the University of California, Santa Cruz, because X-ray crystallography is a powerful technique to capture static structures of proteins and their complexes at atomic and near - atomic resolution.

On 28 February, the managing board appointed crystallographer Keith Nugent as part - time director and physicist Andrew Peele as science chief.

Now Spanish crystallographer Juan Manuel García - Ruiz has awarded them another record: They exhibit the slowest crystal growth ever measured.

«If you specialise in something that has a demand you can really build yourself a career path,» says Jason Price, a chemical crystallographer at the Australian Synchrotron.

«I think it is difficult today to appreciate just how surprising, unorthodox, even revolutionary, this structure must have appeared to most chemists,» writes crystallographer Jack D. Dunitz in an essay on ferrocene he wrote in the 1993 book «Organic Chemistry: Its Language and Its State of the Art.»

One needs no oracle to predict that this will eventually be the fate of many, if not most, macromolecular crystallographers.

The CCP4 community is there to help both new and experienced users with an online forum, workshops held throughout the world, and a Study Weekend held in the UK each January where crystallographers gather to exchange ideas and learn new ways of doing things.

Many small - molecule crystallographers are service staff in chemistry, materials science, and physics departments.

Christine Dunham, part of a growing contingent of crystallographers here, worked on ribosome structure in Ramakrishnan's lab at the MRC.

«At the time, crystallographers did crystallography, but there was an appreciation that we needed to bring in new methods.»

In conventional X-ray diffraction, crystallographers measure only the amplitudes of the diffraction.

So Smith sent crystals of the vitamin to University of Oxford chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a pioneering crystallographer who had solved the structure of penicillin.

They described it as an impact - related mineral and called it lonsdaleite, after Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, a famous crystallographer.

Her doctoral advisor, crystallographer Joel Sussman, introduced her to the history of the double helix structure and to it's aesthetics, with its pitch - to - width reflecting the Golden Ratio.

Co-authors are lead author Xing Jiang, a UCLA graduate student in García - Garibay's laboratory, who this year completed his Ph.D.; Hai - Bao Duan, a visiting scholar from China's Nanjing Xiao Zhuang University who spent a year conducting research in García - Garibay's laboratory; and Saeed Khan, a UCLA crystallographer in the department of chemistry and biochemistry.

Buolamwini relies on structural biology for more precise drug design, but collaborators who are x-ray crystallographers solve most of the structures he works with.

«Just three years ago the consensus in the pharmaceutical community was you couldn't build a better aspirin,» says X-ray crystallographer Michael Garavito, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.

The standout piece is Ottaviani's biography of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, who nearly figured out the structure of DNA and made possible Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix.

Recognizing this trend, the Executive Committee has prioritized automation and validation to assist those who are not expert crystallographers.

«The institute was seen as a tremendous success», says Janet Smith, a protein crystallographer at the University of Michigan Medical School and a member of the synchrotron's SAC.

Disappointed, Williams returned to Columbia for a second post-doc with biophysicist and crystallographer Wayne Hendrickson.

Crystallographers from around the world now contribute their programs to CCP4, such as Amore from a developer in France and Crank from The Netherlands.

Dr. Elzbieta Nowak (Chief Operating Officer) is an experienced crystallographer and a laboratory work coordinator in PRO Biostructures.

The tradition started by his great - grand father Charles Friedel, a famous organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris Sorbonne, his grand - father Georges Friedel best known for his work on liquid crystals, his father Edmond Friedel who was the director of the National School of Mines (1937 - 65), and his cousin Charles Crussard with whom his made his first steps in research.

When he found out that the university's physics department was looking for crystallographers, he jumped at the opportunity to get involved, even though it meant retraining.

Howard T. Evans, Jr., an x-ray crystallographer who is now scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey, adds a few details: