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Brian Cook

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CryoEM PostDoc in Mark Herzik's lab at UCSD

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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The next #CryoEM Current Practices Webinar speaker will be Mark Herzik from UCSD speaking on "Old tools, new tricks: engineering better cryoEM sample preparation workflows through design and chemistry" 6/25/2026 at 12 PM ET / 9AM PT Register here : us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Brian Cook @bcryo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

1) The Herzik lab is excited to announce our newest preprint in collaboration with the Grotjahn lab! We have developed a surfactant cocktail that seeks to overcome one of the more nefarious problems in #cryoEM, Air-water interface (AWI)-induced damage and preferred orientation (PO).

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Ben Barad @baradlab.com · 07/03/2025

Happy to share that the final version of record for our ( @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social) #teamtomo mitochondrial cotranslation story is online at @jcb.org! We combined STA with surface morphometrics to learn how ribosomes bind to and alter mitochondrial membranes in yeast. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Subtomogram Averaging of a mitochondrially co-translating ribosome

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Nature @nature.com · 13/01/2025

Nature research paper: Structural basis for the conformational protection of nitrogenase from O2 go.nature.com/4aiD344

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Structural basis for the conformational protection of nitrogenase from O2 - Nature

Cryo-electron microscopy of Azotobacter vinelandii FeSII–nitrogenase reveals a core complex of molybdenum–iron proteins (MoFePs), iron proteins (FePs) and FeSII, in which FeSII mediates interactions with MoFeP and FeP to position their FeS clusters in catalytically inactive but O2-protected states.

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Ray Berkeley @ray-berkeley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Awesome work from Sarah, @bcryo.bsky.social and friends in the Herzik Lab! It was cool to see this come together in such a short time.

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Brian Cook @bcryo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1) Since I am the only Herzik lab member on @bsky.app, I get the privilege to announce our most recent publication from the Herzik/Tezcan labs. I got the wonderful opportunity to contribute on the cryoEM study of the oxygen protection mechansim employed by cells to protect Nitrogenase!

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