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Danielle Grotjahn @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨New preprint!🚨 #teamtomo We expanded Surface Morphometrics to quantify membrane thickness from cryo-ET—revealing local variation across organelles. Led by the lab’s first grad student, @mmedina300kv.bsky.social (defending Monday! 🍾) w/ @attychang.bsky.social @hamid13r.bsky.social & @tomo.science

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Michal Galdzicki @mgaldzic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Arzeda has been awarded DARPA funding to advance AI-driven protein design—even with limited data! We're pushing the boundaries to create next-gen proteins for national security, sustainability, and beyond. #AI #ProteinDesign www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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Arzeda Awarded DARPA Funding to Advance AI-Driven Protein Design for National Security

/PRNewswire/ -- Arzeda, the industry-leading Protein Design Company™, today announced it has been selected for an award from the Defense Advanced Research...

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Ben Barad @baradlab.com · 16/12/2024

Tomorrow(!) morning at 9AM pacific, I am giving a webinar for EMS discussing the surface morphometrics pipeline and our approach to contextual structural biology #teamtomo. Free to attend, hope to see you all there! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Example series showing the surface morphometrics workflow

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Lander Lab @landerlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The human mitochondrial ClpXP is uniquely assembled and regulated compared to its bacterial counterparts. Congrats to Kelly Chen on her years of hard work on this challenging complex! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hannah Baughman @hannahbaughman.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Come be my colleague! UW Tacoma is hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. We're looking for someone excited about mentoring undergraduates in research, inclusive teaching, and being part of an interdisciplinary community of scholars. apply.interfolio.com/154390

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Ben Barad @baradlab.com · 24/01/2024

The Barad lab is hiring across all levels. Open positions here: baradlab.com/join/. If you are interested in doing cutting edge tomography and computational methods development to study intracellular bacterial infection, and living in Portland, OR, but don't fit the openings, reach out anyway!

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Join the Barad Lab

The Barad Lab is a cryo-electron tomography and computational structural biology lab at Oregon Health & Science University

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Benjamin Basanta @benjabsnt.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I'm happy to share the publication of my postdoctoral work from the Lander lab at Scripps. We solved previously-unobserved conformations of human TTR, an 55kDa amyloid-forming protein, to great resolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The conformational landscape of human transthyretin revealed by cryo-EM

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Ben Barad @baradlab.com · 03/01/2024

The Barad lab is open!

Photo of my office with my nameplate on the wall

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 02/10/2023

Unusual repetitive DNA sequence in the E. coli genome --> CRISPR ---> genome editing Ψ Pseudouridine ---> mRNA immunogenicity and potency ---> mRNA COVID vaccine #basicresearch Dear funders, dear governments please increase the basic research budget !

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