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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What an amazing and lovely surprise to be presented with a bouquet of flowers 💐 by the biochemistry student majors in the senior level course I teach in celebration of our recent grant news. I am so touched by their thoughtfulness & so grateful I get to teach them 🥰! www.buffalo.edu/news/release...

Students and prof with bouquet of flowers

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am beyond thrilled to announce the renewal of the National Resource R24 grant that supports the National Crystallization Center @getacrystal.bsky.social at the University at Buffalo! 🎉🍾💎

Pictures of the National Crystallization Center

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Gabrielle Budziszewski for being awarded the 2026 Sidhu Award from the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society! 🎉 Gabby is so deserving of this award recognizing her as an emerging leader in the structural biology field.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Calgary Cal @iucr2026.bsky.social mascot and I visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the last few days! We are all super excited about the upgrades at the IMAGINE beamline. 👀 at those new detectors! Next up: the DNP (Dynamic Nuclear Polarization) instrument will be installed.

Stuffed horse mascot for iucr2026 at oak ridge national lab

Imagine beamline at ORNL - in process of upgrade

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It was delightful to have a chance to catch up with @nozomi-ando.bsky.social during her visit to UB and hear about the amazing work happening in her group @andolab.bsky.social! The new work untangling allostery in ATCase is🔥! #structuralbiology #biochemistry #allostery

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Samantha Arnone is presenting her poster today at the @asbmb.bsky.social meeting! Check it out if you are at the meeting!! Congrats to Sam on receiving University at Buffalo Experiential Learning Network travel award to attend the conference and present her research! 🎉

Scientist in front of poster at conference

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Great to see Levi McClelland and meet Cindee Yates-Hansen from the University of Montana Center for Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics at Biophysical Society #BPS2026

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

@doctheagrif.bsky.social on storytelling in science during the President's Symposium: Communicating the Value of Biophysics in a Changing World at #bps2026 @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Love it!

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Excited to be at #bps2026 for the 1st time in a long time! @jeremymberg.bsky.social currently speaking in the President's Symposium: Communicating the Value of Biophysics in a Changing World

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Congratulations to @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social on being elected as a member of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Communications Committee! 🎙️ The ACA Communications Committee engages in #scicomm & #outreach for the structural science community. Gabby is going to do an amazing job!! Congrats!! 🎉

$Scientist with two thumbs up, at a beamline at a synchrotron, with a protein crystal diffraction image in the background.$

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A new year, and new opportunities! I am excited to announce that I am beginning a term as an Editorial Board Member for @biophysj.bsky.social. I love publishing in professional society journals, and am looking forward to this new role in @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social! www.biophysj.org 🖋️ 📓 🖥️ 🧪

Image with orange text on a black background
Text: Biophysical Journal Bringing physics to life

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@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!

Picture of Gabrielle Budziszewski, candidate for ACA Communications Committee

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

$Poster from 2025 Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference with Calgary Cal, the IUCr 2026 mascot.$

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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

Calgary Cal, IUCr 2026 mascot, at SLAC for SSRL LCLS User Meeting - attended the Metals in Structural Biology workshop

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Stay tuned - Calgary Cal and I got delayed at O’Hare but we are in route to the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting! ✈️🧪🔬💎 #WhereIsCal #IUCr2026

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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!! 💎🎨✅

Scientist holding a painting by David Goodsell

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Lovely to catch up with my postdoc mentor @drennanlab.bsky.social at ICBIC! & great to meet Balyn Muffley, former Drennan Lab undergrad now doing some amazing graduate work in @joanbroderick.bsky.social Lab! 🧪🧫🧬🔬

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Congrats to postdoc Chris Campomizzi for winning the Structural Dynamics poster award and a Travel Award at the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Poster award presented at the closing banquet on the Spirit of Chicago. #ACA2025 🛳️💎✈️🎉

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

As part of the 75th Annual @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Meeting, over 100 attendees participated in a tour of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory! Thanks for the amazing tour! 💎🦠🔬🔋🧬 #ACA2025

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Great Hot Structures session at #ACA2025! ACA Etter Student Award winner Sarah Narehood, @biophyskrys.bsky.social, Nikolas Capra, Rachel Kretsch, Debanu Das, Daniel Richman @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Professor Stephen Burley @rcsbpdb.bsky.social gave an amazing Keynote at the opening of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social 75th Annual Meeting this evening! @gfaudette.bsky.social #structure #research #impact #science #ACA2025

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We are so excited about what we observed in these experiments & that our first visit to LCLS went so well - stay tuned for more on results in the coming months as we work up these data!

Group of scientists in the CXI control room

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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 🌟 💎

CXI beamline at LCLS - the sample on an SOS chip is behind the window in the chamber

Our protein nanocrystals look like stars

Scientist showing the sheet on sheet chip after loading protein nanocrystals

$Nanocrystal diffraction at the CXI beamline!$

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Starting the summer out with a lab lunch outing to welcome Samantha Arnone for her summer research in the lab! Watched over by Mr. Burns at Betty's. Tiffany Wright, Chris Campomizzi, PhD, @mumstheword17.bsky.social & @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social 🧪 🔬 💎

Group of 6 people out for lunch with a painting of Mr. Burns looking over the table.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just in time for Pride month! Celebrating our recent publication in @actacrystf.iucr.org by highlighting our rainbow of protein crystals! 🏳️‍🌈💎 Great to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanof on this paper! doi.org/10.1107/S205... #crystallization #crystals #structuralbiology

Picture of twelve wells of protein crystallization - arranged in a rainbow pattern. With scale bars.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Images show impact of NSF & NIH funding on New York State 🗽 🔬🧪🔭 To look up your state's NSF funding facts: www.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... To look up your state's NIH funding facts: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Infographic on NSF funds to New York State

Infographic on NIH funds to New York State

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In 2018, similar (if not as drastic) cuts were proposed. But 👀 at the FINAL FY18 budget - Congress *increased* science funding💲even with *proposed* reductions.

FY18 funding for NIH increased despite a *request* to decrease it - the images shows the differences. From aip.org

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

4/26/2025 is Independent Bookstore Day! Celebrate the indie bookstore(s) in your life! 📚🎉 www.indiebound.org/independent-bookstore-day

Buffalo Bookstore passport 2025 indie bookstore day

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fun Friday night remote data collection at SSRL!! I am so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! ❤️ 💎 Tiffany Wright @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social Chris Campomizzi Cole Masuga @mumstheword17.bsky.social

Scientists collecting spectroscopy data on a crystal

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

👀 Look at this amazing tool you can use to estimate the economic impact of proposed cuts to research in your area at the state and county level. SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org #standupforscience

Erie county NY estimated to lose $61M due to cuts in research funding. Map from scienceimpact.org

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Excited that I got to speak at the rally yesterday! Thanks @fordversyptlab.bsky.social for snapping a pix of me with the megaphone 📣! 👩‍🔬

Buffalo scientist with megaphone at #standupforscience rally

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It was nice to finally meet you IRL!

Scientists at Buffalo Stand up for Science Rally

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

New York: $3.66B NIH awards 30,522 jobs $8.27B economic activity

Infographic from https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state about NIH funding in New York State:
$3.66B NIH awards
30,522 jobs
$8.27B economic activity

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For the last several days, I've had the great fortune to be running experiments at SLAC SSRL with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Chris Campomizzi. Good diffraction, informative spectroscopy, wonderful colleagues & collaborators, & fantastic National Lab facilities.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Happy New Year! Looking forward to a year of growth & amazing science. 🎉 Pix of many of the fantastic folks I get to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social @mumstheword17.bsky.social Tiffany W, & Chris C, & my collaborator in all things science & life @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social

Photo of a group of scientists out to dinner during a conference.

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

These viral snowflake paper cut outs are so much fun - a great winter day activity for kids & adults! ✂️ ❄️ 🧪

Viral snowflakes on our lab window at the National Crystallization Center

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A group of @acastructuralsci.bsky.social members spent Saturday doing outreach at the Buffalo Museum of Science! We had kits to make your own 'crystal sun catcher', paper cutout viral snowflakes, and a microscope for folks to look at sugar, salt, and protein crystals! 💎 ❄️ 🔬

ACA volunteers with viral snowflake cutouts

ACA volunteers with microscope showing visitors to Buffalo Museum of Science crystals

ACA volunteers at the Buffalo Museum of Science

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

You could make your own 👨‍🍳

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Last night @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social and I got to see the unparalleled Cyndi Lauper! AMAZING show!

T-shirt reading 'Girls just wanna have funding for scientific research'

Girls just want to have fundamental rights sign

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ha that's fun - love that I'm a structural biologist by day and poet by night! 💎🧪🔬✒️

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

For my 1st content post here at bluesky... a diffraction snapshot from our recent trip to SSRL SLAC. We used the glove box on-site to work with some of our metalloprotein samples before our shift. Nothing quite like on-site data collection! 🧪 💎🔬🤩 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social

$Protein diffraction$ Glove box at SSRL and collaborators

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