Chad Hicks

Go science! Go Ukraine! #EuroCup2021

How many civilian airlines must Russia shoot down before the world realizes that Russia will not stop until it is stopped? euronews.com/2024/12/26/exc…

@WordenEvan @VAInstitute Congratulations! Those look like very challenging cryoEM structures. I'm excited to read about it!

Pleased to present our first preprint on how de novo DNA methylation occurs in di-nucleosomes. Lots of surprising findings about the linker length dependence of DNMT3 binding and activity. A great collaboration with the Peter Jones lab @VAInstitute. tinyurl.com/47pmv7hy

Join our Biomolecular Pharmacology Program @BUMedicine vimeo.com/1035301649/6af…

Would be great if someone could share some cat videos right now.

Feeling incredibly grateful today for the opportunity to vote in a free and fair election. Democracy is on the ballot. Use it or lose it...

Seaport selfie after our #Cryo-EM mini symposium with fantastic talks by Yiorgo Skiniotis, Elizabeth Wright and Hao Wu. #CAMed #BostonUniversity #structuralbiology #MolecularPharmacology

@Adrian_H Loading control band "smiling" upward smearing at far left and right wells are normal. "Smiling" artifacts in the middle wells is unusual and indicates that these are two gels spliced together?

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@dieworkwear Hi Derek, what are your thoughts on Crocs?

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This pretty much sums it up!

Now, about that “peace plan”… #StandWithUkraine

@peiferlabunc @CWolberger You can trace the general path of the disordered H3 tail to the Haspin active site in a low-pass filtered map! The final few residues that make contact with the active site are well resolved after performing a local refinement of Haspin alone!

Check out our new structure of a histone H3T3 kinase that binds in a DNA supergroove - where the major grooves of adjacent DNA gyres face one another. No contacts with the histone octamer core - not even the acidic patch!

@FilipGarbicz Thank you!! We should be able to release the three PDBs soon!

@HicksChadW Amazing, I've been working with Haspin a little bit. Will there be a PDB attached?

I am thrilled to share a preprint of my PhD project revealing the cryoEM structure of Haspin kinase bound to nucleosome at a DNA supergroove! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wow we got Chromatin Haiku'd! Now I've officially made it as a scientist...

@AHollandLab @CWolberger @SanimRahman4 This project was conceptualized as a way to provide a useful and fun cryoEM experience to Hopkins Summer Academic Research Experience (SARE) scientist Stacy Vasquez during her senior year of high school last summer. We were really surprised by the results...

I am very grateful to the amazing scientists and coauthors. You are all awesome, and I am so proud of our discovery! @AHollandLab (Colin Gliech), @CWolberger lab (Xiangbin Zhang, @SanimRahman4), Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Stacy Vasquez).

@CWolberger Woohoo!🎉

Officially Dr. Hicks, now with the diploma to prove it! ⁦Congratulations @HicksChadW⁩ !

@dabiophysicist Thanks! Many of the nicest looking pictures of the eclipse are also composite images from many different photos. These here are single photo images, so that's probably why they look more natural!

@HicksChadW These are great, thanks! I find most photographers focus on one aspect, instead of approximating the naked eye view (which is very difficult). Your no. 1 here is among the better ones

I managed to get some awesome photos of the 2024 solar eclipse. What an amazing experience... The reddish solar prominence at the bottom of the sun (which was visible to the naked eye) is ~40,000mi long or ~5 times the diameter of Earth 🤯

Time-lapse of a Glacios 2 cryoEM delivery at @BUMedicine @BU_Tweets! Can you guess how many crates? #CAMED #EstherBullitt @vannazachariou.