Laina

Finally got around to crafting some sds page earrings (complete with my favorite type III crispr complex)!

This month's faculty focus interview features Bronwyn Lucas! On running a lab: "It’s about equipping the people in my lab to tackle challenges & mentoring them as they develop their own approaches." Read more on our website: bit.ly/QB3_Bronwyn

The Cryo-EM: the next 50 years Symposium held yesterday at @UCBerkeley was a smashing success!!

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology in MCB. Learn more and apply online: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04562

Congrats to MCB's Bronwyn Lucas @bronwynalucas and Ziyang Zhang @bignerdzzy on being among the 2024 #NIHHighRisk New Innovator Awardees! @NIH_CommonFund 👏🎉commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/A…

1/8 ❄️🔬Excited to share our latest work published in @NatureComms! Led by @kaitlyn_m_abe and in colab with @GrantCryoEMLab, we've discovered a simple, cost-effective way to mitigate sample damage at the air-water interface during grid preparation. #CryoEM rdcu.be/dSWfn

I can’t think of cooler work to fund, but am a bit biased. Congratulations!!

Check out the latest story from the Sternberg group: phages coopted transposon-encoded nucleases (TnpB) and repurposed them for regulation of host genes! nature.com/articles/s4158… Thrilled to see this work in print, & a huge thanks to my amazing co-authors!!

Congrats to MCB's David Savage @SavageCatsOnly on his promotion to Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology! 👏🥂 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-event…

Recently, @KimiHerath, Matthew, and I were lucky enough to become the Lucas labs (@bronwynalucas) first graduate students. We‘ll be spending the summer finding proteins inside cells, learning and raiding the stellar snack cupboard at the @cziscience imaging institute

@artemnemudryi @UFMedicine So exciting, congratulations!!

Nemudryi lab will open in September of 2024 at @UFMedicine! We will use programmable ribonucleases to study how human cells repair RNA and how RNA viruses co-opt these mechanisms for their benefit. Interested? Get in touch! nemudryi-lab.com

Cellular repair of DNA breaks enables editing of the human genome. Do human cells repair RNA breaks, and can we use it to edit transcriptomes? Our work with @ANemudraia and @WiedenheftLab is now online in @ScienceMagazine! #ScienceResearch science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In an updated pre-print @prywes et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7)

New preprint! @ben_a_adler and I @doudna_lab, in collaboration with @Emy_nim and @JoePogliano, unveil a mechanism for Hachiman immunity. The punchline - Hachiman is a genome integrity sensor. @UCB_Chemistry @igisci @HHMINEWS biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 1/14

The Santiago-Frangos lab is open and ready to do some exciting research on CRISPR biology and CRISPR applications! Ecstatic to be on UPenn's campus amongst such a supportive group of excellent scientists!🤓

Our team at #CZImagingInstitute is excited to share the #CryoET Data Portal beta release. With over 13,000 tomograms, it’s the start of what we hope will be a large, open-access portal of high-quality, standardized & annotated cryo-ET data. bit.ly/3T9sZ6D

Please join me in congratulating @dominick_faith on advancing to PhD candidacy! Congrats Dom! Special thanks to @WiedenheftLab for joining us from Montana State this morning

Embarrassing how giddy I was to see that my favorite podcast highlighted my paper! Go to minute 36 for a Bozeman shoutout :)

@henriques_will Very cool work! Congratulations!

I’m excited to share the preprint of my first first-author paper! The pandemic was a challenging time to start my PhD, but it spawned the awesome opportunity to join a second lab 800 miles west in Seattle to study ancient viruses in the human genome! 🧵👇

📢I'm hiring! Postdocs, PhDs, and Research Techs at Dept. of @PennBiology at @Penn! We'll use bioinformatics 🖥️, biochem 🧪, and cryo-EM ❄️🔬, to study how CRISPR systems work & applications. Work on cool science with a supportive mentor! web.sas.upenn.edu/sanfrango-lab/ RTs appreciated!

@aliciakmichael @ISTAustria Congratulations! They are so lucky to have you.

Big news! In Spring 2024 I will join the fantastic @ISTAustria in Vienna as a TT Asst. Prof! Our group –the Chromatin Structure and Rhythms Lab -will use cryoEM (SPA & tomo) to study how the interplay between TFs & chromatin shapes the genome to control biological timekeeping.