Such talent! I wish I could see it in real life...Or better, I wish I could be seeing it every morning when I enter the building where I work!

😂😂😂 What about DISCUSSION ???

Using our kinetic analysis to guide cryo-EM freezing conditions, we enriched for maximal heterogeneity and captured 25 different conformational states of Cas9 from a single dataset -- including the first look at Cas9 following product dissociation!

Women in crystallography-series in youtube m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLUfjY… m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipo0Io…

Get ready! Negative Strand RNA Virus meeting #NSV2025 registration will open soon! Co-organized with wendybarclay, Sean P.J. Whelan and Paul Duprex. It will be in vibrant Montpellier, south of France, in June 2025! Please RT

WHO on Mpox Clade 1b: global health emergency in August; renewed in November after DRC outbreak that killed >1,000 people. Recently: cases in US, Belgium, France, and few hours ago China announced 5 Clade 1b cases. reuters.com/business/healt…

Great PI, great lab!

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Incredible efficiency! ❤️🇨🇦

Vanderbilt temporarily pauses grad admission, cites attacks on NIH funding. vanderbilthustler.com/2025/02/15/gra…

Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? wesa.fm/health-science…

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Any ideas what might happen with existing NIAID grants or submitted applications? Or how might this be related to study section cancelations?

Very cool!

A new preprint is out at bioRxiv! Here we performed round-robin pseudovirus experiments using 53 sarbecoviruses and ACE2s from 17 mammals to elucidate the ACE2 tropism of sarbecoviruses in natural hosts🦇, potential intermediate hosts🦫 & humans👤 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thank you Lefteris for inviting Dr. Harmit Singh Malik for a talk at Emory University! Honored to have a great scientist, mentor and educator visiting us!

Together with talented Visiting Scientists from Democritus Univ of Thrace🇬🇷: Maria Gaitanidou and Nick Kesesidis. Pizza-party-day to celebrate Maria's last day in the lab, before leaving to start PhD studies at Max Planck Institute in Germany. Thanks and best of luck Maria👋🙏!

Isabella Kaufman (accepted-Yale grad school) and Rachael Lee (Med School applicant) are the latest distinguished Lab undergraduate Researchers who we will be missed dearly as they move on to exciting careers! (Two of my ~140 academic children😄)🥳👏👋👋👏👏😁😄