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Penn State Graduation! Congratulations to Andrew Charnesky, PhD and Sayan Das, Masters. You guys rock!

Proud to share our new paper with the Cramer lab (Patrick Cramer) in NatureStructMolBiol! Led by the wonderful Goran Kokic and George Yakoub with great collaborators. Elongation factor ELOF1 stably positions repair proteins on RNA polymerase II. nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Penn State president Bendapudi highlighting our Zika virus research and NIH funding at the Board of Trustees meeting is highly inspirational for the impactful research Penn State BMB CIDD Huck Institutes Huge thanks to my collaborator Dr. Indira Mysorekar psu.edu/news/administr…

Further evidence of high-resolution capabilities at 100 keV with a side-entry cryo holder using the Gatan Microscopy Alpine detector. It even performed better than the K3 on a small sample - Great collab with colleagues in Verba lab UC San Francisco biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Nearly $6 million in grants was awarded to Joyce Jose, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and her colleagues to study how the Zika virus transmits from mother mosquitoes to their babies. Read more about their work at buff.ly/4by27E4

The Hafenstein Lab members on their way to the Keystone meeting! Caroline Langley, Precious Ebere, Sayan Das, Hyunwook Lee, and Kyle Messina. Sayan? Where are the posters?

Kicking off the 2024 Cold Spring Harbor CryoEM course CSHL Courses! It’s going to be a grueling but amazing 2 weeks!

CryoEM keystone meeting: Precious Ebere, Caroline Langley, Kyle Messina, Sayan Das, Hyunwook Lee representing Hafenstein Lab at Lake Tahoe! Looking good!

Caroline and Hyunwook at their posters!

Precious, Kyle, and Sayan at their posters - Keystone cryoEM meeting!

Benchmarking the Krios G4 here at KAUST gave us this nice 1.42Å map. Waters, hydrogens and waters with hydrogens. See more here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our Progres method for fast protein structure searching can now search the AlphaFold database TED domains at Dali-level accuracy in a tenth of a second per query on CPU. (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This photo was like Proust's madeleine for me. I remember the day they wrote "Jason" on one of the cardboard boxes in the back left of the photo, the day the blue flow cytometer to his right arrived, watching Christian Nelson (now prof @ SUNY Cortland) tin-foil that FPLC...

Kyle, Caroline, Ben and I are on our way to the picornavirus meeting!

FASEB meeting: Hafenstein Lab: Hyunwook Lee, Caroline Langley, Sayan Das, Precious Orji, Ben Waddey, Susan, Kyle Messina, Jenny Boyle, Preston McCourt (left to right)

Hafenstein Lab on the way to FASEB

At FASEB virus structure meeting Precious and Sayan won awards for their short talks! Well done! 😎

Enjoyed my visit to Austin for the MN Bioimaging Symposium at the Hormel Institute. The talks and science were great and I even won 12 hrs of Krios time! Thanks to Susan Hafenstein and committee for organizing! #cryoEM