Almost 3 years later and 2.5 years with a child in daycare. Only took 1 mitochondria Gordon Research Conferences with no one masked (tested positive two days after returning). Academic Mom, PhD #WomenInSTEM #grc #mito #mitogrc

Today I tried the Light ‘em up to set collection on a grid where i knew there were a lot of empty holes. It worked nicely! Look at all the crappy data I can skip! Thanks Wim Hagen for the tool. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

SmartScope now has a forum for discussion. Please join! groups.google.com/g/smartscope. Oh ...and also multi-shot per hole with automated pattern is in beta.

My in-person UC Davis biochem class was "ZOOM-bombed" today by a structural biologist David Dranow 🇮🇱 from UCB US. We made lemonade out of lemons. Students loved having you in class, David. (I stream via ZOOM to record & for those who have a hardship). youtu.be/MG_TaVkt9ws

SmartScope v0.9 collecting at a rate of 421 movies/h on R2/1, 7-shots per hole, very conservative 4.5um max beam-image shift. Setup time after the scope was aligned: 20 min. Fully automated from there. 😅Just need to improve the display of the targets at the medium mag now..

Great news our North Carolina Biotech Center Innovation Impact Grant (GII) was accepted. It's going to be amazing. @NCLifeSciences med.unc.edu/biochem/news/c…

I was considering switching my SmartScope.org Django to a JavaScript frontend until I discovered htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants (same thing)! I very much love to focus on writing python and have everything in one place.

Our paper is out! Congratulations to Dr. Cassandra Hayne Hayne Lab @RobinStanleyLab at Niel ! I had fun image processing this project! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Great work by Anna-Sophia Krebs in collaboration with Juan Perilla and Alberto Bartesaghi's labs, demonstrating the molecular architecture and conservation of an immature human endogenous retrovirus STRUBIOxford eBIC Beamline biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

happened IRL Me: I’m a breastfeeding mom so carrying milk/ice packs frozen solid Tsa: where is your baby Me: not with me…which is why I have to pump Tsa: well how we do know you’re really BF Me: if the baby were w me I wouldn’t have to pump @momademia

When you're at lunch and there's an atlas of the table on your leg. #SeeingCryoEMeverywhere 😅 #CryoEM

Out today from the Bartesaghi lab! nextPYP is a turn-key framework for single-particle cryo-ET that streamlines complex data analysis pipelines, from pre-processing of tilt series to high-resolution refinement, for efficient analysis of large datasets. nature.com/articles/s4159…

From having first-hand experience with this software, it is incredible. The tomo part particularly, fills a gap in the field. Never build a tomogram manually again. And for SPA preprocessing, you can't get faster than this with parallelization up to your cluster limits.

I received a broken litre of hot sauce from Walmart and other items that got ruined during shipping No offer to reship nor honor the prices at the time of purchase They offered a refund- that's it #doneWithWalmart #CustomerExperience Wouldn't have happened Target