Construction of our new microscope lab has started

Congratulations to UC Berkeley astrochemist Jennifer Bergner, winner of this year's Annie Jump Cannon Award in #Astronomy from the #AAS buff.ly/48PXPWM College of Chemistry American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Kelvin Lau 🧬🧪💎 Apoferritin at 6Å from cryo-Ptychography (Berk Kucukoglu), and at 1.09Å (!!!) from plain cryo-EM (Alex Myasnikov and his amazing team at the DCI-Lausanne.org). Collaboration with Colin Ophus, Carsten Sachse and Knut Müller-Caspary.

Serious lab construction for our new microscope!

Laser breadboards are back on the laser phase-contrast microscope

Theia's (new phase-plate microscope's) lab is being finished. Looks like we'll be ready for the installation in April!

It cannot be done, they said.. It's too flexible, they said.. 😁 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #NPC #teamtomo #integrativemodeling by Digvijay Singh Neelesh Soni Josh Hutchings Ignacia Echeverria et al. Great collaboration w/ Qiang Guo, Brian Chait, Javi Fernandez-Mtnz, Rout Lab Andrej Sali lab

New camera being installed

Working 24 years in cryo-EM now, with an engineering background, it was such a great honor, and fantastic learning experience, visiting Holger’s lab. Greatest most knowledgeable team I’ve ever met!

Concrete drilling for gravity experiments with a lattice atom interferometer

Today in #PHY595 #QuantumComputing: The final exam! It's comprehensive but emphasizes the more recent material on quantum protocols and quantum algorithms.

Stanley Hall's newest resident has arrived: Theia! The new Thermo Fisher microscope on the UC Berkeley campus will be outfitted with the laser phase plate. Thanks to Mueller Lab with support from CZI Science!

Lattice-based atom interferometry conducts precision measurement news.berkeley.edu/2024/06/26/wit…

Cryo-EM phase-plate images reveal unexpected levels of apparent specimen damage biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

Interesting study using a Fabry-Pérot resonator #laser #PhasePlate for #cryoEM from Mueller Lab & Bob Glaeser

Direct interaction between a pulsed #laser beam and #ultrafast-timed #electron packets in free space may enhance contrast in #cryoEM and #cryoET The latest cool image of this experiment from Daniel X. Du Fitzpatrick Laboratory Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

Leaving China now after the tomography conference and giving talks. It's very impressive with a lot of smart hard working people doing ambitious science. The infrastructure also strikes as new and well designed, clearly research is the priority here. Wish you all luck 🤞 🥠 🤞

Singing off on Theia - Laser phase plate installation can begin!

It won't be long and physics will be overrun by AI slop, mark my words. It's a disaster waiting to happen for academia that has been optimizing for quantity over quality for decades, you can basically see it coming. x.com/getjonwithit/s…