Chemistry World highlights MicroED
British news magazine Chemistry World traces the history of MicroED from its beginnings with aquaporin to its promising future, where dedicated instruments streamline the method even further.
Johan Unge to chair ACA MicroED special interest group
Johan Unge was elected chair of the MicroED special interest group. He will transition to chair The Structural Science Society’s interest group in 2025.
Johan Hattne chair elect of ACA Best Practices special interest group
Johan Hattne is the new chair elect for the Best Practices special interest group of the ACA: The Structural Science Society. He is slated to chair the group next year.
Maymay Mu awarded an Audree Fowler fellowship
Maymay Mu is one of the 2024 Audree Fowler fellows. She is awarded the fellowship for her work on the structure of SLC38A9.
Tamir Gonen receives the 2024 Carl Brändén Award
Tamir Gonen is the recipient of the 2024 Carl Brändén Award from The Protein Society. The award is presented for his exceptional contributions to education and the study of membrane proteins. Tamir Gonen has led the development of novel methods in structural biology, particularly MicroED, and trained thousands of biochemists and structural biologists around the world in the use of this powerful technique.
Callie Saeher awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein fellowship
Callie Saeher is awarded a postdoctoral national research service award fellowship from the National Institutes of Health for her work on mTORC1 activation. The purpose of the fellowship is to train promising candidates to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields.
Emma Danelius and Xuelang Mu to deliver keynote talks at ACA 2023
Emma Danelius and Xuelang Mu have been selected to deliver keynote talks in the transactions symposium at this year’s annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. The meeting will be held in Baltimore, MD in July 2023.
Cody Gillman wins Etter award
Cody Gillman was awarded the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award by the American Crystallographic Association for his work on the Design and Implementation of Suspended Drop Crystallization.
Cody Gillman awarded an Audree Fowler fellowship
Cody Gillman is one of five 2022 Audree Fowler fellows. The fellowship was awarded for his excellent work on determining the structure of a toxin‐antibody complex by MicroED.
Michael Martynowycz receives the Sidhu Award
Michael Martynowycz is the recipient of the 2022 Sidhu Award from the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society for the scientific impact of his work on methods development and his dedication to advancing the field of crystallography through MicroED. The award, in memory of Professor Surhain S. Sidhu, honors significant contributions to the science of crystallography and/or diffraction by a scientist in the early stage of their career.