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Callie Saeher awarded a travel grant to attend the annual ACA meeting

  • July, 2025
  • The grant was awarded by The Structural Science Society to support students and early-career scientists in attending the annual ACA meeting.

Tamir Gonen elected as an ACA fellow in the class of 2025

  • July 16, 2025
  • An ACA fellowship is a distinction that recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of crystallography or its applications. Election as an ACA fellow is a selective honor that reflects not only a sustained record of scientific achievement but also meaningful impact on the broader structural biology community. It is a strong endorsement of Tamir’s pioneering work in MicroED, and the influence it has had on the field.

Jieye Lin awarded prestigious Chan–Zuckerberg Global Scholar fellowship

  • July, 2025

University of Auckland awards Tamir Gonen a higher doctorate (DSc)

  • July, 2025
  • A Doctor of Science (DSc) degree signifies advanced expertise and significant contributions to a scientific or technical field. It is often seen as a more practice-oriented counterpart to the PhD, emphasizing applied research, innovation, and practical impact.

Chemistry World highlights MicroED

  • November 13, 2024
  • 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

  • November 11, 2024
  • 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

  • November 11, 2024
  • 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

  • October 1, 2024
  • 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

  • April 23, 2024
  • 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

  • April 21, 2023
  • 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

  • April 21, 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

  • April 13, 2023
  • 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

  • September 26, 2022
  • 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

  • August 19, 2022
  • 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.

A. L. Patterson Award

  • August 3, 2022
  • Tamir Gonen is awarded the 2023 A. L. Patterson Award from the ACA: The Structural Science Society for his pioneering work on the cryo-EM method MicroED. RefleXions published an essay on two decades of MicroED development.

Hermina Wieske awarded three travel scholarships

  • July 16, 2022
  • Hermina Wieske is awarded travel scholarships from Liljewalchs stipendiestiftelse, G. Bergmarks stiftelse, and Stiftelsen Bengt Lundqvists minne to visit the Gonen laboratory.

Cody Gillman obtains NIH T32 fellowship

  • July 8, 2022
  • Cody Gillman was awarded an NIH T32 fellowship in Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics at UCLA for his research on using MicroED to analyze membrane proteins in lipids.

Emma Danelius wins the 2022 Suzanne Eaton Memorial Prize

  • May 27, 2022
  • The prize is intended to recognize a scientist who displays the traits characterized by Dr. Suzanne Eaton, PhD: excellence in their work, passion for their discipline, and a caring personality for their colleagues.

Brent Nannenga receives the 2022 Margaret C. Etter Award

  • December, 2021
  • The application and development of the method continues to be major research focus for Brent Nannenga at ASU, who is the recipient of the 2022 Magret C. Etter Early Career Award.

Sara Weaver awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein fellowship

  • July, 2021
  • Sara Weaver wins a Kirschstein individual national research service award from the NIH. The fellowship is awarded to promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators.

Lisa Clark awarded training grant

  • March 1, 2021
  • Lisa Clark was awarded a UCLA Tumor Immunology Institutional Training Grant (NIH T32).

Xuelang (Maymay) Mu awarded a Jennifer S. Buchwald graduate fellowship in physiology

  • October, 2020
  • Xuelang (Maymay) Mu is the only recipient of the 2020 Jennifer S. Buchwald graduate fellowship in physiology. The fellowship was awarded for her outstanding work on studying the function and structure of the drSLC38A9 protein in the mTORC pathway.