News & Fun

We ventured out the evening of the Patriots' Championship Parade for Yan's goodbye dinner - celebrating a super productive 6 months (we're sad she has to go)! Also celebrating the end of a lecture series and Ivana's grant submission. Yay!

Welcome to BBS rotation student Yang Lim!

Happy Burns day! Impromptu whiskey gathering during recruitment weekend.

Starting off 2019 with some pizza, candlepin bowling, a post-holidays white elephant gift exchange, and belated birthday celebrations for Yan!

Welcome to our new rotation student, Michelle Ma!

Happy holidays!

Proud to contribute to another exciting story from the Hegde Lab showing how the EMC (ER membrane protein complex) modulates membrane protein topology, including that of many GPCRs. Check it out here!

Lab dinner to wish good luck to Qing, who is shifting to computational biology work across the Charles, and to our rotation students Sam and Dante. Thanks for all of the hard work and fun contributions!

Congratulations to Mike, who was selected for a fellowship from the American Heart Association! Our celebrations included some creative drink mixing.

Happy birthday to Alex and Dante!

Celebrations with the Brown lab!

Our paper with the Brown Lab describing unexpected ribosome-inactivating interactions in cryo-EM datasets is online!

It was a busy and fun week at the HMS Cell Biology retreat and celebrating Matthew's birthday.

Welcome to our new Biophysics rotation student, Dante Avalos.

Welcome to our new BBS rotation student, Samantha Sedor.

Our work on translational arrests is supported by the Vallee Foundation.

Check out some of Ivana's amazing pictures from our whale watching trip!

For this year's lab outing, we went to whale feeding grounds. We saw whales, seals, many dolphins, and a shark (!)...featuring a photobomb by a slightly creepy doll.

Happy birthday, Vincent! Celebrating youth, Switzerland, and RNADay.

Yan Cheng is joining our lab for 6 months as a visiting student from Fudan University. We're also happy to have Ivana Gasic from the Mitchison lab regularly crossing the Quad to work with us.

Summer brings World Cup fever, birthdays, and vacations (a.k.a more opportunities for food).

Check out our review on ribosomes and cryo-EM, written with Alan Brown.

Matthew Yip joins the lab for his dissertation research!

Amazing structural biology symposium today coinciding with a soft opening of our new cryo-EM facility! 

Jake Bridgers starts a rotation in the lab.

Congratulations to Qing for being selected for the Jane Coffin Childs fellowship!