News & Fun

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

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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.

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

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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).

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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!

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Vincent Chu joins the lab for his dissertation research!

We've been remiss in taking pictures of people...but not of food. Evidence of Qing's birthday celebrations (March 10) and Tex-Mex following the Protein Transport Across Membranes GRC.

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Among other holidays, today's Mike's birthday! This month, we've been excited about taking advantage of an afternoon lab meeting, 3D printing, and matching outfits (maroon is a popular color).

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Vincent Chu starts a rotation in the lab.

Welcome to new postdoctoral fellow, Mike McKenna!

Our research on stop codon recognition is supported by the Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program.

Our methods paper on reconstituting translational arrest pathways is online!

Holiday lab game day! A (probably rigged) game of Settlers and some fun rounds of Telestrations...though Sage didn't quite make it to the end.

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Our work on protein triage is supported by the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research.

Sage has figured out how to open the door. Though she likes to mope about being leashed when left alone now, life in the office still isn't so bad.

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Korean food, matcha green tea cake, and the first official pot of lab coffee to reward ourselves for completing the Big Sink Challenge and to send off Matthew on the last day of his rotation.

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Celebrating Alex's birthday (Nov. 3) with pies!

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Lab (and friends, including Sergey Ovchinnikov from across the river) outing to the aquarium and on a duck tour! 

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Great science and (some evidence of) fun at the Cell Bio retreat.

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It's the day before the Cell Bio retreat, so the lab is working hard...on carving our poompkin!

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Appreciating our hardworking postdocs in the new kitchen booths!

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BBS student Matthew Yip begins a rotation in the lab.

Lab break for the solar eclipse!

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