News & Fun

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.

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.

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!

BBS student Matthew Yip begins a rotation in the lab.

Lab break for the solar eclipse!

Welcome to new postdoctoral fellow, Qing Feng!

We had a great time hosting Alexey Amunts and hearing about new ribosome structures!

Sage the (spoiled) lab dog is adjusting to office life. We think she's a great mascot for curiosity.

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Alex and Susan had fun presenting their work at the Harvard Structural Biology retreat in Cambridge.

We had a great time hosting Manu Hegde for a quick weekend visit and red top seminar!

Susan is off to the FASEB "From unfolded proteins in the ER to disease" conference in Vermont.

BBS student Hanchen Zhou starts a rotation in the lab.

Today's the official start date of postdoctoral fellow Alex Keszei.

Our work on stop codon recognition is supported by the William F. Milton fund.