Recent Developments


July 21, 2021 A warm congratulations to Dr. Callie Glynn, our lab's very first Ph.D., on a successful dissertation defense! Best of luck with your new position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hyman lab at Harvard Medical School.
July 4, 2021 Congratulations to Jess and Becky on passing their qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy.
June 16, 2021 Our work on antibody-based inhibition of mammarenaviruses is published in J. Virol.
June 4, 2021 Congratulations to Marcus on receiving the department's Postdoctoral Research Award. Best of luck with your new position as senior cryo-electron microscopist at the Rosalind Franklin Institute! We'll miss you.
January 6, 2021 Our work on structural elucidation of a charge-transfer complex is published in Org. Lett.

December 27, 2020 Our protocol on ab initio determination of peptide structures by ED is published in Methods in Molecular Biology.
June 5, 2020 Congratulations to Sam and Maria on receiving the Whitcome Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Molecular Biology.
June 5, 2020 Congratulations to Jess on on receiving the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Predoctoral Fellowship.
June 4, 2020 Congratulations to Jorge on receiving the department's Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biochemistry.
June 1, 2020 Congratulations to Ted on receiving the department's Dissertation Year Fellowship.
May 27, 2020 Congratulations to Callie on receiving the department’s Roberts A. Smith Excellence in Research Award.
May 27, 2020 Congratulations to Ambarneil on receiving the department’s Michael E. Jung Award for Excellence in Teaching.
May 21, 2020 Jorge and Maddy present their work at UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Showcase.
May 8, 2020 Congratulations to Ambarneil and Sam on passing their qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy.
April 13, 2020 Our cryo-EM structure of a human prion fibril with a hydrophobic, protease-resistant core is published in NSMB.
April 10, 2020 Our work on scanning nanobeam electron-diffraction tomography (nanoEDT) is published in IUCrJ.
April 4, 2020 Congratulations to Marcus on receiving the MSA's Microscopy and Microanalysis Postdoctoral Scholar Award.
March 30, 2020 Congratulations to Sam on receiving an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
February 12, 2020 We are honored to receive support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

October 25, 2019 We are honored to receive support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
September 16, 2019 Congratulations to Ted on receiving the department’s George Gregory Fellowship.
September 6, 2019 Our work on structural elucidation of reactive organometallic species via ED is published in ACS Cent. Sci.
June 1, 2019 Congratulations to Callie on receiving the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship.
July 26, 2019 Our collaborative effort on cryo-EM structures of amyloid-beta segments is published in Nat. Comm.
May 17, 2019 Congratulations to Maria, Logan, and Natalie on passing their qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy.
April 25, 2019 Congratulations to Maddy on receiving a U.S. Department of Energy Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
April 8, 2019 Congratulations to Maria on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
January 24, 2019 Our work on racemic electron crystallography is published in IUCrJ.
January 18, 2019 Our work on mapping nanoscale mosaicity in peptide crystals via scanning electron nanodiffraction is published in Nature Comms. Biol.

Summer 2018 Congratulations to Logan on receiving the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Predoctoral Fellowship.
Summer 2018 Congratulations to Maria and Natalie on being selected as NIH Cellular and Molecular Biology Trainees.
Summer 2018 Congratulations to Callie and Ted on passing their qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy.
November 2, 2018 Our work on structural elucidation of small molecules via ED is published in ACS Cent. Sci.
September 23, 2018 We are honored to receive support from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
June 2018 Congratulations to Evelyn for graduating from UCLA and traveling to UCSF to pursue her Ph.D.
May 1, 2018 Our work on analyzing global and site-specific radiation damage in cryo-EM is published in Structure.
April 3, 2018 Congratulations to Ambarneil on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
April 2, 2018 Congratulations to Evelyn on receiving an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
January 15, 2018 Our cryo-EM structure of a bank vole prion protofibril is published in NSMB.

Summer 2017 We are excited to join the STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center at UCLA.
June 21, 2017 Congratulations to Callie on being selected as an NIH Cellular and Molecular Biology Trainee.
June 12, 2017 Congratulations to Marcus on receiving the QCBio Collaboratory Fellowship.
May 25, 2017 We are honored to receive support from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
April 7, 2017 We are honored to receive support from the Searle Scholars Program.
Spring 2017 We are excited to join the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics.
November 2016 Congratulations to Evelyn on being accepted into the i2 Undergraduate Research Program.
June 2016 Our lab opens in Boyer Hall.