HWI News
BioXFEL’s 2024 Spring Symposium Takes Place at Arizona State University
HWI’s Education and Diversity Director Nicole Terranova spearheaded the coordination of the 2024 BioXFEL Spring Symposium at Arizona State University this week. Over 50 students and staff scientists were in attendance and presented, including our Chief Scientific...
HWI Education Director Organizes BioXFEL Workshops in Puerto Rico
Our Education and Diversity Director Nicole Terranova organized two workshops for BioXFEL (Biology with X-ray Free Electron Lasers) in Puerto Rico - one in Mayaguez (Feb 5-6) and the other in San Juan (Feb 7-8). HWI scientists Drs. Gabby Budziszewski and Edward Snell...
Dr. Paz publishes in Nature Communications
HWI scientist Dr. Aviv Paz was part of a team that published a paper entitled “Membrane potential accelerates sugar uptake by stabilizing the outward-facing conformation of the Na/glucose symporter vSGLT” in the journal Nature Communications. This work with scientists...
Fighting Drug Resistance in HIV/AIDS
Miranda Lynch, PhD Evolution of drug resistance drives destabilization of flap region dynamics in HIV-1 protease, Madhusudan Rajendran, Maureen C. Ferran, Leora Mouli, Gregory A. Babbitt, and Miranda L. Lynch. Biophysical Reports. Volume 3, Issue 3, 13 September 2023,...
Hauptman-Woodward Receives New Equipment
We are grateful to the James H. Cummings Foundation for funding Drs. Sarah Bowman, Miranda Lynch, Diana Monteiro, and Aviv Paz to purchase an anaerobic chamber. Some samples we work with are extremely sensitive to oxygen in the air and this chamber will allow us to...
Dr. Bacik Elected to Serve on CLS Users Executive Committee
Dr. John-Paul Bacik was recently elected to the Canadian Light Source (CLS) Users Executive Committee. Dr. Bacik, part of the HWI’s Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT), uses synchrotron light sources around the...
Drs. Keefe and Bowman Elected to US National Committee for Crystallography
We congratulate both Dr. Lisa Keefe for being elected as the new Vice Chair and Dr. Sarah Bowman for being elected as a member of the US National Committee for Crystallography (USNC/Cr). The USNC/Cr represents U.S. crystallographers in the International Union of...
Hauptman-Woodward’s Dr. Snell joins the International Union of Crystallography Book Series Committee
Dr. Edward Snell, Chief Scientific Officer at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI), has been appointed to the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Committee as a member of the Book Series Committee. The Committee recommends new book publications...
Keefe Named Recipient of 2023 Impact Argonne Award
Dr. Lisa Keefe, Executive Director of the IMCA-CAT, our HWI operated facility outside of Chicago, has been named a 2023 recipient of the Impact Argonne Award. The honor, awarded annually, recognizes notable achievements in one of the following areas while modeling...