HWI News
Keefe Elected to Board of the AIP
Dr. Lisa J. Keefe has been elected by the Council of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) to serve as a director on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Dr. Keefe is Vice President for Advancing Therapeutics at...
Dr. Bowman Publishes in Acta Crystallographica C
Last November, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute scientist Sarah EJ Bowman, the director of the National Crystallization Center, was an invited speaker and participant in the Electron Diffraction Symposium and Workshop at the National Center for CryoEM...
Dr. Lynch Publishes in Biophysical Journal
Miranda Lynch at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and a team led by collaborator Gregory Babbitt at Rochester Institute of Technology have just published a paper in Biophysical Journal describing ATOMDANCE. ATOMDANCE is a new user-interfaced suite of...
Hauptman-Woodward Institute Scientist Participates in Study of Protein Folding Mechanisms
Dr. Daniel Gewirth, an Investigator at the Hauptman-Woodward Institute, has participated in a study that examined the way in which proteins are activated in the human body. Once proteins are synthesized from the information encoded in the DNA of a gene, they must be...
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...