Hekstra Lab

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Welcome to the website of Prof. Doeke Hekstra's research group at Harvard University. In the Hekstra lab, we're applying the tools of physics and chemistry to illuminate biological function.

The Hekstra lab is part of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

Latest News

MatchMaps paper and SBGrid seminar

Our manuscript describing MatchMaps, a python package for making non-isomorphous difference maps, has been accepted to the Journal of Applied Crystallography! You can find the paper here, and the online documentation for MatchMaps here. Additionally...

New pre-prints from the Hekstra Lab!

We're excited to share a series of new pre-prints from our lab regarding various aspects of crystallographic data processing. Our Laue-dials paper presents our new python package, laue-dials, for processing polychromatic X-ray diffraction data Our COLAV...

Congrats to Maggie on defending her thesis!

We're so proud of Maggie for successfully defending her thesis today! Next up, Maggie is off to Germany for a post-doc with Professor Arwen Pearson at Universität Hamburg.

Watch Kevin's SBGrid Consortium seminar!

Dr. Kevin M. Dalton gave a seminar for the SBGrid Consortium describing his software, careless, for scaling and merging crystallographic data with machine learning. The full seminar is recorded and available to watch on YouTube. You can also read about...