# Hekstra Lab ![Lab Group Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum7221/files/hekstralab/files/labphotospring2022.jpeg) 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](https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/) and the [School of Engineering & Applied Sciences](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/) ## Latest News [### MatchMaps paper and SBGrid seminar ](/news/matchmaps-paper-and-sbgrid-seminar) July 17, 2024 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! ](/news/new-pre-prints-hekstra-lab) August 02, 2024 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! ](/news/congrats-maggie-defending-her-thesis) April 26, 2024 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. [### Congrats to John Russell, Ph.D. for successfully defending his thesis! ](/news/congrats-john-russell-phd-successfully-defending-his-thesis) July 20, 2023 We're excited to share that our graduate student John Russell successfully defended his thesis today. John's Ph.D. work involved developing a system for live-cell time-lapse metabolomics of yeast cells via Raman microscopy. We wish John the best of luck... [### Watch Kevin's SBGrid Consortium seminar! ](/news/watch-kevins-sbgrid-consortium-seminar) May 17, 2023 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... [### Ammaar receives scholarship to study at University of Cambridge ](/news/ammaar-receives-scholarship-study-university-cambridge) May 30, 2023 Huge congrats to Ammaar Saeed on graduating from Harvard College! Next up, Ammaar has received the Herchel Smith Postgraduate Scholarship in the Sciences to pursue an MPhil at University of Cambridge. [ All news arrow\_circle\_right ](/news)