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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...

Phyllis and Ziyuan receive Hoopes prize for undergraduate theses
We're excited to announce that two of our undergraduate students, Phyllis Zhang and Ziyuan Zhao, have received the prestigious Hoopes Prize from Harvard College for excellent undergraduate work. Find their theses bound and available in Lamont Library for...

Luis receives NSF GFRP
Congrats to Luis Aldama on being selected for the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Luis was one of just five MCO/MCB students selected for the prestigious award. The fellowship will support his graduate work in applying machine learning methods...

Ammaar named to Phi Beta Kapa
Congrats to Ammaar Saeed for being named to Phi Beta Kappa! Ammaar is inducted as a member of Harvard's "Junior 24." Phi Beta Kappa is America's oldest academic honor society, and rewards outstanding scholarly accomplishment. Read more
Phi Beta Kappa logo

Our new preprint: Native SAD Phasing at Room Temperature
In our new pre-print, we describe phasing via single-wavelength anaomalous diffraction (SAD) in three model systems at 295 K. SAD experiments are often performed at cryogenic temperatures to mitigate radiation damage. By estabilishing a data collection...
SAD phasing map (figure 2B)

Congrats to Jack for a successful defense!
Congrats to Jack Greisman for presenting his defense, "Resolving Correlated Motions in Proteins by X-ray Diffraction." Next up, Jack is off to D. E. Shaw Research in New York, where he will work on molecular dynamics simulations.