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Exploring the Molecular Architecture of the Cell

Upcoming Events

• May 5: Ben will give a GW4 Webinar hosted by Exeter.
• May 27: Ben will give a virtual talk at the Penn Structural Biology Symposium.
• May 29: Ben will give a virtual talk at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Photosynthesis.
• Jun 1: Ben will give a virtual seminar at The Gregor Mendel Institute.
• Jun 9: Ben will give a GBM Lunch Lecture.
• Jul 5: Ben will give a plant membrane organization webinar to labs in Lyon, Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Dijon.
• Jul 6: Ben will give a virtual seminar to the Helmholtz Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology.
• Jul 7: Ben will give a virtual talk at MMC2021.
• Jul 12-14: Molecular Life of Diatoms. (Online)
• Aug 29- Sep3: Chlamy Meeting!  Île des Embiez, France. 
  ​Still on... fingers crossed!
• Sep 13-16: Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium. Göttingen (Online).
• Sep 27-28: Helmholtz Pioneer Campus retreat.
• Oct 5-8: Nordic Photosynthesis Congress. Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Oct 13-16: European Cilia Conference. Cologne, Germany.
• Nov 8: McGill Center for Structural Biology Symposium. Montreal, Canada.

CANCELLED:

• Jul 21-23: CCM10 Meeting!  Princeton, NJ, USA
• Jul 25-30: Photosynthesis GRC!  Sunday River, ME, USA.
• Sep 12-15: Electron Tomography Congress!  Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

News

• Published in Nature Plants: Ben and Wojciech had fun writing a News & Views on chloroplast "greening" and the light-induced step of chlorophyll biosynthesis.  [Apr 2021]

• Published in Nature Plants: Our collaboration with the Rudack, Schuller, and Nowaczyk labs, revealing the first high-resolution structure of a PSII assembly intermediate. How to build Nature's unique water-splitting machine.  [Apr 2021]

• We were a awarded an HFSP Grant with Roberta Croce and Doran Bennett to explore the adaptation of Chlamydomonas thylakoid membranes to changing light intensities!  [Apr 2021]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for Michigan State University. Thank you for hosting, Peter Lundquist!  [Feb 2021]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for the University of Liverpool. Thank you for hosting, Luning Liu!  [Feb 2021]

• Wojciech expertly guided us on a molecular tour of native thylakoid membranes at the Monthly Webinar Series on Chloroplasts and Mitochondria (WebCaM).  [Jan 2021]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for CNRS-IBMP Strasbourg. Thank you for hosting, Philippe Giegé!  [Jan 2021]

• Ben and the lab were selected to join the EMBO Young Investigator Program!  [Dec 2020]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for Washington University in St. Luis. Thank you for hosting, James Fitzpatrick!  [Dec 2020]

• Published in Nature Plants: Our collaboration with the Jonikas Lab revealing the the structural interactions between the carbon-fixing enzyme Rubisco and the multivalent linker EPYC1 that drive phase separation of the pyrenoid.   [Nov 2020]

• Manon Demulder has joined our group!  Manon will lead our explorations into the pyrenoid, a phase-separated microcompartment in the algal chloroplast that performs efficient carbon fixation.  Welcome to the team!!  [Nov 2020]

• Ben enjoyed virtually teaching a graduate course on cryo-ET at the Basel Biozentrum.   [Nov 2020]

• Published in EMBO Journal:  Our collaboration with the Guichard / Hamel Lab exploring the evolutionary diversity of the centriole's cartwheel and proximal triplet microtubules is on this week's cover!!   [Nov 2020]

• Petr Chlanda virtually visited us for the HPC Webinar Series. He give a jaw-dropping talk on visualizing the stages of SARS-Cov-2 assembly inside cells by cryo-ET.  [Oct 2020]

• Hugo left the crowd speechless with his talk at the UK Cilia Network e-symposium.  [Oct 2020]

• Ricardo gave electron microscopy lecture for the Paul Scherrer Institute.  [Oct 2020]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for Stockholm University. Thank you for hosting, Ville Kaila!  [Oct 2020]

• CONGRATULATIONS!!
  to Dr. Tilak Kumar Gupta for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis!  [Jul 2020]
  
  
• If you are curious about the rainbow basket on his head, check out this preprint on the structure and function of VIPP1.  [Aug 2020]

• Ben gave a virtual seminar for the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH). Thank you for hosting, Stefan Pfeffer!  [Jun 2020]

• Ricardo was profiled on the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus website.  [May 2020]

• "The Bavarian from Berkeley":  Ben was profiled on the Helmholtz national website.  [May 2020]

• Ricardo Righetto has joined our team!  As our group's computational specialist, Ricardo will anchor our image analysis, while exploring new applications of deep learning to cryo-electron tomography.  Despite the closed border, Ricardo and his wife successfully arrived from Basel, with a nice cruise across the Bodensee. Welcome to Munich!!   [Apr 2020]

• Published in eLife:
  ​A detailed view of the cell's solar panel.  We show how to map photosynthetic complexes into native thylakoid architecture. Congrats Wojciech!  [Apr 2020]

• Congrats Hugo for giving a great talk at the <Interact>2020 Conference!  [Feb 2020]

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• Ben had fun teaching (and learning!) at the the Vienna Cryo-EM Winter School.  [Feb 2020]

• Ben gave a guest lecture at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry. Thank you for hosting, Patrick Cramer!  [Feb 2020]

• Published in Science Advances: Our collaboration with the Guichard / Hamel Lab revealing the helical structure and molecular composition of an inner scaffold that holds the centriole together and helps it resist physical stresses.​ The inner scaffold is conserved in Paramecium, Chlamydomonas, Naegleria, and Humans!  [Feb 2020]

• Published in Plant, Cell & Environment: Our collaboration with the Schroda Lab characterizing the stress-induced  Chlamydomonas protein VIPP2, which forms rods and binds membranes.​ [Feb 2020]

• Ben gave a talk at the 3D Electron Microscopy of Organelles and Macromolecules workshop in Hong Kong.  Thank you for hosting, Byung-Ho Kang and Liwen Jiang!  [Jan 2020]

• Published in PNAS: Proteasomes and Cdc48 cluster together in non-membrane-bound degradation microcompartments that directly contact specialized ribosome-free regions of the ER membrane.  Is it ERAD by phase separation?​  [Jan 2020]

• Ben gave the plenary talk at the Christmas Bioenergetics Meeting in London.  Thank you for hosting, Guy Hanke!  [Dec 2019]

• ​Our Aquilos cryo-FIB is here.  What a great Christmas present!  #HugTheBox​  [Dec 2019]

• Published in MBoC: Our collaboration with the Avashti lab characterizing actin filaments in the green alga, Chlamydomonas.​  [Oct 2019]

• Ben gave a guest lecture at the Institut Curie.  Thank you for hosting, Daniel Lévy!  [Oct 2019]

• Ben gave a guest lecture at the MRC-LMB. Thank you for hosting, Andrew Carter!  [Oct 2019]

• Ben gave an interview to announce that the Cell Architecture Lab will be moving to the Pioneer Campus at Helmholtz Zentrum München in November 2019.  [Jul 2019]

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