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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
