This question will be answered by Andrea Thorn and her students in the second round of the award-winning lecture "human made catastrophes".We are looking forward to the new semester and hopefully to a lot of fun and science! We are still looking for a show-runner: https://thorn-lab.com/job/student-assistant-m-f-d/
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Our article "Structural biology of SARS-CoV-1/SARS-CoV-2 main protease" is now available for access! https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PYHA4HHGW54RIT3IQB8Q/full?target=10.1080/0889311X.2023.2222275
We are very excited that IUCr 2029 will be coming to Berlin!! Picture: Manfred Weiss and Tina Weigel presenting the Berlin bid for IUCr2029 at the general assembly at IUCr2023 in Melbourne
Every year, the Hamburg Government recognizes outstanding and innovative performances at its higher education institutions with The Hamburg Teaching Prize. Andrea was officially awarded the prize for 2023 last Friday in the Rathaus. It is a great honor and the lecture was a lot of fun (and serious science). https://www.min.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fakultaet/aktuelles/2023/0712-lehrpreise-2022-2023.html
The new CCP4 reference paper is out and guess who is one of the co-authors 🙂https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/iucr/doi/10.1107/S2059798323003595(Our standalone tool AUSPEX which utilizes ML to analyse diffraction data, is part of CCP4 since 2017)
Coronavirus accessory proteins were thought non-essential but this may not be true. Read about it in our newest article, summarizing what we learned! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0889311X.2023.2173744
Thornlab was in television! In "nano" we explained how structural biology is used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.Watch it here: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/210202-sendung-nano-102.html (Picture on top by courtesy of ESRF Grenoble)
How can we use insights from industry to improve error culture in structural biology? Read in our newest paper! http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?ai5006
Dr. Andrea Thorn from the Institute of Nanostructure and Solid State Physics has been awarded the "FEBS National Lecture Award" of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies at the "25th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure and Function" in Tällberg, Sweden. The "National Lectures" of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) recognize the achievements of […]
In recognition of her work on improved analysis of diffraction data of macromolecular crystals and recognition of structural elements of biological macromolecules in electron cryo-microscopy maps using neural networks, Dr Thorn has been awarded the Max von Laue Prize 2022. The German Society for Crystallography (DGK) gives this price annually to reward outstanding scientific work […]