Tom Terwilliger, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientist and New Mexico Consortium affliate, recently taught a class titled, Cryo-EM and Crystallography in the Forefront of Structural Biology held on September 4-5, 2019 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging structural biology technique. In cryo-EM, the biological sample is prepared
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Trait Biosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company based out of Los Alamos, NM. In recent news, Trait Biosciences congratulates their Chief Science Officer, Dr. Richard Sayre, and a team of industry scientists at the New Mexico Consortium. This congratulations is for their publication of the article “Fine-tuning the Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Apparatus for Improved Photosynthetic
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Andre Teixeira, of the New Mexico Consortium, is one of several authors on a new publication in Toxins titled Recombinant Antibodies against Mycolactone. This research strives to find better methods for fast and easy detection of the disease Buruli ulcer. Buruli ulcer (BU) is a debilitating and disfiguring tropical disease caused by the slow growing
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Geoff Reeves and colleagues have recently published 5 new papers in the last quarter. Reeves is a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow with the Space Science Applications group and a New Mexico Consortium affiliate. Reeves is currently involved in the Van Allen Probes mission to study the Earth’s radiation belts and specifically how particles
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One joint project currently taking place at the New Mexico Consortium titled Microimaging/Modeling of Retinal Responses Measured with Laser Magnetometer is funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. This project is a collaboration between LANL Staff Scientist and NMC Affiliate Igor Savukov, NMC Research Scientist John George, LANL Staff Scientist and NMC
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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the New Mexico Consortium are concerned with archiving scholarly work done over the internet. In the past, research communication was a paper-based endeavor and over time scholars have transitioned to using web-based methods for communicating and sharing their work. Increasingly, scholars across disciplines and throughout the research
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Shovon Mandal, an Associate Research Scientist at the New Mexico Consortium (NMC), specializes in algal ecology and biotechnology. He received his PhD in Agricultural & Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where he worked on algal physiology and biodiesel production. Prior to that, Mandal obtained his BS in Life Science and his
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The New Mexico Consortium takes great pleasure in announcing that the STEVE/Aurorasaurus research team is being awarded NASA GSFC’s 2018 Robert H. Goddard Group Honor Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science. The STEVE/Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, studies the northern lights or
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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) have created the largest simulation of an entire gene of DNA. This simulation required modeling one billion atoms and will help scientists better understand and develop cures for cancer and other diseases. Karissa Sanbonmatsu, a LANL researcher and NMC affiliate, states “It
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Symposium on Immunology of Human Diseases Supported by New Mexico Consortium and Los Alamos National Laboratory Venue: Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, NM, USA Dates: July 28-31, 2019 Symposium Home Page and Registration Info Immune systems, including both innate and adaptive immunity, sense, signal, and counter dangers posed by deadly pathogens, cancer, and
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