Maria Gorna’s time in our lab comes to an end

February 21, 2020 – We are sad to say goodbye to Maria, leaving back for Poland. We will miss you, thank you for coming to Pennsylvania. You helped us in many aspects, and we hope we contributed to your EM understanding. We will miss you, but you will remain a...

New Rotation Student in the Lab

January 13, 2020 – Sophia Dewing started her rotation in our lab. Welcome Sophia! You will have to endure JP’s chattiness for the upcoming weeks. Maybe this is a winning approach? Tire them until they have no choice but to join you?

Christmas break

December 21, 2019 – The year is over and we can mark the year 2019 as a success. The lab did not implode, things have progressed more than we expected and maybe a bit less than we’d hope in our wildest dreams. 2020 For the win!

End of rotation for Myrrh and Sayan

December 13, 2019 – Sayan and Myrrh spent in our lab six weeks, during which they witnessed a PI who gets overexcited by everything scientific. The excitement must have been contagious, because we will be seeing more of them in our lab next year!

Dr. Maria Górna

October 22, 2019- Dr. Maria Górna from the University of Warsaw was awarded a Fullbright STEM Impact Award and will be coming to our lab on January 6, 2020 to learn cryo-EM!  

Cold Spring Harbor

August 28, 2019- Jean-Paul presented a poster at the Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  

Talk at the Summer Symposium

August 1st, 2019 – Dr. Armache gave a talk at the 38th Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology at Penn State University. The talk was on “Electron cryo-microscopy structures of remodeler-nucleosome intermediate suggest allosteric control through the...