Congratulations Axel for a stellar thesis defense! It has been a fun journey following you through your PhD, discovering new and better ways to look at life’s molecules! We’re excited to continue following your adventures in Boston with Philippine and Nausicaa :) Axel with his PhD committee: John Pauly, Ron Dror, Mike Dunne, Ellen Zhong, Gordon Wetzstein and Fred.
Mar 26, 2025
We had a great time at the West Coast Structural Biology Workshop 2025! Co-organized by Mike Thompson (UC Merced), Alec Follmer (UC Davis)and Sandra Mous (LCLS), the workshop was a great success with more than 100 early-career participants. from left to right: Doris, Fred, Kevin, Luis (Hekstra Lab, Harvard), Oliver and Alec. We are looking forward to the next edition in 2027!
Mar 10, 2025
To wrap up the Winter quarter, we had a Journal Club on Statistical Crystallography, where Fred presented the paper “Statistical crystallography reveals an allosteric network in SARS-CoV-2 Mpro” by TJ Lane and colleagues. It was a great opportunity to learn about allostery and the nascent field of statistical crystallography and to discuss the implications for what we do at LCLS. from left to right: Jay, Doris, James, Marc, Adi, Louis, Nikolaus, Kevin, TJ, Amine, Pierre-Louis, Nathan and Axel. This was the last meeting of the quarter, following amazing talks by Axel on ADP-3D, Louis on BayFAI, Nathan on PyPCA, as well as Jay on X-RAI! We also learned a great deal from the students through the “Things I learned” segment introduced by Doris, where Doris told us about the Welford’s algorithm, Nathan about Transformers, Louis about edge detection and Pierre-Louis about ray tracing! Looking forward to the Spring quarter!
