💎Meet Prof Naomi Chayen, protein crystallisation pro + inspirational innovator Imperial College London. One of Chayen’s inventions, ‘Naomi’s nucleant’, can help crystallise 20 proteins+is cited in ~1,800 entries on Protein Data Bank. New Wikipedia page:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Cha… 🇮🇱🇬🇧 #WomenInSTEM

Great work by former postdoc Tat Cheng and collaborators!

Some of my PhD research (@xiongosome) is out in Structure today! I haven't wanted to pick up a pipette since I ran all those gel samples... thankfully I no longer have to! cell.com/structure/full…

Big congrats to Brady and the ~Capsid Corps~ on their Cell Host & Microbe paper, out today! Brady et al spent years perfecting soluble capsid platforms that recapitulate different interfaces of the capsid lattice - a huge resource for #HIV biochemistry! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ZZEg6t8JEYt…

Also out today, Ivy’s companion paper in Cell Reports with more detailed information about the #HIV cofactor FEZ1! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

And this month’s Structure cover art is from our collaborator Juan Perilla Univ. of Delaware — an illustration of the capsid-binding factor MxB to accompany Sarah Smaga’s paper #SciArt

Researchers describe building blocks of HIV’s protective shell bit.ly/33vKYYJ Yong Xiong Lab

Xiong lab's latest research progress on HIV-1 nuclear import in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology and PNAS. Yale MB&B Yale Cell Biology Yale School of Medicine YaleMicroPath doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… nature.com/articles/s4159…

Remember, tomorrow at 9 am is the Annual Yale Biophysics and Structural Biology Symposium. Looking forward to many great talks, posters, and happy hour!

Snacks, donuts, and refreshments as some of us attend the CSHL Retroviruses meeting virtually! Great food paired with great science.

Congratulations to our very own Shravani Balaji for receiving the MB&B’s Excellence in Teaching Award!!!🎉🎉🎉

Celebrating a joint lab birthday of Yuekang and Christian! Thanks to Matt for baking a wonderful cake :)

Excited to announce our most recent paper is now published. We demonstrate that the mechanism of host translation inhibition is conserved across beta coronaviruses. doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

How many scientists does it take to install Yong's cryo-em monitor

Hope everyone had a happy holiday and is excited to get back to research 😅!

Science socials hosted by the Xiong Lab are always loved 🫀🫀🫀. Great job to all the lab members who made home-cooked food, and thanks for coming!

The Biophysics and Structural biology symposium had a great turnout and great science!

Congratulations to the poster and speaker winners for our biophysics and structural biology symposium! Including our very own Matt Cook!

Aerial footage of the biophysics bbq! Thank you to all that helped organize and attended!

Our high-resolution (2.2 Å) in situ structural work reveals details of translational landscape, with various cofactors and antitumor drug/inhibitor, all directly within human cells! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…