NBS-nytt
01.06.2016
This year I am enjoying one of the best rewards that exist in academia: a sabbatical!! The first half of the year at CNB-CSIC in Madrid, and from the end on June I will be in USC, Los Angeles.
Time has actually flown by and I cannot believe that I am already finishing my time in Madrid, now that the new "near-atomic resolution cryo-EM" was working properly. It is amazing what this technique can achieve. Cryo-EM is no longer playing a complementary role to X-ray crystallography and NMR in the quest to determine 3D structures of macromolecules and their complexes, but is truly contributing with new structures, solved without the need of crystals or very high concentrations of protein. Last year we witnessed the break of the 3-Å resolution barrier for cryo-EM, which was elected the Method of the year 2015 by Nature Methods. Being at CNB-CSIC allows me to test if these exciting opportunities can benefit the structural characterization of 'my favourite enzyme', but also gives me the possibility to observe how other groups and departments organize and work on a daily basis - apparently there are large differences on the dynamics of a day in the lab between Spain and Norway, but if you see and hear carefully you realize it is only (noisy) appearance; what and how you do it is not so different.
These months have also included a lot of traveling. Back and forth trips to meet the group and attend research and familiar duties in Bergen. But also quite a bit within Spain s
Gå til medietThese months have also included a lot of traveling. Back and forth trips to meet the group and attend research and familiar duties in Bergen. But also quite a bit within Spain s