Please join us in congratulating Dr. Melanie Ohi on this exceptionally well-deserved recognition. She will be giving the Almeida award lecture at the Biophysical Society Cryo-EM subgroup, Feb 21 from 1 - 5:30 pm.
Blanchard lab and I are looking for a driven postdoctoral fellow to lead our efforts combining single-molecule biophysics with cryo-EM to understand important mechanisms of novel genome-editors. We have an exciting project that addresses key questions in the field, see link below!
shorturl.at/rGioB
Almeida made transformative contributions despite never having had the opportunity to attend university, and her work went largely unrecognized until the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic brought her brilliance to the fore.
Dr. Melanie Ohi embodies the spirit of this award. A pioneering force in single-particle cryo-EM, she is widely respected for pushing the boundaries of both the method and its biological applications.
- combining single-molecule studies with cryo-EM
- developing new protein design tools using bioinformatics and structure-based tools
- using protein design to develop novel genome-editing tools.
- YOUR innovative ideas? Tell me!
As 2026 chair of the Biophysical Society Cryo-EM subgroup, I am thrilled to announce that Dr. Melanie Ohi has been selected as the recipient of the June Almeida Award: an honor recognizing women scientists whose leadership, scholarship, and mentorship have profoundly shaped the field of cryo-EM.
our lab is blessed to have 3 new postdoctoral fellow positions. we would welcome scientists interested in...
Please feel free to reach out to me: [email protected] with your CV and a few sentences on what you'd like to work on in the lab.
These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.
Nominations for the June Almeida award for Mid/Senior-Career Women in Cryo-EM are now open! Submit your nomination via this link www.biophysics.org/awards-fundi... by November 14th to recognize an exceptional woman in our community.
