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Location: New Jersey
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After nine years at the head of the Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility, I am stepping down to focus on scholarship in the area of virology. I will be joining the Dept of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers as an associate professor in the fall.
Banning American scholars from writing articles or collaborating with counterparts in other countries is such a terminally idiotic form of shooting ourselves in the foot in terms of national competitiveness that it makes no sense to make this a term of receiving R&D grant support.
This is interesting...our experience is we get devitrification under similar thermal annealing cycles (although we used buffered protein solutions instead of whole cells, so one possible difference is the intrinsic cryoprotectant ability of cells)
One thing that drives me nuts in peer review is when there are concerns about a manuscript's fundamental significance or fit for journal and it gets pushed on to a 2nd or 3rd round of review before rejection. This is not something you can fix in an additional round of review!
Just saw the news that HHS has hounded coronavirus expert Ralph Baric into retirement. Baric is an accidental hero who was doing blue-sky research on animal coronaviruses before SARS thrust him into the role of protecting us from pandemics. Without his work, SARS-CoV-2 would have been far worse.
Editors, save yourselves and the rest of us time: only send something out for add'l rounds of review if addressing reviewer comments is material to the decision. If a reviewer tells you it's just not important science, you should decide after the first round whether you agree or disagree.
I suspect most cryo-EM experts leave unsaid that we all think filter paper blot-based plunge freezing will be obsolete in 10 years but we have no idea what technique will obsolete it.
the posting is live jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/270...
If you know someone who would be a good cryoEM facility manager, please encourage them to apply at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/273... .
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The scientist will lead the Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility (RCNF), a regional core facility providing access to techniques such as single-particle analysis, cryo-electron tomography, cryo-focus...
