Welcome.
Welcome to the website of the Department of Structural Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Department of Structural Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is located in Biomedical Science Tower 3. We currently have twelve faculty members working in the fields of cryo-electron microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and biochemistry.
Learn more about our department and the exciting work that we do by navigating with the menu on the left. Do not hesitate to contact us if you do not find the information that you are looking for on these pages.
If you are interested in pursuing an advanced degree in Structural Biology please take a look site at the Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Graduate Program.
Angela M. Gronenborn, Ph.D.
UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair
Department of Structural Biology
Distinguished Professor of Structural Biology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Professor of Bioengineering
Swanson School of Engineering
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE.The Gateway NMR Conference brings together NMR practitioners to allow them to share their exciting research, to get to know each other, to share news and know-how, and to initiate potential collaborations. The third Gateway NMR conference was held on November 2nd and 3rd 2018, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. A total of 70 people were in attendance.
POSTER AWARDS. In addition to the oral sessions, we had poster sessions. There were total 19 students/postdocs posters, as well as four staff/scientist posters. All posters were excellent and highly competitive. Secret poster-judges selected three among the students/postdocs posters, based on the poster abstract and scientific quality of the posters. Please congratulate the awardees, Abigail, Bikash and Ananya.
FEBS J poster prize:
Abigail Leggett, Ohio State University
Bikash Sahoo, University of Michigan
Suraj Manrao Student poster prize:
Ananya Mukundan, University of Pittsburgh
FUTURE GATEWAY NMR CONFERENCE. The 4th Gateway NMR Conference will be co-organized by Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (University of Michigan) and David Weliky (Michigan State University) in the fall of 2019.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. We thank the Department of Structural Biology of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and its Chair Angela M. Gronenborn for support of the conference. We also thank Doug Bevan, Teresa Brosenitsch, Mike Delk, Dean Duncan, and Janet Zambotti in the Department of Structural Biology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for administrative assistance. We also thank financial support from Bruker, CIL, FEBS Journal, JEOL, MestreLab, SIAL, SSP, and Suraj Manrao Student Science Fund (listed below).
ORGANIZERS in 2018
Organizing committee members
Rieko Ishima (Chair); Rafael Brüschweiler; Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy; David Weliky
Local Scientific committee members
Rieko Ishima; Andrew P. Hinck; Damodaran Krishnan Achary
Financial Support
Spectroscopy Society in Pittsburgh
Suraj Manrao Student Science Fund
“Challenges of Big Data“
Interdisciplinary Summer School
University of Pittsburgh
August 13-17, 2018
We are organizing a small, pilot interdisciplinary graduate summer school on the Challenges of Big Data from August 13-17 at the University of Pittsburgh. We will accept between 12 and 20 science, philosophy, and history and philosophy of science graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The goal is to provide guidance and experience in interdisciplinary engagement, encompassing historical, philosophical and scientific perspectives. We will discuss challenges that big data generate, such as quantity vs. quality of big data, managing privacy and application, transparency and bias in the analysis of big data, and how to write from and for different disciplines. Following the group discussion each morning, students will divide into small groups to collaborate in writing a perspective-style article on some aspect of big data. We will meet from 10 am to 4 pm each day, concluding with a dinner on Friday, August 17.
Presentations by:
• Michael J. Becich, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine
• Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry
• David Danks, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Angela Gronenborn, Department of Structural Biology
• Sandra Mitchell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
How To Apply:
To apply, email the following information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Teresa Brosenitsch).
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Organizing Committee:
Sandra Mitchell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Structural Biology, School of Medicine; the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, the Office of the Provost and the Associate Dean's Office for Graduate Studies and Research, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.
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Ümit Akbey This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Solid-state NMR Functional amyloid fibrils in biofilms
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Guillermo Calero This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Jonathan Coleman This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Neuroscience Membrane transport proteins Cryo-Electron Microscopy |
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James Conway This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cryo-Electron Microscopy |
Andrew Hinck This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. NMR Studies |
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Rieko Ishima This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. NMR Studies |
Stella Sun This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cryo-Electron Tomography Cellular and molecular parasitology |
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