Join Us at the Feb 24 Biophysical Society Job Fair

02/21/2021

Meet with team members to learn about open positions for Scientific Software Developers (Rutgers and UCSD), Postdoctoral Researchers (UCSD), and summer undergraduate researchers (virtually at Rutgers).

RCSB PDB is a world-renowned, scientific organization focused on serving technical, educational and other programmatic needs of scientific and research communities worldwide. RCSB.org serves millions of users in academia and industry. The RCSB PDB development team, located at UCSD/SDSC and Rutgers, creates leading edge web technologies targeted for scientific and educational audiences.

Join the RCSB PDB and participate in exciting projects with significant impact on the scientific community.

Can't attend the fair? Please Contact Us with any questions.

RCSB PDB Team in 2020

PDB50: Submit Posters by March 15

02/15/2021

Throughout 2021, the wwPDB will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PDB archive.

The inaugural symposium will be held May 4-5, 2021 in an event hosted by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and organized by the wwPDB Foundation.

This celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Protein Data Bank as the first open access digital data resource in biology will include presentations from speakers from around the world who have made tremendous advances in structural biology and bioinformatics.

Attendees are encouraged to participate in the virtual poster session and exhibition hall. Students and postdoctoral fellows will be eligible for poster awards.

Register and submit abstracts by March 15th, 2021 for reduced rates.

Speakers will include:

• Edward Arnold - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Helen M. Berman - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and University of Southern California
• Thomas L. Blundell - University of Cambridge
• Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin - Utrecht University
• Stephen K. Burley - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and University of California San Diego
• Wah Chiu - Stanford University
• Johann Deisenhofer - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Juli Feigon - University of California Los Angeles
• Angela M. Gronenborn - University of Pittsburgh
• Jennifer L. Martin - University of Wollongong
• Stephen L. Mayo - California Institute of Technology
• Zihe Rao - ShanghaiTech University and Tsinghua University
• Hao Wu - Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

The online sessions will take place between 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EST each day. The event will be recorded and made available to registered participants after the meeting.

Sponsorship opportunities are available; please contact the wwPDB Foundation for more information.

Molecular Valentines

02/11/2021

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Tribute to Rosalind Franklin

Atomic structures are being used to design effective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

Antibodies are our molecular watchdogs, waiting and watching for viruses, bacteria and other unwelcome visitors.

DNA is composed of a long linear strand of millions of nucleotides, and is most often found paired with a partner strand

Organisms from fireflies to bacteria use luciferase to emit light

Concanavalin A and Circular Permutation: For some proteins, clipped and reassembled sequences can produce the same 3D shape

Oxytocin has been called the "love hormone" (more at Scientific American)