Check out this Vassar story written about the protein crystallography CURE developed by Dr. McLaughlin: https://www.vassar.edu/news/students-and-professor-unlock-keys-protein-function-disease-causing-bacteria This course is supported by her Cottrell Scholars Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemists-amid-coronavirus-five-years-on-krystle-mclaughlin/4021061.article
Our proposal was awarded giving us funding for two students and Dr. McLaughlin to be trained in cryo-EM techniques at the National Center for Cryo-EM Access and Training (NCCAT) at the New York Structural Biology Center (NYSBC)! We had a 3-day visit, working one-on-one with cryo-EM scientist Dr. Eugene Chua, to gain skills for preparation Read more about Cryo-EM Training and Data Collection @NCCAT (Dec 2024)[…]
I was thrilled to be back in Chapel Hill for the annual IRACDA Conference in June 2024. I was invited to be part of the Alumni Panel, as a former SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow. It was overall an excellent experience getting to hear talks about pedagogy and exciting research!
I had a great time at the Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference this past June in Andover NH! It was my 1st time attending one and I was honored to give an invited talk. I spoke about our lab’s work on characterizing pCU1 TraK in the Infectious Diseases session. The science & scientists there were Read more about Dr. McLaughlin Gives Invited Talk at 2024 Bioorganic Gordon Research Conference[…]
Our paper titled: “Structural and functional characterization of FabG4 from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis” was accepted for publication in April 2024 to Acta Crys F! Congrats to student co-first authors Xinping Ran ’22 and Prashit Parikh ’21. Our structure was highlighted on the cover (above) and we were interviewed as part of new initiative: “Interviews with Authors”. Read more about MsFabG4 paper accepted for publication![…]
Our group attended the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) DiscoverBMB Meeting for the first time in San Antonio TX this past March. We were part of a big Vassar College contingent with fifteen students and four professors! I am so very proud of both my students, Maedot Abate and Jordan Norman, who Read more about McLaughlin Lab Attends ASBMB Meeting; Congrats to Jordan Norman ’24 For Her Poster Prize![…]
So excited to tell you about our latest paper published in Plasmid! The analysis of the crystal structure in this paper was completed by Faith Northern VC ’22, 4th in author list, as part of her Vassar College senior biochemistry research! Congrats! Link to paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1i8n2,3Mq7BJX Paper summary: We study conjugative plasmid transfer (CPT) as Read more about New paper on pSK41 Cop published in Plasmid[…]
Dr. McLaughlin had a phenomenal time visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemistry department as the seminar speaker on October 16th, 2023! It was also so wonderful to have Naike Ye (Vassar College alum ‘21 & her former advisee!) as a guide for the day and to hear about all he has accomplished already for his PhD research Read more about Dr. McLaughlin Gives Invited Talk at MIT Chemistry[…]
Very proud of this work we just published in Acta Crystallographia F! The research was done by undergrad students in Dr. McLaughlin’s protein crystallography class in Spring ’23, which is run as a CURE (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience). Students analyzed an unpublished crystal structure from the @SSGCID, then designed/ran experiments to test function. The first three authors Read more about Protein Crystallography CURE, Publication, Highlighted in Acta Crys F Editorial & Cover![…]