{"id":994,"date":"2025-04-21T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/?p=994"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:56:18","slug":"cryo-em-training-and-data-collection-nccat-dec-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/2025\/04\/21\/cryo-em-training-and-data-collection-nccat-dec-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryo-EM Training and Data Collection @NCCAT (Dec 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a 3-day visit, working one-on-one with cryo-EM scientist Dr. Eugene Chua, to gain skills for preparation of grids and collecting preliminary data on some of our proteins including TraK! We hope to return for more data collection in Summer 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/nccat-1024x112.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/nccat-1024x112.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/nccat-300x33.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/nccat-768x84.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/nccat.png 1318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"981\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0650-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-981\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lola, Dr. McLaughlin and Jasmine in front of a Glacios cryo-EM at NCCAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_0655-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Three day visit to  the NCCAT for training and cryo-EM data collection! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_8014-285x214.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Processing cryo-EM data at NCCAT w\/ Dr. Eugene Chua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"983\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_3048-285x214.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">cryo-EM data collection at NCCAT w\/ Dr. Eugene Chua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/2025\/04\/21\/cryo-em-training-and-data-collection-nccat-dec-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Cryo-EM Training and Data Collection @NCCAT (Dec 2024)<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7374,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219646,36072,219647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-km-news","category-lab","category-lab-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/kmclaughlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}