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Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
Leo Marx
Leo Marx died a few weeks ago at the advanced age of 102. He was one of the leading scholars of his generation in America, a classic humanist, using the...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
On Closing the MIT Pharmacy
The stark statement announcing the closing of the MIT Pharmacy was like pouring concrete over green grass. Stunned silence – powerful and persistent – has been followed by disbelief, disappointment,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
The vote of graduate students to unionize may represent a sea change in the relationships of graduate students to their peers, their faculty mentors, and to the MIT administration. We...
2022 Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Rebuilding a Broader Movement
With Congress appropriating funds for new and upgraded nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the need to counter these misguided policies has become acute. The 2022 Conference will follow the general...
Jonathan King’s 80th Birthday Festschrift
Introduction The Chapters below are contributions to an 80th Birthday celebration from members of my research lab and research collaborators. The Chapters are listed in alphabetical order, except mine, which...
A Scientific Journey with Professor Jonathan A. King to Uncover Bacteriophage Assembly Process by Pushing the Boundaries of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
Wah Chiu Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor Stanford University, Stanford, California wahc@stanford.edu For nearly 40 years, I have known Jonathan King through our collaboration on cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) of bacteriophages. In the...
Developing Human gD-crystallins as an Experimental System for Studying Beta Sheet Folding and Cataract FormationM
Melissa Kosinski-Collins Melissa S. Kosinski-Collins, Ph.D. Professor of Biology Brandeis University MS 008, SSC 016A Waltham, MA 02454 kosinski@brandeis.edu The first time I met Jonathan, I was 21. I was...
Science is Collaborative and Communication is Key: Lessons from my Postdoc in the King Lab
Kelly Knee King lab postdoc 2007-2011 Director of Translational Medicine, Rare Disease Research Unit, Pfizer Inc. 32 Bartlett Crescent, Brookline MA, 02446 Kelly.Knee@pfizer.com There are a number of things that...
Bacteriophage P22 Scaffolding Protein (the Ghost in the Shell)
Barrie (Greene) Bell Graduate Student, 1990-1995 barriebell@comcast.net I first met Professor Jonathan King when I took his class on “The Protein Folding Problem” during my first year of graduate school...