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Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Open Letter to MIT Faculty from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
November 4, 2021 Dear Colleagues: As faculty in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), we study a wide range of work and employment relations topics, including union-management...
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...
Phage Transition: Spatial Organization of Phage Assembly
Christopher Bazinet bazinetc@stjohns.edu I came to MIT as a fresh grad student in the fall of 1979. Four years out of undergrad, I had spent a couple of years teaching,...
Amino Acid Side Chains Directing Tailspike Folding, Assembly and Maturation
Scott Betts scottbetts1@gmail.com I first met Jon King in 1995 after I invited him to travel to The University of Michigan to talk about his P22 tailspike research. At the...
From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
Jerry L. Bryant jerryleeb@me.com The story of my time in the King Lab is a little unique in that I was the first African American to join the lab and...
A Long and Winding (Collaborative) Bacteriophage Road
Sherwood Casjens Professor Emeritus School of Biological Science University of Utah sherwood.casjens@path.utah.edu As my time as a graduate student at Stanford University working on bacteriophage lambda waned, I thought I...
Revealing the Molecular Organization of the P22 Procapsid and Mature Capsid
William C. Earnshaw, Ph.D., FRS, FRSE, FMedSci Professor and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology University of Edinburgh, ICB Michael Swann Building, King’s Buildings Max Bom Crescent,...
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...