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Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
MIT Opens Learning for Refugees
It’s December 2016, and I’ve just arrived in the port town of Pozzallo in Sicily, where I am watching a group of boys playing soccer. The boys are animated and...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Selecting a New President
In its 156 years, MIT will begin selecting a new president for the nineteenth time. The MIT Corporation will make the selection informed by the recommendation of a Search Committee....
Raman Spectroscopy and Virus Research
George J. Thomas Professor Emeritus School of Biological and Chemical Sciences University of Missouri – Kansas City Kansas City, MO 64110 thomasgj@umkc.edu I was first introduced to the King laboratory...
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...
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...
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...