The Chodera lab is headed to the Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore

Four members of the Chodera lab will be headed to the Feb 7-11 Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD!
Postdocs Sonya Hanson and Kyle Beauchamp will both be giving talks:

• [095.000] Platform: Computational and Simulation Methods: [919-Plat] BENCHMARKING AND OPTIMIZING ATOMISTIC FORCEFIELDS WITH DENSITY MEASUREMENTS
  Mon 9 Feb 8.45A - Room 309/310 - Kyle A. Beauchamp
• [170.000] Platform: Protein-Small Molecule Interactions: [1795-Plat] DEVELOPING HIGH THROUGHPUT FLUORESCENCE BASED ASSAYS FOR MEASURING KINASE INHIBITOR FREE ENERGIES OF BINDING
  Tue 10 Feb 12.30P - Room 316/317 - Sonya M. Hanson

In addition, Sonya Hanson will serve as an official guest blogger for the BPS 2015 meeting!  Be sure to tune into the official BPS Blog to follow along!

Talk slides will be posted after the conference.

Rumor has it the lab will also make a brief appearance at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening SLAS2015 conference in Washington DC.

Birth of a robot

At 10.28 AM on Mon 7 Apr, two engineers from Thermo CRS showed up at our laboratory and began to assemble the automation platform that will drive our biophysical wetlab research programs for the next few years.  In the span of just four days, they managed to assemble our entire automation system, integrating everything onsite inside of an active labspace.  With the assistance of expert techs from Tecan to integrate our EVO 200 liquid handler, everything went quickly and smoothly!

More updates soon, but for now, enjoy this time-lapse of their hard work to bring this thing together.  More information on the capabilities of the system can be found on our Resources page.

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