Nerdy Jobs: Protein Crystallization

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Sources
  1. Raven Baxter, #NerdyJobs S1E1: Exploring the Magic of Protein Crystallization, YouTube, unlisted
  2. Episode transcript, with times from the episode’s YouTube captions
  3. Luft and others, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2011
  4. Lynch and others, Acta Crystallographica Section D, 2023
  5. Budziszewski and others, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2023
  6. Ghosh and others, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 (nirmatrelvir and the main protease)
  7. RCSB PDB-101 Molecule of the Month: Hemoglobin (Dutta and Goodsell, 2003), Lysozyme (Goodsell, 2000), Coronavirus Proteases (Goodsell, 2020)
  8. RCSB PDB-101, Methods for Determining Atomic Structures
  9. American Crystallographic Association, Sarah Bowman candidate bio, 2023
  10. Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, news release on Dr. Bowman, 2017
  11. Vision and Change core concepts and competencies, as summarized in Brownell and others, CBE Life Sciences Education, 2014
  12. Word origins from Dictionary.com: crystallography, crystal, -graphy, protein, diffraction, calligraphy, photography, cryo-, chromatography, chromato-, graph, graphic, phonograph, lysozyme, lysosome
  13. Spanish and French spellings from Wiktionary