Biophysics | JILA - Exploring the Frontiers of Physics

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Molecular Lock and Key: Decoding the Secrets of Ion Binding

The many different molecules trying to fill the binding site of octamethyl calix[4]pyrrole (omC4P)

Probing Proton Pumping: New Findings on Protein Folding in bacteriorhodopsin (bR)

Diagram of the experimental setup (not to scale): Photoactivation of a single molecule of bR.

JILA Postdoctoral Researcher Vít Svoboda is Awarded a 2023 JUNIOR STAR project by the Czech Science Foundation

JILA postdoctoral researcher Vit Svoboda

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How to Bind with Metals and Water: A New Study on EDTA

The near-universal ability of EDTA to accommodate metal cations comes from its molecular flexibility, which allows it to respond to the chemical nature of the metal ion it binds.

Looking at a Cellular Switch

An artistic rendering of the bacterium's riboswitch and its interactions with three different potential ligands.

Life After JILA: Liz Shanblatt

Liz Shanblatt, a JILA alumn and a Staff Scientist and Collaboration Manager at Siemens Healthineers

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Celebrating 60 Years of JILA

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Humans of JILA-Connor Thomas

Connor Thomas, an undergraduate researcher in JILA and NIST Fellow Ralph Jimenez's lab, discusses his time in JILA

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A Look at She Has the Floor

poster for the speaker series

Perkins lab awarded a new $1.15 M grant from the NSF

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Perkins lab awarded a new $1.15 M grant from the NSF.

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