James Conway’s Website

(Under construction – last updated 20 February 2009)

CryoEM Group Leader
Department of Structural Biology (web-site)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 2047
3501 5th Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
U.S.A.
Phone: +1-412-383-9847
Fax: +1-412-648-8998
Email: jxc100@pitt.edu
Web: http://www.pitt.edu/~jxc100
(under construction)

Images of the CryoEM suite (20-Feb-2009)

Positions open

Links

• Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Where I worked before (IBS, France: 2000-2005)
My lab: Laboratory of Structural Electron Microscopy (LMES)

And before that (NIH: 1990-1999)

• Study (Massey University, New Zealand: 1982-1989)

• Publications by year or by subject

Recent (click on cover):

Phage Syn9 Jul, 2007	Ad3 encapsidation Feb, 2007 Paper in J. Gen. Virol. 2006, 87, pp2901-2905	Phage HK97 Stability Dec 1, 2006
Phage HK97 Cross-linking Nov, 2006	Kinesin CENP-E Sept 15, 2006	Phage T5 Sept 1, 2006
Phage HK97 Expansion March, 2006	Ad3 dodecahedron Feb 17, 2006	Phage SP01 Jan 10, 2006
HBV & Fabs Jan 20, 2006	Phage HK97 Whiffleball April 22, 2005

• Collaborator’s web-sites:

Roger Hendrix and Bob Duda, Dept of Biological Sciences, U. Pittsburgh

Fred Homa, Dept of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, and Kip Kinchington, Dept of Ophthalmology, U Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Alasdair Steven, LSBR/NIAMS, National Institutes of Health

Jack Johnson, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla

Rob Ruigrok and Guy Schoehn, IVMS, Grenoble, France

Lucienne Letellier and Pascale Boulanger, Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Orsay, France

Lionello Bossi and Nara Figueroa Bossi, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Images

• HBV at 9 Ångstroms resolution
• HBV and a conformational Fab
• Viruses come in all sizes

Movies – Serious Stuff

• HK97 capsid expansion by cryoEM (2000)...
• Ad3 dodecahedron by cryoEM, mpeg-1 format (2006)…

Movies – Fun with Optical Microscopy

• Wheat seeds germinating... (MPEG-4, 1.2 Mbytes)
• Salt crystallizing... (MPEG-4, 1.6 Mbytes)