Krystle J McLaughlin
Protein xtallographer & biophysicist I Researching microbial proteins from B. ovatus CPS biosynthesis & Salmonella conjugative transfer | Associate chem prof @Vassar |she/her|#KrystleTheCrystallographer 🇹🇹
Remaining silent will not protect us. Abolish ICE.
- I just donated! Your contribution is needed ASAP to fuel this existential fight and save science in America. Donate now for today, tomorrow, and the years to come. Rally to Take Back Our Science is on Saturday March 7th, 2026 in Washington DC. act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/... 🧪
- Another day, another dewar. Appeal to the crystal gods for me today, friends 🫠 🤞🏽 #research #crystallography #biochemistry 🧪
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- Thoughts on ITC preference- the good/bad/annoying- between a Microcal PEAQ-ITC and TA Affinity ITC?? 🧪 #Chemsky #Sciencesky
- Come be my colleague! We are hiring a full-time Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. If you are interested in teaching/curricular development & pedagogy this is a great position for you! Review of applications begins 10/6/25 Happy to answer any questions! Full details here: tinyurl.com/vcorganiclec... 🧪
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- Excited to share this story on the protein crystallography CURE I developed and have been teaching for the last 3 years! www.vassar.edu/news/student... This course is supported by my #CottrellScholars Award from RCSA. @rescorp.org @vassar.bsky.social #grantsinaction #biochemistry
- Excited to share this story on the protein crystallography CURE I developed and have been teaching for the last 3 years! www.vassar.edu/news/student... This course is supported by my #CottrellScholars Award from RCSA. @rescorp.org @vassar.bsky.social #grantsinaction #biochemistry
- Also if you at at #ACA2025 and missed my talk today, you can catch my other talk on Tuesday in 4.2.3 Engaging Students with Crystallography where I will share lessons learned from creating/running a protein crystallography CURE!
- Gave a talk in the Hot Structures session today at #ACA2025 in Chicago! Fun fact: the first conference talk I ever gave was in 2010 at my first ACA meeting, also in the Hot Structures session, also in Chicago!! (See bonus pic below of me attending ACA2010) ☺️ And if you see me at #ACA2025 say hi!
- And now @biophyskrys.bsky.social giving a hot strucutres talk on BoPDA, a polysaccharide deacetylase. Another great study and talk! #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
- Fro the last few years, as part of a final assignment in my senior biophysical chem class I ask students to share a class-related memes, with ones they make themselves highly encouraged! For everyone's enjoyment, here are some of my favorites! #chemistry #biochemistry #sigfigs #units 🧪
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- Fun fact about me that I had told my students is that my favourite number is ln 2...
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- ✨ I’m overjoyed to share that I’ve been promoted to associate professor with tenure in chemistry at Vassar College!! Honored to now join the 2% of Black women who are tenured faculty in the US. So grateful to my family & friends, my colleagues & mentors, & all my amazing students! ✨🧪
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- Planted this last year, and really enjoying the benefits today 🌸 #blooms #gardening
- Headed to the NIAID NIH campus for the first time today for a meeting! Lovely morning views of the Hudson River from the train.
- Midday walk, enjoying the lovely Spring weather 🌸 So very lucky to work in such a beautiful place #Vassar @vassar.bsky.social
- Sigh.
- So... Black folks who endorsed Trump's "Platinum Plan" for Black Americans... how did the first hundred days treat ya? We cured sickle cell yet? No? What a fucking surprise. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Yesterday's announcement canceling MARC, PREP, IMSD & IRACDA finally broke me. Spent most of the morning in my office crying. I think I'd been clinging to a glimmer of hope, but as an IRACDA alum,watching the the scale of loss for young scientists was heartbreaking. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
- Read this thread. This is really concerning, and exacting what others have been sounding the alarm about for bias creeping into AI/LLMs. 🧪
- Very cool: a new kind of antibiotic found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- "Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Remaining silent will not protect us." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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- Honored to share that our article “Carbohydrate Deacetylase Unique to Gut Microbe Bacteroides Reveals Atypical Structure” was selected for an ACS Publications special issue celebrating Women and Girls in Science Day 2025! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/page/vi/women-girls-science-day-2025 👩🏽🔬 🧪
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- Current thoughts in this chaos:
- I know many of us have been lamenting what could have been if Harris had won, but lately I have found myself daydreaming about living in the alternate timeline where Gore won...
