Gabby Budziszewski
Operations Manager @ UB-HWI National Crystallization Center
professional protein crystal whisperer, pipet tip chaos agent, buffalonian
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- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiWorkshop instructors include: @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Crissy Tarver Tiffany Wright @xtalmaker.bsky.social Grateful to NIH NIGMS support through R24GM141256! #crystallization #crystallography #datacollection #xray #research #workshop #structuralbiology
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski💎💎 Check out the Biomolecular Crystallization Workshop at the 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Congress in Calgary, Canada this summer 💎💎 Thrilled to be co-organizing the workshop with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social #crystallization #crystallography
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiIs your New Year's resolution to unveil structural details for your biological macromolecule? Reserve a spot in our January protein crystallization run before Friday! Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Jan 12th – Thurs Jan 15th Tues Jan 20th – Thurs Jan 22nd
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiCongratulations to @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social on being elected as a member of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Communications Committee! 🎙️ The ACA Communications Committee engages in #scicomm & #outreach for the structural science community. Gabby is going to do an amazing job!! Congrats!! 🎉
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski🎉 So excited for the new instrumentation in the National Crystallization Center! We can't wait to set up new crystallization 💎 experiments with the new 🦟 🤖! 📷 @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany Wright & @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social - instrument in 📦. www.getacrystal.org @ubuffalo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Operations Manager in the @getacrystal.bsky.social & Research Scientist extraordinaire in my research group, is a candidate to join the Communications Committee for ACA @acastructuralsci.bsky.social!! 👩🏻🔬 🧪 🔬 💎 🎙️ Vote in ACA election by tomorrow 11/14!
- Come work with us at the National Crystallization Center! Housed in the vibrant research community of UB-HWI, we are looking for new coworkers to help us expand our structural biology offerings 💎🔬
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- Heyyyyy MEMBRANE protein people! We are running our (fairly rare) membrane screen in November, so get your reservations in! 🦠
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiGet a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service! This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮 Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiIn our #BIBPSWeek 2025 #BIBPSSpotlight Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird, we learned about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work. We also discussed the barriers that fellow #BlackInBiophysics scholars @jjalston.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social faced when pursuing careers in science.👇🏾
- We are in this odd climate where people are pretending no barriers exist to careers in science for some groups, but this conversation with 2 outstanding emerging scientists highlights that is just not true. youtube.com/watch?v=u850...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiNot being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest? Now that's scary. 😱 Try our high-throughput screen! October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations) Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th
- interpreting electron density or foraging for mushrooms -- you decide. #structuralbiology #crystallography #mycology
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiI'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiTake a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
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View full threadReposted by Gabby BudziszewskiThere's also a primary paper on dating of the crystals that goes into some of the chemical processes involved and how they can be modeled here:
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiI doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiGiddy up to Calgary! Stop by our #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to gear up for the 2026 Conference to get some Calgary Stampede merch, plan your trip, meet other attendees and more!
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiCal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiAs the community gets ready for #ACA2025, we're proud to present this interview with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social Vivian Stojanoff and @xtalmaker.bsky.social on how to prepare for successful protein crystallisation experiments! 🥳🥳 youtu.be/m34RI500OFU?...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiHere are some nice mushrooms
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiExcited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org! Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff! Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiLast week @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social and I had an amazing time running experiments at CXI at LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on nanocrystal protein samples! Our protein nanocrystals looked like little stars 🌟 💎
- having some fun with nanocrystals at LCLS CXI beamline! safe to say I’m a little excited for my first shift on an XFEL🎇
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiTo be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiDoes crossing the pond affect crystal quality? No!
- I'm used to purifying colorless proteins, so it's a treat to have a metal-binding protein I can see IN my resin! #metalloprotein #biochemistry
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski@getacrystal.bsky.social & SSRL are out in force teaching at the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research Workshop in TN this week! Thanks Jamaine Davis for making the workshop happen & the invite! Nice work @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social, Tiffany, Darya & Crissy! @ubuffalo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiColleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiIf you don't know @xtalmaker.bsky.social and their amazing facility at UBuffalo to help you achieve your crystallization goals, you should!
- Just in time for Pride month! Celebrating our recent publication in @actacrystf.iucr.org by highlighting our rainbow of protein crystals! 🏳️🌈💎 Great to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanof on this paper! doi.org/10.1107/S205... #crystallization #crystals #structuralbiology
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiJust in time for Pride month! Celebrating our recent publication in @actacrystf.iucr.org by highlighting our rainbow of protein crystals! 🏳️🌈💎 Great to work with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanof on this paper! doi.org/10.1107/S205... #crystallization #crystals #structuralbiology
- kicking off the New Opportunities for Structural Biology Research at the SSRL Synchrotron workshop at Belmont University! Big thanks to Jamaine Davis for making this workshop happen and inviting us! #structuralbiology #crystallography @blackinbiophys.bsky.social
- Dr. Chrissy Tarver telling us about sample preparation for protein crystallization!
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski"Art can be a gateway to science," says artist Thomas Blanchard in an interview with Nautilus. Watch the formation of striking landscapes of potassium phosphate crystals: nautil.us/the-visual...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiCarpeted in white, spiky calcite crystals, festooned with cave pearls, the captivating Raspberry Rising cave system in Canada's Glacier National Park is a site of ongoing geological and microbial research. canadiangeographic.c...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiMost Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiHEY SCIENTISTS!!! Looking for a way to get involved in advocating for science on a local level? ⬇️ We're asking scientists to publish an op-ed in their local newspaper on June 16th, the birthday of Nobel-prize winning scientist Barbara McClintock ☀️ See the link below for more details!
- Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski“Six percent of White males who serve on boards were fired, compared with half of Black and Hispanic females and a quarter of all females… The chairs’ analysis calculated the likelihood that this would have happened by chance as 1 in 300.”
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- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewskibroke: summer beach body bespoke: summer bog body
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiThis article does a great job describing the lives of young American scientists: “You roll up your sleeves, try to make or discover something useful and then let the scientific community try to punch holes in your work to make sure that it’s sound”
- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski42. That is, 42 pages of terminated grants. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiFun Friday night remote data collection at SSRL!! I am so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! ❤️ 💎 Tiffany Wright @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social @mirandalynchphd.bsky.social Chris Campomizzi Cole Masuga @mumstheword17.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiMore than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll—three-quarters of the total respondents—are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation."
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski👀 Look at this amazing tool you can use to estimate the economic impact of proposed cuts to research in your area at the state and county level. SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org #standupforscience
- Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiImportant note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
- Without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiWhat songs would go on an #iucr2026 playlist? Good songs about Calgary? Or more about structures and crystals? www.youtube.com/watc...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiHappy Vernal (March) #equinox! The Sun crossed the celestial equator and moved into the sky's northern hemisphere this morning at 09:01 UTC.
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewskibodies are so fragile and hearts so easy to break i don’t want mine anymore let the earth swallow it up in gossamer strands of mycelia invisibly parceling out my elements to nurture new growth the fragments of my heart shimmering with dew drops in the springtime sun
- delighted to have spent a few days last week in beautiful Aguadilla, PR talking all things #crystallization and #structure 💎 🌴
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiSilver lining: If D leadership really does roll over here, I think even the most milquetoast Dem comes to understand there’s no future for this party as currently constructed. They successfully impressed upon the normies that this administration is an existential threat, then capitulated completely.
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiIn fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiSchumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path" "Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiAnother great job at my favorite university: UNC-Chapel, as new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility. Our outstanding Director is retiring. The Director is responsible for 1) core facility management, 2) training, & 3) graduate teaching 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski🧪 The attack on science could have a generational effect. We risk losing a wave of early-career researchers to these cuts. And biomedical science in the US will be less ambitious, less competitive & lead to fewer breakthroughs. So much is at stake. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
- froze our butts off standing up for science, but that’s how much we believe in what we and other NIH-funded scientists do! @xtalmaker.bsky.social
- Thanks to @mikefeigin.bsky.social for organizing!
- Reposted by Gabby Budziszewski🚨 Stand Up for Science Buffalo rally update! New confirmed speaker: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz! He will be taking the "stage" at 2:45PM! Please RT and tag your favorite local media people to spread the word! @markpoloncarz.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
- Reposted by Gabby BudziszewskiHigh-resolution X-ray and neutron crystallography were used to analyze structural changes, including the positions of H/D atoms, upon the reduction of FAD by ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase #FerredoxinNADPReductase #RedoxDependentStructuralChanges doi.org/10.1107/S205...
