In case anyone wants to know what Ken is up to…

Posted: January 27th, 2012 ˑ Filled under: Uncategorized ˑ  1 Comment

This article is an awesome layman’s breakdown of why Ken was whisked away to San Francisco only after having been in Hamburg for 3 weeks. He has beam time for the next three days from 9pm to 9am (sucks!) so feel free to text him a happy message while you’re at the bar!

image credits: Thomas White, CEFL/DESY

image description: The molecular structure of proteins is inferred by measurements of patterns of X-rays scattered from crystals formed from those proteins. The regular array of molecules in the crystal gives rise to strong peaks needed for measurement, shown here as balls in a three-dimensional space.



One Comment

  1. Ken wrote:
    01/30/2012 at 10:37 PM

    Just to add my two cents, the proteins we are studying are photosystem I and photosystem II, which are important in making photosynthesis work.
    Here is a wiki page on it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis (see the bit on light reactions)