Chad Hicks

CryoEM Scientist and facility manager at the Boston University Cryogenic EM Core Facility

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

Go science! Go Ukraine! #EuroCup2021

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

How many civilian airlines must Russia shoot down before the world realizes that Russia will not stop until it is stopped?

https://t.co/1fDLksP1sc

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@WordenEvan @VAInstitute Congratulations! Those look like very challenging cryoEM structures. I'm excited to read about it!

[Vanna Zachariou @VannaZachariou]

Join our Biomolecular Pharmacology Program @BUMedicine

https://t.co/oOgQ3if8Yh

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@CWolberger

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

Feeling incredibly grateful today for the opportunity to vote in a free and fair election. Democracy is on the ballot. Use it or lose it...

[Vanna Zachariou @VannaZachariou]

Seaport selfie after our #Cryo-EM mini symposium with fantastic talks by Yiorgo Skiniotis, Elizabeth Wright and Hao Wu.
#CAMed #BostonUniversity #structuralbiology #MolecularPharmacology

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@Adrian_H Loading control band "smiling" upward smearing at far left and right wells are normal. "Smiling" artifacts in the middle wells is unusual and indicates that these are two gels spliced together?

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@dieworkwear Hi Derek, what are your thoughts on Crocs?

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

This pretty much sums it up!

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Now, about that “peace plan”…

#StandWithUkraine

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Now, about that “peace plan”…

#StandWithUkraine

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@peiferlabunc @CWolberger You can trace the general path of the disordered H3 tail to the Haspin active site in a low-pass filtered map! The final few residues that make contact with the active site are well resolved after performing a local refinement of Haspin alone!

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@FilipGarbicz Thank you!! We should be able to release the three PDBs soon!

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

I am thrilled to share a preprint of my PhD project revealing the cryoEM structure of Haspin kinase bound to nucleosome at a DNA supergroove!
https://t.co/ZjVjJMp2Y6

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

Wow we got Chromatin Haiku'd! Now I've officially made it as a scientist...

[Chromatin Haiku @ChromatinHaiku]

Nucleosome bound
At DNA supergroove
The haspin kinase

#ChromatinHaiku #H3T3

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@AHollandLab @CWolberger @SanimRahman4 This project was conceptualized as a way to provide a useful and fun cryoEM experience to Hopkins Summer Academic Research Experience (SARE) scientist Stacy Vasquez during her senior year of high school last summer. We were really surprised by the results...

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

I am very grateful to the amazing scientists and coauthors. You are all awesome, and I am so proud of our discovery! @AHollandLab (Colin Gliech), @CWolberger lab (Xiangbin Zhang, @SanimRahman4), Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Stacy Vasquez).

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@CWolberger Woohoo!🎉

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

@dabiophysicist Thanks! Many of the nicest looking pictures of the eclipse are also composite images from many different photos. These here are single photo images, so that's probably why they look more natural!

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

I managed to get some awesome photos of the 2024 solar eclipse. What an amazing experience...

The reddish solar prominence at the bottom of the sun (which was visible to the naked eye) is ~40,000mi long or ~5 times the diameter of Earth 🤯

[Chad Hicks @HicksChadW]

Time-lapse of a Glacios 2 cryoEM delivery at @BUMedicine @BU_Tweets! Can you guess how many crates? #CAMED #EstherBullitt @vannazachariou.