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Mutant Ribosomes and the Action of Antibiotics

The ribosome, found in all living cells, is the molecular machine that builds proteins. It faithfully attaches together amino acids – the building blocks...
Date Tuesday, March 25, 2014
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Kavli Auditorium
stillframe from public lecture video about mutant ribosomes and antibiotics
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Public Lectures

How Plants Do it: Light, Oxygen, Action!

Plants have been doing it with ease for millions of years, and yet science has yet to fully comprehend how: Photosynthesis. It's a fundamental...
Date Tuesday, August 26, 2008
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
Stillframe for public lecture
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Public Lectures

Arsenic: The Silent Killer

Andrea Foster uses x-rays to determine the forms of potentially toxic elements in environmentally-important matrices such as water, sediments, plants, and microorganisms. In this...
Date Tuesday, February 28, 2006
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
Stillframe for public lecture
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Public lecture

Cryo-EM: Amazing 3D Views of Life’s Molecular Machines

Presented by Wah Chiu. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a revolutionary technology for making 3D images of the inner workings of cells in much...

Date Tuesday, September 25, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
stillframe for public lecture
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Seminars and conferences

Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) Image Processing Workshop

The Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center will host an advanced cryo-EM image processing workshop.

Date Monday, September 16, 2024  –  Wednesday, September 18, 2024
aerial view of SLAC campus
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Public Lectures

​​Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth

It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions of the...
Date Thursday, October 10, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Macon Abernathy
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Public Lectures

Microbes Mining Minerals: A New Route to Plant Cultivation

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Plants supply us with food, clothing...
Date Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Joycelyn Richardson
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public lecture

Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air We Breathe – Atom by Atom

Presented by Franklin Fuller. Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid...

Date Thursday, November 18, 2021
9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
Public Lecture poster: picture of movie
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Public lecture

What in the cell is going on?

Presented by Peter  D. Dahlberg. Viewing cellular machinery at the nanoscale. 

Date Thursday, January 26, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC, Building 53
cryo-EM image of Caulobacter bacterium
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Public Lectures

Mercury Rising: The Toxicology of a Global Pollutant

Presented by Ashley James

Date Thursday, May 23, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Public Lecture: Ashley James

Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Facilities

The CryoEM (cryogenic electron microscopy) facility at SLAC, built and operated in partnership with Stanford University, is equipped with multiple state-of-the-art instruments for cryoEM.

Cryo-EM