Credit: Jeff Liang

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Inauguration November 2023

Lab Under Construction

CHEM 1126

  • Counter refinishing before sanding
  • Counter refinishing before sanding
  • Fresh benchtops before floor installation
  • Fresh benchtops before floor installation
  • The drip
  • Fixing the drip
  • The leaky pipe
  • More work on the pipe
  • Trying to stay dry
  • The tiny fan tasked with keeping the lab dry in the meantime
  • The pipe is fixed!
  • Finishing touches
  • Break room before renovation
  • Break room before renovation
  • Dorit's future office door before renovation
  • Break room nearly finished
  • Break room nearly finished

Lab Move-In 

CHEM 1126

  • Final walkthrough!
  • Finished Lab
  • Finished Lab
  • Storage room on the 4th floor
  • About 20 crates were moved from the 4th floor to the 1st
  • Moving crates
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Move-in
  • Crates in microscope area
  • Microscope and Ultramicrotome
  • Empty pallets
  • -80 freezer
  • Move-in
  • Decorative EM grid bunting from Quantifoil
  • Holiday Decor
  • Holiday Decor
  • Moving laminar flow hood

UC Santa Barbara, Structural Biology cryo-Electron Microscopy (SB2EM) Facility

CHEM 1153

  • Microscope room filled with ducting
  • Microscope room Dorit shows technician where things will go
  • Microscope room under construction
  • Microscope room before floor
  • Microscope room during floor installation
  • Microscope room during floor installation
  • Microscope room after floor installation
  • Microscope room nearly finished
  • Microscope room with protected floors
  • Microscope room
  • Server room
  • Starting to move into the microscope room
  • Using tape to plan out the instruments
  • Using tape to plan out the instruments
  • Drilling the guide holes where the TEM will go
  • Microscope blueprints
  • Accessory boxes unpacked
  • Flooding of the facility from roof leak
  • Flooding of facility from roof leak
  • The sign for the room. Facility is ready for microscope installation

Glacios Installation

CHEM 1153

  • Room testing before installation
  • The moving team inspecting the Glacios boxes at their temporary storage in physics
  • Truck to transport across campus
  • Loading the truck
  • Loading the truck
  • Tilt watch to ensure column remains aligned during shipping
  • Temporary storage emptied out
  • Truck fully loaded
  • Backing into chemistry parking lot
  • Truck fully loaded
  • Unloading the truck into the parking lot
  • Unloading the truck into the parking lot
  • Empty truck
  • Final clean of floors before bringing boxes in
  • First box coming in
  • Tight fit through the door
  • Positioning the box out of the way
  • Positioning the box out of the way
  • Biggest box barely fits through the doorway. Perfect fit!
  • Boxes are in
  • Boxes are in
  • Overflow storage
  • Installation begins!
  • Dorit and installation engineer Shawn discuss logistics
  • Checking alignment
  • Checking alignment
  • Checking alignment
  • Microscope is aligned and ready for next steps
  • The wheels are off
  • Hooking up to power
  • We have beam down! The microscope is working.

 Equipment Demos

STELLARIS 5 Cryo Confocal Light Microscope

  • STELLARIS 5
  • Dorit, Peter, Cecile Sauvanet, Armel Bezault, and David DeRosier view the STELLARIS 5
  • Loading the STELLARIS 5
  • Sample retrieval
  • Creative solutions: using a pen cap to open a grid box
  • Niels volkmann and David DeRosier
  • Cecile Sauvanet jumps in
  • STELLARIS 5 screen

Bruker Atomic Force Microscopy Demo

  • Targeting on grid
  • Targeting on grid
  • Measuring thickness
  • Measuring thickness
  • Visualizing surface texture
  • Visualizing surface texture
  • AFM probe

 Training/Workshops

UCI iPSC Culturing Hands-on Course

April 2024

  • Outside group photo. Center is instructor Christina Tu
  • Group photo inside cell lab
  • Silly group photo
  • Ahmet feeds cells
  • Ahmet aspirates media
  • Pierre checks cells under microscope
  • Christina Tu looks at cells with Pierre
  • Christina Tu looks at cells with Pierre
  • Many culture plates were used
  • induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Colonies
  • Embryo bodies (spheres of iPSCs)
  • Plated embryo body pushed toward the neuronal lineage displaying neural rosettes
  • Neurons derived from stem cells
  • Microglia consuming fluorescent neurons

 Conferences/Symposiums

8th Annual SoCal Cryo-EM Symposium (UCSB)

  • Rowan, Peter, and Pierre manning the check-in booth in matching T-shirts
  • Symposium check-in table
  • SoCal Symposium lunch
  • Hanein lab dinner at Symposium
  • SoCal Symposium dinner at sunset

9th Annual SoCal Cryo-EM Symposium (USC)

  • Group of Hanein Lab symposium attendees wearing matching shirts from previous year
  • Lunchtime shenanigans

Activities Gallery

 

Visitors and Group Dinners

  • First group dinner with Armel Bezault and Cecile Sauvanet from Pasteur
  • Armel, Cecile, Liam, and Peter getting dressed for the clean room
  • Dinner with Armel, Cecile, and Niels Volkmann
  • Dinner with Ken Taylor
  • Group holiday dinner 2023
  • Lunch with Rong Li
  • Lunch with David DeRosier

Halloween Pumpkin Carving 2023

Peter VanBlerkom won first place in the DCB pumpkin carving contest with his creative, googly-eyed masterpiece

  • Pumpking carving contest with the Chemistry department
  • Victory
  • A rare photo of Dorit wearing green socks (her halloween costume)
  • The winning pumpkin
  • A fellow cowboy was encountered and a quickdraw dual was had. Peter won!

Extras

Just us having fun

  • The dry shipper enjoying its vacation in Santa Barbara
  • The dry shipper soaking up the rays before being shipped back to France
  • How we sent the dry shipper back
  • Peter, Pierre, and Rowan in our clean room suits
  • Pierre in the clean room
  • Spring Cleaning 2024
  • Six Flags Magic Mountain with Rowan, Sue (visiting from Australia), and Trent Lewellyn
  • Rowan, Sue, and Trent on the Viper
  • Waiting for the bus at the end of the day

 More of Wenwi

  • Wenwi and Dorit
  • Close-up of wenwi with tongue out
  • Wenwi in Peter's lap (her favorite spot)
  • Wenwi in the grass
  • Wenwi in the grass
  • Wenwi, Rowan, and Pierre