@TheMuellerLab

Physics lab at Berkeley - atom interferometry, electron microscopy, and laser physics for studies from fundamental physics to biology.

 Berkeley, CA
matterwave.physics.berkeley.edu
Joined September 2012
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It won't be long and physics will be overrun by AI slop, mark my words. It's a disaster waiting to happen for academia that has been optimizing for quantity over quality for decades, you can basically see it coming. xitter.cf/getjonwithit/status/19…
Jonathan Gorard
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I get especially sad when I see researchers at my university, including very senior professors, excitedly saying "Look! Now I can use <random GenAI tool> to read papers, write papers, derive equations, write code, ..." And it's like... why are you even here, man? (1/2)
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Singing off on Theia - Laser phase plate installation can begin!
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Cryo-EM phase-plate images reveal unexpected levels of apparent specimen damage biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_biophys
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Leaving China now after the tomography conference and giving talks. It's very impressive with a lot of smart hard working people doing ambitious science. The infrastructure also strikes as new and well designed, clearly research is the priority here. Wish you all luck 🤞 🥠 🤞
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Direct interaction between a pulsed #laser beam and #ultrafast-timed #electron packets in free space may enhance contrast in #cryoEM and #cryoET The latest cool image of this experiment from @DuXDaniel @FitzpatrickLab @ColumbiaBiochem @ZuckermanBrain
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Interesting study using a Fabry-Pérot resonator #laser #PhasePlate for #cryoEM from @TheMuellerLab & Bob Glaeser
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Cryo-EM phase-plate images reveal unexpected levels of apparent specimen damage biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_biophys
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Lattice-based atom interferometry conducts precision measurement news.berkeley.edu/2024/06/26…

With a new, incredibly precise instrument, Berkeley researchers narrow search for dark energy -...

Experiment captures atoms in free fall to look for gravitational anomalies caused by universe's missing energy

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Stanley Hall's newest resident has arrived: Theia! The new @thermofisher microscope on the @UCBerkeley campus will be outfitted with the laser phase plate. Thanks to @TheMuellerLab with support from @cziscience!
A crane lifts a crate holding Theia outside of Stanley Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.

ALT A crane lifts a crate holding Theia outside of Stanley Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.

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Tom Wong@thomasgwong8 May 2024
Today in #PHY595 #QuantumComputing: The final exam! It's comprehensive but emphasizes the more recent material on quantum protocols and quantum algorithms.
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Concrete drilling for gravity experiments with a lattice atom interferometer
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Wim Hagen@WimJHH30 Mar 2024
Working 24 years in cryo-EM now, with an engineering background, it was such a great honor, and fantastic learning experience, visiting Holger’s lab. Greatest most knowledgeable team I’ve ever met!
Mueller Lab@TheMuellerLab19 Mar 2024
Laser breadboards are back on the laser phase-contrast microscope
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It cannot be done, they said.. It's too flexible, they said.. 😁 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #NPC #teamtomo #integrativemodeling by @dgvjayS @neeleshsoni03 @JoshHutchings94 @ig_ech et al. Great collaboration w/ Qiang Guo, Brian Chait, Javi Fernandez-Mtnz, @RoutLab_RU @salilab_ucsf

The Molecular Architecture of the Nuclear Basket

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the sole mediator of nucle-ocytoplasmic transport. Despite great advances in understanding its conserved core architecture, the peripheral regions can exhibit...

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New camera being installed
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Theia's (new phase-plate microscope's) lab is being finished. Looks like we'll be ready for the installation in April!
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Laser breadboards are back on the laser phase-contrast microscope
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Apoferritin at 6Å from cryo-Ptychography (Berk Kucukoglu), and at 1.09Å (!!!) from plain cryo-EM (Alex Myasnikov and his amazing team at the DCI-Lausanne.org). Collaboration with Colin Ophus, Carsten Sachse and Knut Müller-Caspary.
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Serious lab construction for our new microscope!
Serious lab construction for our new microscope!

ALT Serious lab construction for our new microscope!

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Congratulations to @UCBerkeley astrochemist Jennifer Bergner, winner of this year's Annie Jump Cannon Award in #Astronomy from the #AAS buff.ly/48PXPWM @UCB_Chemistry @AAS_Office
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Construction of our new microscope lab has started
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