Baker Lab @ Notre Dame

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Structural and molecular immunology and protein biophysics at the University of Notre Dame. T cell receptors, MHC proteins, specificity, and cross-reactivity. Plus drums, odd time signatures, Iron Maiden, and much Rush. Opinions mine alone. bmblab.nd.edu

Poster for the Standard Deviants gig this month in rocker red.
Standard Deviants deviated rock band gig advertisement for April 25.
Image highlighting showing a 5% score on an NIH grant submission.
Soon to be former graduate student Chuks celebrating the wildly successful defense of his PhD thesis studying the specificity of alloreactive T cells with a bottle of champagne.
Electron density of a proline from a high resolution protein crystal structure, showing the hole in the middle of the ring - a prohole.
Rush Tribute Project on stage in Indianapolis
Surprisingly good score of an NIH R21 proposal to study molecular mimics in T cell recognition.
Picture of a piece of Hagoromo chalk. The best chalk ever made.
Image for the TCR cross-reactivity group: The big baddy Titin attacking a magician named A3.
Color by numbers image of a puppy outside. Not mine - borrowed from a quick Google image search.
Images of the first 3D structure of a class I major histocompatibility complex. Bjorkman et al. Nature, 1987
Dr. George Gray at his thesis defense.
Postdoc Chad Brambley presenting at the AI/HI workshop.
Picture of me with the new Dr. Hawthorne.
For the nth+1 week in a row, no new funding announcements from NIH.
Screenshot of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts showing no new opportunities for the nth week in a row.
Generic image of bottles of "peptides" with no indication of what they actually could be reflecting limited treatment of actual science and a total grift.
PhD student and structural immunologist Bassant Eldaly at her poster.
Olive the 7 pound dog with her favorite red rope leash.
NIH not releasing any new funding opportunities, at least the 3rd week in a row.
Screenshot of the weekly NIH guide for grants and contracts which provides updates, particularly new/upcoming funding opportunities - showing there are none.
Cosmos series broadcast on PBS hosted by Carl Sagan.
Photos of Tatiana Rosales, PhD
Cover of Blue Oyster Cult's Fire of Unknown Origin album. Maybe this guy is a transplant surgeon / immunologist?
Helaquinox on Spotify - yes, that's my kid.
A cool scientific correlation that is one piece of good news for today.
Actually, the hardest part of the drums to Tom Sawyer, especially that tom fill with the snare bits at the end.
The central tryptophan of the peptide doing the limbo dance upon TCR binding.
Poster for the 8th International Conference on the Molecular Perspectives of Protein Protein Interactions
Picard asking WTF????
Picture of Olive the dog.
Poster for 8th Protein Protein Interaction Conference
Jon Batiste is the happiest dude ever.
Joe Satriani channeling Eddie Van Halen
Iron Maiden!