JC just returned from two back-to-back meetings in Snowmass, CO.  He presented work on small-helix partitioning in membranes at the first meeting on Free Energy Methods and structures of BamA and a new complex between SecY and a nascent chain at the second meeting on Membrane Proteins.  Not all the time was spent in front of a screen though, as the picture to the right clearly shows!

Three recent papers highlight the close connection between the Gumbart lab and experimental labs focusing on bacteria-specific systems.  These systems include

• bacterial chemoreceptors
• type 4b secretion system
• Gram-positive cell wall

See the publications for more details!