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After a short administrative update, each meeting will include two Project updates (~ 45 mins / project) or 3 Core updates (25 mins / core). Each presentation is coordinated by the designated Project, Core, or CDP lead. The lead will consult with the PIs on their project/core and designate who will present and how the presentations will be constituted, preferably including a mix of senior and junior level presenters each month.
Teleconference meetings are held the 3rd Friday of each month at 10:00-11:30 AM PT.
2026
- January 16 – Invited Speaker, Dr. Juan Perilla
- February 5-6 – Winter F2F Meeting, Emory University
- March 20 – Invited Speaker
- April 17 – Cores 1 & 2 Updates
- May 15 – Cores 3 & 4 Updates
- June 22-24 – TBD
- July 17 – Invited Speaker
- August 21 – Project 1 Updates
- September 18 – Project 2 Updates
- October 16 – Updates from CDAs
- November 20 – Project 3 Updates
- December 18 – No meeting, Happy Holidays!
B-HIVE Winter Face-to-Face Meeting
The 4th annual B-HIVE Winter F2F meeting will be February 5-6, 2026 at the Emory Conference Center (Address: 1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30329; Phone: 404-712-6000; https://www.emoryconferencecenter.com).
We will hold an in-person training workshop based on RNA methods led by Wei-Shau Hu, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Megan Ken the day before the meeting on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, starting at 1pm. A detailed agenda for the training workshop will be provided in January.
We will provide a detailed meeting schedule in January, which will be similar to last year’s Winter F2F meeting, with a welcome reception at Wisteria Lanes on Wednesday evening (7 – 10pm), project and core presentations starting Thursday morning, a Thursday poster session, and a breakout session and recap on Friday. Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and snacks will be provided on Thursday and Friday, and dinner will be provided on Thursday night. The meeting will end at 4 pm on Friday.
Please register for the meeting and training workshop by filling out this form: 4th Annual B-HIVE F2F Winter Meeting 2026 – Fill out form
Poster presenters must email Amy (amy.crowson@seattlechildrens.org) with presenter name, title/position, lab affiliation, and poster title by January 9, 2026.
B-HIVE Winter Face-to-Face Meeting
The 3rd annual B-HIVE Winter F2F meeting was held on February 13-14, 2025 at the Emory Conference Center (Address: 1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30329; Phone: 404-712-6000; https://www.emoryconferencecenter.com).
We held an in-person training workshop based on mass spec-related methods on the day before the main meeting.
We began with a welcome reception at Wisteria Lanes on Wednesday evening (7 – 10 pm), project and core presentations started Thursday morning, a Thursday poster session, and a breakout session and recap on Friday. Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and snacks were provided on Thursday and Friday, and dinner was provided on Thursday night. The meeting ended at 4 pm on Friday.
Day One Presentations:
- Project 1 – Mamuka Kavaratskhelia and Stefan Sarafianos
- Project 2 – Alan Engelman and Vinay Pathak
- Project 3 – Wei-Shau Hu and Bruce Torbett
- Core 1 – Greg Voth and Stefano Forli
- Core 2 – Dmitry Lyumkis and Rob Dick
- Core 3 – Greg Melikian, David Millar, and Karin Musier-Forsyth
Day Two Presentations:
- Core 4 – Mary Kearney and Andrew Routh
- Core 5 – Karen Kirby and Christian Gallardo
- CDP Awardees – Megan Ken, Ludovic Autin, and Guochun Jiang
B-HIVE Winter Training Retreat
February 12, 2025
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, we held an in-person training workshop led by Drs. Kaylee Grabarkewitz, Patrick Griffin, Timothy O’Leary, and Vicki Wysocki, based on mass spec-related methods. The workshop began at 1pm, on the day prior to the B-HIVE Face-to-Face meeting. A video recording of this workshop will be available by the end of March 2025.
Pat Griffin and Tim O’Leary presented, “HDX-MS for analysis of non-covalent protein-ligand interactions, and proteomics for analysis of covalent ligands.”
Vicki Wysocki and Kaylee Grabarkewitz presented, “Complementarity of Native MS with cryoEM and Mass Photometry.”
Dr. Art Olson provided an informal workshop and demonstration using VR technology, “Exploring and Learning about Virus Structure and Symmetry in an Augmented Reality environment.”
A short movie of this demo is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WSVNfyQwdo3C–w8Bq6zWIgCXcjUv-RV/view?usp=sharing
The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) hosted the annual HIV Structural Biology Meeting on Monday, June 23rd and Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 virtually. Invites were sent from NIAID to B-HIVE Center members only. Each Center presented research updates for 1 hour, as in past meetings.
The 2025 Summer Face-to-Face meeting was rescheduled to the Fall. This year it was held on Monday, October 6, 2025, as a virtual-only, half-day meeting.
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Congratulations to Karin Musier-Forsyth, PhD! She has been awarded the RNA Society / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award for 2026.
The RNA Society/Cold Spring Harbor Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award was established in 2021 to recognize outstanding mentorship by full members of our society in all its forms. It aims to highlight the importance of fostering the academic and professional development of other scientists and mentoring will be broadly considered to include any activity that contributes to the sustained vibrancy and growth of the RNA scientific community. Please join us in celebrating Karin’s award!
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