News & Events

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.

2025

January 17 – Invited Speaker: Janet Iwasa, PhD. “Molecular Visualization, Scientific Outreach & Education.”

February 13-14 – Winter F2F Meeting

March 21 – Invited Speaker: Nathan Sherer, PhD. “Why does HIV-1 modulate the cell cycle?”

April 18 – Cores 1 & 2 updates

May 16 – Cores 3 & 4 updates

June 23-25 – TBD

July 18 – Invited Speaker

August 15 – Project 1 updates

September 19 – Project 2 updates

October 17 – Updates from CDAs

November 21 – Project 3 updates

December 19 – No meeting, Happy Holidays!

B-HIVE Winter Face-to-Face Meeting

The 4th annual B-HIVE Winter F2F meeting will be February 12-13, 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 mass spec-related methods on the day before the meeting, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, starting at 1 pm. A detailed agenda for the training workshop will be provided in early 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 – 10 pm), 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.

A registration link for both the meeting and training workshop will be distributed soon.

Poster presenters must email Amy (amy.crowson@seattlechildrens.org) with presenter name, title/position, lab affiliation, and poster title by January 9, 2026.

A block of hotel rooms will be reserved at the Emory Conference Center and a reservation link will be provided for our group rate.

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) will host the annual HIV Structural Biology Meeting Monday, June 23rd and Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 virtually and invites will be sent from NIAID. Presentations will be from the Centers for HIV Structural Biology program.

The Summer Face-to-Face meetings will be rescheduled.  More to come!

The Latest Buzz

We are excited to learn that our colleague, Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth will be presenting the keynote talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Retroviral Meeting for 2025!  Please see the pictograph below of her presentation.

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Congratulations to Dr. Greg Melikian, who has joined as a co-organizer for the Cold Spring Harbor Retroviral Meeting in its 50th year!  This meeting will be held on May 19-24, 2025 in New York.