National Crystallization Center Team

Dr. Bowman has been working in structural biology for over 15 years. She completed her PhD research at University of Rochester in the Bren Lab. She then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for postdoctoral research in the Drennan and Stultz Groups (supported by an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA fellowship), followed by a second postdoctoral appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Bowman joined the Crystallization Center as the Director in July 2017.  She is the PI of the NIGMS National Resource grant funding the NCC.  Her research group is working to develop new methods that combine crystallographic and spectroscopic approaches to answer fundamental questions about protein biochemistry, especially in metalloproteins.

Dr. Lynch is a quantitative and computational scientist focused on applications in structural biology and image analysis. Her work focuses on how we can use imaging methods to better detect and characterize samples for structural biology techniques. She received her PhD from University of Rochester on Bayesian methodology, and continued to a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health on modeling methods for HIV disease progression. Besides developing quantitative methods to make better use of imaging for crystal growth and detection in the NCC, she also pursues computational approaches for understanding protein motion from structural data.

Dr. Budziszewski is a native Buffalonian who completed her bachelor’s in biochemistry at Canisius College prior to moving to the University of North Carolina to complete her PhD in Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working in the McGinty lab. She has expertise in macromolecular crystallography, recombinant protein expression and purification, enzymology, and biochemical assay development. She joined the NCC in Fall 2022.  Dr. Budziszewski is passionate about working with users to develop strategies to produce diffraction-quality crystal hits and promoting an inclusive scientific work environment.

Elizabeth Snell has more than 15 years of experience in protein crystallization. Several of the proteins that she has worked on have flown on the International Space Station, and she is currently working on developing a pipeline to provide optimization of crystallization results to NCC users. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Tiffany Wright joined the NCC at HWI in November 2022. New to the area of structural biology, she brings her experience to the lab from her background as a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry from Buffalo State College. Her work focuses on high-throughput protein crystallization, and she maintains daily operations and service output in the NCC.