Gabby Budziszewski

@gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social

Operations Manager @ UB-HWI National Crystallization Center professional protein crystal whisperer, pipet tip chaos agent, buffalonian views my own

💎💎 Check out the Biomolecular Crystallization Workshop at the 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography Congress in Calgary, Canada this summer 💎💎 Thrilled to be co-organizing the workshop with @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social #crystallization #crystallography

IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Interested in crystallizing your favorite biomolecule for structural studies? Join the #IUCr2026 Biomolecular Crystallization Workshop for - Sample prep/characterization - Optimization and seeding - Ways to ‘see’ your crystals - Ultrasmall to large crystals - AI/ML advances event.fourwaves.com/...

Examples of crystals

Is your New Year's resolution to unveil structural details for your biological macromolecule? Reserve a spot in our January protein crystallization run before Friday! Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Jan 12th – Thurs Jan 15th Tues Jan 20th – Thurs Jan 22nd

Get a crystal this November with our high-throughput crystallization screening service! This month, we are running both SOLUBLE and MEMBRANE crystallization screens. 🔮 Details ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Not being able to crystallize your biomolecule of interest? Now that's scary. 😱 Try our high-throughput screen! October 2025 Soluble (taking reservations) Reservation Deadline: Fri Oct 3rd Package Acceptance & Plate Setup: Tues Oct 7th – Thurs Oct 9th Tues Oct 14th – Thurs Oct 16th

I'm excited to share that my story is featured in this week's edition of Science Magazine! Being able to do my research with my Tribe and in my homelands has been so impactful and meaningful personally and for my career. And it's important for other young Indigenous researches to know it's possible!

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

"It’s because of my community and Land connections that my postdoctoral work is flourishing." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/45l1RGx

An illustration of a man's head coming out of the water surrounded by fish and trees. The text says: Academic training took me away from my Indigenous homeland—but I found my way back.

Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)

A man stands in a cave filled with white crystals, many of them much taller and larger than he is.  The scale is hard to even understand.

CREDIT:  Javier Trueba

From the C&EN article I'm citing below:
"For millennia, conditions within the Cave of Crystals (290 m underground) were perfect for the growth of gypsum crystals, allowing them to grow to their massive size.  Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/Science Source"

Excited that our article made the cover of the July issue of @actacrystf.iucr.org! Congrats to my coauthors @gabbygrowsxtals.bsky.social & Vivian Stojanoff! Grateful for #NIH NIGMS R24 National Resource grant that enables workshops like the 2023 SAMPREP workshop @ @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

Structural Biology Communications@actacrystf.iucr.org · last yr.

The July issue is out! tinyurl.com/y25fxe86 The cover shows a rainbow of protein crystals taken from a Topical Review on 'Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments'. Take a look at doi.org/10.1107/S205...

To be clear for folks outside the US - when you see us tweeting jokes in the aftermath of unprovoked acts of war, it’s because we’ve lost all control of our federal government and are desperate for mechanisms to address the horrors we as civilians are indirectly responsible for. We are so, so sorry.