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Photographs and images associated with the laboratory

San Juan in Puerto Rico. Dr. Snell in San Francisco. Group photo for the Diffraction Methods meeting in Berlin, Dr. Snell in Berlin. Control rack at the SLS. London view of Horse Guards Parade with the Eye in the background, Workshop registration. Dr. Snell hosting a HWI Gala, the first event after COVID. Beamline 1-5 at SSRL collecting data. Dr. Snell mounting crystals. Working at NASA Kennedy Space Center. Dr. Snell visiting BESSY. The Crystallization Center team. Hobees breakfast Joe Luft using one of the first UV imagers Taking the BioXFEL interns to San Francisco. Robin Culp (Kempkes) at HWI. Dr. Snell riding in Monument Valley Data collection at the LCLS. Recirpocal space mapping on a protein crystal using solid state analysis instrumentation Dr. Snell hiking down the Grand Canyon. Dr. Snell in his laboratory at HWI. Kristin Wunsch as a graduate student. Dr. Snell at the compact lightsource at ASU Testing out experiment at NASA Glen Research Center before putting it on the Space Station. Admiring the view in Yosemite National Park. Dr. Snell getting out of the laboratory. A view of our tour of the EUXFEL tunnel before the machine was installed. Fluid Flows and Macromolecular Growth in Microgravity,Helliwell, JR, Snell, EH, Chayen, NE, Judge, RA, Boggon, TJ and Pusey, ML. Published in Physics of Fluids in Microgravity, ch 14, pages 489-514. Taylor and Francis. Editor, R. Monti (2002). Biological Small Angle Scattering Theory and Practice. Lattman, EE., Grant, TD, Snell, EH. Oxford University Press. 2018. A book aimed at crystallographers and other structural biologists to introduce them to SAX/SANS techniques, provide practical guidance, and introduce the information that can be obtained from them. Dr. Russell Judge. Dr. Snell setting up for data collection at NASA. Dr. Snell with Roy. Collecting data at SSRL beamline 7-1. Dr's Snell and Garman dancing in Vienna. Daytrip to Toledo Spain after the Crystallization Workshop. At the Science Museum in London. Sunset looking back at San Francisco from Berkeley. Dr. Snell in Puerto Rico. The robotic data collection workshop group photo. Dr's Snell, Borgstahl and Tarver in Stanford with data collection close to the Christmas holidays. Dr's Snell and Borgstahl at SSRL. Horse riding at Halfmoon Bay. Dr. Snell with a living legend in Japan. Dr. Snell waling the Great Wall of China. Dr's Snell and Weik pictured inside the reactor hall of a Japanese Nuclear Reactor. Touring the compact light source at ASU Elizabeth Stofko working as a summer intern. The Bloody British book cover. Eddie in Germany the day before the Berlin Wall came down. No guards are in the tower. Cryo-trapping the six-coordinate, distorted-octahedral active site of manganese superoxide dismutase. Borgstahl GE, Pokross M, Chehab R, Sekher A, Snell EH. J Mol Biol. 2000 Mar 3;296(4):951-9. Dr's Snell, Borgstahl, and Cohen discussing data collection. Dr. Snell's first Waymo ride. Car in Phenix, Arizona. Dr's Kundrot and Pusey looking at a structural model. Dr. Snell at the 2022 Longevity summit in California. Dr. Snell's 50th Birthday in Cincinnati. Dr. Snell in Berlin. Granada, Spain. Dr. Snell with the SLS in the background. Visiting the Guinness Factory in Dublin. Dr. Snell mounting samples on beamline 7-2 at SSRL. Dr. Snell working at EPCOT on a NASA exhibit. Dr. Thomas Grant. Visiting Leiden for the radiation damage meeting. Elizabeth Snell. Winter snow in Buffalo. Dr's. Snell and Garman in Berlin. Cover of a book entitled Cocktail Chemistry. Dr. Snell in the Polaris Lounge at Newark Airport. Picnic in Puerto Rico. Dr. Snell in Australia with a kangaroo. Dr. Snell preparing samples on beamline 9-1 for data collection close to Christmas. Tom Grant as a graduate student working on a new crystal mounting apparatus. Presenting a poster at the Pitts Burgh Diffraction Society Meeting Dr. Snell teaching at a workshop, Dr. Snell in the control room at BESSY. Collecting data at SSRL Beamline 1-5. Staff photo at HWI. Dr. Snell at Niagara Falls Looking at Bragg's diffractometer with Tom Grant, James Holton, Arwen Pearson and Joe Luft. Seeing the heat — preliminary studies of cryocrystallography using infrared imaging. Snell EH, Judge RA, Larson M, van der Woerd MJ. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2002 Nov 1;9(Pt 6):361-7. The first imaging of the cryocoolin process in a protein crystal. Aina Cohen and Mike Hollenbeck in Sydney. Meeting my Irish cousin in Chicago O'Hare. The Crystallization Center team in the Japanese garden in Phenix. John Helliwell, Eddie, and Zygmunt Dr. Snell at graduation. Dr's Snell and Garman at the Grand Canyon. Dr's Snell and Pusey working on the reciprocal space ship measuring protein rocking curves. Dr. Snell in Switzerland. Dr. Snell in Granada. Crystallization Center Halloween. My replacement in Marc's lab, Dr. Tarver in Granada. A young Tom Grant. Visiting Newcastle. Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection. Chayen, NE, Helliwell, JR, and Snell EH. IUCr Monographs in Crystallography Number 24, Oxford University Press (2010). Eddie at the ACA in New Orleans. Dr. Snell with the new Cryo-EM. Dr. Snell collecting data on beamline 4-2 at SSRL. Dr. Snell in Australia. The Rocket replica at York Railway Museum.

Education

  • John Moores University of Liverpool, UK, Physics, B.Sc. Hons (1st) – 1992.
  • University of Manchester, UK, Chemistry, Ph.D. – 1996.
  • NASA Biophysics Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, USA, National Research Council Fellow - 1996 - 1999.

Contact
Edward Snell, PhD
T: 716-881-7573
esnell@buffalo.edu
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