Michael, a BSc Hons student in the lab in 2012, now has an independent group leader position at the highly regarded John Innes Center for Plant Science in the UK. He has just reported his structure of the RNA polymerase from plant plastids – in a paper in Cell – in the same issue as a rival group published a similar study! Our very own (well, until recently) Jason Low gave them a helping hand by collecting XLMS data on their complex, which helped them place subunits into the electron potential map that they obtained from single-particle cryoelectron microscopy data.
Super start to one’s independent career.