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Check out some of our favorite images and see why we love what we do!
Some Gisriel Lab members at the Turkey Run conference
Kyle and Shimo (Judy) at their AWARD-WINNING posters
Himanshu's VR experience.
Devil's Lake Hike Sept. 2025
AI generated image of Albert Einstein doing photosynthesis research
TEM image of negatively stained trimeric photosystem I particles
Chris G., Chris B., and Himanshu at the 50th Midwest Southeast Photosynthesis Conference at Turkey Runn Inn, Marshall, IN
Photosystem I crystals
Tomogram of a Synechocystis 6803 cell
Blender image of photosystem I and photosystem II structures
2D classes of photosystem I particles
Blender image of photosystem I will helical far-red light absorbing allophycocyanin attached
Chris in his old postdoc lab at Arizona State
Photosystem II microcrystals
Photosystem II microcrystals under polarized light
Chris preparing a negative stain grid
Pipetting sample onto a cryo-EM grid in the Vitrobot
Large-scale cyanobacterial growth
Photosystem II microcrystals that look like butterflies (and diffract poorly)
Funky image of the photosystem II active site
Different types of heliobacterial reaction center crystals
Plates of various cyanobacterial species
Liquid cultures of various cyanobacterial species
Chris working in the dark in a glove box in his graduate lab
Laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy of Leptolyngbya JSC-1 cells. Image collected by Chris Brininger.
Winners of the 2024 Gisriel Lab Winter Olympics
Gisriel Lab Holiday Party 2024
Trehalose gradient
Cool PSI-PtNP image
Chris's birthday!
Nikki's birthday!
Nikki forever in the dark
A few cyano strains
Himanshu on the FPLC
Max being creepy in the lab
Beautiful phycobilisomes
We missed a few birthdays, so we celebrated them all at once!
What a pathetic attempt at writing initials!
Chris G. and Himanshu at a postdoctoral mentorship award ceremony.
1st year anniversary cake!