Education / Experience:
| 2008 - 2022: | Director, MacCHESS, Cornell University |
| 1990 - 2008: | Staff scientist, MacCHESS, Cornell University |
| 1978 - 1990: | Research Associate, Biochem, Mol & Cell Biol , Cornell University |
| 1975 - 1978: | Post-doc, Cornell University, mentor Keith Moffat |
| 1968 - 1972: | PhD in Physical Chemistry, University of Connecticut |
| 1964 - 1968: | A.B. in Chemistry & Physics, Bryn Mawr College |
Research interests:
Macromolecular crystallography, data processing software, pressure cryocooling, serial crystallography, Laue diffraction.
Selected Publications:
- Huang, Q., Gruner, S.M., Kim, C.U., Mao, X., Wu, X., Szebenyi, D.M.E. (2016): “Reduction of lattice disorder in protein crystals by high-pressure cryocooling”, J. Appl. Cryst. 49, 149-157.
- Huang, Q., Szebenyi, D.M.E. (2016): “Improving diffraction resolution using a new dehydration method”, Acta Cryst. F72, 152-159.
- Lukk, T., Gillilan, R.E., Szebenyi, D.M., Zipfel, W.R. (2016): “A visible-light-excited fluorescence method for imaging protein crystals without added dyes”, J. Appl. Cryst. 49, 234-240.
- Heymann, M., Opthalage, A., Wierman, J.L., Akella, S., Szebenyi. D.M.E., Gruner, S.M., Fraden, S. (2014): “Room-temperature serial crystallography using a kinetically optimized microfluidic device for protein crystallization and on-chip X-ray diffraction”, IUCr J. 1, 349-360.
- Green, K.S., Szebenyi, D.M.E., Boggs, K., Bredthauer, R., Tate, M.W., Gruner, S.M. (2013): “A prototype direct-detection CCD for protein crystallography”, J. Appl. Cryst. 46, 1038-1048.
- Cornaby, S., Szebenyi, D. M. E., Smilgies, D.-M., Schuller, D. J., Gillilan, R., Hao, Q., Bilderback, D. H. (2010): “Feasibility of one-shot-per-crystal structure determination using Laue diffraction”, Acta Cryst., D66, 2-11.
Full publication list in MyBibliography link
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