Jun Aishima
Research Staff 5 Computational, Data Engineering, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7262
jaishima@bnl.gov
After working at multiple synchrotron facilities (Diamond Light Source, Australian Synchrotron) on MX beamline and their software, Jun has returned back to the US and been involved in implementing important updates of the Life Sciences Data Acquisition (LSDC) software, now used by three beamlines at NSLS-II, while developing sustainable and secure software systems for Cryo-Electron Microscopy experiments at LBMS, and other beamlines within the NSLS-II BEPS Division.
Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications
Expertise
- Macromolecular crystallography
- Data acquisition of synchrotron experiments
- Data processing of synchrotron experiments
- Linux system administration
- Ansible-based system configuration management
- Python
Education
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2001). Supervisor: Cynthia Wolberger
B.S. Harvey Mudd College (1994). Supervisor: Nancy Hamlett
Professional Appointments
2001-2007 Postdoctoral fellowship with Paul Adams and Axel Brunger on the application of the medial axis transform to automated ligand building software.
2007-2013 Data acquisition scientist position for Data Acquisition group at Diamond Light Source, Ltd., Harwell, UK. Data acquisition software for MX beamlines
2013-2015 Software engineer for Scientific Computing, Diamond Light Source, Ltd., Harwell, UK. Work on DAWN for SAXS beamlines, ISPyB for BioSAXS prototyping.
2015-2019 Postdoctoral fellowship with Monash University/Australian Synchrotron. Worked on developing MX beamline data processing and acquisition systems.
Selected Publications
- Aishima J, Owen RL, Axford D, Shepherd E, Winter G, Levik K, Gibbons P, Ashton A, Evans G (2010) High-speed crystal detection and characterization using a fast-readout detector. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography 66:1032–1035. doi: 10.1107/s0907444910028192
- Aishima J, Russel DS, Guibas LJ, Adams PD, Brunger AT (2005) Automated crystallographic ligand building using the medial axis transform of an electron-density isosurface. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography 61:1354–1363. doi: 10.1107/s0907444905023152

Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7262
jaishima@bnl.gov