Jun Aishima

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7262
jaishima@bnl.gov

Education | Appointments | Publications

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