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Kyle Morris

leader cryo-em pi wwpdb archive-lead

EMDB / EMBL-EBI

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Team Leader for the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) at EMBL-EBI. Brings ten years of first-hand cryo-EM experience from research and from imaging and structural biology service facilities. His vision for EMDB focuses on strengthening core archival functions, building connections to complementary databases, and preparing the archive for future cryo-EM and cryo-ET technologies (including volumeEM).

wwPDB role

Principal Investigator for EMDB, the electron microscopy archive within the wwPDB consortium.

Affiliations

  • EMBL-EBI — Team Leader, Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)

Career

  • Returned to the UK in 2018; staff scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), London - established and embedded cryo-EM and volumeEM imaging at the institute
  • 2021: moved to the UK national electron microscopy facility at Diamond Light Source as eBIC (electron Bio-Imaging Centre) Training Coordinator, responsible for user training programmes
  • Now: EMDB Team Leader, EMBL-EBI

Committees & service

  • wwPDB — Principal Investigator (EMDB)

Key Relationships

  • EMDB has been operated jointly by EMBL-EBI and RCSB PDB since 2007, and became a full wwPDB member on January 1, 2021. Kyle Morris leads the team that succeeded founding director Kim Henrick.
  • eBIC background connects him to the Diamond Light Source cryo-EM community and the MRC LMS imaging community

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