SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory / Stanford
Info
Staff scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Computational biophysicist working at the intersection of molecular dynamics simulation, X-ray scattering, and XFEL science. Co-author of MDTraj, the widely-used open-source Python library for analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories (with Pande group). Research connects MD simulations to experimental scattering observables, including work on extracting structural dynamics from X-ray solution scattering and time-resolved XFEL experiments.
DiffUSE relevance
Lane’s expertise in connecting MD simulations to X-ray scattering data is directly relevant to DiffUSE’s core scientific question: understanding how protein conformational dynamics manifest in diffuse scattering patterns. His SLAC position gives access to XFEL and synchrotron infrastructure for time-resolved experiments.
Key Relationships
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory — staff scientist
- MDTraj — co-author (with Vijay Pande group at Stanford)
- XFEL / time-resolved X-ray scattering community
- Stanford University / Bay Area structural biology ecosystem (near UCSF, Jaime Fraser, Yifan Cheng)
Sources
- MDTraj paper (McGibbon et al., Biophysical Journal 2015): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26488642/