About
Affiliations
Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe University
LIMS: La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science
Australian Research Council Center of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging
Arizona State University affiliate faculty in the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State University, Department of Physics, Center for Biological Physics, and unfunded collaborator of National Science Foundation BioXFEL Science and Technology Center in USA.
Nadia Zatsepin is an ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
She obtained her BSc(Hons) and PhD from Monash University, working on X-ray imaging of nanoparticles in light metal alloys. In February 2011, Nadia joined the lab of Prof. John C. H. Spence as a postdoc at Arizona State University (ASU), in the beautiful Sonoran desert. Here, she worked on the development of serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX), mostly at the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser - the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She continued as an Assistant Research Scientist (2013-2015) and Research Assistant Professor (2015-2019) in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, where she started a research group supported by the National Science Foundation through her grant ABI Innovation: New Algorithms for Biological X-ray Free Electron Laser Data and the BioXFEL Science and Technology Center. She then moved to La Trobe University as a Senior Research Fellow in the ARC Centre for Advanced Molecular Imaging, and has recently started a new group at Swinburne Univeristy of Technology.
Her research interests include
Application and development of time-resolved serial crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons, including data reduction and analysis, simulations and experiment design
Ultrafast X-ray radiation damage (electronic damage)
She led serial crystallography data analysis in the NSF BioXFEL Science and Technology Center (2013-2019). Over this time, she led a number of XFEL beamtimes on membrane protein SFX and ultrafast damage dynamics, and collaborated with numerous groups on ultrafast time-resolved SFX, and SFX for G-protein coupled receptors and other membrane proteins involved in drug design, vaccine development and understanding fundamental processes such as photosynthesis.
Her work has been supported by NSF through ABI Innovation: New Algorithms for Biological X-ray Free Electron Laser Data, NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure, Advances in Bioinformatics as principal investigator (08/2016 – 07/2019), as well as by the NSF BioXFEL STC and the Australian Research Council COE in Advanced Molecular Imaging and COE in Coherent X-ray Science and various travel awards.
When not obliterating protein crystals with femtosecond XFEL pulses, debugging, drawing or cooking up a storm with her theoretical physicist & photographer husband and cross-eyed cat (who has sadly crossed to a parallel fluffy dimension to pursue her 10th life) , Nadia sang jazz and folk in Who Knew with her colleagues Profs John Spence (whom we sadly lost in 2021) and Uwe Weierstall, e.g. here and at the BioXFEL Annual International Conferences from 2017 to 2019. BioXFEL Trio at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, 2017. Who Knew performances in New Orleans in 2018 and the final one was in San Diego in 2019 @ the BioXFEL 6th Annual Conference are coming soon to youtube.
Full left wrist.