Welcome
Hi, i'm Jackson Carrion, a PhD student in Computational & Systems Biology at MIT. In the Davis Lab, we develop and apply novel cryo-EM techniques, with a focus on tomograpghy and time-resolved methods, to better explore protein structure and dynamics in situ.
About
I completed my undergraduate and master's degrees at Arizona State University (ASU Biomedical Informatics) in Petra Fromme's lab, where I focused on developing new protein microcrystallization and XFEL methods to better study protein dynamics at femtosecond time-scales. Specifically proteins responsible for conducting photosythesis like Photosystem I/II, ATP synthase, Phycocyanin, etc. Eager to escape the heat, I joined the MIT Computational & Systems Biology Program. In the Davis lab, I am now passionate about developing and applying new cryo-EM methods for in-situ and time-resolved studies on various macromolecules to better explore the metadynamics of protein complexes at the atomic level.
Publications
2026Souza D.P., May M.B., Carrion J, Alva V, Bisson A, Davis J.H. (2026). A conserved archaeal ribosome-associated factor linking bacterial hibernation and eukaryotic energy sensing. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 Feb 22.707292. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.22.707292
Carrion J, Davis J.H. (2025). Resolving structural heterogeneity in situ through cryogenic electron tomography. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 96. 103188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2025.103188
Carrion J, Manjrekar M, Mikulevica A. (2024). CryoJam: Automating Protein Homolog Fitting in Medium Resolution Cryo-EM Density Maps. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jul 10:2024.07.10:602952. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.10.602952. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.10.602952 [code]
Doppler D, Sonker M, Egatz-Gomez A, Grieco A, Zaare S, Jernigan R, Meza-Aguilar J, Rabbani T, Manna A, Alvarez R. C, Karpos K, Cruz Villarreal J, Nelson G, Yang J, Carrion J, Morin K, Ketawala G. K, Pey A. L, Ruiz-Fresneda M. A, Pacheco-Garcia L. J, Hermoso A. J, Nazari R, Sierra R, Hunter M, Batyuk A, Kupitz C, Sublett R, Lisova S, Mariani V, Boutet S, Fromme R, Grant T, Botha S, Fromme P, Kirian R, Garcia-Martin M. J, Ros A. (2023). Modular droplet injector for sample conservation providing new structural insight for the conformational heterogeneity in the disease-associated NQO1 enzyme. Lab Chip, 23(13), 3016–3033. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3lc00176h
Carrion J, Nandakumar R, Shi X, Gu H, Kim Y, Raskind W. H, Peter B, Dinu V. (2023). A data-fusion approach to identifying developmental dyslexia from multi-omics datasets. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Feb 27:2023.02.27.530280. doi: 10.1101/2023.02.27.530280. PMID: 36909570; PMCID: PMC10002702. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.27.530280 [code]
Conferences
Carrion J, Mazalova V, Botha B, Yang J, Fromme P.
32nd Western Photosynthesis Conference (2023) [poster] [code]
Yang J, Carrion J, Fromme P.
The Protein Society Annual Symposium (2022) [poster]
Carrion J, Graffin S. Anderson D.
Arizona State University Health Solutions Graduate Expo (2022) [Invited Talk] [code]
Awards
PyTorch Conference 2025 Travel Award – 08/2025
Lab on a Chip HOT Articles of 2023 – 11/2023
32nd Western Photosynthesis Conference Travel Award – 01/2023
ASU GPSA Individual Travel Grant – 05/2022
ASU GRSP Research Grant – 01/2022
CV
Contact
Please feel free to reach out to my email (jcarrion@mit.edu) if you have any questions or would like to chat!
Links to my social media accounts: X/Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub | Google Scholar