Mason Klawitter is a Biophysics Graduate Student and NIH T32 MBTP trainee in Dr. Wright’s Lab. He earned his B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego in 2024. He began his research career in structural biology in the Lander Lab at The Scripps Research Institute, where he contributed to a project aimed at producing high-resolution structures from minimally purified mitochondrial lysate. He then completed a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco through the NIH PREP program, where he worked on a collaborative project between the Sello Lab and the Giacomini Lab to define the structural activity relationships of an experimental inhibitor targeting the multidrug efflux pump, BCRP. In Dr. Wright’s Lab, Mason aims to utilize cryo-EM and cryo-ET to study viral replication, assembly, and release.