Abstract
THE FBI HAS ARRESTED a former employee of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, Calif., for allegedly destroying more than 4,000 protein crystal samples in an act of vandalism on July 18. A criminal complaint was filed on Monday, July 27, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco. The employee, Silvya Oommachen, was arrested on Tuesday, July 28, for allegedly destroying government property. She was released on $50,000 bail, says Jack Gillund, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. Oommachen told investigators that she removed the protein samples from storage in liquid nitrogen and left them out to thaw, says Matthew Quick, a special agent with the FBI, in an affidavit accompanying the complaint. The samples belonged to the Joint Center for Structural Genomics. JCSG is one of four high-throughput centers for determining protein structures that are funded by the National Institute of ...
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