The 2020 Petr Sedmera Award for the best published work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance knows its winner. The competition is organized by the Czech Spectroscopic Society of Jan Marcus Marci and sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Teva. The awarded paper Quantitative Conformational Analysis of Functionally Important Electrostatic Interactions in the Intrinsically Disordered Region of Delta Subunit of Bacterial RNA Polymerase was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society by Lukáš Žídek and co-workers from CEITEC, Masaryk University. The paper was selected by the award committee as the best one out of 8 submitted publications, all published in highly respected international journals. The award ceremony, originally scheduled for the 2020 NMR Valtice meeting, April 19-22, 2020, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will be announced later. More information (only in Czech) can be found here.
This is a reminder to apply for the Instruct-ERIC R&D Pilot Call - get funding of up to €15,000!
Closing 14:00 CEST on 15 April, the Instruct-ERIC R&D Funding Call invites early career researchers to submit proposals to access Instruct technology, equipment, and expertise from our 27 facilities across Europe for small scale pilot research projects in integrated structural biology.
Register now for the 32nd edition of the Instruct-ERIC Structure Meets Function webinar series, taking place on Zoom, 17 April at 11:00 CEST.
The latest webinar will have two speakers who have accessed the Instruct-ERIC facilities, expertise, and machinery via the ISIDORe project.
Talk 1: Nikitas Georgiou - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Title: Potential anti-inflammatory drugs
Talk 2: Séverine Padiolleau - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Title: Identification of aptamers interacting with a protein target involved in lyme disease