17 Dec 2020

Webinar series: What can iNEXT-Discovery do for us? Rebecca Thompson, ABSL, From protein sample to structure: getting started with single particle Som

The webinar series What can iNEXT-Discovery do for us? will continue on 21st December at 16:00 CEST with the topic From protein sample to structure: getting started with single particle Som presented by Rebecca Thompson, ABSL.

11 Dec 2020

New Protein Production facility at BIOCEV

The Centre of Molecular Structure at BIOCEV established a new Protein Production facility. This initiative follows the survey mapping a preliminary interest from potential users and resulted in a platform for both routine protein production and demanding development of methods in semi high-throughput format. The facility has been in a pilot mode since July 2020 to evaluate the feasibility for the long run. Now the new Protein Production facility has been added to CIISB application form and users can apply via the standard application process.

10 Dec 2020

Scientific presentations from Instruct-ULTRA General Assembly

The Horizon 2020 project Instruct-ULTRA aiming to accelerate the expanded implementation of Instruct by opening up to new members is nearing to its end. Scientific talks from the Instruct-ULTRA project's final General Assembly, held remotely in November 2020, are now available on-line as on-demand videos.

10 Dec 2020

Webinar series: What can iNEXT-Discovery do for us? Eva Pereiro, ALBA, A carthographic description of the cellular landscape by cryo soft X-ray tomography

The webinar series What can iNEXT-Discovery do for us? will continue on 14th December at 16:00 CEST with the topic A carthographic description of the cellular landscape by cryo soft X-ray tomography presented by Eva Pereiro, ALBA.

8 Dec 2020

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique 3D structure. Figuring out what shapes proteins fold into is known as the “protein folding problem”, and has stood as a grand challenge in biology for the past 50 years. In a major scientific advance, the latest version of the AI system AlphaFold (deepmind.com) has been recognized as a solution to this grand challenge by the organizers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP). This breakthrough demonstrates the impact AI can have on scientific discovery and its potential to dramatically accelerate progress in some of the most fundamental fields that explain and shape our world.

4 Dec 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Mei Hong (MIT, Cambridge MA), Markus Zweckstetter (DZNE/MPIBPC, Göttingen)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on December 10th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Mei Hong (MIT, Cambridge MA): Structures of SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza Viroporins: a Quest to Block Pandemics

• Markus Zweckstetter (DZNE/MPIBPC, Göttingen): Biomolecular condensation: from transcription to SARS-CoV-2