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10th Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses
Courses co-organised with industrial partners are encouraged.
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iNEXT Workshop
Workshop was hosted by CEITEC Masaryk University from 29-31 May 2019.
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Automatic sample changer and optic upgrade at the X-ray Diffraction and Bio-SAXS core facility at CEITEC MU
The automatic sample changer for BioSAXS Kratky camera system was installed and it is in operation.
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POSTDOC: PROTEIN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGIST
We are seeking for a highly motivated scientist for EU-funded postdoctoral position inprotein structural biology for experimental team at Loschmidt Laboratories, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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4th National Day of Large Research Infrastructures
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University are honoured to invite you to take part in the 4th National Day of Large Research Infrastructures, to be held on 19th November 2019 in the premises of LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZlarge research infrastructure.
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Instruct-ERIC International Access Call
We are delighted to announce the opening of the Instruct access call for International users.
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Prof Wolfgang Baumeister awarded the 2019 Ivano Bertini Award for outstanding contributions to structural biology
The Ivano Bertini Award is offered by Instruct to recognise a significant achievement in frontier research that utilises an integrative structural biology approach.
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CFs succeeded in getting EU support to organize a workshop on the sample quality assessment
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The evolution of solution state NMR pulse sequences through the ‘eyes’ of triple-resonance spectroscopy
Lewis Kay in The evolution of solution state NMR pulse sequences through the ‘eyes’ of triple-resonance spectroscopy highlights how pulse sequence ‘engineering’ has evolved during past decades with the focus on liquid state NMR applications.
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Visualization of biological macromolecules at near-atomic resolution: cryo-electron microscopy comes of age
The topical review by Alok K. Mitra recapitulates developments and transformational advances of cryo-EM technology.
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The expanding toolkit for structural biology: synchrotrons, X-ray lasers and cryo-EM
Samar Hasnain et. al. describe the steadily-expanding methodologies for atomic resolution studies in The expanding toolkit for structural biology: synchrotrons, X-ray lasers and cryo-EM. Of note is the following statistics: Despite the wealth of structures in the Protein Data Bank, a closer examination reveals that 89% of the structures, i.e. 126 994, are of proteins or complexes with a molecular weight of less than 160 kDa. Furthermore, only 4% of the deposited structures have a molecular weight in excess of 300 kDa.