11 Aug 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Hartmut Oschkinat & Tatyana Igumenova

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on August 19^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP Berlin): Structural investigations on a bacterial toxin and its injection machinery

• Tatyana Igumenova (Texas A&M University): Structural basis of protein kinase C regulation probed by NMR and MD simulations

4 Aug 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Anant Paravastu & Tobias Madl

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on August 5^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Anant Paravastu (Georgia Institute of Technology): Designer peptide co-assembly and what it may be teaching us about naturally occurring protein aggregation

• Tobias Madl (Medical University of Graz): Revealing the role of arginine methylation as key regulator of disordered proteins

29 Jul 2021

Petra Obšelová, a new administrative assistant of CIISB

Petra Obšelová will replace Dagmar Suchá as administrative assistant of CIISB as of August 1, 2021. She will take care of the CIISB web presentation and will assist activities of the Executive Committee and its Chair. Hereby, we express our sincere thanks to Dagmar for the excellent performance during her tenure. We wish her lot of success both in her professional and personal life.

28 Jul 2021

New equipment in CF Nanobio

With funding provided by the CIISB project, the NanoBio Core Facility has been equipped with new instruments that will help scientists from different disciplines to tackle their projects.

27 Jul 2021

POSTDOC POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY & PROTEIN DESIGN

We are seeking for a highly motivated scientist for a postdoctoral position in structural biology and protein design at Loschmidt Laboratories, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. We conduct research in enzymology and protein engineering to fight acute stroke, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

26 Jul 2021

ISIDORe project approved for funding

On 22 July 2021, the EC announced that 11 projects were short-listed for funding, with total funding of €120 million. The 11 projects involve 312 research teams from 40 countries in Europe and beyond, which are addressing the emergency request to tackle the most complex societal problems.

26 Jul 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Jean Baum & Beat Meier

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on July 29^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

• Jean Baum (Rutgers University): Investigating a-Synuclein amyloid seeding processes by NMR

• Beat Meier (ETH Zürich): Higher fields and faster spinning: new opportunities for protein NMR

23 Jul 2021

CIISB graded as excellent in the international peer-review assessment of Large Research Infrastructures of the Czech Republic 2021

On Monday, July 19, 2021, Masaryk university, as a coordinator of the Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology (CIISB), received results of the consensus report of the international assessment committee. CIISB performance was evaluated using 13 evaluation and monitoring criteria with the overall grade 5 – excellent.