3 Feb 2021

iNEXT-Discovery 1st Annual Scientific Meeting

This First Annual Scientific Meeting will take place online on February 16th, 2021 and is open for everybody with an interest to learn more about modern structural biology, recent technological developments and their applications. An interesting program with excellent internal and external speakers is currently being prepared and some slots for 5' Flash Talk are still available - you can register and send a short abstract.

2 Feb 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Tanja Mittag (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) and Adam Lange (Humboldt-University Berlin)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on February 4^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Tanja Mittag (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital): Understanding the molecular interactions underlying liquid-liquid phase separation of low-complexity domains
Adam Lange (Humboldt-University Berlin): Atomic structures and functional dynamics of rhomboid proteases, non-selective cation channels, and bacteriophage tail tubes

26 Jan 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Francesca Marassi (Sanford Burnham Prebys) and Katherine Henzler-Wildman (UW-Madison/NMRFAM)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on January 28^th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Francesca Marassi (Sanford Burnham Prebys): Molecular insights to calcified deposit formation from NMR
Katherine Henzler-Wildman (UW-Madison/NMRFAM): Breaking down the mechanism of a proton-coupled transporter

19 Jan 2021

Job position - Expert in scientific programming and data management

The Institute of Biotechnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec announce an open position for an expert in scientific programming with experience in scientific data processing for a European project focused on Standards for Data Archival and Exploitation.

18 Jan 2021

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Wei Qiang (Binghamton University) and Rasmus Linser (Technical University Dortmund)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on January 21th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Wei Qiang (Binghamton University): Membrane Interactions of 40-Residue Beta-Amyloid Peptides
Rasmus Linser (Technical University Dortmund): ¹H-detected solid-state NMR as an access to µs timescale conformational dynamics in large enzymes

15 Jan 2021

The 2021 ISMAR conference will be held during August 22-27

as a joint conference consisting of 22nd International Society of Magnetic Resonance Conference, 9th Asia-Pacific NMR Symposium, 60th Annual Meeting of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of Japan
and 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Electron Spin Science and Technology. The conference will be held as a hybrid format of on-line and virtual events with options to participate in Osaka, Japan. The on-line
format will allow participants from all the time zones to interact actively.

12 Jan 2021

Cryo-EM data decode the mechanism behind the honeybee viral infections

How does the honeybee virus behave when infecting the host cell? Does it resemble pulling a note out of a bottle or rather opening a surprise egg? Karel Škubník and his colleagues, led by structural virologist Pavel Plevka from CEITEC Masaryk University, have discovered new findings describing the mechanism of genome release of honeybee viruses. They shed a new light on the exiting believe regarding behaviour of honeybee viruses during the host cell infection process. The scientists reached this remarkable conclusion with the help of cryo-electron microscopy combined with protein simulations, which were conducted by Robert Vácha and his research group. The research results were published on 1^st January 2021 in the international scientific journal Science Advances. More details are presented in the Research Highlight below.

11 Jan 2021

Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function - Webinar #6

Featuring expert speakers from Instruct Centres across Europe, Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function highlights some of the latest developments in structural biology, demonstrating how integrative methods are enabling scientists to decipher the mechanisms that underpin health and disease.