27 Oct 2020

Instruct virtual course on Single Particle Analysis by CryoE. Madrid, December 14 – 18, 2020

The registration for "Instruct virtual course on Single Particle Analysis by CryoE. Madrid, December 14 – 18, 2020" is now open. The aim of this course is to give an overall overview of the whole process of single particle analysis (SPA) starting from sample preparation, image acquisition at the microscope, image processing and atomic modelling.

21 Oct 2020

Webinar series: What can iNEXT-Discovery do for us?

From Monday October 26 onwards, iNEXT-Discovery will be organizing weekly webinars on structural biology technologies presenting iNEXT-Discovery technologies for potential users. The first webinar will be on the topic "Biophysical methods to quantitate macromolecular interactions" presented by Anastassis Perrakis (Netherland Cancer Institute).

20 Oct 2020

Instruct-ERIC ‘Structure Meets Function’ webinar – 10 November

Featuring expert speakers from Instruct Centres across Europe, the 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.

20 Oct 2020

ESRF scientific webinars

ESRF organises a series of webinars focused on research carried out at the ESRF and the scientific opportunities with the new Extremely Brilliant Source, ESRF-EBS. The first webinar will be on October 23 at 2:00 p.m. on the topic "High-resolution imaging with coherent X-rays" by Vincent Favre Nicolin, ESRF scientist.

19 Oct 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Michael Sattler (Helmholtz Center & Technical University Munich) and Robert Tycko (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on October 22th at 16:00CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Michael Sattler (Helmholtz Center & Technical University Munich): Dynamic regulation of client and cochaperone interactions of Hsp90
Robert Tycko (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health):Time-resolved solid state NMR of biomolecular self-assembly processes

15 Oct 2020

Webinar Open SPR Nicoya Alto Technology Presentation

On Wednesday October 22 a webinar Meet Alto: The world’s first digital high-throughput SPR system will be held. You are welcome to join the webinar via Zoom.

8 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded "for the development of genetic scissors”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was given jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing." Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

6 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 split and awarded "for the discovery that black hole formation" and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."