6 Aug 2020

Postdoc positions at CEITEC – Cryo-ET and Cryo-EM of Viral Transcription-Translation Coupling

Two postdoc positions are available in newly established Gabriel Demo lab (CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) to participate in research focused on structural mechanisms of transcription-translation coupling in bacteria and potentially in virus-infected mammalian cells.

6 Aug 2020

New CIISB newsletter has been published

Newsletter summarising new developments at CIISB in the period February - July 2020 and planned events is now available.

4 Aug 2020

CMS BIOCEV Newsletter

Heads of BIOCEV CIISB core facilities have summarised recent technological upgrades of their laboratories and presented them as CMS newsletter. The overview of recent updates is available here.

29 Jul 2020

Instruct-ERIC is hiring a Director to join the Instruct Hub

The Integrated Structural Biology - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Instruct-ERIC), a pan-European distributed infrastructure whose principal task is to support excellent science that integrates an understanding of biological structure with cellular function, seeks to recruit a director.

14 Jul 2020

Two on-line Magnetic Resonance Courses

Ilja Kuprov and Marcel Utz from University of Southampton made entire Undergraduate Magnetic Resonance module available online: 20 hours of video and 100+ pages of handouts.

14 Jul 2020

PhD Studentship Applications - Professor J. Lewandowski

University of Warwick together with GSK company offers a PhD studentship focused on "Solid/solution-state NMR spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy methodology for the characterisation of aggregation mechanisms in proteins".

8 Jul 2020

Upgrade of the workflow for cryo-electron tomography and microscopy

The CIISB Cryo-electron microscopy core facility at CEITEC Masaryk University is expanding its services in the sample preparation for electron microscopy. The facility has recently acquired high-pressure freezer Leica EM ICE for vitrification of bulky biological specimen (up to 200 mm thickness). In addition, the freeze-substitution unit Leica EM AFS2 for resin embedding of the high-pressure frozen samples and the ultramicrotom Leica EM UC7 with the adapter for cryo-ultramicrotomy were purchased in order to provide the facility users with the complete workflow for preparation of thin section samples for both room-temperature electron microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy.

7 Jul 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance – Nick Cox & Kendra Frederick

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on July 9th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Nick Cox (Australian National University): Spin state evolution during the biological water splitting reaction

Kendra Frederick (UT Southwestern): In cell structural biology enabled by DNP MAS NMR