21 Oct 2019

Advanced SAXSanalysis training

We would like to invite you to an Advanced SAXSanalysis training.

The training is designed to help you with processing data collected with small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) instrument in the Centre of Molecular Structure in the Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in BIOCEV. The tutorials will be by application specialist Anton Paar (instrument manufacturer).

17 Oct 2019

Astbury Launch Event

On 25 November 2019, the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory will be formally launched as an Instruct-ERIC site. To welcome the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory to Instruct-UK, Instruct-ERIC and the Astbury Centre are hosting a launch event at Nexus at the University of Leeds.

17 Oct 2019

"Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic analysis of biological macromolecules and their interactions: multi-method approaches and global data analyses" practical course

Course will provide theoretical, practical and data analysis training in modern biophysical methods used to monitor and quantify molecular interactions.

14 Oct 2019

Instruct-ERIC workshop on Computational Approaches in Integration of Structural Biology Techniques

On October 8 – 10, the Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences organised an Instruct – ERIC workshop on Computational Approaches in Integration of Structural Biology Techniques.

10 Oct 2019

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Is awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”.

8 Oct 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019

is awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

8 Oct 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

is awarded ”for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”, with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

7 Oct 2019

Renowned structural chemist Professor Sir Chris Dobson dies

Professor Sir Chris Dobson, a renowned structural chemist, has died.