Crystallographic studies will be a major focus of this Conference.

Confirmed invited speakers for this exciting event are:

Dr Fulvia Bono, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen - Germany
Dr Stephen Cusack, EMBL, Grenoble â€" France
Prof Kiyoshi Nagai FRS, MRC-LMB, Cambridge â€" UK
Dr Bruno Klaholz, CNRS, Illkirch - France
Prof Ben Luisi, University of Cambridge â€" UK
Dr Hervé Le Hir, CNRS, Paris â€" France
Prof Achillefs Kapanidis, University of Oxford â€" UK
Prof Nicolas Leulliot, Université Paris Descartes â€" France
Prof Ralf Seidel, University of Leipzig - Germany
Dr Cameron Mackereth, INSERM, Bordeaux â€" France
Prof Nuria Verdaguer Massana, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona - Spain
Dr Emmanuel Margeat, CNRS, Montpellier â€" France

The Röntgen-Ã...ngström Cluster RAC is a Swedish-German research collaboration in the fields of materials science and structural biology that aims to strengthen research at synchrotron and neutron radiation sources.

2nd Training School for Early Career Researchers (TS4)

Plenary Speakers

Allen Orville - Diamond Light Source Ltd

"Dynamic structural biology at XFELs with less sample, over longer reactions, and including complementary methods"

Neil Ranson - University of Leeds

"Cryo-EM as a tool in modern biomedical research"

2x Training schools: for early career invesigators (27-30 Jan) and for Bioimage Analyst (27-30 Jan).

Taggathon: Bridging Life Science & Image Analysis through online tools (28-30 Jan)

Bioimage Analysis Symposium for Bioimage Analysts, Developers and Life Scientists.

Given by Dr Fabric Gorrec, LMB, Cambridge, UK

Advances in macromolecular X-ray crystallography depends upon solving structures from samples containing purified and concentrated protein, DNA, RNA, and their complexes. Novel samples are however increasingly challenging to produce and crystallize hence innovations which enhance the process of structure determination are urgently required, especially to increase the yield of quality diffraction crystals.

Experienced researchers from related fields, students and non-experts alike will find this webinar essential as it provides both theoretical and experimental evidence-based aspects of macromolecular X-ray crystallography. Delegates will leave with a better understanding about the underlying reasons why it is necessary to formulate novel crystallization screens with relatively complex conditions, such as the ones found in the MORPHEUS screens.

The workshop will be held at the Research Center Caesar in the framework of the 6th International Caesar Conference: Overcoming barriers - Atomic-resolution and beyond: advances in molecular electron microscopy (12-15th Sept. 2017).

The workshop is exclusive to registered participants of the conference, but provided at no additional costs. The target audience includes graduate students, faculty and staff.

This workshop will provide intensive hands-on-training in all practical aspects of single particle cryo-EM image processing using SPHIRE.

All stages of the SPHIRE pipeline will be covered, including:

• Micrograph movie alignment
• CTF estimation
• 2D classification
• 3D starting model generation
• High-resolution 3D refinement
• 3D focused classification and heterogeneity analysis

Registrations to the workshop will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis, however limiting participants to one per group/department. Confirmation letters will be sent latest beginning of August.
The workshop is limited to 20 attendees. Computing hardware will be provided in place.
You can find more information and register at:
https://www.caesar.de/en/events/2017/6th-international-caesar-conference-overcoming-barriers.html
Please remember to use the subject "Workshop SPHIRE Registration" when registering for the workshop, as there will also be a parallel workshop on sample preparation and tomography.

Learn about the state of the art in structural biology and molecular biophysics

The aim is to provide MX users with sufficient training to be able to operate any of the Diamond MX beamlines efficiently and to get the most benefit from their beam-time. The training will involve hands-on sessions on the suite of five operational MX beamlines (http://www.diamond.ac.uk/mx-home/) as well as offline software sessions.
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Sessions include:

5th July afternoon session hands-on software:
Two tutorial sessions:

• CCP4
• DIALS

6th July, MX beamlines and data room sessions:

• MX software: automation in data analysis
• Multi axis goniometry / SAD Anomalous data collection
• Introduction to VMX-i
• I24 new end station/ In situ diffraction
• Fragment screening â€" I04-1/Lab36
• Experiment database: new ISPyB

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Registration is free-of-charge with lunch provided on the 5th and 6th July, and accommodation and dinner for the night of July 5th. Travelling expenses within the UK will also be provided. The training is targeted at all users, and is not limited to students and post docs. It is essential that each BAG sends at least one representative per calendar year.
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Places are limited to twenty five participants. The registration deadline is on the June 25th 2017 at 11:59. Registration is now open.

 June 15th deadline for applications.

This immersive course is an outstanding place to learn both the theoretical
and practical aspects of Macromolecular Crystallography because of the
extensive lectures from world-renowned teachers a continuous and the
hands-on experiments.

This 2017 course is the 30th year that this course has been taught at CSHL
with an All-Star cast of instructors. Along with the return of the
long-time instruction team of Alex McPherson, Gary Gilliland, Bill Furey
and Jim Pflugrath, there are established additional roles for Tassos Perrakis (NKI),
Paul Adams (LBL), Janet Newman (CSIRO), supplemented by many, many others
(see the course flyer linked above for more name dropping) to help us give
the participants an experience in Macromolecular Crystallography learning
that cannot be found anywhere else.

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