New Insights and Advanced Approaches in Preclinical Drug Development

Session I â€" Overview and principles

An overview of cryoEM: Richard Henderson (LMB-MRC, Cambridge, UK)

A Bayesian view on cryo-EM structure determination: Sjors Scheres (LMB-MRC, Cambridge, UK)

From hybrid methods to direct structure solving by cryoEM: a Spanish perspective: Jose López Carrascosa (CNB-CSIC, Madrid)

How to overcome biochemical limitations in sample preparation for high-resolution structure determination of macromolecular complexes by cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography: Holger Stark (MPIBPC, Göttingen, Germany)

Session II â€" Solution and reconstruction

EM reconstruction from the standpoint of Maximum Entropy estimation: Jorge Navaza (CNRS Emeritus at the École Normale Supériere de Cachan)

Solving X-ray crystal structures with cryo-EM reconstructions: Randy Read (CIMR, University of Cambridge, UK)

Repurposing molecular replacement algorithms for docking models in Cryo-EM reconstructions: Airlie McCoy (CIMR, University of Cambridge, UK)

Model-building in Low Resolution and Cryo-EM maps using Coot: Paul Emsley

Session III â€" Model Building to automation

Automated model building in cryoEM maps: Jon Agirre (YSBL, University of York, UK)

New approaches to the analysis of cryoEM maps quality:José María Carazo (CNB-CSIC, Madrid)

Structural studies of heterogeneous assemblies: Elena Orlova

Model-building using cryo-EM and crystallographic maps: Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Session IV â€" Refinement and Global Initiatives

 Refinement of atomic models into cryo-EM maps using REFMAC5: Garib Murshudov (LMC-MRC, Cambridge, UK).

New real space refinement methods for cryo-EM: Pavel Afonine (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA)

The intersection of crystallography and cryo-EM in Phenix, new tools for both: Paul Adams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA)

Introducing the Collaborative Computational Project for Electron cryo-Microscopy: CCP-EM: Tom Burnley (CCPEM, UK)

Session V â€" Application and Future prospects

Investigating membrane protein structure and function by cryo-EM: Werner Kühlbrandt (Max-Plank Institut für Biophysik)

The emerging role of CryoEM in drug discovery and development: Paula da Fonseca (LMB-MRC, UK)

Cryo-EM at near-atomic resolution of icosahedral viruses: José Castón (CNB-CSIC, Madrid)

CryoEM illuminates the world of the Picornaviruses: Abhay Kotecha (Division of Structural biology, University of Oxford, UK)

Mechanistic insights on DNA replication and repair by cryo-EM: Rafael Fernandez Leiro (LMB-MRC, UK)

Structural studies of functional ribosome complexes: Paola Fucini (CIC-Biogune, Bilbao)

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St Andrews PX Summer School

The University of St Andrews will be hosting a protein crystallography summer school once again this year, which will take place 20-26 August.

The course aims to cover the theoretical and practical aspects of protein crystallography from protein expression and purification, through crystal growth to data collection on in-house and synchrotron sources, phasing methods, automated model building and phase extension, refinement, and validation. Hands-on sessions in data processing (XIA2, DIALS), molecular replacement, MAD/SAD phasing, refinement and electron density map interpretation (in COOT) will be included.

The School is intended for first/second year postgraduates or postdocs new to crystallography. The week is very intensive, and gives a concentrated overview of the methods which many find useful.

As in the past, priority is given to UK applicants because of the funding arrangements, but is open to a limited number of overseas applicants.

Application of Big Data Technology and 3D Visualization

This 3-day hands-on workshop introduces participants to the development of fast and scalable structural bioinformatics methods using state-of-the-art Big Data technologies and Web-GL 3D visualization. The first two days of the workshop combine lectures, hands-on applications, and programming sessions. On the third day participants apply the new technologies to theirown projects.

This workshop is held at the University of California, San Diego and hostedby the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at SDSC in collaboration with the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

Sponsorship

This workshop is sponsored by the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. Air travel and 4-day lodging will be provided for non-commercial participants, including a limited number of international participants. Apply now to secure your place in the workshop. Participants will be selected based on the best fit to the program. Application deadline: April 30, 2017.

Target Audience

The workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, industrial researchers, and scientific software developers who develop software for Structural Bioinformatics applications. Intermediate to advanced programming skills in high-level languages are required (Java, JavaScript, Python, C++).

The EMBO course will include lectures on:

Workshops will be held on the topics of:

• Membrane proteins and the methods of studying their structure;
• The structure and functions of the cells transcription apparatus;
• Subnanometer-resolution virus structures;
• Molecular organization of cells and organelles;
• New methods of sample preparation and data processing in cryo-electron microscopy.

 Keynote lectures:

 Prof Wolfgang Baumeister (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Germany)

 Dr Alexander Sobolevsky (Columbia University, NY, USA)

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Lomonosov Moscow State University will issue invitations for Russian visas for those who need them.

A recreation program that will take place after the Conference, including a visit to the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow.

Problems in structural biology today can very often not be solved by one technique alone, but need to be solved by a combination of methods, including NMR, X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, structural mass spectrometry, and SAXS. The heterogeneous data coming from these methods need to be combined with advanced molecular modeling techniques. The goal of the course is to provide young scientists that have more specialized knowledge in one of the techniques an overview over the broad range of modern structural methods available. Special emphasis will be given to computational approaches to integrate data (such as IMP, ARIA).

The course is principally aimed at the mature graduate student / postdoctoral level, but applications from scientists at all levels are encouraged. The course will consist of lectures, which will give introductions into the principles and limitations of the different techniques, and practical work on data analysis with the major structure refinement / modeling programs.

The course fee of € 250 (students) covers lodging and part of the meals.

Participants will be limited to 25. Registration deadline is April 13

Macromolecular Interactions and Complexes

The meeting is organized by the Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics and co-sponsored by the Keck Center for Computational & Structural Biology.Â

This year’s speakers include:


              James Chou, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

              Rachelle Gaudet, Ph.D., Harvard University

          Petr Leiman, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

 Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Brian Shoichet, Ph.D., Univ. California San Francisco School of Pharmacy

  Kylie Walters, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer
                              Institute

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Introducing the new Cryo-Electron Microscopy Platform for Structural Biology

The aim of this symposium is to promote the exciting opportunities in
structural biology opened by the advances in cryo-electron microscopy
and by the integration of structural biology approaches at multi-scale
level.

This symposium will celebrate the establishment of a new cryo-EM
platform at the EPN campus. The platform will offer access to a Titan
Krios microscope, which will operate as a user facility at the ESRF and
will reinforce the ongoing EM activity at the IBS and at the EMBL. The
new facility will be open to the international ESRF user community based on
peer-review of scientific merit and technical feasibility of their
projects. Scientists from ESRF, IBS and EMBL will support user
operation.

The symposium will bring together leading experts, junior researchers
and representatives of industrial partners to present and discuss the
latest developments and the future trends in cryo-EM as well as their
applications in addressing biological challenges.

We encourage participants to present their scientific results in a
poster session, with the possibility of being selected for a short talk.
Due to limited capacity (maximum of 80 external participants), early
registration is encouraged.

X-ray diffraction from macromolecular crystals includes both sharply peaked Bragg reflections and diffuse intensity between the peaks. The information in Bragg scattering reflects the mean electron density in the unit cells of the crystal. The diffuse scattering arises from correlations in the variations of electron density that may occur from one unit cell to another, and therefore contains information about collective motions in proteins. A major focus of the workshop will be to provide a roadmap to the acquisition of reliable data by surveying measurement methods and discussing the increase in measurement accuracy enabled by improved detectors, experimental methods, and data integration. Missing from recent results is real information about the behavior of the molecules being studied that would guide the thinking of biochemists and biologists. To discuss these and their relative merits will be a second major focus of the workshop. The charge to this workshop will be to provide a roadmap to efforts that will provide the biological understanding we believe is hidden in the data.

Registration for the Workshop and Users' Meeting is here:
http://usersmeeting.ps.bnl.gov/registration/?year=2017

Making and Measuring in 4-Dimensions (M²4D)

Workshops

Monday 15th

• Workshop 1. Multi-dimensional and multi-modal X-ray imaging and analysis
• Workshop 2. Spectro-microscopy at the Nanoscale: Exploring Chemical, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Novel Materials
• Workshop 3. Synchrotron Techniques in Support of DOE's Subsurface R&D Effort
• Workshop 4. Measurement and Interpretation of Diffuse Scattering in X-Ray Diffraction for Macromolecular Crystallography

Wednesday 17th

• Workshop 5. Bringing Big Science into the Classroom
• Workshop 6. Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering at the NSLS-II
• Workshop 7. Prospects in Imaging Materials and their Dynamics by Coherent X-ray Scattering
• Workshop 8. Data Acquisition Cookbook: A Tutorial on NSLS-II's Python DAQ Software
• Workshop 9. Nano-mechanics: From Material Fabrication to In-Operando Characterization

Frontiers of Materials Science in Early Drug Development

RNA and DNA Processes Throughout Biology: Mechanistic Insights and Applications to Human Health

Folding Biophysics, Design, and Stabilization with Applications to Disease

From Molecular Structures and Mechanisms to Cellular Bioenergetics in Health and Disease