Participants will be able to analyze their own data and tutorial
datasets using dedicated Amazon Web Services instances.

We will cover the following software packages:
-RELION (led by Liz Kellogg, Cornell Univ.)
-cryoDRGN (led by Ellen Zhong, Princeton Univ.)
-cryoSPARC (led by Structura Inc.)
-Model building in Coot/Phenix (led by Alan Brown, Harvard Medical School)

Time: Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 9 AM pacific / 12 PM eastern time
Speaker: Radhika Malik, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
 Hosted jointly by NCCAT, PNCC, & S2C2

NIH sponsored Joint CryoEM Service Centers Webinar Series
Speaker: Â Dr Hanbin Jeong
Jan 26, 2023 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)Â 
 

Free CryoEM Webinar

The COVID-19 pandemic showed how poorly prepared we were to deal with a newly emerging respiratory virus. Antiviral drugs with the appropriate spectrum of activity can protect against a new pandemic threat until a vaccine can be developed and deployed. Drugs should be suitable for post-exposure prophylaxis or treatment of mild disease, possess oral activity with a good safety profile, have low cost of goods, and be easy to deliver and suitable for combination. The global research community must act collectively to generate a toolkit of antiviral agents covering a number of viral families. Scientists from many sectors â€" industry, academia, non-profits â€" will be involved, working in a multidisciplinary effort. This presentation provides a perspective on pandemic preparedness, the approaches that are being taken to tackle this problem, and the need to ensure equitable access to any drugs that are developed.

The first edition of the Puxano Talks, Emerging technologies in Structural Biology will take place on February 17th in Otterburcht (Ghent, Belgium) and is being organized by Puxano in partnership with the VSC (Vlaams Supercomputing Center) and the OpenFold consortium.

The talks will cover some of the latest tech advances in Cryo-EM. The first session will delve into the optimization of grids to effectively tackle challenging proteins, while the second session will examine the impact of the new software for predicting protein structures on Cryo-EM, with a focus on the open-source initiative OpenFold and its integration into different stages of the process.

Monday, December 5, 2022, 8:00-9:30 AM (PST).
 

Speakers:

Prof. Peijun Zhang: Interrogating Human Viruses on a New Level
 

Dr. Thomas F. Kelly: Progress Toward Atomic-Scale Analytical Tomography

Theme

Harnessing Crystallography for Africa’s Research and Technology TransformationÂ

Sub-Themes

• Inorganic and Industrial Materials
• Crystal Engineering and Structural Chemistry
• Crystallography and Life Sciences
• Diffraction Physics and Phase Transformations
• Crystallographic Databases
• Application of Crystallography in Materials Science, Agricultural and Geological Sciences

Bursary applications

Please apply here.

Each year, the Argentine Society of Biophysics (SAB) organizes a meeting where the biophysical community of Argentina discusses the recent advances in all fields of biophysics. In the present meeting we will have a panel of international experts that are leaders in their respective fields, who will provide an update on the latest discoveries and discuss state-of-the-art approaches in biophysics to address experimentally challenging questions related to biological systems (in solution, in membranes, in cellulo and in vivo).

Attendance is not restricted to Argentinian citizens. SAB meetings always welcome students and researchers from other Latin American countries. SAB grants fee waivers and travel grants to local members of the Society, from the graduate student to the early career researcher levels, to enable their participation regardless of their access to funding. For the current meeting we plan to fund the participation of graduate students and postdocs from other South American countries as well.

The topics to be presented/discussed in this edition include protein interactions, computational and theoretical biophysics, membrane biophysics, structural biology, in situ biophysical methods, systems biology, synthetic biology, spectroscopy, epigenetics and control of gene expression, photophysics and photophysiology, protein aggregation and disease, and molecular interactions. The meeting will be an extraordinary opportunity for local scientists and PhD candidates to engage in scientific discussion with world renowned experts. We are confident that, given the communication skills of the speakers, the plenary lectures and symposiums will lead to fruitful discussions that will extend to the poster sessions. These discussions might allow younger researchers to apply new methodologies in their research projects and we hope they can lead to new collaborations.

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The IUCr will award travel and accommodation fellowships to attend the meeting. Undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows up to 35 years of age from Argentina or other countries may apply. To apply you must send an email to sab2022@ibr-conicet.gov.ar with the subject "IUCr fellowship application" indicating the following:

• Applicant name
• Identification (DNI/passport)
• Poster/communication title (if applicable)
• Where you will be traveling from
• Travel fareÂ

The course will take place in person at CNB-CSICÂ  
December 13 â€" 16, 2022 from 09.30-17.30 CET
 
The course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the whole image processing pipeline in Electron Tomography (ET) from the movie alignment of the tilt series, 3D reconstruction of the tomogram, particle identification, and subtomogram averaging, all inside Scipion integration framework.

The course is aimed at researchers of all levels wanting to adopt electron microscopy as one of the tools at their disposal for elucidating biological structures.
 

Registration will be open until November 14, 2022

Utilising novel sample preparation techniques to enhance Cryo-EM structural analysis
12 noon ET/4pm GMT

SPT Labtech are proud to support a Drug Discovery World webinar with presentations from two researchers for whom new sample prep methods have been important factors in overcoming sample-specific challenges they encountered during structural analysis.

Prof Wei-Jen Tang, University of Chicago will speak about overcoming denaturation effects to determine cryo-EM structures of multiple states of the small human protein PreP at near atomic resolution.

Dr Radhika Malik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mont Sinai will discuss how overcoming strong preferred orientation issues resulted in the first structure of DNA Pol-zeta both without DNA and in the act of DNA synthesis.
Attendance at this webinar is free of charge, but registration is required

The CCP4/BGU workshop is directed to 25 graduate students, postdocs and/or researchers with some previous expertise in crystallography who need a deeper insight into most advanced structural biology techniques to carry out their research projects.

The workshop program covers all aspects of structure determination, such as data collection, phasing, model building, refinement, validation and structural analysis.Â

• Lectures and tutorials will be delivered by experts in the field
• Participants will be able to work alongside world-leading scientists and methods developers on their own projects
• Participants will have the opportunity to send their own samples to Diamond Light Source for Remote Data Collection

The MLZ is delighted to host the Eighth European Conference on Neutron Scattering after successful events atÂ

• Interlaken 1996
• Budapest 1999
• Montpellier 2003
• Lund 2007
• Prag 2011Â
• Zaragoza 2015
• St. Petersburg 2019

The conference is organized on behalf of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) and is one of the most important scientific events in the field of neutron research.Â

The conference will take place at the TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering and the new Science Congress Center Munich - both located in the immediate vicinity of the MLZ at Garching.Â

After a warm Welcome on March 19th, we are looking forward to four days of thrilling talks, pleasant posters, and decent discussions of the European neutron scattering community between March 20th and 23rd!Â

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The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of all areas of crystallography-related science to share their recent research findings. The conference will also promote the interest and understanding of crystallography with respect to teaching and research in Bangladesh. It is expected that regional and international scientists will join the conference, which will allow Bangladeshi crystallographers to interact and collaborate with foreign participants. The Organizing Committee may arrange one or two sessions in hybrid mode.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2022

Registration deadline: 30 November 2022Â

Flyer of the 7th BCA Conference

Poster of the 7th BCA Conference