2009

EMBL Hamburg, 9 December 2009
Paul Tucker celebrates his retirement
Colleagues and friends past and present, from around Europe and further afield, got together on Friday 4th December to celebrate Paul Tucker’s retirement. more

DESY Campus, Hamburg, 26 November 2009
Petra III inaugurated
On the 16th November, Professor Annette Schavan, Germany’s Federal Minister for Education and Research, helped to inaugurate the PETRA III synchrotron radiation source. more

DESY Campus, Hamburg, 9 November 2009
EMBL at the DESY Open Day
Every two years, the science institutes of Hamburg open their doors to the public for a night of science, and this year DESY combined the event with an open day to celebrate 50 years of DESY. more

Hamburg, 30 October 2009
“What has it got in its pocketsses?”- the first structure of the family of nematode fatty acid and retinoid binding proteins
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at EMBL-Hamburg describe the first protein structure of a family of nematode lipid binding proteins (LBPs). The work, led by Rosie Jordanova in the Tucker group, provides the basic structural and functional information for investigation of inhibitors of lipid binding by fatty acid and retinoid binding (FAR) proteins. more

Hamburg, 15 October 2009
P-CUBE project launched
European users can now apply for free access to the most advanced structural biology techniques in the areas of cloning, expression, protein characterization and crystallization. more

University of Hamburg, 25 September 2009
First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology in Hamburg
Scientists from across the many disciplines of structural biology came together for the First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology on the 24th and 25th September. Circa 250 participants attended the one and a half day conference at the University of Hamburg to contribute to the growing field of Structural Systems Biology. more

Hamburg, 16 September 2009
Auto-Rickshaw: faster, better, more
The Auto-Rickshaw automated crystal structure determination platform has received a further upgrade to include a combination of molecular replacement and single-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing for automated structure determination. more

Hamburg, 3 September 2009
Co-operation agreement signed between GKSS and EMBL to join forces on the future BioSAXS beamline at Petra-III
GKSS - Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH has decided to contribute to the construction and future operation of the small angle X-ray scattering beamline (BioSAXS) at the Petra III synchrotron on the DESY campus. more

Hamburg, 19 August 2009
New insights into human peroxisome protein complexes
In a recent paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at EMBL Hamburg used small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to gain insights into the architecture of a large receptor/cargo/scaffold complex from the human peroxisomal translocon. more

Hamburg, 20 July 2009
Macromolecular Crystallography Goes Low Res
In a paper recently published in Acta Crystallographica Biological Crystallography, Philipp Heuser, Gerrit Langer and Victor Lamzin from EMBL Hamburg describe a novel approach for obtaining structural information from very low resolution X-ray data, extending to resolutions as low as 20Å. more

Hamburg, 9 July 2009
PETRA III Annex Building Topping Out Ceremony
Alongside the new beamlines for structural biology planned at the PETRA III synchrotron in Hamburg, an Annex building is being constructed which will house integrated facilities, offices and laboratories, as well as a cafeteria and seminar room for DESY and EMBL staff and users. more

Hamburg, 3 July 2009
Successful Protein Complexes workshop at EMBL Hamburg
Thirty students from across Europe gathered at EMBL Hamburg from 29th June – 3rd July for a workshop on the "Characterization of Protein Complexes in Structural Biology". The workshop was supported by funding from the EU grants Spine2 Complexes and 3D Repertoire. more

Hamburg, 15 June 2009
EMBL Hamburg Science and Society forum lectures successfully re-launched
EMBL Hamburg held a successful Science and Society lecture on the 15th of June when Prof. Joachim Mnich, Director of High Energy and Astro Particle physics research at DESY, talked about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project at CERN to an audience of about 40 people. more

Hamburg, 9 June 2009
The first EDNA MX meeting held at EMBL Hamburg
On the 9 June 2009 24 participants from 5 countries representing 6 synchrotrons met at EMBL Hamburg for the first EDNA MX meeting. more

Hamburg, 26 May 2009
World's first remote SAXS experiment at EMBL Hamburg
At 12:00 CET on 26 May 2009, EMBL Hamburg linked up to the Nanyang Technological University’s School (NTU) of Biological Science (SBS) in Singapore to conduct the world’s first remote synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiment. more

Florence, 30 April 2009
The EMBL Structural Biology Units participate at the INSTRUCT annual meeting
130 participants from 19 countries across Europe and beyond, participated in the INSTRUCT annual meeting in Florence from 29 - 30 April 2009. more

Hamburg, 24 April 2009
A step towards a better understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The deadly disease Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Myocbacterium tuberculosis, kills several million people worldwide every year. Understanding the structure and function of the pathogen is essential for combating the disease. As part of her PhD Thesis, Linda Schuldt from Manfred Weiss’s team at EMBL Hamburg, has been working on the structure of the enzyme tetrahydrodipicolinate N-succinyltransferase (DapD), which catalyzes the fifth reaction step within the lysine biosynthetic pathway. more

Hamburg, 31 March 2009
X-ray scattering and crystallography provide insights into the molecular organization of bacterial surface layer
Bacterium /Clostridium difficile/ expresses a surface layer (S-layer) acting as an adhesin facilitating its interaction with host enteric cells. more