Hamburg,
10 January 2011
EMBL Beamlines see the light
On 9 December 2010, the macromolecular crystallography beamline P13 under construction at the PETRA III synchrotron saw its first monochromatic beam. With P13, all three EMBL beamlines at EMBL@PETRAIII have now reached this important stage in their construction.
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Hamburg,
14 December 2010
New leads for tackling Malaria
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, scientists from EMBL Hamburg together with colleagues from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg present new potential leads for the development of the treatment of malaria.
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Hamburg,
22 November 2010
Bilateral meeting in Hamburg - a tradition continues
Just over 20 participants attended this year’s EMBL Hamburg-Grenoble bilateral meeting at EMBL Hamburg on the 18th and 19th of November.
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Moscow,
5 November 2010
EMBL Group leader awarded RUSNANOPRIZE 2010
On the 3rd of November EMBL Hamburg group leader Dmitri Svergun was awarded the Nanotechnology International Prize RUSNANOPRIZE 2010 in a ceremony held as part of the 3rd International Forum on Nanotechnology in Moscow.
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Hamburg,
1 November 2010
SAXS Course 2010
The BioSAXS group led by Dmitri Svergun at EMBL Hamburg now has a bit more time to relax following another action packed and very successful EMBO Practical Course on Solution Scattering from Biological Macromolecules held at the unit from the 25th October to the 1st November 2010.
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Hinxton,
24 September 2010
The first joint EMBL-Hamburg and EBI course a success
Thirty students participated in the first EMBO Practical Course on “Computational aspects of protein structure determination and analysis: from data to structure to function” which took place from the 6th to the 10th of September at the EMBL-EBI, near Cambridge, UK.
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Hamburg,
20 September 2010
An EMBO Practical Course with many perspectives
Proper sample preparation is an important requirement to obtain useful data for structural studies. In August 2010, EMBL Hamburg organised the EMBO Practical Course on Protein Expression, Purification and Crystallisation (PEPC7) for the seventh time. This biannual course combines interactive lectures from internationally renowned researchers in molecular biology and crystallography. Twenty participants came together from Europe, South Africa and the US to learn about the latest developments in the field.
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Hamburg,
14 September 2010
First beam on beamline of EMBL@PETRA
On the 15th of July, EMBL Scientists and Engineers celebrated the first beam on a EMBL@PETRA III beamline.
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Hamburg,
13 July 2010
Pupylation targets identified in Mycobacteria
In a paper published today in Molecular Systems Biology, scientists from EMBL Hamburg report on their work on identifying post-translational targets in Mycobacteria. A proteome wide analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis revealed a total of 41 validated candidate targets using two complementary proteomics approaches.
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Hamburg,
7 May 2010
EMBL Hamburg hosts 1st EMBO Conference on Catalytic Mechanisms by Biological Systems
From the 5th to the 7th May, ca 120 participants attended the EMBO Conference entitled “Catalytic Mechanims by biological systems: at the interface between chemistry and biology” which took place on the DESY Campus in Hamburg.
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Hamburg,
30 April 2010
EMBL Hamburg hosts the second INSTRUCT annual meeting
The second annual INSTRUCT meeting took place in the centre of Hamburg from the 28th to the 29th of April 2010 and was hosted by EMBL Hamburg. Just over 120 delegates from academia, industry and the EU commission participated in the two day meeting which covered reports from the working groups and research activities as well as from the newly selected associate centres.
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Hamburg,
15 April 2010
Renewed attack launched on Tuberculosis
Together with international collaborators from 13 laboratories, EMBL scientists from Hamburg and from Heidelberg will contribute to a new project funded by the FP7 programme of the European Commission to understand the Systems Biology of Tuberculosis. SysteMTb is coordinated by Luis Serrano from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and kicks off on April 1st 2010.
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Hamburg,
9 March 2010
BIOKATALYSE2021 workshop at EMBL
On the Tuesday 23rd of February, EMBL Hamburg, together with the network cluster BIOKATALYSE2021, hosted a workshop focusing on applications of structural biology in academic research.
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Melbourne,
5 March 2010
Hamburg selected to host 2013 Biology and Synchrotron Radiation conference
At this year's International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR) conference in Melbourne, Australia, it was decided to hold the next conference in Hamburg.
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