Hamburg,
4 November 2013
Night of Science 2013
From midday until midnight on the 2nd November, EMBL Hamburg joined Hamburg’s 5th biennial Night of Science on the DESY campus. With activities for all the family, visitors flocked to the EMBL tent to enjoy fishing for crystals, take a spin at making ink ‘diffraction patterns’, view and manipulate protein crystals – smaller than the thickness of a human hair – under the microscope and learn how state-of-the-art analysis helps our scientists to ‘see’ individual atoms in proteins.
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Hamburg,
11 September 2013
Biology and Synchrotron Radiation conference
More than 300 structural biologists and technology developers gathered in Hamburg from 8 to 11 September for the 11th International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR). Organised by EMBL, it was the first time that this triennial event has been hosted by an international laboratory dedicated to research in the life sciences.
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Hamburg,
5 September 2013
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
On the 4th of September, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) took place on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus, just a stone’s throw from EMBL Hamburg. The CSSB is to complement the already world-leading synchrotron and forthcoming free electron laser infrastructures on the DESY campus with a broad range of research activities focusing on structural biology in connection with infection biology and emerging system biology approaches.
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Hamburg,
22 May 2013
DORIS Days
On 14 and 15 May 2013, the user community celebrated 40 years of work and research at the DORIS ring on the DESY Campus. DORIS, which was switched off for the last time at the end of 2012, has shaped the careers of many European researchers within the fields of structural biology and particle physics, some 400 of whom followed the invitation by DESY and joined the two day symposium on the DESY campus.
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EMBL Hamburg,
3 May 2013
EMBO Practical Course on “Computational Structural Biology: from data to structure to function” held at EMBL Hamburg for the first time.
Now in its fourth year, the EMBO Practical Course on “Computational Structural Biology: from data to structure to function”, took place for the first time at EMBL Hamburg from the 15th – 19th April 2013. Twenty students, selected from over 200 applicants, from across Europe and beyond participated in the five-day intense course. It was held on the DESY campus and organized by EMBL Hamburg and the EMBL-EBI. The course included lectures covering a variety of structure-determination techniques such as X-ray diffraction, SAXS, NMR spectroscopy and EM, as well as hands-on sessions using a wide range of relevant data-analysis packages, tools and databases for structure analysis, validation, comparison and archiving, as well protein interactions and small molecule identification.
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Hamburg,
12 March 2013
New EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network “PerFuMe” launched
EMBL Hamburg is one of eleven European research groups who together have launched the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network “PerFuMe” with the goal of training future European science leaders to work on cutting edge Peroxisome research. Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Ida van der Klei from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the interdisciplinary network will train 12 PhD students and 4 post docs at the interfaces of medicine, plant and fungus biology with state-of-the-art technologies in a wide variety of fields such as cell biology, biochemistry, genomics, and protein structure analysis.
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EMBL Hamburg,
20 February 2013
9th EMBL Grenoble Hamburg Bilateral Meeting
Scientists and engineers from the EMBL Grenoble and Hamburg synchrotron beamline teams meet once a year to exchange experiences and ideas on relevant structural biology methods. The 9th EMBL Grenoble Hamburg Bilateral meeting took place in Hamburg from the 14th to the 16th January and was attended by 16 participants from Grenoble and 21 local participants.
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Hamburg,
4 February 2013
Learning from the Linker
Mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent again and thus regain the ability to divide and differentiate into spezialised cell types. Although the so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSc) represent a milestone in stem cell research many of the biochemical processes that underlie reprogramming are still not understood. Scientists from the EMBL Hamburg and from the Max Planck Institute for Biomedical Medicine in Münster, Germany now shed new light on this process.
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Hamburg,
8 January 2013
The ViCi server for ligand-based drug design goes online
Researchers from the Lamzin group at EMBL-Hamburg recently made their novel software for in silico lead and ligand prediction, ViCi, available free of charge to the worldwide academic community through a robust and easy-to-use webserver.
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