The XXI Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology and the 8th User Meeting of CIISB was held in Nové Hrady, South Bohemia, on 20-22 March 2025. The whole program took place at Nový Zámek.
Congratulations to the winners of the Student competition:
Prize of the Czech Society for Structural Biology for an outstanding student presentation (in alphabetical order)
Klára Kohoutová, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague
Structural Basis of the 14-3-3/Cyclin Y-mediated Regulation of CDK16
Michaela Novotná, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences,
Prague
CLINCELIN: A redesigned lincosamide combats ribosome resistance
modification through enhanced binding and structural flexibility
Prize of the Czech Society for Structural Biology for an outstanding student poster (in alphabetical order)
Jakub Hrubý, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Leaking Water into a TEM: Methods to Overcome Preferred Orientation in Cryo-EM
Veronika Klápšťová, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno
Structural characterization of the interaction between BRCA1-BARD1 and RNA polymerase II
Martin Sitte, Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno
Functional characterisation of the luminous apparatus of the sea pen Pennatula phosphorea
We thank our sponsors for making this event possible.
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Instructions and information
Make sure you arrive with sufficient time left before the start of the program, as some of you have accommodation in a certain distance from the Conference venue.
For the main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) we must split into two groups. Your name tag will have a mark (a sticker or similar) which means that you dine downstairs in the restaurant of the Castle. No sticker – you dine on the main floor.
We ask speakers to copy their presentation on the conference room computer well BEFORE the session and the chair persons to help speakers test their presentations. There will be strict timing of the lectures, unless marked otherwise in the program, you have 15 minutes to speak and 5 minutes for discussion.
The poster session in the Blue saloon (just in front of the entrance) will be held on Friday evening. The posters (size 92 x 118 cm) should be put up after Friday lunch and taken down after the poster session or on Saturday morning. Some poster boards will use pins, some glue tag (zvykacka), these will be provided.
To contact the conference organizers, write to duskovaj@ibt.cas.cz.
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The conference fee covers participation in the whole program, the printed book of abstracts for each participant, accommodation for two nights and full board (including breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and coffee breaks).
The first meal is dinner on Thursday and the last meal is lunch on Saturday.
Student competition
The Czech Society for Structural Biology invites all student presentations at the XXI Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology and the 8th User Meeting of CIISB to compete in two categories:– Prize of the Czech Society for Structural Biology for an outstanding student poster– Prize of the Czech Society for Structural Biology for an outstanding student presentation. The competing author must be a student (undergraduate or post-graduate studies) or a fresh PhD (less than one year from the defense of PhD thesis) at the time of the Discussions. A maximum of three prizes will be awarded in each category at the end of the Conference. Each prize includes one book related to structural biology or molecular biology selected by the winner.