This year the annual conference Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology in Nove Hrady is canceled because of the ongoing reconstruction of the Castle theater. The CIISB users meeting this Autumn (October most likely) will be connected with a Structural biology conference of this type. We hope that the Castle theater in Nove Hrady will be available for the 2018 conference. For the future we want to stick to the CIISB Users meeting being connected to the Discussions conference. The General assembly of the CSSB society must meet once a year. This year we want to do this at the Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Meeting 2017. This conference has a promise of a very interesting program (held in Brno). The General assembly of CSSB is planned at this conference (May 25 2017, 17:30 – 18:00). We would like to ask all members of our society to register to this conference and participate in the Assembly.
Author: Martin Maly
Frontiers in targeted modulation of protein function
Workshop organized jointly by the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Institute of Biotechnology CAS
BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic
November 28 2016, 9:30
You are cordially invited to talks by three prominent scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science held at the BIOCEV, Prumyslova 595, Vestec on November 28 from 9:30 o’clock.
- Tamar Unger: The pipeline of protein production towards ‘well-behaved’ purified protein
- Rina Rosenzweig: The many things we can learn about chaperone-substrate interactions through NMR
- Ron Diskin: Structural Studies of Viral Glycoproteins
BIOCEV can be reached easily by car or by public transport, BUS 326 from Opatov, METRO C.
Third Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Meeting
The third Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Meeting will take place in Brno, Czech Republic the 25-26th of May 2017. Brno is the city of Johann Gregor Mendel, a founder of modern genetics and one of the first scientists who applied multidisciplinary approach to explain his observations. Social programme of the meeting will include visit of the Mendel’s Museum and dinner at the Augustinian Abbey, where Johann Gregor Mendel worked and lived.
The inaugural Instruct Structural Biology Meeting at Heidelberg in 2013 successfully showcased integrative structural biology and its impact on biological research and biomedicine. The second Biennial took place in Florence in 2015 continuing the integrative line with an increased focus on innovation. This new edition will include sessions that represent recent structural biology highlights, emerging methods and technologies and results of biomedical importance.
Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Registrations open
Confirmed speakers includes:
| Speaker Name | Institute |
| Dave Stuart | Instruct/University of Oxford |
| Albert Heck | Utrecht University |
| Leemor Joshua-Tor | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Helen Saibil | Birkbeck College London |
| Masahide Kikkawa | University of Tokio |
| Juli Feigon | UCLA |
| Michael Sattler | TU Munich |
| Kristina Djinovic-Carugo | University of Vienna |
| Babis Kalodimos | University of Minnesota |
| Richard Stefl | Masaryk University |
| Janusz Brujnicki | International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology |
| Andrew Carter | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
| Thijn Brummelkamp | Netherland Cancer Institute |
| James Naismith | The University St Andrews |
| Raymond Stevens | USC Dornsife |
| Petr Leiman | University of Texas Medical Branch |
Upcoming submission opportunities/deadlines include:
Abstract submission: March 1
Registration closing: April 1
Student fellowships: March 1
We look forward to seeing you in Brno
The Instruct Operations Team
FEBS Advanced Course: Ligand-binding Theory and Practice
FEBS Advanced Course: Ligand-binding Theory and Practice will take place in Nové Hrady on July 3 – July 10, 2016 (application deadline: April 1, 2016). This course provides training in the theoretical and practical principles of ligand binding. It offers participants the possibility to analyse their own macromolecular interaction systems using contemporary advanced methods including surface plasmon resonance, isothermal titration calorimetry, UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopies, and microscale thermophoresis. The design, execution, and interpretation of these experiments will be guided by expert tutors. Additional lecturers will discuss other contemporary methods used in experimental studies of ligand binding, and current views on the phenomenon of allostery.
Advanced Methods in Macromolecular Crystallization VII
Advanced Methods in Macromolecular Crystallization VII
the 2nd FEBS practical crystallization course in middle EU co-sponsored by INSTRUCT
The course is intended for undergraduate (5th year) and postgraduate students and postdocs with an interest in macromolecular crystallization. Number of participant is limited to 35.
The crystallization of biological macromolecules is still poorly understood and, as a consequence, success of the common trial-and-error experiments is not predictable. On the other hand, more rational approaches have been developed in the past few years and prospects for the science of crystallogenesis are in fact good. Many of the new approaches are based on an improved theoretical insight into the processes of nucleation and crystal growth.
The course is designed to bring over the message of the benefits of more rational approaches to macromolecular crystallization. The course will consist of theoretical lectures, seminars as well as practical work and demonstrations (lectures 40%, practical work 50%, seminars 10%). For crystallization experiments, typical recipes using commercial proteins will be used. In addition, students can bring their own proteins and carry out crystallization trials on these during the course.
A poster section is planned in order to encourage participants to present their own work.
Nove Hrady is located in the south of the Czech Republic. The Academic and University Center resides in a very styleful chateau, which provides many facilities such as two lecture halls, laboratories, apartments and a student dormitory.
Speakers and tutors:
- Terese Bergfors (Upsalla University)
- Christian Betzel (Univ.-klinikum Hamburg)
- Christian Biertümpfel (MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried)
- Monika Budayova-Spano (UJF-EMBL-CNRS, Grenoble)
- Jiri Brynda (Academny of Sciences, Prague)
- Martin Caffrey (Trinity College Dublin)
- Radka Chaloupkova (Masaryk university, Brno)
- Naomi E. Chayen (Imperial College London)
- Allan D’Arcy (Allschwil, Switzerland)
- Karsten Dierks (Nabitec)
- Howard Einspahr (IUCr Journal Comission, USA)
- Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (CSIC-Uni de Granada)
- Jose A. Gavira (CSIC-Universidad de Granada)
- Richard Giege (CNRS Strasbourg)
- Lata Govada (Imperial College London)
- Ivana Kuta Smatanova (University of South Bohemia)
- Jeroen Mesters (University of Luebeck)
- Joe Ng (University of Alabama USA)
- Marc Pusey (iXpressGenes Inc. Huntsville)
- Bernard Rupp (Hofkristallamt, Livermore)
- Claude Sauter (Université de Strasbourg)
- Stefan Kolek (Douglas Instruments)
- Ivana Nemcovicova (Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Lubica Urbanikova (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- Pavlina Rezacova (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
- Da-Chuan Yin (Xian, China)