Dear colleagues,
with this message I would like to announce our workshop entitled:
*"Strategic pipeline planning: from sample preparation to 3D structure
determination with bio SAXS and other biophysical techniques"*
to be held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) in Athens
from April 5th to April 10th, 2014.
*The workshop *will provide training on creating a roadmap towards
determining the 3D structure of a macromolecular target including
troubleshooting and rational decision-making with emphasis on Bio SAXS.
The sessions will include:
- *Structural Biology in Europe 2014 onwards *(ESFRI actions Instruct -
a success story, Large scale facilities in Europe & Opportunities for
transnational access)
- *Perspectives in structural biology *(An overview of additional main
stream methods for structural biology: X-ray crystallography, NMR, X-ray
imaging, ΕΜ)
- *Sample preparation *(Key objectives and how to benchmark the success
of a strategy, bottlenecks and troubleshooting, decision making on method
selection for 3D structure determination)
- *Bio SAXS at the forefront of structural biology *(Basic principles of
SAXS, Supporting biophysical techniques e.g. Dynamic Light Scattering, ITC,
SAXS data analysis software, in vitro and in silico SAXS challenges)
- *Career development* ("Mobstacles" and prospects for young scientists
in the frame of Horizon 2020)
*Target Group: *PhD students and post-doctoral scientists, currently
working in the structural biology field and have already some experience in
working with macromolecules. Experienced researchers will also be
considered but priority will be given to younger scientists. A total of 25
participants will be accepted in the course.
*Selection process*: The Biostruct-X and local organizers will be
responsible for the selection process to ensure that equivalent criteria
will be applied. The applicants will be expected to send
- a CV (max. 2 pages),
- a motivation letter (max. 1 page) explaining why they wish to
participate and what they expect from the course and
- a reference letter.
************* Deadline: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 **********
*Benefits: *Participants that have been accepted to the course are offered :
- to *send their protein samples (>90% pure) to the Sample Preparation
and Characterization (SPC) facility at the EMBL in Hamburg*. The SPC
will offer a preliminary sparse matrix screen that can be customized to the
particular sample, complementary characterization by thermal shift assay,
dynamic light scattering and mass spectrometry. *The preliminary results
of this characterization will be discussed during the workshop*. For
more information, please visit the SPC website:
https://htx.embl-hamburg.de/htxlab/
- *a limited number of fellowships* to be awarded to participants coming
from INSTRUCT member countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany,
Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom)
awarded by INSTRUCT (http://www.structuralbiology.eu).
*Host:* The event will be hosted by NHRF, coordinator of Instruct-EL, the
national distributed research infrastructure that functions as a hub for
structural biology in South East European area and Cyprus.
*The workshop is organized in conjunction with the International Conference
on Research Infrastructures (ICRI-2014) that will also be held in Athens
2-4 April, http://www.icri2014.eu <http://www.icri2014.eu> *
*Registration fee*: EURO 50 for academic participants and EURO 1000 for
participants coming from industry.
*Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order include:*
P. Agianian, T. Bergfors, J-M. Carazo, M. Graewert, M. Kokkinidis, P.
Konarev, R. Meijers, G. Nounesis, E. Pereiro, M. Petoukhov, S. Pispas, E.
Saridakis, S. Savvides, Th. Schneider, G. Spyroulias, P. Shaw-Stewart, Ef.
Stratikos, D. Stuart, D. Svergun, C.E. Vorgias, M. Weiss, M. Wilmanns
*Organizing committee:*
*Local organizers :**National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF, host) *(E.D.
Chrysina, V. Papadimitriou, G. Sotiroudis, A. Xenakis, M. Zervou, P.
Zoumpoulakis)
*Hellenic Crystallographic Association *(I.M. Mavridis, S.E. Zographos)
*ICRI-2014 organizers*:
*European Commission*, Directorate General for Research & Innovation
(Octavi Quintana Trias, Director of ERA policy)
*"Athena"- Research and Innovation Center (on behalf of the Greek
presidency/GSRT) *(Yannis Ioannidis, President and General Director)
*Lead contact:* Dr Evangelia Chrysina, echrys...@eie.gr
*More information will appear shortly on NHRF website*:
http://www.eie.gr/index-en.html
The workshop is supported by:
- *European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)*
- *Biostruct-X *(http://www.biostruct-x.eu)
- *INSTRUCT *(http://www.structuralbiology.eu)
- *DECTRIS *(http://www.dectris.com)
- *Douglas Instruments *(http://www.douglas.co.uk)
- *Rigaku *(http://www.rigaku.com)
- *Anelis Analytical Environmental Life Industrial Sciences *(
http://www.anelis.gr)
Looking forward to receiving your application and welcoming you in Athens
in April.
On behalf of the organising committee,
Evangelia Chrysina
Instruct-EL coordinator
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Dr. Evangelia D. Chrysina
Chemical Engineer-National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Molecular Structural Biologist- PhD in Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
Marie Curie Fellow (1997-2000)
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National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology (IBMCB)
48, Vassileos Constantinou Avenue
Athens GR-11635, Greece
E-mail: echrys...@eie.gr, ec...@eie.gr
Tel. 00302107273851, 00306937443207
Fax 00302107273831
