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To enable researchers from European institutes to extend innovative structural biology research towards translational science, the EU has granted 10 million euros to iNEXT-Discovery, through the Horizon 2020 program. The iNEXT-Discovery consortium aims...

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the successful applicants for the 2019 Internship call. The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres in Europe. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations...

We are delighted to announce that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has joined Instruct-ERIC as a new member, following ratification by Instruct-ERIC and by the EMBL Councils. Instruct-ERIC and EMBL have a strong, shared history of working...

On Monday 25 November 2019, the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory was officially launched as an Instruct-ERIC research site, marked by an inauguration event at the University of Leeds. The Astbury Biostructure Laboratory adds its world-leading cryo-EM and...

Yuguang Zhao (of Instruct Centre UK in Oxford) visited the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan as part of the Open-SESAME project WP2 training school that Instruct contributes to. The Hercules@SESAME school trains young researchers...

Professor Sir Chris Dobson, a renowned structural chemist, has died. Chris was an innovative chemist who significantly advanced global understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Using experimental computational...

In August, Instruct-ERIC launched new features for ARIA that we want to really shout about. As some of these affect all users of ARIA we wanted to reach out and pick out some of the headline features.   Mail and MessagingMessaging straight to your...

For early-career researchers, experience of the latest scientific methods can have a profound impact on career development and can boost the research capabilities of the individual and their home institution. Through initiatives such as Instruct-ULTRA...

From 1st July, a pilot programme will be implemented to evaluate a revised funding model for Instruct-ERIC access. Due to the extreme differential in the cost of providing access using different technologies, the Instruct Executive Committee has agreed...

The sad news of the passing of Dr Peter Goodford, on May 10 2019 at the age of 87 has been reported recently. He was a pioneer of structure–based drug design who initiated some of the earliest studies in this field back in the 1970s. He had many...

Instruct are delighted to announce that the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory is now part of the Instruct-UK Centre, offering world class access to CryoEM and NMR technologies at the Leeds campus. The Astbury Biostructure Laboratory is part of the Astbury...

We are pleased to announce that the Call for proposals for Instruct Internship Programme (for internships to be held in 2019-2020) is now open.  Internship call Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support...

10th Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses This call is for events planned, organised and implemented by Instruct Centres or in coordination with scientific representatives of Instruct members. Courses co-organised with industrial partners...

5th Call for TRANSVAC2 Training Modules: M10 - Assay Development and Validation-Application of SPR Technologies in Vaccine development and manufacturing. Venue: Fraunhofer IME, Aachen Germany Date: 10-11 October 2019 M11 - Process Development and...

The Ivano Bertini Award is offered by Instruct to recognise a significant achievement in frontier research that utilises an integrative structural biology approach. The award is an independently reviewed competition and commemorates Ivano Bertini, who...

A team of scientists from the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory in Leeds are pedalling across the UK to tour microscope facilities and raise money for a leading human rights charity. The cyclists, who began their 660 mile journey at the SCMI in Glasgow...

The call is now open for a week long course providing practical training in macromolecular crystallography, bioSAXS and other structure determination methods. Students and early researchers from the Middle East countries which are SESAME members are...

To build on the strong partnerships with Latin American universities, Instruct-ERIC launched an International Access Call, in March 2019 (closing April 2019). The Instruct-ERIC International Access Calls offered the opportunity for scientists working...

Professor Robinson from Instruct-UK has been awarded the 2019 Novozymes Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of mass spectrometry. By enabling the use of mass spectrometry for proteins within cell membranes, Professor...

On Thursday 31 January, 23 European Research Infrastructures, based in 11 different countries with national nodes in all European Member States, met in Amsterdam to launch the ERIC Forum project, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme....

Messenger RNAs (or mRNAs) carry the information required to make proteins in cells. The end of an mRNA is generated by a multi-protein complex called cleavage and polyadenylation factor (or CPF). CPF cuts the mRNA at a specific site and then adds a string...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website instruct-eric.eu which replaces our old website, structuralbiology.eu. The re-designed site offers a better online experience, and a more user-friendly interface, with streamlined content, new...

The nineth training course call has been awarded, congratulation to the following people:Eva Pebay-Peyroula - Instruct-France 2Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano - Instruct-SpainChristine Ebel - Instruct-France 1Alexandre Bonvin - Instruct- NetherlandsJan Dohnalek...

The 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 23 till May 25, 2019 and registration is now well under way. The historical Alcalá de Henares is, in addition to the birthplace of...

Prof Joel Sussman (Instruct-Israel) represented Instruct-ERIC at the last Open Sesame General Assembly, which met at the SESAME Synchrotron in Allan, Jordan in December 2018. Open Sesame is the Horizon 2020 project working to transfer knowledge to the...

After the successful CAPRI first experience in 2017, they are back again this year with their call to structural biologists working on structures of protein complexes, to consider offering their structures as targets to CAPRI, the community wide...

The fourth cut-off date for proposal submission for the open TRANSVAC Call is on 15 December 2018.  The call for application was launched on 15 October 2017 and will remain open for the duration of the project (until April 2022) ...

ARIA version 2.1 has been launched. Version 2.1 brings many new features to ARIA, along with many behind-the-scenes improvements. Key features include:  New Customisable Admin Dashboard When you arrive at the administration pages of...

Following on the success of the first Instruct Workshop on cryo-EM best practices held in Harwell in May 2017, NeCEN (Instruct-NL)  organised the second version that took place in Leiden, The Netherlands on 15-16 Oct 2018. Focus was given towards operations,...

The CORBEL Open Call for research projects is going to close finally on 31 December 2018. Applications from companies are especially welcome in this last submission round of the Call. Both SMEs and large enterprises can get support to move their...

Latvia will officially become full member of Instruct-ERIC, with the approval of the Instruct Council. Full membership will start the 1st of January, more information will follow.

August 14-17th, 2018 in Oxford (England), hosted by Instruct-ERIC.In the CORBEL Project, transnational user access projects are implemented using the user-friendly online access management system (“ARIA”), which was developed by Instruct-ERIC....

A biennial award has been set up in memory of Ivano Bertini, who pioneered innovative methodologies in the field of NMR and championed technology integration as a foundation for correlative structural biology. The award recognises scientists...

Prof Lucia Banci is one of the award-winners of the first edition  of the "Mother Science" Award (Premio "Scienza Madre") promoted by the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani. Professor of Chemistry at the University...

The EGI Foundation is proud to announce that Instruct, the ESFRI infrastructure for structural biology, successfully adopted the EGI Check-in authentication and authorisation service.Check-in is an identity and access management solution that makes it...

Second call for training modules Training scientists in vaccine research and development (R&D) is crucial in order to sustain Europe’s excellence in this field. The TRANSVAC2 Consortium has set up training modules at leading European centers...

The 8M€ investment will increase the already important role of Spain within Instruct-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure for Structural Biology), as highlighted by Novel Prize winner Prof. Joachim Frank and Instruct-ERIC, Prof. David Stuart at a...

The CORBEL partners launch an Open Call for Advanced Research Projects and offer all academic and industrial scientists in Europe the unique chance to accelerate their research.

We are delighted to announce that Instruct-ERIC has been successful in the three applications submitted to the last research infrastructure Horizon 2020 call. Instruct-ERiC will participate of the EOSC-Life project which brings together the...

We are delighted to announce that Spain has submitted their application to join Instruct-ERIC as a full member. Following the CONTINUED strong support from the Spanish government TO INSTRUCT, the Spanish Ministery for Research formally applied in July...

Magnetic resonance spectroscopies provide insight in many areas of research including information on biomolecular structure, interactions and functional pathways. These fast-developing technology fields may offer new approaches to further your work. Take...

Information on molecular structure provides insight in many areas of research including functional pathways. Proposals for funded access to the full set of Instruct facilities are now invited. Are you new to structural biology research? This fast-developing...

TRANSVAC is an EC funded project offering transnational access to high-quality technical services to support the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for both human and animal use. Instruct participates to this project offering high...

The Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Oulu jointly organised a hands-on workshop that was focused on the practical aspects of Remote Data Collection using the Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) Beamlines at the Diamond Light...

Instruct-ERIC hub has an open position for a finance and administrative officer. Deadline applications is 1st August 2018. More information on the post can be found via our jobs website.

Registration is now open for INSTRUCT- FRISBI course on preparation and characterization of macromolecular complexesDate: November 19 - 23, 2018 Contact: Arnaud Poterszman Instruct funded Venue: Instruct-centre France 1, IGBMC Illkirch, France ...

Instruct-ERIC care about your privacy, and with the new GDPR regulations now in place we have a new privacy policy available here.  In the privacy policy you will find information about how and why your data is used and stored across our...

The UK government has published a presentation explaining their vision for the future UK-EU partnership in the area of Science, research and innovation. This presentation is part of a series produced by the UK negotiating team for discussion with...

Each year Instruct support small pilot research and development projects in any area of structural biology up to a maximum of €15,000 per project. We look for projects on basic or applied research which are preliminary in nature with...

CORBEL and Instruct-ERIC are holding two ARIA training webinars for scientific reviewers and service providers in the CORBEL 2nd Open Call.  ARIA is a cloud-based access management solution developed and managed by Instruct-ERIC, and in...

As part of the 2018 Instruct training program, Instruct-CZ organised a course focused on fragment screening. The course three practical work sessions allowed participants to access the biophysical measurements section and the crystal...

Instruct is excited to be participating in the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects. CORBEL is looking for innovative research projects are projects at the interface between different biomedical and life science fields requiring service...

Instruct allocates resources to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct member countries (for 2017 ES, FR, IL, IT, NL, PT, UK). Pilot projects may be funded up to a maximum of €15,000. Proposals to this fifth...

The following are Instruct courses for 2018Instruct ULTRA/iNEXT Aria Workshops - 2 Feb Advanced Methods for the integration of diverse structural data - 19-25 Feb Instruct/CIISB course on fragment screening using crystallography laboratory...

This week in the BBCRadio4 program 'In our time', Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the achievements of the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin with Patricia Fara, Judith Howard and Jim Naismith. Professor Jim Naismith has recently...

Prof. Anastassis Perrakis from the Netherland Cancer Institute talks about his experience as a user of the CORBEL Open Call. Why did he apply to this call and what are his experiences accessing two different research infrastructures?

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the successful applicants for the 2018 Internship call. The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres in Europe. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations...

ReNaFoBiS are pleased to announce the 5th RéNaFoBiS Oléron workshop, dedicated to Integrative Structural Biology, that will take place on the Oléron island (France). The workshop will take place from June the 1st to 8th June 2018. The main objective...

Prof Lucia Banci (Instruct Deputy Director) is a member of the Reflection Group of the H2020 Project InRoad. The group consists in an expert and skilled group consisted of representatives of the main bodies and stakeholder organisations involved...

ARIA provides a wide range of web-based tools for a huge number of organisations worldwide. ARIA cloud services also are very relevant to the management of research infrastructures. ARIA can be customised to match the look and feel of any existing webpages...

Today CORBEL, a H2020 cluster project uniting 13 European biological and medical research infrastructures, launched its Catalogue of Services (http://www.corbel-project.eu/ctlgx1). CORBEL aims to create a platform for harmonised user access...

Published paper using the Instruct-ERIC for cryo-EMRibosomes play a vital role in living beings: they are protein production stations in all cell types. These large complexes are made up of two kinds of molecules: proteins and ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Through...

The latest edition of the European Journal of Immunology includes an article by Susan Daenke and Ray Owens describing Instruct operations, its history and what offers to the structural biology community.The paper was published on the 8th November...

Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research in structural biology. Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the integrative use of technologies and methodologies that are available at Instruct Centres....

Instruct allocates funds to support small pilot research and development projects in any area of structural biology up to a maximum of €15,000 per project. Projects should propose basic or applied research which is preliminary in nature with an expectation...

The structure and activities of Instruct-ERIC will be showcased at a one day event hosted by the University of Oxford at St. Hilda's College on 7th September. Presentations will be made by the Hub Coordinator and the Instruct-ERIC Director. The Coordinator...

At a Royal Society awards ceremony celebrating the prestigious new European Commission-approved status for structural biology Instruct Research Infrastructure, the UK Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation Jo Johnson recognised the...

The first call for OPEN-SESAME Fellowships is now open at http://www.opensesame-h2020.eu/en/#modal-1280A minimum of 9 training Fellowships are being offered for scientists from SESAME Member countries to visit any of the Open-SESAME facilities (http://www.opensesame-h2020.eu/en/#section-1192)....

The European Commission adopted the Instruct-ERIC decision on the 4th July 2017. Instruct is the 17th ERIC to be adopted.Instruct was initiated in 2008 as a European-funded Preparatory Phase Project 211252 in the ESFRI Programme. In 2011, Instruct entered...

Instruct is incredibly proud to announce that Albert Heck (Instruct-NL, Instruct Mass Spectroscopy Centre) has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize. Prof Heck has been given this prize for his exceptional, pioneering and inspiring work. The NWO Spinoza...

This is a call to structural biologists working on structures of protein complexes, to consider offering their structures as targets to CAPRI, the community wide initiative for the Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions.As you may know, CAPRI...

The 3rd Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference took place in Brno, Czech Republic, from May 24 to May 26, 2017 hosted by Instruct-CZ/CEITEC. Brno is the city of Johann Gregor Mendel, a founder of modern genetics and one of the first scientists...

At the 5th ECBS event in Budapest, Hungary from 2-4 July 2017, you can learn more about chemical biology and EU-OPENSCREEN.The meeting ECBS 2017 brings together chemical biology researchers from screening and drug discovery, systems biology and therapeutic...

TRANSVAC2 kick-off meeting in Heidelberg, 30-31 May 2017.Prof. Lucia Banci will be representing Instruct.Instruct is providing infrastructure services to Transvac2 through TNA6 of the workprogramme.

We are delighted to announce the 2017 recipient of the Ivano Bertini award is Lucia Banci, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florence and Director of CERM. She is recognised as a world class leader in the characterisation of functional processes...

The ALBA Synchrotron is coordinating the work package 3 of the OPEN SESAME project, aimed at building lightsource know-how and knowledge among young researchers. Call now open till 7th July 2017. The OPEN SESAME project, funded by the European Union to...

The latest Newsletter is now available to all where you can find information about the past and future Instruct activities.Happy Summer timeThe Instruct Operations Team

The International Centre for Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) is established in Jordan and its official inauguration is scheduled for May-16th 2017.'Open-SESAME' is an EC-funded project in which...

The Horizon 2020 funded project CORBEL aims to establish a collaborative and sustained framework of shared services between the ESFRI Biological & Medical Research Infrastructures (RIs). A questionnaire was created to collect the needs and expectations...

This call is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities of Instruct Centres.Please submit a 2 page (max) proposal including the following details: Title of the courseVenue and host Instruct CentreAims of...

The Research Data Alliance's Interest Group on structural biology will meet during the RDA's 9th Plenary meeting.Since the first implementation of this IG, new archives for experimental data have been established, many more cryo electron microscopy facilities...

The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres in Europe. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations with Instruct research groups applying techniques that are not available in the applicant’s...

We are delighted to inform you that the Belgium State Secretary for Science policy has just signed the letter become a founding member of Instruct-ERIC. Belgium joins Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia...

The protein complex formed by the Ca2+ sensor NCS-1 and the Guanyl Exchange Factor Ric8a co-regulates synapse number and probability of neurotransmitter release, emerging as a potential therapeutic target for diseases affecting synapses such as Fragile...

Instruct allocates resources to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct member countries (for 2016 BE, CZ, DE, DK. ES, FR, IL, IT, NL, PT, SE, UK). Pilot projects may be funded up to a maximum of €15,000. Proposals...

INFRAFRONTIER open call Disease model development and systemic phenotypingINFRAFRONTIER, the European Research Infrastructure for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes is opening a call to facilitate access for the wider biomedical research...

2016 was an eventful year for Instruct and 2017 will bring important developments starting the 22nd of February in Brussels with the launch of Instruct-ULTRA. Our last newsletter of 2016 is available here With the best wishes for this holidays and a great...

The Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology (CIISB) kick off meeting took place last week. CIISB) is a distributed infrastructure of the core facilities and central laboratories of CEITEC (Central European Institute of Technology, Brno)...

On 13th November, 2016, approximately 150 delegates gathered in Malmö for the 24th Protein Structure Determination in Industry (PSDI) Conference. Over the next three days, speakers, addressed a range of topics, including fragment screening, biophysical...

The Instruct training committee have approved five internship programmes for 2017Internship proposals awarded in the fourth call:Ganna Krasnoselska, Germany - Internship at Instruct Centre UKEncarna Pucheta-Martinez, UK - Internship at Instruct Centre...

The Instruct training committee have approved three training events for 2017. All the courses approved offer something new (state-of–the-art; integrative) across technologies, across the structure/function boundaries or across resolution scale. The...

This past May the Instruct France-2 centre in Grenoble welcomed twenty young scientists to spend a week learning how to address challenging problems in structural biology. The group attended the EMBO Practical Course on the Structural Characterisation...

Instruct is very pleased to announce the approval of the Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology (CIISB) as a full Instruct Centre now providing access to an impressive number of high quality facilities for structural biologists. CIISB...

Instruct together with the other research infrastructures in the Biomedical area coordinates their work through CORBEL. A first Call offering all academic and industrial scientists in Europe the unique chance to accelerate their research is now open.Are...

Diamond is inviting proposals for performing crystal-based fragment screening at Diamond's XChem facility at beamline I04-1, for the next allocation period (December 2016 to April 2017).The deadline for proposals is MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 9AM.Submit your...

Instruct will participate in a new project funded by H2020. OPEN SESAME is a project that will help to deliver the technologies, research techniques and administrative services at Sesame (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in...

Instruct has secured funding for expanding the implementation of its services to its user community. The aim of the project, called Instruct-ULTRA, is to advance the scope and efficiency of Instruct service delivery (mainly access to infrastructure and...

The Biochemical Society are pleased to announce registration for a one day training workshop on: Advanced Data Collection for High Resolution cryoEM: How to make the most of your National Facility Visit.The workshop is a collaboration between CCP-EM and...

AARC2 (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration), an extended eINFRA project, has been funded by the European Commission. AARC2 will design an interoperable authentication framework to enable researchers to access a broad infrastructure...

Instruct submitted the first stage application for ERIC status in January 2016. Evaluation of this application from the Expert Panel was very positive with few changes requested to the proposed Instruct-ERIC statutes. The accompanying Scientific and Technical...

This week the Wellcome Trust have announced a special call for bids for "Cryo-Electron Microscopy Equipment". It is exciting to see that the funders recognise the ongoing revolution in structural biology and are responding in a creative way. In this case...

Prof. Joel Sussman (lead of Instruct Centre Israel) and Dr. Orly Dym from the Weizmann Institute of Science visited the BIOCEV interested in the D8 Venture diffractometer with its unique combination of high-flux liquid Gallium anode X-ray source, Photon...

Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research in structural biology.Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the integrative use of technologies and methodologies that are available at our 16 Instruct Centres...

Dear Scipion users, We are pleased to announce a new bug-fixing release of Scipion, version v1.0.1!!!Several small bugs have been fixed in Spider, Relion, Frealign, Resmap and Xmipp protocols inside Scipion. Moreover, some improvements and fixes were...

ARIA is the web tool that you're currently looking at, and it powers not just the Instruct website and access management but also is used by other access infrastructure and facilities worldwide as a cloud service. You may already know that iNEXT is using...

Instruct has been a success story for the EU, and we have a forward looking plan that will in the short to medium term be unaffected by the result of the UK referendum. There will be longer term issues to resolve, however, like many millions of our compatriots...

Instruct director Prof Dave Stuart talks about new synthetic foot and mouth disease vaccine. The video is available from the Diamond Light Source media resources page. Contact us if you have interesting development in structural biology to share.

iNEXT first newsletter is available to download. Articles include a description of their structural audit access modality which offers scientists around Europe the opportunity to carry out advanced biophysical characterisation of their macromolecular...

Recently, a paper describing PDBe’s new volume slicer was published in the Journal of Structural Biology. This volume slicer is a web-based tool that allows scientists to look in detail at all 3D bioimaging datasets in EMDB, the Electron Microscopy...

Last week was the deadline for applications for the latest Horizon 2020 call within the Research Infrastructure programme. Instruct lead the effort to submit the proposal ‘Instruct-Ultra’ to the Horizon 2020 ‘DEVELOPMENT AND LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY...

The workshop ‘Integrative methods in Structural Biology to enhance high impact research in health and disease’ was organised by the University of Oxford and the Institute Pasteur Montevideo in collaboration with Instruct. The event was funded by the...

We are proud to announce the release of Scipion v1.0.0 (http://scipion.cnb.csic.es), our software workflow framework to obtain 3D maps of macromolecular complexes that integrates multiple EM software packages.Scipion is open-source software and can be...

We are delighted to announce the Instruct training program for 2016. Our education programme helps to train a cadre of European structural and cell biologists who are proficient in a raft of technologies, not just one specialism. These researchers will...

In September 2015 the EU-funded project iNEXT (Infrastructure for NMR, EM and X-rays for Translational research) has started. iNEXT involves over twenty well-known European structural biology groups and provides EU funded access to high-field NMR, X-ray,...

DEADLINE EXTENDEDUK coordinator: Prof David StuartUruguay coordinator: Dr Alejandro BuschiazzoTheme: Structural Biology/Biological and Medical SciencesDates and venue: 16th to 19th February 2016, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, MontevideoThe British Council...

UK coordinator: Prof David StuartUruguay coordinator: Dr Alejandro BuschiazzoTheme: Structural Biology/Biological and Medical SciencesDates and venue: 16th to 19th February 2016, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, MontevideoThe British Council have launched...

UK coordinator: Prof David StuartUruguay coordinator: Dr Alejandro BuschiazzoTheme: Structural Biology/Biological and Medical SciencesDates and venue: 16th to 19th February 2016, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, MontevideoThe British Council have launched...

The iNEXT project allows expert and non-expert access to some of the most advanced structural biology equipment available in Europe.Access to the EU-funded Structural Biology project iNEXT has now officially started.Over half of the access modalities...

With the end of the year approaching we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for supporting on-course®! We strive to improve on-course® continuously. The latest feature updates include a comprehensive set of teaching methodologies, our...

B24: Full field cryo soft -X-ray microscopy for the life sciences is now accepting proposals for the period Jan 2016 to March 2016. Since this is a commissioning period for the beamline preference will be given to those who are either experienced...

We are pleased to announce a extension of the Sixth Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses. This call is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities of  Instruct Centres. Courses...

Scientists, managers and administrators of 11 European Biomedical Research Infrastructures (RIs) met at Hinxton last week for CORBEL kick off meeting. The CORBEL cluster projects started the 1st of September 2015 to establish common research...

Instruct allocates resources to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct member countries (currently BE, CZ, DE, DK. ES, FR, IL, IT, NL, PT, SE, UK). Pilot projects may be funded up to a maximum of €15,000. Proposals...

The Instruct Hub Coordinator participated in the CORBEL Workpackages 5 planning teleconference 7th September, ahead of a scheduled face to face meeting on October 16th In Munich. Instruct co-leads Workpackage 5 with BBMRI. The Instruct...

Taking place at the UK’s national synchrotron facility, this symposium will gather together world-leading experts in viral pathogen research to look at the key scientific facets of virology and the role that structural approaches can play in the development...

Call for proposals utilising Instruct-funded structural biology techniquesInformation on molecular structure provides insight in many areas of research including functional pathways.Are you new to structural biology research? This fast-developing technology...

The CORBEL cluster projects started the 1st of September 2015 to establish common research infrastructure to support Europe's biomedical research community.CORBEL (Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science Services)...

Congratulations to Denmark on signing the Instruct International Consortium Agreement to be eligible as latest Instruct Member. Denmark will join 11 other countries that benefit from access to supported high level infrastructure for structural...

The ICSG 2015 meeting "Deep sequencing meets structural biology" took place on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, home of the Israel Instruct Centre, on June 7-11, with a high attendance and superb talks, discussions and social...

The UK Structural biology Forum is the community voice for working structural biologists in the UK. On July 6th 2015, the Forum was host to a meeting at the Wellcome Trust London to discuss new developments in the rapidly developing fields of electron...

The 2015 Instruct Biennial Conference was, by all accounts, a great success. A raft of world leading speakers presented exciting new advances in research using various structural approaches to an audience of almost 200.Hosted by CERM at the magnificent...

8th Jun 2015Call for proposals utilising Instruct-funded structural biology techniquesInformation on molecular structure provides insight in many areas of research including functional pathways.Are you new to structural biology research? This fast-developing...

Two large grants from the Dutch funding agency NWO Chemical Sciences have been awarded to teams of biochemistry researchers at Utrecht University. They will each receive two million euros to start new, challenging and innovative research lines....

Maastricht University (UM) has appointed as professor of Nanobiology Peter Peters, a world leader in his field. Peters is UM’s first ‘university professor’, a special post granted on the basis of his scientific achievements.The Province of Limburg...

The European Union invests 10 million Euro from its Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme in enabling European researchers to use unique, state-of-the-art infrastructures for structural biology from 23 research institutes in Europe. Aim of this...

Call for proposals utilising Instruct-funded structural biology techniquesInformation on molecular structure provides insight in many areas of research including functional pathways.Are you new to structural biology research? This fast-developing technology...

The Ivano Bertini Award recognises a significant achievement in frontier research that utilises an integrative structural biology approach. The first recipient of the award is Stephen Cusack FRS, Head of EMBL Outstation in Grenoble. His work on the structure...

Dr Stephen Cusack FRSHead, Grenoble Outstation, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Founder member of Instruct

Congratulations to Instruct partner Prof Lucia Banci for being recognised by IUPAC in the Class of 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. Prof Banci was a Founding member of Instruct, leads the Instruct Centre Italy and has been...

Call for proposals for the Instruct Internship programme 2015Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research in structural biology. Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the integrative use of technologies...

Instruct and BioStruct-X would like to request your help to learn from your experience of accessing structural biology research infrastructure in the last few years using Instruct or any other access route. The information you provide will help us to...

The Sixth Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses (to be held between 1st September 2015 to 31st December 2016) is open.This call is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities of  Instruct...

Call for access is now open. Visit any number of the Instruct platforms to perform cutting edge science. Submit your proposal for access today. Submit a proposal to apply, the deadline for this call is 30th April 2015.

Welcome to our end of year newsletter with all our latest news, training opportunities,  past and future events.  Firstly we would like to welcome Nanobodies4Instruct a new Instruct Centre in Belgium led by Jan Steyaert, which offers...

Student Fellowship applications are invited from graduate students to attend the Instruct Biennial Conference in Florence, 20-22nd May 2015. Fellowships will cover registration fee, economy travel costs plus accommodation for 2 nights.Applicants should...

EMPIAR is a new resource for raw, 2D electron microscopy images, it lets researchers take a closer look at the images used to build 3D molecular structures.Researchers can browse, download and reprocess the thousands of raw, 2D images used to build a...

Spain has been in close contact with Instruct since the early stages of the preparatory phase of this Infrastructure. There was always a clear and positive scientific community drive in Spain, although the process to formally join Instruct was complex....

The August 2014 issue of the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics has featured a large collection of articles describing recent research findings from investigators supported by the European Union-funded proteomics infrastructure consortium PRIME-XS.PRIME-XS...

This call is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities of  Instruct Centres.Please submit a 2 page (max) proposal including the following details:Title of the courseVenue and host Instruct CentreAims...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the prototype for BioMedBridges volume/shape-matching software. This is a major milestone for the BioMedBridges Use Case "From cells to molecules - integrating structural data". In the first instance the prototype...

Integrated structural and cell biology  From molecules to cells and organisms: Thinking out of the box.   43 participants attended the 4-weeks summer school, which took place in July at Les Houches in the Chamonix valley. The school aimed...

This seminar marks the International Year of Crystallography. Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2009, will be speaking at ITQB on the very important topic of antibiotic resistance. The seminar is scheduled for September 9. When others thought...

Dr Robert Rambo, recently appointed Principal Beamline Scientist for the BioSAXS beamline B21 at DIAMOND will give 2 half-day workshops on BioSAXS on the 24th and 25th July at the Strubi site of Instruct Centre-UK. The workshop will cover methodology,...

Applications are now invited for an additional third round funding under the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Oxford Collaboration Scheme, to enhance existing collaborations, and to facilitate the development of...

Instruct’s aim is to make available to researchers the technologies and methodologies at our 16 Instruct Centres around Europe and in Israel. A full range of advanced technologies is available for obtaining structural and dynamic information on systems...

 The ESRF Users Organisation Committee (UOC) are still looking for a new member  to represent the "Structural biology" scientific community. They encourage the user community to actively participate in this call for nominations. The deadline...

The second Instruct call for Research and Development pilot projects and the second call for internships to Instruct Centres are now openInstruct proposal system provides free access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research...

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) today announces that it has released to the community its 100,000th macromolecular structure. Established in 1971, this central, public archive of experimentally-determined protein and nucleic acid structures has...

324 structural biologists responded to an Instruct survey on Software and Data Management Tools for Integrated Structural Biology. 318 respondents agreed " I would use combined techniques more often if it was easier to get access to experimental facilities"....

Professor Marc Baldus of the department of Chemistry of Utrecht University received this Monday the Günther Laukien Prize 2014 at the 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.The Günther Laukien Prize, established...

Fourth Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses (to be held in the 2014/15 year):This is an extension of the fourth call that closed in October 2013. This is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities...

Call for proposals utilising Instruct-funded structural biology techniquesInformation on molecular structure provides insight in many areas of research including functional pathways.Are you new to structural biology research? This fast-developing technology...

Scientists at the Instruct Centre UK (University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source) in collaboration with an international team from Beijing, Leeds and Innsbruck published their work on a new virus inhibitor in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology....

A poster describing the Instruct supported events is available to download. If you want to include your training or scientific events in our calendar just contact project office at admin@structuralbiology.eu

Read our Newsletter here with information about past and future Instruct activities.Happy holidays and thank you for your continuing support,The Instruct Operations Team.

Finland recently underwent an evaluation of its research infrastructure and established a national infrastructure Roadmap for future strategic development. Instruct made a representation to the evaluation Committee in Helsinki and consequently Instruct...

An agreement has been reached confirming that Israel will be able to participate in Horizon 2020 as an Associated Country. A joint statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni was release on the 26th...

The Instruct training committee have aproved four training events for 2014. All the courses approved offer something new (state-of–the-art; integrative) across technologies, across the structure/function boundaries or across resolution scale. The events...

In the context of the ICT 2013 meeting, organised by the EC, this workshop brought together e-Infrastructure providers and end users – the (computational) structural biology community – to identify common grounds for 2020. The event was organised...

The UK involvement in the SFX consortium at the European XFEL has been reviewed. The proposal was to fund a UK Hub at Diamond and to in part finance to build the beamline. The recommendation was for funding with no cuts. A final decision will depend on...

Instruct welcomes Sweden as the latest member of the Research Infrastructure. Funded by the Swedish Research Council, Sweden joins with full membership rights for its national scientists. Sweden bring the Instruct national memberships to 11.Instruct activities...

The University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine are offering a four-year PhD Prize studentship starting in 2014. Applications are now invited with a closing date of 10th January 2014. Interviews will take place on the 29th and 30th January 2014.The...

The protein folding game Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans' puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.FoldIt is an online puzzle, developed at the University...

Professor Andrew Harrison has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Light Source Ltd with effect from 1st January 2014, the Diamond Board announced last week. Professor Harrison has been Director General of the Institut Laue-Langevin neutron...

The SESAME synchrotron, located in Jordan, is seeking a Scientific Director. With new funding agreed from the European Union and Italy of EUR6million, the construction of a new electron storage ring can get underway. SESAME expects to be commissioned in 2015.

Proposals for funded access to the full set of Instruct facilities are now invited.Access to Instruct infrastructure is available to academic students and scientists who are working in laboratories of any of the Instruct member countries (presently BE,...

Fourth Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses (to be held in the 2014/15 year):This call is for proposed courses and workshops hosted by, and specifically utilising the capabilities of Instruct Centres. Instruct uniquely offers access...

The UK Structural Biology Forum meeting, held at Imperial College on 25th June, saw presentations describing the current state of the art in the UK for all the major structural technologies. Notably, light microscopy and its integration with other technologies...

The UK House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology are conducting a review of national scientific infrastructure. Several stakeholder representatives have been called to provide information to the Committee. Instruct was mentioned in the Committee...

From May 16th to 24th, the Research Complex at Harwell, near Oxford, hosted an EMBO practical course on high throughput protein production and crystallization. The course was organised and run by the OPPF-UK with the Membrane Protein Laboratory and Diamond...

Instruct is working with a number of bodies to clarify the funding opportunities that will be relevant for Instruct in the Horizon2020 workprogramme. In preparation for this, Instruct continues to develop new relationships with potential members and work...

Instruct is pleased to welcome Spain as a new Instruct member state.  Spain joins nine countries that are already members; Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom, ensuring Spanish...

 Sponsored by Diamond Light Source   The First meeting to establish the UK Structural Biology Forum was held on 25th June 2013 at the Read Lecture Theatre, Sherfield Building, Imperial College London.The aim was to establish the UK Structural...

The European Commission organised a consultation for preparing future EU activities for integrating and opening national research infrastructures. The consultation was open from 15 July to 22 October 2012. The future EU activities for integrating and...

Published in the journal PLOS pathogens, a collaboration between scientists at the University of Oxford and Reading Universities, the Pirbright Institute, and the UK's national synchrotron facility, the Diamond Light Source near Oxford describe the development...