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14-Jan-2021
We are delighted to announce the award of the sixth Instruct R&D pilot call. Instruct allocates resources to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct members. Pilot projects are funded up to a maximum of...
12-Jan-2021
A major advance for structural biology provision within Europe has been achieved as Instruct-ERIC and EMBL join forces to launch the Instruct Centre EMBL
The EMBL sites in Grenoble, Hamburg and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The...
07-Jan-2021
We would like to wish all our colleagues, users and funders best wishes for the New Year 2021.
Firstly, we are pleased to note the EU/UK withdrawal agreement which will have a positive impact on the UK's involvement in the European Research Infrastructure...
17-Dec-2020
Recent advances in research technology have led to a vast increase in data volumes produced in structural biology and other fields of life sciences. The datasets generated are too large and complex to be handled, shared and analysed using classical tools....
16-Dec-2020
CIISB, an Instruct-CZ Centre,offers priority access to groups that need to use CIISB structural biology services for projects directly related to studies of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and projects aiming to develop an effective vaccine or treatment....
11-Dec-2020
Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure (FinStruct & Instruct-ERIC Centre FI) comprises infrastructure located at several sites: University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, University of Oulu, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi...
26-Oct-2020
TRANSVAC 2 Open Call for Vaccine Development Services
Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialised skills and technical capacities not readily available at a single organisation. To facilitate...
18-Sep-2020
We are delighted to announce that Instruct-ERIC is a winner of this year’s FREYA Ambassador competition. FREYA is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission aiming to extend the infrastructure for persistent identifiers (PIDs)...
15-Sep-2020
What is EOSC-Life?
EOSC-Life brings together 13 Life Science Research Infrastructures (RIs) to create an open, digital and collaborative space for data resources and data processing workflows in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
What...
01-Sep-2020
Apply by 15 October 2020 to join the Instruct Hub as Director of Instruct-ERIC.
The initial 5-year appointment is renewable based on performance.
The Integrated Structural Biology - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Instruct-ERIC)...
13-Aug-2020
Instruct-ERIC is the single point of access to technology and expertise for structural biology research. Through its specialist research centres in Europe, Instruct-ERIC offers funded research visits, training, internships and R&D awards. By promoting...
04-Aug-2020
Congratulations to Instruct-ERIC director, Professor David Stuart, who has been awarded the prestigious Gabor Medal by the Royal Society. The Gabor Medal 2020 has been awarded to Professor Stuart for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure...
29-Jul-2020
Apply by 5 August 2020.
The European vaccine infrastructure, TRANSVAC2, is accepting applications for its Open Call, offering free technical services for all stages of vaccine development.
TRANSVAC2, which is coordinated by the European Vaccine Initiative,...
22-Jul-2020
As Europe prepares for the Commission’s most ambitious research and innovation funding programme to date, two recent position papers explain how European Research Infrastructures will help to deliver key scientific breakthroughs in the years ahead....
17-Jul-2020
The Instruct-ERIC consortium continues to grow, as Lithuania is welcomed as our newest Member Country. Researchers in Lithuania are now eligible to apply for funding to use structural biology services at all Instruct Centres, as well as training courses,...
08-Jul-2020
From 8 July 2020, Robotein® will be offering its expert facilities in high-throughput protein production and analysis through the Instruct-ERIC catalogue. The Robotein platform, which is hosted at the Centre for Protein Engineering (CIP) at the Université...
07-Jul-2020
Instruct Centre IT invites Instruct users to apply for remote access to the CERM/CIRMMP research infrastructure, which now includes the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer – the most powerful commercial NMR in the world.
For ease of access during the COVID-19...
25-Jun-2020
The European vaccine infrastructure, TRANSVAC2, is accepting applications for its Open Call, offering free technical services for all stages of vaccine development.
TRANSVAC2, which is coordinated by the European Vaccine Initiative, offers high-quality...
18-May-2020
The COVID-19 Protein Portal allows UK scientists to access protein reagents for critical research relating to SARS-CoV-2. Protein reagents are provided free of charge by a consortium of leading UK protein production laboratories, in an Open Science initiative...
04-May-2020
Undeterred by the extraordinary circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, Instruct ES and INB/ELIXIR-ES scientists have been working hard to deliver tools and resources to support essential COVID-19 research.
On 4 May 2020, a team at the Instruct...
17-Apr-2020
James Taylor, Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of Biology and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, passed away on 2 April 2020 at the age of 40.
James Taylor was a pioneer in computational biology and an advocate for open and reproducible...
08-Apr-2020
A new, state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) has been installed at Instruct Centre ES following a joint, eight-million-euro investment of the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) and EU structural funds. The JEOL JEM-Z300FSC...
25-Mar-2020
As scientists across the world focus their efforts to combat COVID-19, Stephen K Burley (Henry Rutgers Chair and University Professor at Rutgers University, and Chair of Instruct-ERIC's Independent Scientific Advisory Board) explains why it is important...
24-Mar-2020
Please visit our COVID-19 Resource Centre at instruct-eric.eu/covid19 for the latest information:
Scientific communities across the world are sharing knowledge and resources to support research relating to COVID-19. By joining...
23-Mar-2020
On 18 February 2020, Professor Joel L. Sussman, co-director of the Structural Proteomic Center in Israel and Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Charles University in Prague, in recognition...
16-Mar-2020
To protect our users and staff during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, Instruct-ERIC is suspending physical visits to Instruct Centres with immediate effect. We hope to review this situation from 30 April 2020. For any queries regarding Instruct...
09-Mar-2020
We’re excited to announce our latest release of ARIA 2.3
We’ve listened to you, and as a result this release brings some new features and design changes, along with many behind-the-scenes improvements.
A brand new design...
04-Mar-2020
Instruct-ERIC is committed to the use of our infrastructure in response to emerging societal needs. In the case of the COVID-19 virus, Instruct-ERIC would like to ensure that our resources are made available to support researchers in their efforts to...
02-Mar-2020
The world’s first 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer has been delivered to the CERM/CIRMMP facility at the University of Florence. The new € 15 million spectrometer, which was developed by the company Bruker BioSpin, is the highest magnetic field NMR...
14-Feb-2020
From 14 February 2020, the Finnish Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology will open its doors to European scientists as Instruct Centre FI. The new Instruct Centre, which has sites at the Universities of Helsinki, Oulu and Eastern Finland,...
23-Jan-2020
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...
19-Dec-2019
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...
13-Dec-2019
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...
28-Nov-2019
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...
06-Nov-2019
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...
10-Sep-2019
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...
09-Aug-2019
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...
30-Jul-2019
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...
16-Jul-2019
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...
09-Jul-2019
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...
04-Jul-2019
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...
03-Jul-2019
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...
21-Jun-2019
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...
13-Jun-2019
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...
02-May-2019
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...
26-Apr-2019
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...
12-Apr-2019
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...
27-Mar-2019
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...
13-Mar-2019
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...
07-Feb-2019
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....
07-Feb-2019
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...
30-Jan-2019
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...
21-Jan-2019
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...
18-Jan-2019
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...
08-Jan-2019
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...
17-Dec-2018
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...
11-Dec-2018
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)
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29-Nov-2018
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...
25-Nov-2018
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,...
22-Nov-2018
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...
20-Nov-2018
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.
19-Oct-2018
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....
18-Oct-2018
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...
09-Oct-2018
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...
08-Oct-2018
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...
05-Oct-2018
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...
26-Sep-2018
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...
22-Aug-2018
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.
14-Aug-2018
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...
13-Aug-2018
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...
30-Jul-2018
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...
27-Jul-2018
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...
23-Jul-2018
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...
17-Jul-2018
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...
26-Jun-2018
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.
07-Jun-2018
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
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29-May-2018
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...
24-May-2018
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...
15-May-2018
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...
01-May-2018
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...
26-Apr-2018
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...
26-Mar-2018
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...
21-Mar-2018
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...
20-Feb-2018
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...
20-Feb-2018
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...
19-Feb-2018
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?
12-Feb-2018
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...
19-Jan-2018
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...
17-Jan-2018
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...
30-Nov-2017
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...
22-Nov-2017
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...
22-Nov-2017
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...
15-Nov-2017
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...
09-Oct-2017
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....
09-Oct-2017
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...
06-Sep-2017
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...
19-Jul-2017
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...
04-Jul-2017
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)....
04-Jul-2017
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...
19-Jun-2017
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...
06-Jun-2017
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...
05-Jun-2017
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...
22-May-2017
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...
17-May-2017
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.
09-May-2017
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...
08-May-2017
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...
05-May-2017
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
27-Apr-2017
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...
04-Apr-2017
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...
04-Apr-2017
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...
22-Mar-2017
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...
21-Mar-2017
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...
09-Mar-2017
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...
10-Feb-2017
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...
31-Jan-2017
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...
17-Jan-2017
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...
23-Dec-2016
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...
14-Dec-2016
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)...
23-Nov-2016
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...
03-Nov-2016
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...
03-Nov-2016
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...
31-Oct-2016
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...
17-Oct-2016
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...
29-Sep-2016
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...
09-Sep-2016
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...
30-Aug-2016
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...
30-Aug-2016
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...
28-Jul-2016
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...
22-Jul-2016
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...
22-Jul-2016
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...
21-Jul-2016
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...
20-Jul-2016
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...
08-Jul-2016
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...
04-Jul-2016
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...
29-Jun-2016
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...
24-Jun-2016
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...
26-May-2016
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.
19-May-2016
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...
06-Apr-2016
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...
04-Apr-2016
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...
30-Mar-2016
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...
25-Feb-2016
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...
10-Feb-2016
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...
02-Feb-2016
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,...
06-Jan-2016
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...
06-Jan-2016
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...
06-Jan-2016
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...
04-Jan-2016
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...
15-Dec-2015
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...
15-Dec-2015
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...
25-Nov-2015
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...
23-Nov-2015
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...
20-Oct-2015
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...
07-Oct-2015
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...
30-Sep-2015
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...
23-Sep-2015
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...
02-Sep-2015
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)...
20-Aug-2015
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...
04-Aug-2015
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...
24-Jun-2015
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...
11-Jun-2015
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...
11-Jun-2015
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...
09-Jun-2015
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....
09-Jun-2015
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...
09-Jun-2015
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...
08-Jun-2015
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...
11-May-2015
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...
07-May-2015
Dr Stephen Cusack FRSHead, Grenoble Outstation, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Founder member of Instruct
05-May-2015
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...
21-Apr-2015
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...
19-Mar-2015
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...
19-Mar-2015
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...
05-Jan-2015
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.
23-Dec-2014
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...
20-Nov-2014
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...
11-Nov-2014
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...
21-Oct-2014
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....
21-Oct-2014
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...
06-Oct-2014
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...
24-Sep-2014
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...
08-Sep-2014
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...
20-Aug-2014
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...
18-Jul-2014
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,...
16-Jul-2014
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...
03-Jul-2014
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...
25-Jun-2014
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...
05-Jun-2014
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...
14-May-2014
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...
27-Mar-2014
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"....
25-Mar-2014
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...
11-Mar-2014
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...
13-Feb-2014
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...
10-Feb-2014
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....
21-Jan-2014
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
16-Dec-2013
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.
06-Dec-2013
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...
02-Dec-2013
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...
20-Nov-2013
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...
18-Nov-2013
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...
15-Oct-2013
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...