Winter School on Structural Cell Biology

DETAILED PROGRAMME can be found HERE.

Confirmed speakers:

• Gerard Kleywegt (EMBL-EBI, UK)
  PDBe - Bringing Structure to Biology (archival, integration and validation of molecular and cellular structure data)
• Jose-Maria Carazo (National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Spain)
  1. Single Particle Analysis (SPA): The basics
  2. Image processing workflows for SPA
• Julio Ortiz (Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
  1. General introduction to three-dimensional cryo microscopy
  2. Image processing workflows for tomography
• Sacha de Carlo (NeCEN, Netherlands)
  1. Sample preparation and vitrification
  2. New EM technologies
• Richard Bowater (University of East Anglia, UK)
  1. Structure and function of nucleic acids
  2. Protein-nucleic acid interactions
• Bernd Simon (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
  Combining Small Angle Scattering and NMR to determine the structure of complexes
• Michael Sattler (Technische Universität München & Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
  Combining NMR and SAS to study protein complexes in solution
• Stephan Grzesiek (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)
  Insights into protein folding, dynamics and function from residual dipolar couplings, hydrogen bond scalar couplings and other NMR parameters
• Laura Bowater (University of East Anglia, UK)
  1. Science Communication: past, present and future?
  2. Science Communication: what does it mean for you?
• Martyn Winn (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK)
  1. De novo protein modelling and its use in interpreting experimental structural data
  2. Volume data from cryoEM and crystallography: fitting and building atomic models and matching against other volume data

The event has been supported by the EU Seventh Framework Programme under the "Capacities" specific programme (Contract No. 286154 - SYLICA)