EMBL Hamburg, 9 December 2009 Paul Tucker celebrates his retirement Colleagues and friends past and present, from around Europe and further afield, got together on Friday 4th December to celebrate Paul Tucker’s retirement. more
DESY Campus, Hamburg, 26 November 2009 Petra III inaugurated On the 16th November, Professor Annette Schavan, Germany’s Federal Minister for Education and Research, helped to inaugurate the PETRA III synchrotron radiation source. more
DESY Campus, Hamburg, 9 November 2009 EMBL at the DESY Open Day Every two years, the science institutes of Hamburg open their doors to the public for a night of science, and this year DESY combined the event with an open day to celebrate 50 years of DESY. more
Hamburg, 30 October 2009 “What has it got in its pocketsses?”- the first structure of the family of nematode fatty acid and retinoid binding proteins In a recent paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at EMBL-Hamburg describe the first protein structure of a family of nematode lipid binding proteins (LBPs). The work, led by Rosie Jordanova in the Tucker group, provides the basic structural and functional information for investigation of inhibitors of lipid binding by fatty acid and retinoid binding (FAR) proteins. more
Hamburg, 15 October 2009 P-CUBE project launched European users can now apply for free access to the most advanced structural biology techniques in the areas of cloning, expression, protein characterization and crystallization. more
University of Hamburg, 25 September 2009 First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology in Hamburg Scientists from across the many disciplines of structural biology came together for the First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology on the 24th and 25th September. Circa 250 participants attended the one and a half day conference at the University of Hamburg to contribute to the growing field of Structural Systems Biology. more
Hamburg, 16 September 2009 Auto-Rickshaw: faster, better, more The Auto-Rickshaw automated crystal structure determination platform has received a further upgrade to include a combination of molecular replacement and single-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing for automated structure determination. more
Hamburg, 3 September 2009 Co-operation agreement signed between GKSS and EMBL to join forces on the future BioSAXS beamline at Petra-III GKSS - Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH has decided to contribute to the construction and future operation of the small angle X-ray scattering beamline (BioSAXS) at the Petra III synchrotron on the DESY campus. more
Hamburg, 19 August 2009 New insights into human peroxisome protein complexes In a recent paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists at EMBL Hamburg used small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to gain insights into the architecture of a large receptor/cargo/scaffold complex from the human peroxisomal translocon. more
Hamburg, 20 July 2009 Macromolecular Crystallography Goes Low Res In a paper recently published in Acta Crystallographica Biological Crystallography, Philipp Heuser, Gerrit Langer and Victor Lamzin from EMBL Hamburg describe a novel approach for obtaining structural information from very low resolution X-ray data, extending to resolutions as low as 20Å. more
Hamburg, 9 July 2009 PETRA III Annex Building Topping Out Ceremony Alongside the new beamlines for structural biology planned at the PETRA III synchrotron in Hamburg, an Annex building is being constructed which will house integrated facilities, offices and laboratories, as well as a cafeteria and seminar room for DESY and EMBL staff and users. more
Hamburg, 3 July 2009 Successful Protein Complexes workshop at EMBL Hamburg Thirty students from across Europe gathered at EMBL Hamburg from 29th June – 3rd July for a workshop on the "Characterization of Protein Complexes in Structural Biology". The workshop was supported by funding from the EU grants Spine2 Complexes and 3D Repertoire. more
Hamburg, 15 June 2009 EMBL Hamburg Science and Society forum lectures successfully re-launched EMBL Hamburg held a successful Science and Society lecture on the 15th of June when Prof. Joachim Mnich, Director of High Energy and Astro Particle physics research at DESY, talked about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project at CERN to an audience of about 40 people. more
Hamburg, 9 June 2009 The first EDNA MX meeting held at EMBL Hamburg On the 9 June 2009 24 participants from 5 countries representing 6 synchrotrons met at EMBL Hamburg for the first EDNA MX meeting. more
Hamburg, 26 May 2009 World's first remote SAXS experiment at EMBL Hamburg At 12:00 CET on 26 May 2009, EMBL Hamburg linked up to the Nanyang Technological University’s School (NTU) of Biological Science (SBS) in Singapore to conduct the world’s first remote synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiment. more
Florence, 30 April 2009 The EMBL Structural Biology Units participate at the INSTRUCT annual meeting 130 participants from 19 countries across Europe and beyond, participated in the INSTRUCT annual meeting in Florence from 29 - 30 April 2009. more
Hamburg, 24 April 2009 A step towards a better understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis The deadly disease Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Myocbacterium tuberculosis, kills several million people worldwide every year. Understanding the structure and function of the pathogen is essential for combating the disease. As part of her PhD Thesis, Linda Schuldt from Manfred Weiss’s team at EMBL Hamburg, has been working on the structure of the enzyme tetrahydrodipicolinate N-succinyltransferase (DapD), which catalyzes the fifth reaction step within the lysine biosynthetic pathway. more
Hamburg, 31 March 2009 X-ray scattering and crystallography provide insights into the molecular organization of bacterial surface layer Bacterium /Clostridium difficile/ expresses a surface layer (S-layer) acting as an adhesin facilitating its interaction with host enteric cells. more
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