EMBL Hamburg, 20 December 2011 First data collections on EMBL@PETRA3 beamline MX1 EMBL Hamburg scientists and engineers working on the construction of the new EMBL MX1 beamline at the PETRA III storage ring have experienced a number of highlights over the last few weeks. more
EMBL Hamburg, 12 December 2011 New lab space for EMBL scientists On Monday the 12th of December, members of EMBL Hamburg raised their glasses and celebrated the end of four months renovation and refurbishment of their research molecular biology and biochemistry laboratory in building 25a on the DESY campus. more
Hamburg, 12 December 2011 EMBL Hamburg kick starts a new transnational structural biology project On the 5th and 6th of December EMBL Hamburg hosted the kick off meeting for the new structural biology project BioStruct-X. The EU funded project, which started on September 1st 2011, brings together a total of 19 partners and is supported by 9 million Euros over 4 years. For the first time it will provide coordinated transnational user access to key methods in structural biology using synchrotron radiation or free electron laser light. more
Hamburg, 12 December 2011 Promotion for EMBL Hamburg group leader At the recent EMBL council meeting it was announced that EMBL Hamburg group leader Dmitri Svergun will be promoted to the grade of senior scientist. more
Grenoble, 5 December 2011 The 8th Grenoble Hamburg bilateral meeting Since 2004, EMBL Grenoble and Hamburg scientists meet once a year to share their experiences on new developments on synchrotron oriented structural biology methods. The 8th bilateral meeting held in Grenoble in October this year clearly demonstrated once more, the benefit of such events for the EMBL and synchrotron users. With 37 participants equally distributed between Hamburg and Grenoble, the meeting was particularly successful. more
Hamburg, 16 November 2011 New structure sheds light on protein modification processes Scientists at EMBL Hamburg have solved the structure of an enzyme complex which sheds light onto the process of post-translational protein modification in eukaryotic cells. Members of the Wilmanns Group have used structural biology and biochemistry to define the role of the Pex4p:Pex22p complex – an active member of the protein ubiquitination process occurring at the peroxisomal membrane. more
Hamburg, 3 November 2011 Thousands flock to the DESY campus for the 4th Night of Science Every two years science institutes and facilities across the Hamburg region open their doors to the general public as part of the Night of Science. On the 29th of October this year a total of 45 institutes, including DESY, took part in the 4th Hamburg Science Night. more
Hamburg, 17 October 2011 BioStruct-X: Call for proposals Structural biologists can now apply for access to an integrated, transnational infrastructure of facilities and services via the new BioStruct-X project – a collaboration of 11 European installations, including EMBL Hamburg and Grenoble. more
Hamburg, 14 September 2011 EMBL and European XFEL sign MoU EMBL and the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, laying the foundations for close future collaboration. more
Hamburg, 4 July 2011 Record-breaking crystal Scientists at EMBL Hamburg have set the record for the highest-resolution X-ray crystallography structure of a biological molecule, almost doubling the available data on the small protein, crambin. more
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