EMBL Hamburg News
9 March 2010
On the Tuesday 23rd of February, EMBL Hamburg, together with the network cluster BIOKATALYSE2021, hosted a workshop focusing on applications of structural biology in academic research.
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5 March 2010
At this year's International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR) conference in Melbourne, Australia, it was decided to hold the next conference in Hamburg.
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9 December 2009
Colleagues and friends past and present, from around Europe and further afield, got together on Friday 4th December to celebrate Paul Tucker’s retirement.
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26 November 2009
On the 16th November, Professor Annette Schavan, Germany’s Federal Minister for Education and Research, helped to inaugurate the PETRA III synchrotron radiation source.
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9 November 2009
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.
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30 October 2009
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.
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15 October 2009
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.
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25 September 2009
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.
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16 September 2009
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.
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3 September 2009
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.
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