Announcement: EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course: Structural and biophysical methods for biological macromolecules in solution

From: Clement Blanchet
Date: 30 March 2012 18:13

Structural and biophysical methods for biological macromolecules in solution
EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course
29 November?6 December 2012 Hyderabad, India

http://events.embo.org/12-macromolecule/index.html

The main objective of the Course is to teach the young PhD students and postdocs
from all areas of biology the methods applicable to study biological macromolecules in solution. We aim at a comprehensive coverage of the field including the major structural and biophysical techniques employed for the characterization of high and low resolution structure and structural transitions, macromolecular complex formation, protein folding and stability, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions and enzymatic mechanisms. The Course will include lectures on small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS/SANS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), static and dynamic light scattering (SLS/DLS), analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC), surface plasmon resonance (SPR), differential and isothermal calorimetry (DSC/ITC) and spectroscopic approaches. Bioinformatic tools to analyze protein-protein interactions will also be considered, and the joint use of the solution characterization methods with the major non-solution structural techniques,
macromolecular crystallography (MX), electron microscopy (EM), mass spectrometry (MS) and with the in situ methods will be covered. Special attention will be paid to interdisciplinary approaches, where the synergistic use of complementary techniques leads to a comprehensive description of macromolecular systems.

From the Indian side, the Course will be co-organized by  the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. The course will be held at CCMB in Hyderabad immediately following an International meeting on biology (25-27 November 2012), commemorating 25 years of moving into the current CCMB R&D complex.


A maximum of 40 participants will be selected to attend the course.
No registration fee will be requested from the academic participants.
Applicants from industry are expected to pay a 1000 Euro fee.

The Course is oriented towards applicants active in structural biology,
mostly late Ph.D. students and early post-docs but more senior scientists,
depending on circumstances, could also participate.
Students working in India or Indian students working abroad will be
given preference but all applications are welcome at

http://events.embo.org/12-macromolecule/application.html

Application deadline for the Course: September, 17th, 2012