Registration to the Instruct-ERIC course on AF4 and SEC-MALS methods and their utilisation in cryo-EM sample preparation is now open. The course is organised in collaboration with Wyatt Technology Europe. The course is being run by the University of Helsinki, part of Instruct-FI. Time: May 19-23, 2025 (5 days)Venue: Viikki Campus, University of Helsinki, Finland at the facilities of Instruct Centre Finland Helsinki.Target group: MSc / PhD students, early career researchers, and PIsDeadline for
In collaboration with EU-OPENSCREEN and the Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory, CNPEM, and in the context of the Fragment-Screen project (101094131) Instruct is co-organising the course “Integrative Structural Biology Meets Drug Discovery”. Register Here This one week course will take place at CNPEM, covering a wide range of topics from structural biology (specifically NMR, Cryo-EM, and X-Ray crystallography) to medicinal chemistry (including drug discovery a
We are pleased to announce the seventh practical hands-on workshop on sample preparation for cryo-EM single particle data collection, jointly organized by the ESRF, EMBL Grenoble, and the IBS, continuing a series started in 2018. This 3 day workshop is aimed at PhDs, Postdocs and young scientists new to the field of single particle cryo-EM and will be held at the European Photon Neutron campus, Grenoble, France from May 20th to 22nd, 2025. The course offers theoretical and practical aspects of s
The latest webinar in the Instruct-ERIC Structure Meets Function series this month includes speakers who have accessed cutting-edge structural biology services through Instruct. The webinar series offers an insight into the very cutting edge of structural biology research, utilising the latest techniques available through Instruct-ERIC facilities and centres. In May, we will hear from Heikki Saari of the University of Helsinki, whose Instruct R&D project helped to generate a Raman spectrosc
Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) allows the determination of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules at atomic resolution. This course provides an overview of image processing in Single Particle Analysis (SPA) using Scipion. In the first part of the course, participants will learn the fundamentals of reconstructing biological structures from single particle images obtained through cryo-EM, employing state-of-the-art software in the field. Register Here The s
The workshop is aimed at PhD students, postdocs as well as facility staff with proven experience in basic cryo-FIB-SEM operations that would like to deepen their expertise in advanced sample preparation and imaging methods for cellular structural biology. The workshop will offer a synergistic combination of lectures and practical hands-on sessions supported by leading experts in the field, providing the participants with the unique opportunity to establish a broad network with international spec