InfraLife Integrative structural biology course
Infra Access for Life Science Sweden (InfraLife), a four-year project that aims to strengthen Sweden as a leading Life Science nation by improving the knowledge of Swedish research infrastructure and making it accessible to life science researchers in academia, industry and health care, is organizing an integrative structural biology course.
The InfraLife project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, includes the Swedish large-scale research infrastructures SciLifeLab, MAX IV, and ESS, as well as the industrial organizations SwedenBIO and LIF.
The course, which is a collaboration between experts from all three infrastructures, with SicLifeLab represented by members from the integrated strucural biology units, will cover the basics of state-of-the-art structural biology techniques, but also how to combine the information to address complex biological questions.
The aim of the course is to give an overview of the structural biology capabilities available at Swedish research infrastructures, and it will focus on understanding sample requirements – the nature of structural information that can be obtained and how data from multiple structural biology methods can be combined by using e.g. computational chemistry techniques.
“It is exciting to plan this course with engaged scientist from different organizations and I really look forward to meeting the teachers and students in real life in August”, says Josefin Lundgren Gawell, InfraLife coordinator and SciLifeLab external relations officer.
What will the course cover?
The aim of the course is to give an overview of the structural biology capabilities available at Swedish research infrastructures, and it will focus on understanding sample requirements – the nature of structural information that can be obtained and how data from multiple structural biology methods can be combined by using e.g. computational chemistry techniques.
The course consists of lectures, key note speakers, modelling practicals and infrastructure visits. In addition, it will also include events that will allow time for networking within the group of students, teachers and other infrastructure personnel, contributing to the expansion of the already existing professional network.
Technologies/methods:
- *Macromolecular X-ray and neutron crystallography
- *Small angle X-ray and neutron scattering
- *Cryo-electron microscopy
- *Macromolecular nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- *Structural mass spectrometry
- *Modelling and Computational methods
- *Biophysical characterization
Keynote speakers:
A number of exciting keynote speakers that will present scientific examples of how integrative structural biology techniques can be used to solve intriguing questions, will participate during the course.
- Professor Poul Nissen, Aarhus University
- Professor Carmen Domene, University of Bath
- Postdoctoral researcher Hanna Barriga, Karolinska university
- Also we will be able to join in on the SciLifeLab “Annual lecture on Structural Biology” where Demis Hassabis will talk on using AI to accelerate scientific discovery.
Target group
The course is open to scientists of all age from academia, health care and industry, and is suitable for levels corresponding to PhD students or postdocs, depending on experience. Applicants are welcome from Sweden, the Nordics, and other countries.
When?
The course will be held in Sweden, on site, between Aug 22 and Sept 2nd 2022.
- Lund, 22 to 25 Aug
- Gothenburg, 26 Aug
- Stockholm, 29 Aug to 2 Sep
Other information
Read more and register before May 23
For further questions contact InfraLife coordinators: Josefin Lundgren Gawell (josefin.lundgren.gawell@scilifelab.se) or Cat Halthur (cat.halthur@maxiv.lu.se) from the MAX IV laboratory industry office.
