Past events

2011

 14 NOVEMBER: PSB Symposium on crystallization of membrane proteins
 21/23 OCTOBER: Neutrons in Biology 2011 School
 19/20 OCTOBER: Neutrons in Biology and Biotechnology 2011
 18 OCTOBER: PSB seminar: Probing the Structures of Muscle Regulatory Proteins using Small-Angle Scattering and Contrast Variation. By Jill Trewhella (University of Sydney, Australia) - invited by the ILL.
 6/7 OCTOBER: PSB Scientific Review
 6 OCTOBER: Ceremony of the foundation stone of IBS2.
 28 SEPTEMBER: ESRF seminar on Structural biology in Pharmaceutical Companies: past, present and future". By Dr. Onkar Singh ( GlaxoSmithKline, UK)
 23 SEPTEMBER: PSB Get Together - D. Panne Group (EMBL) and Deuteration Lab (ILL/EMBL).
 9 SEPTEMBER: PSB seminar: Structural Biology of Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation and Methylation-mediated Epigenetic Regulation. By Dinshaw Patel (Sloan Kettering Ins, NY) – invited by the EMBL
 12 JULY: RCaH - Simon Phillips and Zuzanna Lalanne (MRC)
 8 JULY: PSB-GET-TOGETHER introducing The Protein Dynamics and Flexibility (NMR) Group (IBS) and the Viral Infection and Cancer Group (IBS)
 17 JUNE: Minisymposium on Low resolution crystallography
 16 JUNE: PSB Seminar: Crystal structures of bacterial and yeast ribosomes. By Marat Yusupov (IGBMC, Illkirch) - invited by the ESRF
 6/10 JUNE: EMBO course on Exploiting Anomalous Scattering in Macromolecular Structure Determination
 27 MAY: PSB-GET-TOGETHER organised by the Postdocs of the ESRF Structural Biology, Cusack and Pillai Groups.
 20 MAY: PSB Seminar: The mechanism of sodium and substrate release from the binding pocket of vSGLT. By Jeff Abramson (UCLA, USA) - invited by the IBS
 16/20 MAY: EMBO Course on Small Angle Neutron and Xray Scattering from Proteins in Solution (website)
 2/4 MAY: HSC Industry: Neutrons and Synchrotron X-rays for Industrial - ESRF Auditorium
 13 APRIL: Defects in DNA strand break repair and links to human disease. By Stephen West (London Research Institute, UK) Seminar organised by Simone Pellegrino (CIBB/EMBL Student)
 8 APRIL: PSB-GET-TOGETHER organised by the Postdocs of the Weissenhorn, Brutscher and Berger Groups.
 18 FEBRUARY: PSB Science Day on genome sequencing and evolution - Program
 2 FEBRUARY: PSB Student Day - Program
 27 JANUARY: The Exon Junction Complex differentially marks spliced mRNP. By Hervé Le Hir (ENS - CNRS, Paris). Seminar organised by Ottilie Von Loeffel Holz (CIBB/EMBL Student).
 14 JANUARY: PSB Seminar Viruses & Plasmids of Archaea - What do they teach us about evolution? By Patrick Forterre (Institut Pasteur, Paris) invited by the UVHCI.
 11 JANUARY: Welcome Day for the first year PhD Students

 26 NOVEMBER: PSB symposium on NMR and Biomolecular Dynamics. Describing Functionally Important Motions in Biology - Program
 14 OCTOBER: PSB Seminar on Recent progress in structure determination of G protein-coupled receptors. By Vadim Cherezov (Scripps, USA) invited by the IBS.
 27/28 SEPTEMBER: PDB RoadShow Program
 22 SEPTEMBER: Rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of the gut by Shigella: the Yin and Yang of innate immunity. By Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur. Seminar organised by Celeste Sele (CIBB/EMBL student).
 3 SEPTEMBER: PSB seminar on decoding the genome message by the ribosome. By Venki Ramakrishnan (Cambridge, UK) invited by the ILL.
 13 JULY: PSB training - How to use PYMOL? tutored by Cyril Dian, Babu Manjasetty, MariaRosa Quintero. (Handout)
 12 JULY - Quantitative proteomics analyses : Large-scale and targeted analyses. By Jerome Garin (CEA, Grenoble)
 8/9 JULY - Seminar and practicals on DEN refinement. By Gunnar Schroeder (Juelich, Germany)
 7 JULY: PSB summertime party
 1 JULY: " Structural biology and functional studies of emerging RNA virus enzymes: from structural genomics to drug design." By Bruno Canard (AFMB, Marseille). Seminar organised by Ivan Ivanov (CIBB/EMBL student).
 27 JUNE/1 JULY: EuroGlycoForum Meeting (ESRF)
 30 MAY to 6 JUNE: EMBO Course on "Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes" - Program
 28 MAY: PSB Science Day on "Dynamics in Biology" - Program
 29 APRIL: The role of protein acetylation in complex biological processes: from gene expression to signaling By Tso-Pang Yao (Duke University, Durham, USA) - Seminar organised by Daniele Desravines (CIBB/EMBL Student).
 26/30 APRIL: ESRF / BioStruc (Norway) MX Course
 26 APRIL: PSB Seminar on "Tracking the ends: A dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips." By Michel Steinmetz (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Suisse). invited by EMBL and IBS.
 19 MARCH: PSB Seminar on "Understanding Membrane Protein Insertion & Ion Channel Functionality from Molecular Simulation" By Erik Lindahl (Stockholm University) invited by IBS
 16 FEBRUARY: PSB Seminar on Chromatin and Transcription Yuichiro Tagaki (Indiana, USA) invited by EMBL
 9 FEBRUARY: The complex life of small RNA. by Eric Miska (Cambridge Univ, UK) - Seminar organised by Steffie Eckhardt (EMBL/CIBB Student).
 29 JANUARY: David Barford (Chester Beatty Lab.) Structural and mechanistic studies of the anaphase promoting complex: a multi-subunit cell cycle regulator - Seminar organised by Eva Kowalinski (EMBL/CIBB PhD Student).
 26 JANUARY: PSB Student Day -Program
 20 JANUARY: Molecules and Membranes: the shape of things to come - Program
 15 JANUARY: PSB Minisymposium on Molecular Architectures in Cell Division ILL Chadwick Amphitheatre - Mechanisms of tubulin assembly and of microtubule destabilizing inhibitors. By Marcel Knossow (L.E.B.S. , C.N.R.S. Gif sur Yvette)- Bacterial cell wall architecture: strength by design. By Simon J. Foster (University of Sheffield, UK). organized by IBS and EMBL
 11/13 JANUARY: PSB Small Angle Scattering Course Program
 11 JANUARY : Welcome day for the first year PhD Students

 8 DEC: Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, Paris) - Role of membrane curvature in intracellular trafficking - Seminar organised by Nicolas Martinelli (EMBL/CIBB PhD Student).
 23 NOV: PSB Science Day on cellular Imaging in Grenoble - full program
 17 NOV: Frontiers of Proteomics Organised by the IBS and EMBL/UVHCI-Molecular anatomies in subcellular proteomics. By Johan Malmström (Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Sweden)-Divide and conquer: strategies for the analysis of complex proteomes. By Jeroen Krigsveld (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
 30 OCT: Andrea Musacchio (IFOM-IEO Campus , Milan, Italy) - Feedback control of mitosis: a structural perspective - - Seminar organised by Manuela Delvecchio (EMBL/CIBB PhD Student).
 28 OCT: PSB Seminar Structure and Function of Membrane Transporters By So Iwata (Imperial college, London) invited by ESRF
 18/24 OCT: EMBO PRACTICAL COURSE on the "Combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography for the structure determination of large biological complexes" Organized by Jorge Navaza (IBS), Leandro Estrozi (EMBL), Laurence Serre (ESRF)
 5 OCT: PSB Seminar Protein NMR Crystallography By Lyndon Emsley (ENS, Lyon) invited by EMBL
 3 JUL: Summertime Student Party
 26 JUN: Signing ceremony of the "Unité Mixte Internationale" (UVHCI)
 17/18 JUN: PSB SAB Review
 15 JUN: Inauguration of the BIO-SAXS Beamline (ESRF)
 15/19 JUN: EMBO PRACTICAL COURSE EMBO / MAX-INF2 practical course on structure determination in macromolecular crystallography Organized by Christoph Mueller-Dieckmann (ESRF)
 10 JUN: PSB Seminar Determinants of influenza A virus virulence in interferon-competent mice. by Otto Haller (Dept. Virology, Univ. Freiburg, Germany) invited by UVHCI
 15 MAY: PSB Seminar Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by hydrogenases: new insights, with implications for life and energy. By Fraser Armstrong (Oxford, UK) invited by IBS
 24 APR: PSB Seminar Comparisons between how influenza A viruses and parainfluenza viruses interact with the interferon system. By Rick Randall (St Andrews, UK) invited by EMBL
 20/22 APR: PSB Course: Analytical Ultracentrifugation Practical course
 13/17 APR: PSB Course on Biological Small Angle Scattering with X-rays and Neutrons
 30 JAN: PSB Student Day
 20 JAN: PSB minisymposium "Fontiers of Membrane Protein Structures" Structural studies of the potassium channel" By Joao Morais Cabral (IBMC Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular,Porto Portugal). Structural and mechanistic studies of ABC transporter proteins” By Kaspar Locher (Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics IMB, ETH Zurich Switzerland) Invited by EMBL and IBS

2008

 DEC: Second PSB platform meeting (EMBL)
 DEC: PSB Science days on biophysical methods
 NOV: First PSB Platform meeting (IBS)

PSB Seminars:
 Peter Kwong, (National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda, USA) HIV-1 gp120: Antibodies, Crystals, Drugs and Progress Towards and Effective AIDS Vaccine. Invited by EMBL.
 Walid A. Houry, (Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto (Canada)) The multiple cellular roles of the hsp90 molecular chaperone. Invited by UVHCI.
 Pascale Cossart, (Unité des Interactions bactéries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France)) Listeria monocytogenes : a bacterium responsible for severe food-borne infections, an exceptional model for the study of host pathogen interactions. Invited by IBS.
 Jim Naithsmith (University of St Andrews, UK) Channels and pores. getting through the membrane Invited by ESRF

2007

PSB Seminars
 Venki Ramakrishnan, (MRC, Cambridge) Structures of functional states of the ribosome
 Stephen Neidle, (Cancer Research UK, Biomolecular Structure Unit, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK) Quadruplex DNA Folding and Recognition
 Michel Pézolet (Département de chimie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada) Structure-Property Relationships in Spider Silk by Raman Spectromicroscopy
 Roger Williams, (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK) Structural biology of ESCT assemblies on endosomal membranes

PSB Workshop
 International Workshop on Structural and Molecular Biology of Host-Pathogen Interactions

PSB Science Day:
 DEC: NMR, a Tool for Structural Biology
 JUN: Small Angle Scattering of X-rays and Neutrons for Biology

2006

PSB seminars
 G. Matthias Ullmann (Structural Biology/Bioinformatics, University of Bayreuth) How environmental factors control charge transfer reactions in biomolecular systems
 A. Fersht (MRC, Cambridge University, UK) The structure and activity of the tumor suppressor p53
 Alexeï Grichine (Technical Platform "Optical Microscopy - Cell Imaging". Institut Albert Bonniot (IFR73), UJF, Grenoble) Fluorescence microscopy techniques for studying cells’ structures and functions - static and time-resolved approaches
 Yves Gaudin (Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette) Crystal structure of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus glycoprotein in both its native and low pH conformation - Martin Blackledge (IBS/LRMN, Grenoble) How protein motions enable biological function: Describing dynamic transitions in folded and unfolded proteins by NMR

 JAN: PSB-IVMS Industry Day