Partners & Organisation

The PSB Partners

The Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) was established by a Memorandum of Understanding in 2002 by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) and the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) to provide a unique environment for state-of-the-art integrated structural biology.

• Who are the signatories of the PSB Memorandum of Understanding?

  The MoU was signed by the directors of the EMBL, ESRF, ILL and, on behalf of the IBS, by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Commissariat àl’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) and the Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA).

• Who are the members of the PSB?

  The PSB comprises about 300 active scientists (staff scientists, students and post-docs and technicians) from the EMBL Grenoble, the ESRF Structural Biology group, the ILL Life Sciences group and the Institut de Biologie Structurale

PSB Organisation

PSB is governed at the highest level by a Steering Committee comprising representatives of each partner. A Science Board guides the scientific policy of the PSB. An external international Scientific Advisory Board reviews the PSB every three years.

Members of the Steering Committee
Martin Blackledge (IBS), Stephen Cusack (EMBL), Marie-Odile Fauvarque (UGA), Trevor Forsyth (ILL), Darren Hart (ISBG), Mark Johnson (ILL), Gordon Leonard (ESRF), Plamena Markova (EMBL), José Márquez (EMBL), Annalisa Pastore (ESRF), Francesco Sette (ESRF), Winfried Weissenhorn (IBS, Chair)

Members of the Science Board
Trevor Forsyth (ILL, Chair), Darren Hart (ISBG), Michael Hartlein (ILL), Marco Marcia (EMBL), Cécile Morlot (IBS), Christoph Mueller Dieckmann, Erika Pellegrini (EMBL), Carlo Petosa (IBS), Montserrat Soler Lopez (ESRF), Daouda Traore (ILL)

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board
Jean Cavarelli (IGBMC, France), Robert Gilbert (Oxford U., UK), Guillermo Montoya (Copenhagen U., Denmark), Helen Saibil (Birkbeck College, UK), Titia Sixma (NKI, Netherlands, Chair), Vladimir Sklenar (CEITEC, Czech republic), Jeremy C. Smith (U. of Tennessee/ORNL, USA), Henning Stahlberg (Basel U., Switzerland)

PSB Cordinator
Florent Bernaudat