On 16 September 2020, a virtual event was held to celebrate the achievements of Instruct-ERIC in the time since achieving European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status in 2017.
The event celebrates the achievements of Instruct-ERIC, recognising the hard work and commitment of the consortium, staff, supporters and users, in the wider context of the successful European Research Infrastructure landscape.
Through selected talks by our eminent colleagues and a panel discussion, we look ahead to an exciting future for Instruct-ERIC and Research Infrastructures in Europe, exploring new collaborative opportunities that will enable important scientific and technological developments.
The full recording of the event can be viewed below.
The agenda for the virtual event is available below.
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| 14:00 | Welcome | Joel Sussman, co-director of the Structural Proteomic Center in Israel and Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 14:05 | Video greetings |
Greetings from |
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Eric Guittet, Director of Research at CNRS, Instruct Council Chair Stephen Burley, Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair, Director of RCSB Protein Data Bank Nicolas Pade, Executive Director at EMBRC Jacques Demotes, Director General of ECRIN Anton Ussi, Operations Director at EATRIS-ERIC Antje Keppler, Interim Director of Euro-Bioimaging |
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| 14:10 | Vision for Research Infrastructures in Europe | Roberta Zobbi, Deputy Head of Research & Industrial Infrastructures Unit at the European Commission |
| 14:20 | Celebrating achievements of Instruct-ERIC in the European Research Infrastructure landscape | David Stuart, Director of Instruct-ERIC |
| 14:40 | Celebrating recent Instruct-ERIC Members and Centres | Stephen Cusack, Head of EMBL Grenoble |
| 14:50 | Opportunities to collaborate in Open Access and Data Sharing | Andrew Smith, Head of External Relations at ELIXIR |
| 15:00 | Q&A | |
| 15:10 | Break | |
| 15:25 | Celebrating collaborations between European Research infrastructures | John Womersley , Chair of ERIC Forum |
| 15:45 | The impact of Instruct-ERIC on the Horizon Europe missions | Lucia Banci, Deputy Director of Instruct-ERIC |
| 15:55 | Positioning Instruct-ERIC as a scientific influencer | Jan Steyaert, Director of Nanobodies for Instruct |
| 16:05 | Panel Q&A |
Panellists |
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Stephen Burley, Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair, Director of RCSB Protein Data Bank Maria Armenia Carrondo, Professor of Structural Biology, ITQB, Lisbon Evangelia Chrysina, Senior Researcher at NHRF, Instruct-ERIC Greece representative Susan Daenke, Instruct-ERIC Coordinator Eric Guittet, Director of Research at CNRS, Chair of Instruct-ERIC Council David Stuart, Instruct-ERIC Director, Professor of Structural Biology at University of Oxford Roberta Zobbi, Deputy Head of Research & Industrial Infrastructures Unit at the European Commission |
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| 16:25 | Closing remarks | |
| 16:30 | End |
Joel Sussman, co-director of the Structural Proteomic Center in Israel and Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science
| Eric Guittet, Director of Research at CNRS, Instruct Council Chair | Stephen Burley, Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair, Director of RCSB Protein Data Bank | |
| Nicolas Pade, Executive Director at EMBRC | Jacques Demotes, Director General of ECRIN | |
| Antje Keppler, Interim Director of Euro-Bioimaging | Anton Ussi, Operations Director at EATRIS-ERIC | |
| Niklas Blomberg, Director of ELIXIR |
Instruct-ERIC is the single point of access to technology and expertise for structural biology research. Through its specialist research centres in Europe, Instruct-ERIC offers funded research visits, training, internships and R&D awards. By promoting integrative methods, Instruct-ERIC enables excellent science and technological development for the benefit of all life scientists.
Structural biology is a powerful tool to understand how cells work. It reaches for the limits of our understanding of biomolecular structure and function and reveals how these can be modified. Such fundamental knowledge is increasingly important for the development of new therapeutics to meet the challenges of an ageing society, universal health coverage and global pandemics.
Instruct-ERIC is a dynamic, distributed infrastructure of research centres across Europe, providing peer-reviewed access to state-of-the-art, structural biology technologies.
Instruct Centres help to develop the next generation of instrumentation in partnership with industry, and provide training and internships to support structural biologists in developing expertise in cutting-edge methodologies. The services offered by Instruct-ERIC are available to academic and industry researchers worldwide, and funding is available to academic researchers from Instruct Member countries.
