EMBL
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Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences will be making its state-of-the-art infrastructure available to Instruct users in the next few weeks, we will keep you informed!
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Do you want to visit an Instruct Centre for a 3-to-6-month internship?
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Applications are open for the Instruct Internship Programme, which funds research visits of 3-6 months duration at Instruct Centres in Europe. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations with Instruct research groups, applying techniques that are not available in the applicant’s laboratory.
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The 5th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference postponed to May 2022
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The 5th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference which was due to take place in May 2021 has been postponed to May 2022 due to COVID-19, the new dates are 18-20 May 2022. The conference will be organised by Instruct-NL
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Joining efforts with European research
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Instruct-ERIC wins this year’s FREYA Ambassador Competition
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Instruct-ERIC was one of two winners of this year’s FREYA Ambassador competition. FREYA is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission aiming to extend the infrastructure for persistent identifiers (PIDs) as a core component of open research, in the EU and globally.
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The Instruct-ULTRA project end this December. Since its kick-off in 2017, Instruct-ULTRA has worked to enhance and refine Instruct services, supporting efforts in areas such as technology development, training, outreach and communications. We would like to thank all ULTRA partners for their time and support over the course of this hugely successful project.
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International Symposia on Research Infrastructures in 2021
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In 2021 the RI-VIS project will hold three major biregional symposia on research infrastructure collaboration, one of which is organised in collaboration with the EU-LAC ResInfra project:
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Three applications from Instruct-ERIC were selected to receive funding from the Cloud Data Deployment Call launched by EOSC-Life internal call with the aim of developing and integrating some of the bioinformatics tools developed at Instruct Centre. Read more >>
The Digital Life Sciences Open Call has been launched by EOSC-Life in September 2020. This open call represents a great opportunity for Scientists from Instruct-ERIC to make available their data, tools and workflows into the EOSC cloud. Read more >>
Instruct-ERIC in collaboration with Euro-BioImaging was awarded funding from EOSC-Life for the organisation of a joint “exchange of experience” workshop, to develop remote access, virtual teaching and remote training in Research infrastructures” early next year.
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Instruct Centre Activities
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Instruct-NL
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NeCEN collaborated with Janssen company, also based in Leiden, to solve a S-trimer spike protein structure to better than 3-angstrom resolution. The work will be published soon in a peer reviewed journal but for now you can read about it here.
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Instruct Centre-CZ
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A new mass spectrometer timsTOF Pro was installed in November 2020 in the Structural Mass Spectrometry Core Facility in BIOCEV and is now fully operational. The mass spectrometer will be used mostly for shotgun proteomics, hydrogen-deuterium exchange and covalent labelling experiments, and native mass spectrometry with ion mobility separation. The same system was installed also in the Proteomics core facility at CEITEC.
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Instruct Centre-ES
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The Instruct Centre in Spain has been offering a highly sought-after service for image processing for EM data. We are delighted to announce that they will be adding access to cryoEM to their services in the coming weeks. We will keep you posted.
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Instruct Centre-IT
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CERM, the Instruct Centre in Florence, invites Instruct users to apply for remote access to the CERM/CIRMMP research infrastructure, which now includes the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer – the most powerful commercial NMR in the world.
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Instruct-EMBL
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The first call for the EMBL fellowships programme ARISE (Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists) opened on 1 December and applications can be submitted until 31 January 2021. ARISE aims to offer fellowships for experienced professionals with a background in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) who wish to advance technology development in the life sciences and receive training to operate life science research infrastructures.
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