Dear all, this is a reminder that the deadline for application to the EMBO Practical Course
"Protein expression, purification and characterization" (PEPC8) is on Sunday the 20th of May. The course will be held at EMBL Hamburg from the 3rd of September until the 11th of September 2012. This is a hands-on course with practicals in cloning, expression (E. coli & Baculo virus), purification (with and without tags) and characterization (thermofluor, circular dichroism, SAXS, crystallization and in-situ dynamic light scattering, ITC and thermophoresis). Speakers include: Imre Berger, EMBL Grenoble Huseyin Besir, EMBL Heidelberg Christian Betzel, University of Hamburg Louise Bird, Oxford University Uwe Bierfreund, GE Healthcare Richard Burgess, University of Wisconsin-Madison Stefan Duhr, NanoTemper David Hacker, EPFL Lausanne Josan Marquez, EMBL Grenoble Alex McPherson, University of California Preben Morth, University of Oslo Jochen Mueller-Dieckmann, EMBL Hamburg Joanne Nettleship, University of Oxford Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute, Munich Dmitri Svergun, EMBL Hamburg Participants are encouraged to bring their own sample to the course for cloning and expression in the pOPIN vectors, crystallization, SAXS and biophysical characterization. A more extensive characterization of samples is sponsored in context of the course by the co-sponsor Pcube. For more information, please visit our website: http://events.embo.org/12-pepc/index.html or contact us by email: pep...@googlemail.com Best regards, Rob Meijers, Stephane Boivin, Annabel Parret & Dmitri Svergun EMBL Hamburg Notkestrasse 85 D-22603, Hamburg, Germany
