Dear all, we are pleased to announce that applications are open for the EMBO Practical Course "Protein expression, purification and characterization/crystallization" (PEPC9), which will be held at EMBL Hamburg from the 8th of September until the 16th of September 2014. This is an extensive hands-on course with practicals in cloning, expression (E. coli & Baculo virus), purification (with and without tags) and characterization (CD, thermofluor, light scattering and crystallization). The course is aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral students who want to improve their protein production skills to be able to structurally characterize their proteins. Speakers include: Imre Berger, EMBL Grenoble (MultiBac system) Huseyin Besir, EMBL Heidelberg (Cloning) Louise Bird, OPPF, Oxford University (E. coli expression) Opher Gileadi, SGC, Oxford University (Purification & optimization) Martin Halberg, Karolinksa Institutet (Thermofluor and other optimization techniques) Michael Marr, Brandeis University (CSH course on protein purification) David Hacker, EPFL Lausanne (Mammalian cell expression) Alex McPherson, University of California (protein crystallization) Preben Morth, University of Oslo (membrane protein production & crystallization) Joanne Nettleship, University of Oxford (E. coli expression) Janet Newman, CSIRO (Crystal optimization) Dmitri Svergun, EMBL Hamburg (SAXS) Participants are encouraged to bring their own sample to the course for cloning and expression in E. coli and baculo-virus, high-throughput crystallization, and biophysical characterization. A more extensive characterization of samples is possible under the auspices of Biostruct-X: http://www.biostruct-x.eu/content/apply-funding For more information, please visit our website: http://events.embo.org/14-pepc/ or contact us by email: pe...@t-online.de Best regards, Rob Meijers, , Annabel Parret, Stephane Boivin & Christian Loew EMBL Hamburg Notkestrasse 85 D-22603, Hamburg, Germany
