Dear all, A reminder to register for the 11th Annual CCP-EM Spring Symposium! Early bird registration, plus bursary, selected talk and poster applications close on the 1st February 2025!
The conference aims to provide a forum to highlight state-of-the-art developments in computational cryoEM and related themes, as well as showcasing outstanding recent biological applications. We aim to promote an inclusive, friendly atmosphere, welcoming those both old and new to the community. Topics include instrument technology, sample preparation, image processing, single particle reconstruction, tomography and model building. The meeting also includes the Diamond Light Source Biological Cryo-Imaging User Meeting for eBIC & B24 and associated satellite meetings for correlative microscopy (eBIC), electron diffraction (eBIC), membrane protein lab (DLS), HexAuFoil User Group Meeting (Quantifoil) and a Thermo Fisher meeting on advances in SPA. The conference will be held as a hybrid meeting, with the physical event at the East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC) in Nottingham, plus virtual access online via Zoom. The meeting is kindly sponsored by CryoCloud, Dectris, Nanosoft, SPT LabTech, SubAngstrom and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Dates: 23-25th April 2025 Location: EMCC, Nottingham, UK Registration: https://cvent.me/b4r5bM Confirmed Symposium speakers include: Alister Burt (Genentech) Jose-Maria Carazo (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología) Maud Dumoux (RFI) Johannes Elferich (UMass Chan Medical School) Andreas Engel (CryoWrite) Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft) Wanda Kukulski (University of Bern) Taiana Maia de Oliveira (AstraZeneca) Charlie Scarff (Leeds University) Thom Sharp (University of Bristol) Alexander Shtyrov (MRC-LMB) Amit Singer (Princeton) Jessie Zhang (University of California, Berkeley) Kai Zhang (Yale) Confirmed BCI speakers: Sonia Rodriguez Fernandez (University of Cambridge) Valentina Loconte (B24, Diamond Light Source) Ste Muench (University of Leeds) Martin Rennie (University of Glasgow) David Sauer (University of Oxford) David Waterman (STFC, CCP4) Plus eBIC user meeting round-table discussion Symposium scientific organisers: Laura Spagnolo (University of Glasgow) Rene Frank (University of Leeds) Biological Cryo-Imaging user meeting organising committee: Lorna Malone (eBIC, Diamond Light Source) Archana Jadhav (B24, Diamond Light Source) Emma Buzzard (eBIC, Diamond Light Source) Éilís Bragginton (eBIC, Diamond Light Source) More details are available here: CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2025<https://www.ccpem.ac.uk/training/spring_symposium_2025/spring_symposium_2025.php> Early bird discounted prices are available until the end of February and we have a limited number of hotel rooms so please register asap. We will be accepting applications for a total of 4 selected talks to be included in the programme. These talks should be 15 minutes in length with 5 minutes at the end for questions. Anyone who is interested may apply by giving their proposed talk title and a short (1250 character max) abstract when completing their in-person registration. Please submit all abstracts for talks by midnight 1 February 2025. As per last year, we will also be running a poster session, however due to high demand, we will be limiting the total number of posters this year to 50. If you would like to present your poster, please submit your title and abstract (1250 character max) through the in-person registration form by 1 February 2025. In-person registrants may apply for both a poster and talk. We will respond to applicants soon after the application deadline to let you know if you've been selected. Thanks to the kind support of our sponsors, we have a limited number of bursaries which will cover registration fees and two nights accommodation in student halls. If you are interested, please register using the 'Bursary Applicant' admission item and send a 300-word application to ccpemeve...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto:ccpemeve...@stfc.ac.uk> detailing your interest in attending the conference in person and why a bursary would help (closing date 1 Feb). We look forward to welcoming you all in Nottingham! Best wishes from CCP-EM & DLS BCI Lauren Giles | CCP-EM Administrative Support Scientific Computing Department Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Didcot OX11 0QX Email: lauren.gi...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto:lauren.gi...@stfc.ac.uk> Zoom telephone: 01235 445059 [A picture containing graphical user interface Description automatically generated] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
