Previous meetings and workshops before mid-2022

From March 16 2020, the Hercules European School scheduled in Grenoble from 02 March to 03 April 2020 will keep going via visoconference. The 2020 edition of the Tutorial in Macromolecular Crystallography, scheduled from 16 to 20 March 2020 on EPN Campus is cancelled. Les Houches School of Physics "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy" scheduled from March 29 to April 03, 2020, is cancelled. The 4th scientific meeting of the GDR GAG scheduled from May 25 to 26, 2020 is postponed (...)

A practical course about ’Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic analysis of biological macromolecules and their interactions: multi-method approaches and global data analyses’ will take place at the IBS from January 26 to 31, 2020. This course, co-organized by IBS, provides theoretical and practical training in data analysis in several modern biophysical methods for monitoring and quantifying molecular interactions – analytical ultracentrifugation, isothermal titration calorimetry, surface plasmon (...)

The course will cover X-rays, neutrons and electrons diffraction by crystals of biological macromolecules. Various techniques will be investigated: • Macromolecular crystal growth • In situ (in plate) X-ray diffraction • Serial X-ray crystallography • Time resolved X-ray crystallography • Neutron diffraction • Electron diffraction of nano-crystals with the aim of solving de novo structures, searching ligands, elucidating reaction mechanisms... This 4 days course will combine theoretical lectures (...)

On Thursday November 21st, the life science imaging facilities of Grenoble (including IBS) organize the fourth edition of FluoDay that will take place at the Institute of Advanced Biosciences (IAB). This year, Fluoday will be focused on 3D microscopy and Image analysis in order to adress following questions : How would expert techniques (STORM, LightSheet, Adaptative Microscopies) enhance your imaging experience? What are the possibilities of 3D EM ? How will Artificial Intelligence help (...)

This 2.5-day practical winter workshop on sample preparation for single particle cryo-EM, jointly organised by the ESRF, EMBL Grenoble, ILL and the IBS, was held from November 5th to 7th 2019. This was the third of a series of practical hand-on workshops and is aimed at PhDs, PostDocs and scientists new to the field of single particle cryo-EM. During the course, participants learned theoretical and practical aspects of sample preparation for single particle cryo-EM including prior quality (...)

The AFMBioMed International School offers an introduction to atomic force microscopy in life and health sciences. Students, post-doctoral fellows, researchers, technicians and platform engineers come to deepen their knowledge but also to learn about new cutting-edge developments both at the instrumental and application levels. The school covers both fundamentals and expert questions with the possibility for students to bring their own samples. This summer school allows, thanks to the (...)

The 3rd annual meeting of the European Train2Target network is organised by J.P Simorre Cedric, Laguri and Tiago Baeta (IBS/NMR) from 16 to 18 October. This network aims to provide leads for a new generation of innovative antibacterial agents to treat infections with multi-resistant pathogens. These meetings not only give the people involved in Train2Target the possibility to meet in person, but to exchange experiences and to discuss achieved tasks and future (...)

The "PHAGES in Grenoble" workshop will take place on October 8 and 9, 2019 at the Institute for Structural Biology (IBS), on the EPN (European Photon & Neutron Campus) campus in Grenoble. After Montpellier-2015, Marseille-2016, Gif-sur-Yvette-2017 and Bordeaux-2018, this is the fifth symposium on phages organized by the Pluridisciplinary Thematic Network PHAGES.fr. Its objective is to bring together the community of French teams involved in bacteriophage research, while being open to (...)

Taking advantage of the location of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) on the same scientific campus in Grenoble, this EMBO course, organized by PSB, will focus on the complimentary use of X-ray and neutron small angle scattering for the determination of the structures of biological macromolecules. Particular attention will be paid to sample preparation and the analysis and interpretation of SAS data in a biological context. The aim of (...)

The Alpine conference is a high-level international forum for the discussion of recent developments and applications in the field of magnetic resonance in solids. The conference focuses on novel concepts, methods and instrumentation, as well as applications in fields including physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. Beyond its original and still core focus on solid-state NMR, the Alpine Conference will in 2019 welcome contributions from EPR and MRI in solids. The main program of (...)

From 2004, ESONN is a three-week course aimed at providing training for graduate students, postdoctoral and junior scientists from universities and laboratories, all around the world, in the field of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies. The academic and practical courses will cover aspects such as the elaboration, characterization and functionalities of nano-objects. Half of the formation is devoted to practicals, which are held in Grenoble clean room facilities at the Inter-university Centre (...)

After the success of its first symposium on cryo-EM in 2017, the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) is pleased to announce a second symposium on "Macromolecules in action " which will take place on 4-5 July 2019 on the EPN campus The aim of this meeting is to illustrate how the big biological questions are resolved by combining key methods in structural biology (eg X-ray and neutron crystallography, cryo-EM, NMR and small angle scattering - SAXS and SANS) with other complementary (...)

This school, organized by RéNaFoBIS (Réseau National de Formation en Biologie Structurale Intégrative), aims at providing training for graduate students in the field of Integrative Structural biology. D. Housset (IBS/IRAPS group) is co-organizer. IBS scientists (Catherine Bougault (IBS/NMR) and Dominique Housset) will give lectures and tutorials. To know more (in french only).

The goal of this workshop, organized by Romain Vives (IBS, Grenoble) and Dulce Papy Garcia (Gly-CRRET, UPEC, Créteil), to put an emphasis on the technological developments and breakthroughs that led to progress in the understanding of GAG structure and biological functions, as well as the perspectives of applications in diagnostics and therapy. The workshop will include 4 main sessions focusing on : – GAG Biosynthesis and Metabolism – GAG-protein interactions and physiophatological (...)

The IBS 2019 Scientific Day took place on the EPN campus on June 13 with about 200 participants. In addition to plenary lectures, the 2019 programme included Duo presentations, ERC/ANR presentations in 180s, a presentation by Diego Gauto (Laureate of the IBS Young Researcher Publication Prize 2018/2019) and a lecture by an invited speaker. A poster session by 2nd year doctoral and post-doctoral students was also organized after lunch. On this occasion, the Best Poster Award was given to (...)

In the frame of the celebrations of the 30 year twinning of the towns of Oxford and Grenoble, this symposium will emphasis on 30 years of collaborative research in Advanced Materials and biological Structures. It will focus on chemistry, material science (including magnetism, ferroelectricity and plasticity), soft condensed matter and biophysics. For more information on the symposium and to register, please visit the dedicated (...)

A two-and-a-half day practical workshop on sample preparation for negative staining and cryo electron microscopy is jointly organized by ESRF, EMBL Grenoble and IBS on the EPN campus from 21 to 23 May 2019. This is the second practical workshop in a series that began in 2018. This workshop is intended for doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and young scientists starting in the field of cryo-EM. Participants (a dozen out of 70 candidates) will be able to learn the theoretical and (...)

This one month course, coordinated by the Université Grenoble Alpes, is designed to provide training for students, postdoctoral and senior scientists from European and non-European universities and laboratories, in the field of Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation for condensed matter studies (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Geosciences, Industrial applications). It includes lectures, practicals and tutorials, visits of Large Facilities and a poster session. The course is held (...)

The AILM workshop will focus on the development of isotopic labelling techniques and their application to the study of biomolecular structure and dynamics. Conference sessions covered developments in isotopic labelling strategies for NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, neutron scattering and diffraction, as well as methodological approaches, such as co-expression, segmental labelling, specific labelling, labelling with paramagnetic tags, and sample production in vitro or in eukaryotic (...)

The aim of this meeting is to illustrate how different experimental imaging techniques can be combined to perform various biological studies at different scales, ranging from single particles to large biology structures (e.g. bones). Morning will be devoted to scientific seminars on different types of imaging: electron microscopy, nanoSIM, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray holography, super-resolution imaging, cryoelectronic neutron tomography and nano-tomography. Several practicals for a limited (...)