Previous meetings and workshops before mid-2022

Fundamental aspects of crystallography will be treated in theoretical sessions and 3 practical sessions of 2h each which will treat case studies. The tutorial will be given in English. The theoretical sessions will be a mix of lecture and problem solving (rather basic, more of the pencil and paper type). The tutorial (limited to 20 participants) is aimed in the first place at graduate students at Université Grenoble-Alpes and on EPN campus who have a priority in registration. The tutorial (...)

In the frame of GDR3696 - ProMemMoCe Membrane Proteins, the IBS, the Institut Curie and the IBPC are organizing a workshop on the reconstitution of membrane proteins into liposomes and nanodiscs. The workshop will take place at IBS (Grenoble), from Tuesday November 20, 2pm till Thursday November 22 around 5pm. Registration is limited to a dozen participants and priority is given to young researchers (pre-docs, docs, postdocs,...) whose research is in line with the workshop program. (...)

This meeting will be an opportunity to review the progress of cryoEM and its role in understanding the complexity of life. This scientific day will feature a series of lectures by international leaders in the field and younger researchers. Oral and poster presentations, selected from abstracts, are planned. The abstract submission form is to be downloaded and returned completed, from the registration site. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 October 2018. All papers (oral and poster) (...)

It is our pleasure to announce the first workshop on Advanced Diffraction Techniques for Biology in the EPN campus at Grenoble, France. 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 (...)

The 2nd scientific day dedicated to ion channels aims to bring together the Grenoble community studying these membrane proteins in order to stimulate exchanges and discussions. This event covers various aspects such as bioengineering of channels, structure-function studies, pharmacology, physiopathological roles... In addition to 6 speakers (including 3 IBS researchers: Christophe Moreau, Hugues Nury and Beatrice Schaack), slots are reserved for spontaneous applications. Thanks to people (...)

The 2018 edition of the thematic School of the Neutron French Society (SFN) will be dedicated to "Neutrons and Biology" and will take place in Carqueiranne (France) on September 16-19, 2018. The School "Neutrons and Biology" will present an overview of the use of neutrons to probe the structure and dynamics of biological systems. Lectures will be presented by researchers from neutron international facilities and from academia and will include basic tutorials on the principles of neutron (...)

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.The program emphasizes the role of laboratory courses (half of the program is devoted to practical work). IBS scientists are (...)

As part of the European Cost CA15133, the ’Laboratoire Chimie et Biologie des Métaux’ organized a practical training school to provide an overview of the main challenges encountered in studying the processes of FeS aggregate biogenesis. This practical school offered unique expertise in structural approaches to the Fe-S clusters study. Several IBS laboratories were involved in this school through: conferences by Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps (IBS/METALLO) and Irina Gutsche (IBS/MEM) practical (...)

In the frame of the Phages.fr Network, Cécile Breyton (IBS/M&P) organized a workshop on the use of Electron Microscopy for the study of bacteriophages (Program). About twenty participants from all over France gathered for courses and practical work on the electron microscopy platform.

The 2018 edition of the Structural Glycosciences Summer School will be held from 2nd to 4 of July at IBS on EPN campus and at CERMAV on UGA campus. The Summer School is co-organized by the Glyco@Alps CDP project from Idex UGA and the EEC network PhD4GlycoDrug (F. Fieschi & C. Laguri, IBS and A.Imberty & A. Varrot, CERMAV). Glycoscience is a rapidly expanding and exciting field that is relevant to many areas of chemistry, biology and medicine. Structures of Glycan or (...)

Glyco@Alps and Immunoshape organize a mini-symposium on glycoinfection : sugar, pathogen & infection. The event will take place on June 25 at 2 pm at IBS, seminar room. To know more about program and registration, please read the dedicated web site.

The course will consist of morning lectures and afternoon practical sessions focusing mainly on single particle analysis, but some other cryo-electron microscopy techniques will also be introduced in some of the morning lectures. The morning lectures will be open to everyone (no registration required but access to EPN campus is required). Registration is required for practicals, which are limited to a MAXIMUM of 20 PARTICIPANTS and priority will be give to students and postdocs. (...)

This event is organized in collaboration with DCM/I2BM and ICMG/PCI of the University Grenoble-Alpes. Attendants are invited to present their work during this half-day. Please contact the scientific coordinators (jean-baptiste.reiser[at]ibs.fr or jerome.dejeu[at]univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) before 1 June with a short summary.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform students and researchers on the methods and tools available for the study of membrane proteins. Two IBS speakers (Paul Schanda and Hugues Nury), as well as Vadim Cherezov (SCRIPPS, USA) and Selma Maric (U. Malmö, Sweden), will present their work in the Chadwick amphitheatre in the morning. And two practical sessions are also planned in the afternoon, on crystallization by cubic lipid phase and on data collection at ESRF using the "Mesh and Collect" (...)

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 (Leandro Estrozi, Jean-Luc Ferrer and Dominique Housset) will give lectures and tutorials. To know more (in french only).

On June 07, nearly 200 participants gathered on the university campus for the IBS annual Scientific Day. Researchers and students were able to present their research projects through posters and oral presentations to peers. On this occasion, the Best Poster Award was given to Kevin Floch (VIC Group) for his work on ’Cell shape and nucleoid dynamics during Deinococcus radiodurans cell cycle’. The event, organized voluntarily far from the laboratory, is an excellent opportunity to learn and (...)

This international workshop is a forum for presenting and discussing results from state-of-the-art experimental approaches (including optical spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, XFELs, electron microscopy, atomic-force microscopy and scattering methods), and theoretical and computational methods for studying protein dynamics. In Les Houches, about 30 invited speakers gave oral presentations that comprise a pedagogic introduction to the methodology employed, followed by (...)

This EMBO Practical Course aims to teach participants how to integrate structural biology approaches to expedite characterization of large macromolecular complexes from the atomic to cellular scale. Lectures and practical sessions will explain the techniques used to produce, purify, reconstitute and characterize multi-subunit protein and protein/nucleic acid complexes for structural analysis. This Practical Course is co-organized by Marco Marcia (EMBL), Montse Soler López (ESRF), Daniele (...)

The biomolecular NMR group of IBS (Grenoble), the Structural Chemistry and Biology Laboratory of ICSN (Gif-sur-Yvette) and the Biological Polymer Structure and Dynamics by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance team of IGBMC (Strasbourg) are organizing an advanced practical training course entitled "Determination of Protein Structure by NMR". This training will take place in Grenoble from 23 to 27 April 2018. It follows the training courses organized by these laboratories every year since 2009. The (...)

HERCULES is a European course for PhD students and young researchers using Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation for applications in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Hard & Soft Condensed Matter. The 1-month school includes lectures (60%), hands-on practicals and tutorials at partner institutes (Elettra and FERMI in Trieste, Italy, ESRF, ILL in Grenoble, Soleil and LLB in Paris-Saclay, PSI in Villigen, Switzerland) and Grenoble Laboratories (CEA, CNRS, EMBL, IBS). The school includes a (...)