Previous meetings and workshops before mid-2022

The XXth edition of the JFV organized by the French Society of Virology will take place from 22 to 23 March 2018 at the Institut PASTEUR in Paris. It provides an opportunity for thesis students, post-doctoral students and young researchers to present their research work in the field of fundamental virology (animal or plant) or medical virology. The themes discussed provide a global vision of advances in infectiology. Rob Ruigrok and Thibault Crepin (IBS/Viral Replication Machines Group) are (...)

A winter training dedicated to Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopy will take place at the Ecole des Houches, France, 18-23 March 2018. This biophysics school aims at training students and young researchers to master fluorescent markers used in advanced fluorescence bioimaging: their diversity, how they actually work and what are their current development. Applications for registration are open. Deadline is December 15th. Registration Organising committee : Dominique Bourgeois (...)

The 3rd Annual Users Meeting of iNEXT will take place at the Grenoble EPN campus from 19 - 21 March 2018. This meeting, co-organized by IBS, ESRF, and EMBL, is intended to bring together both, iNEXT users to exchange on recent scientific advances made in the field of structural biology. Scientific presentations by invited keynote speakers and selected abstract presenters will cover a broad range of topics and experimental techniques (X_rays, cryo EM, NMR, …). Participation to the meeting (...)

The MXIS training course was dedicated to in situ protein crystallography, with a special emphasis on ligand screening. This workshop was organized in two parts, each one lasting for 3 days. It includes: Part 1 (Montpellier): full lectures at the “Centre de Biochimie Structurale” followed by practicals. Topics: plate pre-coating for “Dry” co-crystallization, in situ screening on a lab source). Part 2 (Grenoble): full lectures at the “Institut de Biologie Structurale” and practical sessions at (...)

The next 9th and 10th of October, the 2nd meetings of the GDR GAG will be held at the IBS. The GDR GAG gathers 14 French teams in the fields of chemistry, biology and methodological approaches, which study the complex polysaccharides of the glycosaminoglycan family. Major area of research within the GDR focus on GAG biosynthesis, structure and functions of, as well as on possible therapeutic applications based on GAG mimetics. Meeting on the 9th of October will be restricted to GDR member, (...)

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 (...)

The School offers an introduction to Atomic Force Microscopy in Life Sciences and Medicine for Ph.D student, post-docs, scientists, core facility technicians and engineers. Lectures in the morning are complemented by hands-on experiments in the afternoon usually supervised by the lecturers. There are about 20 places for students doing hands-on experiments. Participants are encouraged to send a CV and a motivation letter to the organizers. AFM beginners are welcome. This school is (...)

On July 6th and 7th, our campus hosted a unique CRYO-EM Symposium in the framework of the newly established cryo-EM platform. The new facility is open to the user community based on peer-review of scientific merit and technical feasibility. Scientists from ESRF, IBS and EMBLsupport user operation. The aims of this conference were to promote the exciting opportunities in structural biology opened by the advances in EM, to introduce the Titan Krios microscope that just arrived at the ESRF, (...)

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 will give lectures and tutorials (Catehrine Bougault, Jean-Luc Ferrer, Dominique Housset and Hélène Mallet) To know (...)

The IBS will host the FluoDay 2017 on Tuesday, June 20th from 8:30 until 17:00. The objective of this event is to bring together experienced and non-experienced users of fluorescence optical microscopy in Grenoble and to present the activities of the microscopy platforms, including the biological projects that have benefited from them. A round table will also be organised to discuss issues and problems commonly encountered by users of fluorescence microscopy, and the lunch break will (...)

204 participants, including colleagues from EMBL Grenoble, gathered in Saint Martin d’Hères on June 16, 2017 for the 10th edition of the IBS scientific day. This event allowed groups who hadn’t presented themselves in 2016 to promote their research activities and the conference included two platforms presentations. On the occasion of the flash/posters sessions, 20 papers were presented by 2nd year doctoral students (and some post-doctoral fellows who wished it), and Rana El Masri (IBS/SAGAG) (...)

This meeting, organized by IBS and GE Healthcare Life Sciences, will gather occasional or frequent users of Biacore systems and more generally of SPR systems for the characterization of molecular interactions. It will be hold in IBS on May 30, from 2 to 4pm and include short scientific presentations and a presentation of the SPR platform (program). It’s an opportunity to share best practice, knowledge, experiences. This meeting is open to anyone interested in protein /protein or (...)

The aim of this training is to provide participants with the necessary tools for the NMR study of interactions of liquids involving proteins (protein-biomacromolecule and protein-ligand complexes). The training is co-organized by IBS (Grenoble), IGBMC (Strasbourg) and ICSN (Gif-sur-Yvette). To know more Organization : IBS : Beate Bersch, Jérôme Boisbouvier, Catherine Bougault, Bernhard Brutscher, Pierre Gans, Adrien Favier, Jean-Pierre Simorre, Dominique Marion ICSN : Nadine Assrir, (...)

Co organizd by the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and Grenoble INP, this 4-week school is a yearly event, established in 1991. It provides 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, tutorials, and visits of Large (...)

The school is aimed for PhD students and early-stage researchers. Participants learn how a biological problem can be tackled using an integrated approach, going from atomic resolution to the level of a whole organism level. The school also aims at showing how physics can contribute to model biological processes. Several topics are covered: cell and tissue morphogenesis, role of membranes at mesocopic and molecular scales: remodeling and transport processes, concepts and methods from physics (...)

The second 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 (...)

The aim of this event is to inform PSB students and researchers on how to exploit this technique to advance their research projects. Program Practical session Registration (deadline February 10, 2017) Registration is free, but in order to simplify the organisation please indicate if you will attend the talks in the morning and if you would like to participate to the tutorial in the (...)

MXIS training course is dedicated to in situ protein crystallography (ligand coating, crystallogenesis, in situ diffraction for crystal screening and structure resolution, in situ data processing). This 2-part workshop includes full lectures and practical sessions: Part 1: 7 - 9 Nov., Montpellier. Lectures at the CBS. Pratical sessions at the CBS on "dry-coating" and crystallization assays. Part 2: 30 Nov. - 2 Dec., Grenoble. Lectures at the IBS. Crystallization assays at the EMBL. (...)

The CRISTECH network (Mission for the Interdisciplinarity - CNRS) organizes every two years, days devoted to technology and methods in general and multidisciplinary field of crystal growth and characterization of single crystals. The ‘CRISTECH 2016’ days will be held from 10 to 12 October 2016 in Autrans (Isère) in the resort "The Escandille ". Monika Spano (IBS/GSY) will animate the 7th session (Biomaterials). The list of sessions and invited speakers is available on the website of Cristech]. (...)

A scientific meeting, organized by IBS/SAGAG group, will be hold in Paris on October 10, under the auspices of Aviesan, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of heparin. This conference will bring together glycosaminoglycans specialists and non-specialists working on biological systems in which these molecules are involved. The detailed program can be found on https://bmsv2016.sciencesconf.org/. This event will be followed by the first meeting of the of the French “GDR – (...)