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Single Particle Sample Delivery Workshop

Category: Workshop

BioXFEL is pleased to announce it will be hosting a Single Particle Sample Delivery Workshop in conjunction with the 4th Annual Conference.  XFEL-based single-particle imaging techniques hold the potential to reveal the high-resolution structures of non-crystalline bioparticles such as proteins …

BioXFEL STC 4th Annual International Conference

Category: Meeting

Sponsored in part by:       Thank You for Your Attendance and Sponsorship of the 4th BioXFEL Conference and Single Particle Sample Delivery Workshop We would like to thank you for your attendance of the SP Workshop and 4th Annual Conference.  Specifically, we would like …

External Advisors Meeting 2017

Category: Meeting

The external advisors to the BioXFEL Center will convene at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas for an update on Center activities. The Center external advisors are Keith Moffatt, James Naismith, Martin Caffrey, Victor Lamzin, Wah Chiu, Dirksen Bussiere, Henry Frierson, Teresa Head-Gordon, Nora Berrah and …

Banff Meeting featuring Lois Pollack, Abbas Ourmazd, and Marius Schmidt

Category: Meeting

5th Banff Meeting on Structural Dynamics (19-22 Feb 2017) Recent years have seen dramatic successes in providing ‘atomic level views’ of important transient phenomena in materials, molecular and even biomolecular systems. These landmark studies were enabled by breakthroughs in high …

LaserLab Training School 2017

Category: Workshop

LaserLab Training School 2017 Deadline March 1, 2017   Training School on Laser Applications for Biology and Biomolecular Systems: an authentic hands-on experience Dates 3-7 July 2017,  Coimbra, Portugal The Training School on Laser Applications for Biology and Biomolecular Systems is …

Terahertz Science at European XFEL Registration Opens 3/1

Category: Workshop

The interaction of terahertz radiation with matter excites novel states with unique properties. These non-equilibrium states will benefit from ultrafast characterization using the ultrashort and highly brilliant X-ray pulses available at FELs. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce a …

Ultrafast X-ray Summer School in Hamburg: 12-15 June 2017 Registration Deadline 3/31

Category: Workshop

The Ultrafast X-ray Summer School (UXSS)  is an annual event jointly organized by the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and the PULSE institute at  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.  As you can see from the list of  speakers below, the program will be highly …

Photonics Spring Workshop 2017 Registration Deadline 3/31

Category: Workshop

The Paul Scherrer Institut is very happy to announce the Photonics Spring Workshop 2017. The workshop will focus on the SwissFEL Athos soft X-ray beamline and the  SLS-2 upgrade project. We invite you to participate in this workshop that will be guided by  science rather than machine design, …

Virtual LCLS User Meeting

Category: Meeting

We are very pleased to announce the first ever Virtual LCLS User Meeting to be held at 8 am Pacific time on April 12th.  Please mark your calendars! The live stream can be found on April 12th here. This new initiative is an effort to better inform the users about the developments at LCLS …

Web Seminar: Dynamic structural biology revealed by time-resolved studies

Category: Seminar

Dynamic structural biology revealed by time-resolved studies, over longer reactions, with less sample, and including complementary methods Presented by Allen Orville X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) sources enable new science, but require novel sample delivery methods. An ideal system will …

LCLS Run 16 Proposals Due

Category: Experiment

This is a call for proposals for experiments at LCLS  using the AMO, SXR, XPP, CXI, MFX, XCS, and MEC Experimental Stations for the period November, 2017 – June, 2018 (“Run 16”). The DEADLINE is  4 pm  PACIFIC on  May 4, 2017 .  For full details of the call, see: …

4th NSF Site Vist

Category: Meeting

The Center will be holding its 4th Annual Site Visit May 22-25, 2017, in consideration with the Renewal Review. Below is a general outline of the agenda. See the full agenda here May 23 rd Review begins with the day focused on science May 24 th Review Day 2 with …

BioXFEL NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop

Category: Workshop

BioXFEL will be holding a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Proposal Writing Workshop after our NSF site visit on May 25th, 2017. It is our hope that this workshop will give our students essential training in proposal writing and enhance their chances of receiving an NSF …

67th Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA)

Category: Meeting

The meeting will launch with a full day of workshops on four different topics followed by an Opening Ceremony and Reception on Friday, May 26.  We are honored to have Sir James Fraser Stoddart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, scheduled to give a plenary lecture at the Opening Ceremony. The …

Project Management Master Certification

Category: Seminar

The Project Management Master Certification course will be offered July 25-28, 2017 at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. Project management professionals, business and technology professionals, students, and educators are invited to register at the Project Management Academy …

BioXFEL Lecture Series - Hasan DeMirci

Category: Seminar

Join us tomorrow as BioXFEL member and distinguished Stanford professor, Hasan DeMirci will discuss his recent work with Serial Femtosecond crystallography with ribosome complexes. This presentation will be recorded and posted to our website. The seminar takes place at 3PM EDT (2PM CDT, 1PM …

Abbas Ourmazd (UWM) at International Workshop of Advanced Image Processing of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Category: Workshop

BioXFEL scientist, Abbas Ourmazd (UWM), will present at the International Workshop of Advanced Image Processing of Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Beijing China.  Dr. Ourmazd will be presenting a lecture, “Dealing with macromolecular dynamics in cryoEM: an overview and perspective” and tutorial, …

Structural Biology Workshop

Category: Workshop

Hauptman-Woodward is dedicated to developing successful education programs for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. HWI is training the future scientific leaders of Buffalo– and perhaps our next Nobel Laureate.  Presenting material not typically offered in undergraduate …

4th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 featuring Petra Fromme, John Spence & Henry Chapman

Category: Meeting

Dr. John Spence will serve as a plenary for the upcoming 4th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography. The program is cutting edge with 3 plenaries, 40 keynotes, 119 microsymposia, regular and e-posters, commercial exhibits, satellite meetings, workshops and …

Belinda Pastrana at BIOProcessing Summit: Novel Approach towards the Evaluation of Critical Quality Attributes and Stability of Proteins

Category: Seminar

  BioXFEL member Belinda Pastrana will be giving a talk at the BIOProcessing Summit in Boston, MA. Her talk "Novel Approach towards the Evaluation of Critical Quality Attributes and Stability of Proteins" centers on therapeutic proteins. Therapeutic proteins are highly complex molecules; their …

Petra Fromme at Molecular Basis of Life

Category: Meeting

The German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) will host the international conference Molecular Basis of Life in Bochum, Germany. BioXFEL PI, Petra Fromme (ASU), will be giving a talk on Parallel Session 1C “Electron Transport Chains”. Conference Topics: Chromatin and Gene …

2017 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

Category: Meeting

The annual users' meeting of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a unique opportunity to gather together the lightsource community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in plenary, poster and parallel …

BioXFEL Protein Production and Purification Workshop at UPR-RP

Category: Workshop

  BioXFEL Protein Production and Purification Workshop As you may have guessed, this Workshop has been cancelled. It seems inappropriate to offer this at a time when Puerto Rico needs so much more than a protein workshop. The workshop will be rescheduled for another time in the spring. In the …

BioXFEL Scholars at Challenges in Structural Biology

Category: Meeting

BioXFEL members Henry Chapman (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), James Fraser(University of California, San Francisco) and Guillermo Calero (University of Pittsburgh) have been invited to participate in the Challenges in Structural Biology Conference at Janelia Research Campus.  Advances in …

The 75th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference featuring BioXFEL Members

Category: Meeting

BioXFEL members Thomas Grant (University at Buffalo) and Guillermo Calero (University of Pittsburgh) will be giving talks on "The Applications of Emerging Methods of Structural Biology" at the 75th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference. The conference will be held at Indiana University of …

BioXFEL Seminar Series - Peter Schwander UWM

Category: Seminar

      Join us Thursday, November 2nd, as BioXFEL member and UWM Associate Professor, Peter Schwander discusses his recent accomplishments in Single Particle Imaging. This presentation will be recorded and posted to our website. The seminar takes place at 3PM EDT (2PM CDT, 1PM MDT, 12PM …

EUCALL Workshop: Biology at Advanced Laser Light Sources

Category: Workshop

    The European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light Sources (EUCALL) invites you to participate in the EUCALL Workshop "Biology at Advanced Laser Light Sources".The workshop addresses, in particular, present and future scientific users of these advanced light sources in the area of biology. The …

John Spence at 4th International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics

Category: Meeting

The 4th International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics will be held in Trieste, Italy December 5-7, 2017.  BioXFEL’s Scientific Director, John Spence, of ASU will be giving a talk on structural dynamics in biomolecular systems.  ICUSD is a platform for discussing the latest …