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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, “Conformational mapping of biological machines : Hands on exercise.

Structural biology has become one of most important tools to understand the fundamental principles of life. CryoEM has multiple advantages to investigate the structures of macromolecular machineries in their native state with high resolution information. In recent years, CryoEM has developed into its revolution phase along with significant advancements in specimen preparation, hardware development and image processing algorithms. With these advancements, many complicated macromolecular complexes whose structures were impossible to be determined now have been solved to near atomic resolution using CryoEM.

The major topic of this workshop will be relevant to the following items,

1.      Novel algorithms to analyze molecular machineries with continuous conformational change;

2.      Image processing tools to analyze the structure of molecular machineries in situ;

3.      Tools and methods to aid accurate modeling based on CryoEM maps;

4.      New tools for high-throughput single particle analysis.

5.      Utilization of EMDB/EMPAIR services.

Dates: August 6 - 10, 2017

Location: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 

Registration

Deadline June 30th, 2017 

Registration and more details here