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ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, and Instruct-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for structural biology, have announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a joint statement. Along with their shared objectives...

Due to the upcoming holiday period, the next Instruct access panel will meet in the middle of January 2025. As a result, we recommend that any access proposals are submitted by 2 December to ensure that they are included in the panel discussion.   Apply...

The 3rd AI4Life Call is now open, offering life scientists a unique opportunity to receive support for deep learning-enhanced image analysis. If you work with scientific imaging data and face challenges with your current analysis workflows, this final...

Instruct-ERIC is pleased to announce the awardees of the Fourth International Call – providing funded staff exchanges between European facilities and international partners! Researchers worldwide have access to structural biology services through...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker (University of Washington) for computational protein design, and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper (Google DeepMind) for protein structure prediction. Computational...

The Instruct-ERIC Annual Report 2023 has been published. Detailing the biggest events, project news, and services made available by Instruct-ERIC, the Annual Report provides a snapshot of Instruct’s activities throughout 2023. The report outlines...

ARIA (Access to Research Infrastructure Administration) was established by Instruct-ERIC to enhance the access proposal process, making it simpler for researchers to submit proposals and access integrated structural biology technologies and services. The...

The Instruct-ERIC review paper “The future of integrated structural biology” has been published in Structure, detailing the current status of structural biology technologies, as well as discussing potential future developments in the field. With...

Instruct-ERIC offers support for structural biologists utilising AI prediction software and validation tools. The impact of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning on structural biology has grown exponentially in recent years. Particularly with...

Since 2020, iNEXT-Discovery has provided access to many structural biology technologies across Europe. As of 31 July, the project came to an end, and no more proposals can be submitted. To continue receiving funded access to structural biology services,...

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the awardees of the latest R&D funding calls. Recipients have been awarded funding for pilot research into technology and methods development for structural biology. Between 2013 and 2024, Instruct has provided...

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany is currently opening applications for a new Instruct-ERIC centre in Germany.   Find out more and apply to include your institution here.   The process is to nominate research...

In June, Krakow hosted a three-day workshop to advance the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). From the 10th to the 12th, invited stakeholders from across Europe gathered under the auspices of Work Package 15 (WP15), led by ACC Cyfronet AGH with support...

The Instruct-ERIC ARIA team has collaborated with the I2PC of CNB-CSIC in Madrid (part of Instruct-ES) to develop FandanGO, an innovative system to enhance data management and accessibility in structural biology. FandanGO has been formed as part of the...

The sixth Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference 2024 took place in the seaside town of Cascais, Portugal, welcoming more than 230 structural biology researchers to the leading integrated structural biology conference.   The Instruct...

Martin Blackledge of IBS Grenoble has been announced as the winner of the Ivano Bertini Award from Instruct-ERIC. Martin was recognised for their pioneering work on intrinsically-disordered proteins using NMR. This ranges from identifying the conformational...

“Structural Biology in Slovenia and Beyond” celebrated the introduction of Slovenia as a Member of Instruct-ERIC, allowing researchers in Slovenia to receive funded access to high-end structural biology technologies across Europe. Opened...

Instruct-ERIC is launching its Fourth International Call for global structural biology researchers.   Apply Here   This call is open to staff from all Instruct Centres and from institutions holding a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with...

Instruct-ERIC offers sincere condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Professor Vladimir Sklenar, who had sadly died last week. Vladi was instrumental during establishment of CEITEC, coordinator of its Structural Biology research programme...

Researchers in Germany can now receive funded access to structural biology technology and services across Europe, as Germany is now a member of Instruct-ERIC.  Starting 2024, Germany has become the 17th member of the structural biology research...

ARIA (Access to Research Infrastructure Administration) was established by Instruct-ERIC to enhance the access proposal process, making it simpler for researchers to submit proposals and access integrated structural biology technologies and services. The...

The new Horizon Europe project, FHERITALE, kicked off in January 2024 at a meeting in Florence. The FHERITALE project seeks to provide the European research community with a comprehensive overview of technologies and services relevant to understanding...

The EOSC-Life project brought together 13 Life Science RIs to create an open, digital and collaborative space for data resources and data processing workflows in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Find out more about Instruct’s wider EOSC...

The Instruct-ERIC funded access call will reopen 8 January. Structural biology researchers from member countries and organisations can receive funded access to services and technologies. Researchers from outside our member countries and organisations...

A new 200kV (scanning-)transmission electron microscope for life-science applications has been installed at Cryo-electron microscopy core facility (CEMCOF), part of the CEITEC facility in Instruct-CZ. The Glacios 2 (ThermoScientific) microscope will be...

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the winners of its image competition, Razvan Borza of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and Joshua White of the Astbury Centre at University of Leeds! The winning images are shown below, and can also...

Fragment-based screening is becoming an increasingly effective tool for drug discovery, and is the basis of the Horizon Europe project, Fragment-Screen, coordinated by Instruct-ERIC.A team from project partner Goethe University recently conducted a fragment...

Frank Sobott, a renowned Chair in Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the University of Leeds (part of Instruct-UK), is starting as a new University of Eastern Finland (part of Instruct-FI) Distinguished Professor, UEFDiPro, at the Department of Chemistry...

As a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Structure, structural biologists were asked about their expectations on how their respective fields are likely to develop in the next ten years. This included input on a variety of structural biology disciplines,...

Instruct-ERIC has held 16 internship calls since 2013, providing a platform for early career researchers to get hands on training and experience in new laboratories, working with new technologies and colleagues. This includes remote internships during...

As Director of the European research infrastructure consortium for integrated structural biology, Instruct-ERIC, and as professor of Goethe-University Frankfurt, I wish to make the following statement: On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists carried out...

The canSERV Call for Transnational Service Provision is now open. Running until 4 January 2024, the call offers the opportunity for researchers to apply to a portfolio of services offered by canSERV to address the research needs of the entire oncology...

The Instruct-ERIC Annual Report 2022 has been published. The report outlines updates from centres, facilities and members, as well as science highlights, training programmes, and of course the Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference.   Download...

The Instruct-ERIC community is heartbroken by the events unfolding in Israel, and our thoughts are with all people in the region over the last days. Israel is a founding member of Instruct-ERIC. The Instruct-IL centre is made up of the Centre for Structural...

The Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU held a conference in Tenerife, bringing together research infrastructures from across the world to discuss the global dimension and sustainability of Research Infrastructures. This conference was an opportunity...

One of the great benefits of working for Instruct is the opportunity to work with fantastic people whose expertise and dedication makes it possible to deliver something as complex as a distributed infrastructure to scientists across the world.   Stephen...

The UK has announced that it will be rejoining the Horizon research scheme. This follows the news earlier this week that Diamond Light Source has received additional funding for upgrades from the UK government; both significant developments for the UK...

ARIA is the leading research infrastructure management system, developed by Instruct-ERIC. It is used for secure access provision, catalogue development, content management and much more, across a huge range of RIs in different fields. In order to ensure...

The EMBL Imaging Centre (EMBL IC), is a world-class facility committed to offering open access to cutting-edge microscopy technologies and advanced data analysis services to scientists and researchers around the globe. Based in Heidelberg, Germany, the...

Instruct-ERIC has announced its latest R&D Call Awardees – providing pilot funding for preliminary research. The call is for small scale research projects in integrated structural biology, helping researchers develop external funding for projects....

In addition to the huge range of physical and remote structural biology services available through Instruct, there are also several computational tools and technologies which can be used to supplement experimental data. The Netherlands Cancer Institute...

Mobility Fellowships, 2nd Regular Call and Fast-Track Option   From CEBEM (Centro de Biologia Estructural Del Mercosur) comes the second call for Mobility Fellowships and a Fast-Track Option. This initiative aims to unlock the power of collaboration...

The new IMAGINE project kicked off this month, with €10 million in European Union funding aiming to raise the level of imaging technology and workflows that aid scientists in better understanding life in its natural context. EMBL and scientists...

Instruct Director Prof. Harald Schwalbe is visiting research institutions and universities in China, aiming to intensify scientific collaboration and access to research infrastructure for researchers in both China and Europe. On 14 May, he was a guest...

Sarah Butcher has been elected as the new Chair and Jose Maria Carazo Vice-Chair of the Instruct-ERIC Council, building on their years of experience as part of the Instruct community. They succeed Eric Guittet of CNRS, who had been Council Chair for...

Greece and Slovenia have joined the Instruct-ERIC Consortium, taking the total number of Member Countries and Organisations to 16. Following approval from the Instruct Council, researchers from Greece and Slovenia now are now members of the Instruct...

Instruct-ERIC Covid-19 Summary In early-2020, with the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Instruct-ERIC sprung into action, offering access for researchers studying the virus to its advanced structural biology facilities across Europe. This has continued...

The Fragment-Screen project commenced with a fantastic Kick-Off Meeting held in Frankfurt at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, a two-day gathering of scientific talks and project discussions. Coordinated by Instruct-ERIC and chaired by Instruct...

ARIA is the leading research infrastructure management system, developed by Instruct-ERIC. It is used for secure access provision, catalogue development, content management and much more, across a huge range of RIs in different fields. In order to ensure...

Applications for innovative proposals to harness canSERV´s unified oncology services launches this week. A first of its kind, the largest European-wide consortium of research infrastructures is offering free-of-charge transnational access to cutting-edge...

The AI4Life project has announced the launch of its first Open Call, an opportunity designed to provide support with Deep Learning to life scientists with unmet image analysis needs. With this Open Call, AI4Life will reach out to life scientists that...

The new Fragment-Screen project is born from the INFRA-2022-TECH-01 call held earlier in 2022. The project aims to develop innovative instrumentation, workflows and experimental and computational methodologies to accelerate the development of new pharmaceuticals...

The 3rd Instruct-ERIC International Call, launched jointly with MOSBRI and iNEXT-Discovery, is now open! Funding is available to support research projects by providing research visits or remote access to any of the Instruct-ERIC, MOSBRI or iNEXT-Discovery...

As part of its ongoing collaboration with Latin America in the context of the EU-LAC ResInfra project, Instruct-ERIC opened a staff exchange call to allow researchers from Latin American institutions to visit European facilities. One of these visits...

The Instruct-ERIC Centre in Spain has added a new service to the Instruct Image Processing Centre (I2PC), the FlexibilityHub. The I2PC facility is part of CNB-CSIC, in Madrid, which forms Instruct Spain, and offers access to advanced Cryo-EM machinery...

The latest round of Instruct-ERIC Internships has been awarded, allowing four new interns to visit their chosen Instruct centre! The Instruct internship programme invites PhD Students and early post-doctoral fellows to visit an international Instruct...

ISIDORe (Integrated Services for Infectious Disease Outbreak Research) is pleased to announce the launch of its preparedness programme calls for proposals for free of charge access to its state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge services, advanced equipment...

Instruct-ERIC Director Prof. Harald Schwalbe has appointed Dr Claudia Alen Amaro and Dr Natalie Haley as the new Hub Coordination Team. Dr. Claudia Alén Amaro will be the Head of Operations, and Dr. Natalie Haley the Head of Strategy. The team...

A new, promising collaborative agreement among top-class life science research infrastructures was made official during the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022) in Brno, Czech Republic, on October 21, 2022. This trilateral...

Instruct-ERIC has now launched the Latin America and Caribbean Structural Biology Landscape Analysis Report, “Providing the Tools Researchers Need: The Structural Biology Case”. The report was put together by a working group as part of the...

ICRI2022 (The International Conference on Research Infrastructures 2022) was a fantastic week for Instruct-ERIC, speaking and presenting at several events throughout the conference. Instruct’s involvement in the conference has been as part of the...

The AI4Life project, launched 25 October, marks an exciting chapter in the computational and life science research communities. The €4 million Horizon Europe funded project aims to create accessible, harmonised, and interoperable AI tools and methods...

Instruct-ERIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Brazilian Centre for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Brazil. CNPEM is a non-profit organisation, funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations (MCTI) to...

Instruct-ERIC has announced its latest R&D Call Awardees – providing funding for preliminary research for Instruct Members. The call is for small scale pilot research projects in integrated structural biology, helping researchers develop external...

New Instruct-CZ Council Lead Structural virologist Pavel Plevka has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology (CIISB), as well as the new Instrict-ERIC Council and Executive committee representative...

The canSERV project, aiming to defragment the landscape of European cancer research, launches today. Over the next three years, canSERV will enable academia and industry access to cutting-edge services and support from basic science up to clinical translation...

Between the 20th and 22nd of July, the Second General Assembly of the EU-LAC RESINFRA project was held in Montevideo, Uruguay. This meeting was an important milestone for the project, as it gave the opportunity to discuss the objectives for the coming...

The 10th Instruct-ERIC Internship Call has now been awarded, with four new interns ready to visit their chosen centre! The Instruct-ERIC Internship programme invites PhD Students and early post-doctoral fellows to visit an international Instruct centre...

The OPIC (Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, UK) facility has undergone further exciting new upgrades in recent months. Highlights include extensive improvements to the Krios G3i, including Windows10 software upgrade, fringe-free illumination (FFI), Aberration...

The Crystallisation Core Facility at BIOCEV has greatly improved its screening equipment by installation of the SONICC instrument (Formulatrix). SONICC is using Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) and Ultraviolet Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence (UV-TPEF)...

The life sciences are increasingly relying on services provided by the core facilities, synchrotrons, data services and other research infrastructures. This creates a greater need for trained experts who know how to operate and develop scientific services. To...

1) Launch of emergency call for proposals on Monkeypox virus ISIDORe just launched a call for transnational access for projects focusing on Monkeypox research.   Get access free of charge to cutting-edge services & technologies for structural...

Five years ago, on 4 July 2017, Instruct was awarded “ERIC” status by the European Commission, officially becoming a European Research Infrastructure Consortium! ERICs are Research Infrastructures with European interest, operating on a not...

As part of its ongoing collaboration with Latin America in the context of the EU-LAC ResInfra project, Instruct-ERIC opened a staff exchange call to allow researchers from Latin American institutions to visit European facilities. The call invited researchers...

Remote access to Research Infrastructure (RI) services has become even more vital since the pandemic in 2020, shining a spotlight on the need to access external technologies without the need for travel. To address these challenges across multiple fields,...

ISIDORe just launched the first call for transnational access for projects focusing on SARS-CoV-2 research Get access free of charge to cutting-edge services & technologies for structural biology and other services via ISIDORe ISIDORE supports access...

The CERM/CIRMMP infrastructure, located in the Scientific Campus of the University of Florence, hosts the Instruct-ERIC Center-IT. CERM/CIRMMP offers a wide range of structural biology services for Instruct users, including protein production in mammalian...

Sjors Scheres has been presented the Ivano Bertini Award 2022, recognising his achievements in integrated structural biology. Sjors Scheres is Joint Head of The Division of Structural Studies at MRC Molecular Biology Lab, in Cambridge, UK. Sjors said,...

Open Calls for TRANSVAC2 Vaccine Development Services and Trainings: Apply Now! Vaccine Development Services: Deadline May 31st, 2022 Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialised skills and technical...

Instruct regularly publishes calls for small scale pilot research projects in integrated structural biology. These allocate resources for a limited number of pilot studies funded to a maximum of €15,000.   Apply Here   These projects...

Instruct is concerned about the distressing events in the Ukraine and wishes to express support to everyone who has been affected by this tragedy. Science transcends politics and should enable research beyond all boundaries and promote scientific excellence...

Instruct-ERIC has appointed Dr Silke Schumacher as its new Hub Coordinator, succeeding Dr Susan Daenke. Silke has many years of experience both in structural biology and in the management of European research infrastructures, thanks to her many years...

Ivano Bertini was a pioneer of innovative methodologies in the field of NMR who championed technology integration as a foundation for correlative structural biology. The Bertini Award will be presented at the Structural Biology Biennial Conference, recognising...

Funding of 2 million euros from the Academy of Finland has been made available for Structural Biology Finland research infrastructure The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee at the Academy of Finland has decided on nearly 16 million euros in funding...

The 2nd International Call from Instruct-ERIC has been awarded, providing access for researchers in institutions that hold a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Instruct to access European facilities to help advance their ongoing research.   Instruct-ERIC,...

Instruct-ERIC has appointed Professor Harald Schwalbe as its new Director, succeeding Professor Sir David Stuart in the role. Integrated structural biology has demonstrated its innovative power in a breath-taking manner in recent years, notably with...

As an Instruct-ERIC Centre, Czech Republic offers a wide range of advanced structural biology services to users throughout Europe, from CEITEC (Brno) and BIOCEV (Prague). These facilities also form the Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology...

Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialised skills and technical capacities not readily available at a single organisation. To facilitate access to these skills and capacities, TRANSVAC2 offers...

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron, located in the Harwell Science Campus in Didcot, Oxfordshire. It is a key member of the Instruct-ERIC UK Centre.  The facility...

Instruct-ERIC is looking for a Hub Coordinator to join their team. This is a senior role working closely with the Instruct Director who is located outside the UK. You will therefore represent the Director in many of the day-to-day tasks required to run...

Instruct-ERIC and iNEXT-Discovery have worked together to create an online methods resource for structural biology researchers. The collection of methodology articles, published in a special methods-issue of the Journal of Visualised Experiments (JoVE),...

Instruct-ERIC offers a wide range of services to its users beyond access to advanced structural biology techniques. One such service is the Instruct internship programme. In response to widespread restrictions on travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

In October, the Brazilian Government approved a proposal to reduce the country’s federal science budget by 92%. In addition to causing problems for ongoing projects and grants, it also calls into question future research proposals. Whilst there...

Anastassis Perrakis and Titia Sixma of Instruct-NL explore the role that the new AlphaFold AI system has in the world of structural biology. The paper, published in EMBO Reports, outlines the problems that have been facing computerised protein prediction...

The Instruct-ERIC hub comprises a very lively and motivated international and interdisciplinary group of scientists, located in Oxford. Instruct is currently hiring a key member of the Instruct-ERIC software development team. The candidate will be part...

Today marks the launch of a new €12 million Horizon Europe funded project, BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), which will tackle the data challenges that can hinder effective pandemic response. The core aim of the project is to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2...

  Instruct-ERIC participated in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Science Summit 29 September 2021, organised by ERIC Forum as an opportunity to demonstrate the impact of Research Infrastructures (RIs) in supporting the UN Strategic Development...

Instruct-ERIC is comprised of 15 members across Europe, offering access to cutting-edge structural biology technology and services to researchers worldwide – with funded access available for members throughout Europe. One of Instruct’s members...

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the opening of its second International Call, open to researchers from institutions that hold a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Instruct-ERIC. The call, which comes as a joint action with the EU-LAC ResInfra...

As part of its ongoing collaboration with Latin America in the context of the EU-LAC ResInfra project, Instruct-ERIC opened a staff exchange call to allow researchers from Latin American institutions to visit European facilities. The call invited researchers...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020, much of global research went into studying the virus – leading to an immense supply of structural biological data for the SARS-CoV-2 proteins. For continuing research into the virus, it was crucial...

More than 350,000 structure predictions will be made freely available to the structural biology community through the AlphaFold Database. Predicting the 3D structure of a protein based on its amino acid sequence has been an ongoing challenge for structural...

Two project proposals submitted to the first Horizon Europe work programme have been funded in full. Instruct-ERIC will be a partner for both projects, providing structural biology services for researchers. ISIDORe Coordinated by ERINHA, ISIDORe brings...

Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialised skills and technical capacities not readily available at a single organisation. To facilitate access to these skills and capacities, TRANSVAC2 offers...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shift among research infrastructures to offer remote access, borne out of necessity following travel restrictions. Jan Hrušák, Chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI),...

Instruct-ERIC is the single point of access to technology and expertise for structural biology research. Through its specialist research centres in Europe, Instruct-ERIC offers funded research visits, training, internships and R&D awards. By promoting...

Post of the Director of Instruct-ERIC. The Integrated Structural Biology — European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Instruct-ERIC) is a pan-European distributed infrastructure whose principal task is to support excellent science that integrates...

The 3DBionotes web platform provides an interactive environment where structural and multi-omics data can be analysed and explored. The COVID-19 outbreak has heightened the need for a central, web-based resource to access the structure, related biochemical...

The “What Can iNEXT-Discovery do for you?” webinar series took users through a wide range of core structural biology topics, in bitesize, 30 minute presentations. The series concluded on 29 March, however all presentations are available on...

Members of the Structural Biology team at the University of Sao Paulo benefitted from two trips to European research facilities, to the Diamond Synchrotron, Oxford, UK and to study NMR measurements at the University of Florence. Figure 1. Diamond Light...

Coming soon!   Instruct is organising a software developer exchange of experience webinar series. The aim of this webinars is for software developers working in structural biology and related areas to: Share experience with specific software...

The European Union’s Horizon 2020 INFRAIA programme has awarded a 5M€ infrastructure grant to MOSBRI (Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure www.mosbri.eu), a consortium of 13 academic centres of excellence and 2 industrial partners...

As part of an ongoing effort to enhance the structural understanding and knowledge of COVID19, Instruct-ERIC is taking part in a joint call for access of structural biology services for researchers. In partnership with iNEXT-Discovery and the Covid19-NMR...

Research infrastructures are key to the development and sustainability of wide-scale scientific research across Europe and beyond. By offering access to specialist equipment, research teams everywhere can conduct in-depth studies – benefitting the...

The Instruct-ERIC call for applications for new Research Sites is now open for organisations in member countries and organisations. Instruct Research sites may be a structural biology institution or research facility in a member country, or a consortium...

The Instruct-ULTRA project ran from January 2017 until December 2020, and has been instrumental in advancing Instruct-ERIC, as the leading provider of integrated structural biology in Europe. Developing new technology, enhancing communication...

Instruct Centres Involved in Three Cutting-Edge COVID-19 Discoveries   Three new ground-breaking studies into the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, have been published in Cell, utilising Instruct Centre UK equipment and laboratories.    The...

We are delighted to announce the award of the sixth Instruct R&D pilot call.  Instruct allocates resources to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct members. Pilot projects are funded up to a maximum of...

A major advance for structural biology provision within Europe has been achieved as Instruct-ERIC and EMBL join forces to launch the Instruct Centre EMBL   The EMBL sites in Grenoble, Hamburg and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The...

We would like to wish all our colleagues, users and funders best wishes for the New Year 2021. Firstly, we are pleased to note the EU/UK withdrawal agreement which will have a positive impact on the UK's involvement in the European Research Infrastructure...

Recent advances in research technology have led to a vast increase in data volumes produced in structural biology and other fields of life sciences. The datasets generated are too large and complex to be handled, shared and analysed using classical tools....

  CIISB, an Instruct-CZ Centre,offers priority access to groups that need to use CIISB structural biology services for projects directly related to studies of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and projects aiming to develop an effective vaccine or treatment....

Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure (FinStruct & Instruct-ERIC Centre FI) comprises infrastructure located at several sites: University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, University of Oulu, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi...

  TRANSVAC 2 Open Call for Vaccine Development Services Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialised skills and technical capacities not readily available at a single organisation. To facilitate...

  We are delighted to announce that Instruct-ERIC is a winner of this year’s FREYA Ambassador competition. FREYA is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission aiming to extend the infrastructure for persistent identifiers (PIDs)...

  What is EOSC-Life? EOSC-Life brings together 13 Life Science Research Infrastructures (RIs) to create an open, digital and collaborative space for data resources and data processing workflows in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).   What...

Apply by 15 October 2020 to join the Instruct Hub as Director of Instruct-ERIC. The initial 5-year appointment is renewable based on performance.   The Integrated Structural Biology - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Instruct-ERIC)...

Instruct-ERIC is the single point of access to technology and expertise for structural biology research. Through its specialist research centres in Europe, Instruct-ERIC offers funded research visits, training, internships and R&D awards. By promoting...

Congratulations to Instruct-ERIC director, Professor David Stuart, who has been awarded the prestigious Gabor Medal by the Royal Society. The Gabor Medal 2020 has been awarded to Professor Stuart for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure...

Apply by 5 August 2020. The European vaccine infrastructure, TRANSVAC2, is accepting applications for its Open Call, offering free technical services for all stages of vaccine development. TRANSVAC2, which is coordinated by the European Vaccine Initiative,...

As Europe prepares for the Commission’s most ambitious research and innovation funding programme to date, two recent position papers explain how European Research Infrastructures will help to deliver key scientific breakthroughs in the years ahead....

The Instruct-ERIC consortium continues to grow, as Lithuania is welcomed as our newest Member Country. Researchers in Lithuania are now eligible to apply for funding to use structural biology services at all Instruct Centres, as well as training courses,...

From 8 July 2020, Robotein® will be offering its expert facilities in high-throughput protein production and analysis through the Instruct-ERIC catalogue. The Robotein platform, which is hosted at the Centre for Protein Engineering (CIP) at the Université...

Instruct Centre IT invites Instruct users to apply for remote access to the CERM/CIRMMP research infrastructure, which now includes the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer – the most powerful commercial NMR in the world. For ease of access during the COVID-19...

The European vaccine infrastructure, TRANSVAC2, is accepting applications for its Open Call, offering free technical services for all stages of vaccine development. TRANSVAC2, which is coordinated by the European Vaccine Initiative, offers high-quality...

The COVID-19 Protein Portal allows UK scientists to access protein reagents for critical research relating to SARS-CoV-2. Protein reagents are provided free of charge by a consortium of leading UK protein production laboratories, in an Open Science initiative...

Undeterred by the extraordinary circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, Instruct ES and INB/ELIXIR-ES scientists have been working hard to deliver tools and resources to support essential COVID-19 research. On 4 May 2020, a team at the Instruct...

James Taylor, Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of Biology and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, passed away on 2 April 2020 at the age of 40. James Taylor was a pioneer in computational biology and an advocate for open and reproducible...

A new, state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) has been installed at Instruct Centre ES following a joint, eight-million-euro investment of the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) and EU structural funds. The JEOL JEM-Z300FSC...

As scientists across the world focus their efforts to combat COVID-19, Stephen K Burley (Henry Rutgers Chair and University Professor at Rutgers University, and Chair of Instruct-ERIC's Independent Scientific Advisory Board) explains why it is important...

  Please visit our COVID-19 Resource Centre at instruct-eric.eu/covid19 for the latest information:     Scientific communities across the world are sharing knowledge and resources to support research relating to COVID-19. By joining...

On 18 February 2020, Professor Joel L. Sussman, co-director of the Structural Proteomic Center in Israel and Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Charles University in Prague, in recognition...

To protect our users and staff during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, Instruct-ERIC is suspending physical visits to Instruct Centres with immediate effect. We hope to review this situation from 30 April 2020. For any queries regarding Instruct...

We’re excited to announce our latest release of ARIA 2.3    We’ve listened to you, and as a result this release brings some new features and design changes, along with many behind-the-scenes improvements.  A brand new design...

Instruct-ERIC is committed to the use of our infrastructure in response to emerging societal needs. In the case of the COVID-19 virus, Instruct-ERIC would like to ensure that our resources are made available to support researchers in their efforts to...

The world’s first 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer has been delivered to the CERM/CIRMMP facility at the University of Florence. The new € 15 million spectrometer, which was developed by the company Bruker BioSpin, is the highest magnetic field NMR...

From 14 February 2020, the Finnish Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology will open its doors to European scientists as Instruct Centre FI. The new Instruct Centre, which has sites at the Universities of Helsinki, Oulu and Eastern Finland,...

To enable researchers from European institutes to extend innovative structural biology research towards translational science, the EU has granted 10 million euros to iNEXT-Discovery, through the Horizon 2020 program. The iNEXT-Discovery consortium aims...

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the successful applicants for the 2019 Internship call. The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres in Europe. The aim is to facilitate valuable collaborations...

We are delighted to announce that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has joined Instruct-ERIC as a new member, following ratification by Instruct-ERIC and by the EMBL Councils. Instruct-ERIC and EMBL have a strong, shared history of working...

On Monday 25 November 2019, the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory was officially launched as an Instruct-ERIC research site, marked by an inauguration event at the University of Leeds. The Astbury Biostructure Laboratory adds its world-leading cryo-EM and...

Yuguang Zhao (of Instruct Centre UK in Oxford) visited the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan as part of the Open-SESAME project WP2 training school that Instruct contributes to. The Hercules@SESAME school trains young researchers...

Professor Sir Chris Dobson, a renowned structural chemist, has died. Chris was an innovative chemist who significantly advanced global understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Using experimental computational...

In August, Instruct-ERIC launched new features for ARIA that we want to really shout about. As some of these affect all users of ARIA we wanted to reach out and pick out some of the headline features.   Mail and MessagingMessaging straight to your...

For early-career researchers, experience of the latest scientific methods can have a profound impact on career development and can boost the research capabilities of the individual and their home institution. Through initiatives such as Instruct-ULTRA...

From 1st July, a pilot programme will be implemented to evaluate a revised funding model for Instruct-ERIC access. Due to the extreme differential in the cost of providing access using different technologies, the Instruct Executive Committee has agreed...

The sad news of the passing of Dr Peter Goodford, on May 10 2019 at the age of 87 has been reported recently. He was a pioneer of structure–based drug design who initiated some of the earliest studies in this field back in the 1970s. He had many...

Instruct are delighted to announce that the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory is now part of the Instruct-UK Centre, offering world class access to CryoEM and NMR technologies at the Leeds campus. The Astbury Biostructure Laboratory is part of the Astbury...

We are pleased to announce that the Call for proposals for Instruct Internship Programme (for internships to be held in 2019-2020) is now open.  Internship call Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support...

10th Call for proposals for Instruct Centre Training Courses This call is for events planned, organised and implemented by Instruct Centres or in coordination with scientific representatives of Instruct members. Courses co-organised with industrial partners...

5th Call for TRANSVAC2 Training Modules: M10 - Assay Development and Validation-Application of SPR Technologies in Vaccine development and manufacturing. Venue: Fraunhofer IME, Aachen Germany Date: 10-11 October 2019 M11 - Process Development and...

The Ivano Bertini Award is offered by Instruct to recognise a significant achievement in frontier research that utilises an integrative structural biology approach. The award is an independently reviewed competition and commemorates Ivano Bertini, who...

A team of scientists from the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory in Leeds are pedalling across the UK to tour microscope facilities and raise money for a leading human rights charity. The cyclists, who began their 660 mile journey at the SCMI in Glasgow...

The call is now open for a week long course providing practical training in macromolecular crystallography, bioSAXS and other structure determination methods. Students and early researchers from the Middle East countries which are SESAME members are...

To build on the strong partnerships with Latin American universities, Instruct-ERIC launched an International Access Call, in March 2019 (closing April 2019). The Instruct-ERIC International Access Calls offered the opportunity for scientists working...

Professor Robinson from Instruct-UK has been awarded the 2019 Novozymes Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of mass spectrometry. By enabling the use of mass spectrometry for proteins within cell membranes, Professor...

On Thursday 31 January, 23 European Research Infrastructures, based in 11 different countries with national nodes in all European Member States, met in Amsterdam to launch the ERIC Forum project, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme....

Messenger RNAs (or mRNAs) carry the information required to make proteins in cells. The end of an mRNA is generated by a multi-protein complex called cleavage and polyadenylation factor (or CPF). CPF cuts the mRNA at a specific site and then adds a string...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website instruct-eric.eu which replaces our old website, structuralbiology.eu. The re-designed site offers a better online experience, and a more user-friendly interface, with streamlined content, new...

The nineth training course call has been awarded, congratulation to the following people:Eva Pebay-Peyroula - Instruct-France 2Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano - Instruct-SpainChristine Ebel - Instruct-France 1Alexandre Bonvin - Instruct- NetherlandsJan Dohnalek...

The 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 23 till May 25, 2019 and registration is now well under way. The historical Alcalá de Henares is, in addition to the birthplace of...

Prof Joel Sussman (Instruct-Israel) represented Instruct-ERIC at the last Open Sesame General Assembly, which met at the SESAME Synchrotron in Allan, Jordan in December 2018. Open Sesame is the Horizon 2020 project working to transfer knowledge to the...

After the successful CAPRI first experience in 2017, they are back again this year with their call to structural biologists working on structures of protein complexes, to consider offering their structures as targets to CAPRI, the community wide...

The fourth cut-off date for proposal submission for the open TRANSVAC Call is on 15 December 2018.  The call for application was launched on 15 October 2017 and will remain open for the duration of the project (until April 2022) ...

ARIA version 2.1 has been launched. Version 2.1 brings many new features to ARIA, along with many behind-the-scenes improvements. Key features include:  New Customisable Admin Dashboard When you arrive at the administration pages of...

Following on the success of the first Instruct Workshop on cryo-EM best practices held in Harwell in May 2017, NeCEN (Instruct-NL)  organised the second version that took place in Leiden, The Netherlands on 15-16 Oct 2018. Focus was given towards operations,...

The CORBEL Open Call for research projects is going to close finally on 31 December 2018. Applications from companies are especially welcome in this last submission round of the Call. Both SMEs and large enterprises can get support to move their...

Latvia will officially become full member of Instruct-ERIC, with the approval of the Instruct Council. Full membership will start the 1st of January, more information will follow.

August 14-17th, 2018 in Oxford (England), hosted by Instruct-ERIC.In the CORBEL Project, transnational user access projects are implemented using the user-friendly online access management system (“ARIA”), which was developed by Instruct-ERIC....

A biennial award has been set up in memory of Ivano Bertini, who pioneered innovative methodologies in the field of NMR and championed technology integration as a foundation for correlative structural biology. The award recognises scientists...

Prof Lucia Banci is one of the award-winners of the first edition  of the "Mother Science" Award (Premio "Scienza Madre") promoted by the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani. Professor of Chemistry at the University...

The EGI Foundation is proud to announce that Instruct, the ESFRI infrastructure for structural biology, successfully adopted the EGI Check-in authentication and authorisation service. Check-in is an identity and access management solution that makes...

Second call for training modules Training scientists in vaccine research and development (R&D) is crucial in order to sustain Europe’s excellence in this field. The TRANSVAC2 Consortium has set up training modules at leading European centers...

The 8M€ investment will increase the already important role of Spain within Instruct-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure for Structural Biology), as highlighted by Novel Prize winner Prof. Joachim Frank and Instruct-ERIC, Prof. David Stuart at a...