Cryo-EM installed at Instruct Centre ES
08-Apr-2020 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 (CRYO ARM™ 300) microscope, housed at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, is the first of its kind to be installed in Spain. The new
Coronavirus alert in Madrid affects the activity of I2PC
Dear Users, Due the Coronavirus situation in Madrid, our operations have been affected. We will be available only by email. Please contact us at: I2pc@cnb.csic.es. You can also reach out to your I2PC contact by email. Apologies for the inconveniences. I2PC Staff
2nd Scipion Facilities Course (online edition). Madrid, 2020.
Dates: Tuesday 27 Oct – Friday 30, 4 days, afternoon from 16:00-18:00 CET Aim The aim of this meeting is to show what scipion offers to a Cryo-em facility. The course will have a strong “practical component”, since workflows will be running live on the Amazon cloud. I2PC is organising a Cryo-EM Scipion course specifically
Instruct Course on the development of image processing workflows in streaming and structural data analysis components for Electron Microscopy. Madrid, October 26-30, 2020. (Online edition)
Venue Remote course (TBA)October 26-30, 2020 from 15.00-18.00 CET Overall aims and course outline Electron microscopy is a well-established and rapidly growing structural technique. There are some consolidated software packages like Relion, Xmipp, Cistem, Eman, IMOD, TomoJ, … that address the image processing steps required for single particle analysis and electron tomography. There are also
System Manager at the INSTRUCT Image Processing Center (I2PC), CNB-CSIC, Madrid
Description: We are looking for a candidate with a BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent, who has hands-on experience with scientific computing at HPC scale. The candidate will be part of the Biocomputing Unit (BCU) at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) where the main task will be to manage the computing infrastructure
2nd Edition of the Instruct course on Image Processing for Electron Microscopy and hybrid modelling. Madrid, September 10 – 13, 2019
Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, September 10 – 13, 2019 Overall aims and course outline Software platforms as Scipion facilitate the integration of packages from many different laboratories, and promote the cross-checking of the results by alternative methods. Additionally, it keeps track of all the operations, parameters and steps undertaken from
Python developer position open
We are seeking python developers to join our Scipion team in Madrid. The team owns and develops an open-source image-processing platform widely used on biomedicine. The lab is involved in several European and Spanish National Research Projects and its software is extensively used in many top institutions all over the world with a high impact
Registration Open for the Instruct Biennial 2019. 22nd – 24th May, 2019. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference Structural Biology: Deeper into the Cell. 22nd – 24th May, 2019. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. The 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 22 till May 24, 2019. The historical Alcalá de Henares was the original location of the Universidad Complutense, founded in
2nd I2PC cryoEM Facilities Meeting. Madrid, June 26-27, 2018
Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, June 26 – 27, 2018 Summary I2PC is organising its second Cryo-EM Facilities meeting. The aim is to gather together Cryo-EM Facility managers who want to share their experience, problems and solutions on data handling and processing, using Scipion or not. I2PC, as developers of
Instruct – I2PC- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Facility-based Image Processing for Electron Microscopy. Madrid, June 27 – 29, 2018
Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, June 27 – 29, 2018 Overall aims and course outline I2PC is organising its first Cryo-EM Scipion course for Facilities, which is the second one in the series “I2PC-Thermo Fisher Scientific Course“. Scipion team and collaborators have been working in the last years in what we
Scipion V1.1 Release
We are very pleased to announce the release of a new version of Scipion. It’s been over a year since the previous and first version and we have been working on 3 main goals for this release: Consolidation: We put and will always put our best effort into making Scipion a robust and reliable software.
Instruct course on Image Processing for Electron Microscopy in the cloud. Madrid, January 17 – 19, 2018
Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, January 17 – 19, 2018 Overall aims and course outline Electron Microscopy (EM) is rapidly growing as a high-resolution technique for structural biology. However, the high price of the electron microscopes is causing the concentration of scientific equipment in a few labs whose access is