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A maximum of 20,000€ per project will be awarded to support a limited number of pilot studies proposed by researchers from Instruct member countries (BE, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IL, IT, NL, PT, SE, UK). Projects should propose basic or applied research which is preliminary in nature.

The intent of this support is to help researchers develop external funding for projects, i.e. the expectation is that a pilot study will lead to a full grant submission. The funds are expected to cover research expenses but not normally salaries.

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In the frame of three European projects, the Instruct ESFRI project on Structural Biology, the Biostruct-X project and the COST Action MP1207, the Instruct Image Processing Center at CNB-CSIC is planning training schools on 3D Reconstruction in Electron Microscopy and Soft X-ray Microscopy for January 2014.

The course will focus on image processing topics, introducing the basic principles behind the capacity to achieve quantitative 3D information from sets of images and providing ample time for practical work.

An intensive meeting devoted to discuss the image processing challenges raised by recent advances in Soft X-ray tomography of cellular materials at cryogenic temperatures. The topics to be discussed include Image Formation, Depth of Field and Zone Plates, Contrast Enhancement, information Recovery and Tomographic Algorithms.

2nd “Call for proposals utilising Instruct-funded structural biology techniques” (March 5th – April 11th). Proposals for funded access to the full set of Instruct facilities are now invited.

Access to the Instruct Centre technologies is FREE to scientists from Instruct member countries.

Today, March 18th, we are receiving the Strategic Advisory Board on its visit to the I2PC

The Workshop covers the details of the Xmipp software package, that is used for reconstructing 3D maps from sets of individual particle images. The majority of the workshop consists of hands-on sessions designed to familiarize the attendees with the public-domain Xmipp software. Registration and further details

In the last two years Instruct has given academic and commercial scientists across Europe access to a full portfolio of integrated technologies, thanks to the collaboration of fifteen of Europe’s leading structural biology research institutes.

Today, June 3rd, Instruct is pleased to welcome Spain as a new Instruct member state. Spain joins nine countries that are already members; Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom, ensuring Spanish researchers a single point of access to the technology and expertise offered through Instruct. See MINECO press release

As we previously announced in this web site, Spain formally joined Instruct at a signing ceremony coinciding with the First Biennial Structural Biology Meeting in Heidelberg on the 24th of May 2013.

This meeting will take place as a session of the XIII International Congress of the Spanish Biophysical Society in Valencia (Spain) next week (19th-21st June). The session will be broadcasted live.

New: if you could not attend the live broadcast, we have published the recorded video of the session on YouTube. Download the slides used in the presentation

Some pictures from the first and second days of the First Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference held in Heidelberg.