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SBGrid Affiliate Job Postings

SBGrid Affiliates can announce new employment opportunities to the SBGrid community. To add your posting to our website and newsletter, email Michelle Ottaviano with the position advertisement and/or a link to the position posting.


Open Positions in SBGrid Affiliate Labs:

Piotr Sliz's Laboratory:
Dr. Piotr Sliz's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, has an immediate opening for a protein/RNA crystallographer. Our group recently determined high resolution X-ray structures of Lin28 with various members of let-7 microRNAs (Nam et al., Cell 2011), a system that has been implicated in control of cell differentiation, cancer, and cell stemness. Projects are available in our laboratory to build upon those recent results. As a member of our group you will utilize ...

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Published May 9, 2012

SBGrid Morning Tea Break with Randy Read

Monday, April 23rd at 11:00am EST. Join us for a 30-minute Webinar on "Extending the reach of molecular replacement in Phaser" presented by Randy Read, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.
Extending the reach of molecular replacement in Phaser
Monday, April 23rd at 11:00am EST
Prof. Randy Read
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

Software information available on the Phaser wiki


Webinar Details: Join the event
Event password: structure

Abstract: We are developing Phaser to implement maximum likelihood methods for solving macromolecular crystal structures by either molecular replacement (the main topic today) or SAD phasing. The use of maximum likelihood is important for two reasons. First, likelihood ...

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Published April 9, 2012

Stay Tuned for Upcoming Webinars

Webinars are currently being planned to feature Phaser, CCP4, and SHARP/autoSHARP. More details will follow soon.

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Published March 14, 2012

Stay Tuned for Upcoming Webinars

Webinars are currently being planned to feature CCP4, and SHARP/autoSHARP. More details will follow soon.

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Published March 14, 2012

SBGrid Lunch Break with Jose-Maria Carazo

Tuesday, March 13th at 12:00pm EST. Join us for a 30-minute Seminar at 250 Longwood Ave, SGM106 or WebEx Webinar for a "Primer on the XMIPP software suite: its contribution to 3-dimensional electron microscopy and future directions" presented by Jose-Maria Carazo, Head of the Biocomputing Unit, CNB-CSIC, Instruct Image Processing Center (I2PC); Director, Spanish National Center for Biotechnology
Primer on the XMIPP software suite: its contribution to 3-dimensional electron microscopy and future directions
Jose-Maria Carazo, Ph.D.
Head of the Biocomputing Unit, CNB-CSIC
Instruct Image Processing Center (I2PC)
Director, Spanish National Center for Biotechnology

Software information available on these websites:
http://ipc.cnb.csic.es Instruct Image Processing website
http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/
Seminar Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building, Room 106
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Published February 29, 2012

6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods

Dear Colleagues:

We are delighted to announce that the 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods will be held from March 14-18, 2012 in Lake Tahoe, California at the Granlibakken Conference Center. We invite you to visit our Symposium website to register for the Symposium ($375 before January 31st), submit an abstract, view the current program, and to also publicize the attached meeting poster. Abstracts are due on February 28th and on March 5th, abstract-selected talks will be announced, though late abstracts will be accepted through March 11th.

This Symposium builds on a series of very successful previous meetings on the same theme from 2004-2010. As in previous years, the overall goal is to illustrate the power of combining state of the ...

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Published January 24, 2012

SBGrid Science on the Edge with Seth Darst

Please join us for our inagural SBGrid Science on the Edge Webinar on Monday, Feb 13th at 4:00pm EST. Seth Darst will discuss his new Cell publication Structural Basis for Promoter -10 Element Recognition by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit.

Seth Darst, Ph.D
Jack Fishman Professor
The Rockefeller University

Structural Basis for Promoter -10 Element Recognition
by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit

Cell. 2011 Dec 9;147(6):1257-69.,


Monday, February 13th at 4:00pm EST


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You may wish to join the event early; the webinar is limited to 100 participants.
Event password: structure

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Published January 10, 2012

SBGrid Morning Tea with Tim Stevens

Monday, February 27th at 10:00am EST. Join us for a 30-minute Webinar on CcpNmr SpecView and ChemBuild: the first next-generation CCPN software, presented by Tim Stevens, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Please note the change in our usual Tea Break time since Tim will present from the UK
CcpNmr SpecView and ChemBuild:
the first next-generation CCPN software

Software information available on the CCPN website.
Webinar Details: Join the event
Event password: structure
Call-in Toll Number (US/Canada): +1-408-600-3600; Access code: 667 471 973
Abstract:The Collaborative Computing Project for NMR was started in the year 2000 to create data standards and improve the interoperability of software for biomolecular NMR. The primary means of achieving ...

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Published January 8, 2012