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Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about following course: 7th NCCR Practical Course and EMBN Summer School PRACTICAL COURSE IN 2D MEMBRANE PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION AND OBSERVATION October 20 - 24, 2008, Basel Switzerland Topics include membrane protein expression, solubilization and purification | detergent properties and interactions with lipids and proteins | functional analysis of membrane proteins | 2D-crystallization of membrane proteins | electron microscopy of 2D crystals | image processing | application of other visualization techniques: AFM, IR-spectroscopy, solid-state NMR | The course is directed primarily to PhD students and postdocs with some previous experience in the structural biology of membrane proteins or related fields. The number of participants will be limited to 25. This course is supported by the European Union Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses Program, and the Swiss NCCR Structural Biology. Junior scientists wishing to attend this course may apply for an EU Marie Curie Fellowship covering course fees and accommodation costs, and providing support towards travel costs. For further information, please see to the course website www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/membranecourse2008.asp Online registration will be possible end of May. With best regards, Patrick Sticher _________________________________ Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Zürich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Zürich Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 Mail [log in to unmask]