{"id":22382,"date":"2017-10-06T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/?post_type=insight&#038;p=22382"},"modified":"2021-06-25T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:57:44","slug":"embl-insight-lecture-2017","status":"publish","type":"insight-lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/insight-lecture\/embl-insight-lecture-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBL Insight Lecture 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"vf-tabs\"><ul class=\"vf-tabs__list\" data-vf-js-tabs=\"true\"><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-3b41c274-8950-42dd-a5e0-7dae80b32564\">Content<\/a><\/li><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-6d8f4597-8049-4a64-9a24-c70523c81c05\">Concepts covered<\/a><\/li><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-493788a8-95d2-4071-a5a2-618a09c7c72d\">Watch lecture<\/a><\/li><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-5d3fa92d-21dd-451b-bb5c-83c2b5a0cae1\">Student articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vf-tabs-content\" data-vf-js-tabs-content=\"true\">\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-3b41c274-8950-42dd-a5e0-7dae80b32564\"><h2>Content<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The EMBL Insight Lecture 2017 &#8220;Seeing is Believing &#8211; How Technology enables Structural Biology&#8221; was presented by Professor Thomas R. Schneider on 1 December 2017. Find out more and watch the recording below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Structural Biology is a branch of biology concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules such as proteins, DNA, and their complexes. As in many other areas of life, seeing the details of an object often allows us to have an idea of its purpose and its function. For biological molecules, the details of interest are the positions of the atoms of which the molecule is made. Since the 1950&#8217;s, the major method for looking at the details of biological molecules has been macromolecular crystallography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the EMBL Insight Lecture, senior scientist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl-hamburg.de\/research\/unit\/schneider\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">group leader<\/a> Dr. Thomas R. Schneider describes the basic principles of macromolecular crystallography and illustrates the major contributions of this method to the understanding of basic processes of life. He discusses how progress in technology has continuously increased the reach of macromolecular crystallography in life sciences research and how large Research Infrastructures such as synchrotrons have become invaluable for scientific progress.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-6d8f4597-8049-4a64-9a24-c70523c81c05\"><h2>Concepts covered<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Cell proteasome<br>\u2022 Crystallography<br>\u2022 Diffraction data collection<br>\u2022 Crystal structures of DNA and myoglobin-Nobel prices in the field<br>\u2022 EMBL Hamburg Beamlines at the Petra III synchrotron<br>\u2022 RNA Pol II architecture<br>\u2022 Crystals mounting and automatic shooting<br>\u2022 Diffraction and electron density<br>\u2022 Protein Data Bank (PDB)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-493788a8-95d2-4071-a5a2-618a09c7c72d\"><h2>Watch lecture<\/h2>\n<p>The EMBL Insight Lecture is available via on-demand-streaming from this website. You can watch it directly in the window below. Alternatively, you can open the EMBL Insight Lecture <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/medias01-web.embl.de\/Mediasite\/Play\/ef00d48fed714a81af32471603b135c21d\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"vf-embed vf-embed--custom-ratio\"\n\n  style=\"--vf-embed-max-width: 100%;\n    --vf-embed-custom-ratio-x: 640;\n    --vf-embed-custom-ratio-y: 360;\"\n><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/mediasite.embl.de\/Mediasite\/Play\/ef00d48fed714a81af32471603b135c21d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-5d3fa92d-21dd-451b-bb5c-83c2b5a0cae1\"><h2>Student articles<\/h2>\n<p>The EMBL Insight Lecture 2017 was received very well by students. Several of them decided to put their experience into words and wrote articles about the lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/2017\/12\/12\/eil2017_report\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"22532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cMy expectations were exceeded\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Friends of EMBL Teens, Heidelberg, Germany (in English)<br>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/2018\/01\/29\/seeing-is-believing\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"22581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seeing is believing<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Liceo Scientifico Internazionale, Turin, Italy (in English)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morgenweb.de\/bergstraesser-anzeiger_artikel,-bensheim-vom-innenleben-einer-zelle-_arid,1170821.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Vom Innenleben einer Zelle&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; AKG Bensheim, Germany (in German)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amg-ettlingen.de\/index.php\/begabten-ag\/621-und-150000-mal-pro-sekunde-gruesst-das-elektron\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amgettlingen.de\/lernen-am-amg\/arbeitsgemeinschaften\/begabten-ag-molekularbiologie\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amgettlingen.de\/lernen-am-amg\/arbeitsgemeinschaften\/begabten-ag-molekularbiologie\" target=\"_blank\">Und 150000-mal pro Sekunde gr\u00fc\u00dft das Elektron<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amg-ettlingen.de\/index.php\/begabten-ag\/621-und-150000-mal-pro-sekunde-gruesst-das-elektron\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<\/a> &#8211; AMG Ettlingen (in German)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seeing is Believing &#8211; How Technology enables Structural Biology&#8221; by Professor Thomas R. 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