{"id":2577,"date":"2014-11-24T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:34:22","slug":"1411_life-science-nord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/events\/1411_life-science-nord\/","title":{"rendered":"What can your synchrotron do for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ruf was keen to show the variety and range of situations where a visit to the beamline is useful, showing that the synchrotron can be used for so much more than determining the structure of a protein of interest: for understanding how antibodies cluster together, showing how flexible the structure of enzymes can be, maximising ligand efficiency, characterising drug candidates, and even helping to improve materials used in diagnostic tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-2750\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1114_lifescience-nord3.jpg\" alt=\"Armin Ruf, Head of the Biostructure Section at the Roche Innovation Center Basel, speaks at the Life Science Nord gathering in Hamburg. 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An interested group of participants also took part in a tour of the DESY and EMBL beamlines and facilities and were struck by the vast dimensions being demonstrated \u2013the huge experimental PETRA III hall with equipment to resolve micrometre-sized crystals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DESY directorate chairman Helmut Dosch, and Scientific Director Edgar Weckert, outlined the research possibilities available on campus, and Matthias Wilmanns, Head of EMBL Hamburg and founding director of Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), presented EMBL\u2019s research highlights and integrated facilities for structural biology, and stressed the growing number of successful academic and industrial partnerships on the campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Science Nord event reveals how pharmaceutical companies use synchrotrons for their research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17591],"tags":[53,71,25,35,306],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-science-technology","tag-hamburg","tag-industry","tag-partnerships","tag-structural-biology","tag-wilmanns"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Have you ever wondered how major pharmaceutical companies might use synchrotrons for their research? 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