26 March 2022 ESRFnews
14th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation 28 March 1 April 2022 The international SRI conference is the most significant international forum for the communities surrounding synchrotron light-sources and free-electron lasers. Held every three years, it highlights connections between synchrotron radiation instrumentation, science and society, and provides opportunities for discussion and collaborations among scientists and engineers around the world involved in the development of new concepts, techniques and instruments. Registration is still open for this year s conference, SRI2021, which will be held remotely due to ongoing restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keynote speakers include ESRF director- general Francesco Sette, Tais Gorkhover of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, Germany, and Kazuto Yamauchi of Osaka University in Japan.
Instruct cryo-EM workshop 23 25 May 2022 With a deadline of 20 March, there is still time to apply for the Instruct cryo-EM workshop. A maximum of 12 participants will be selected for this two-and-a-half day event, which will show users how to prepare samples correctly for single particle cryo-EM. Organised jointly by the ESRF, EMBL Grenoble, the ILL and the IBS, it is the fourth of a series of hands-on workshops and is aimed at PhDs, post-
docs and scientists who are new to the field. During the course, participants will learn theoretical and practical aspects of sample preparation, including prior quality control by negative staining. There is no registration fee and meals and accommodation during the workshop will be provided free of charge. However, participants are expected to arrange and pay for their own travel to and from Grenoble.
Characterisation of macromolecular complexes by integrative structural biology 28 May 4 June 2022 Taking place on the EPN campus, this EMBO practical course aims to teach participants how to integrate structural biology approaches to expedite the characterisation of large macromolecular complexes from the atomic to cellular scales. Lectures and practical sessions will explain the techniques used to produce, purify, reconstitute and characterise multiple-subunit protein and protein/nucleic acid complexes for structural analysis. The event has been delayed from its original date in early May due to the pandemic; however, registration is now closed.
New frontiers in molecular crowding 29 June 1 July The aim of this ESRF EBS workshop which is hoped to be held in person rather than remotely is to gather
experimentalists and computational researchers to discuss open questions on the biology and physics of molecular crowded systems. The possibilities offered by a variety of new advanced techniques, including those provided by synchrotron light-sources, as well as other spectroscopic methods and theoretical simulations, will be discussed. We will assess the current status, and discuss the integration of partly established, partly emerging techniques in the study of crowded systems that make use of synchrotron radiation with the aim of defining future applications.
ESSRI 2022 29 30 September 2022 The 6th workshop on energy for sustainable science at research infrastructures will bring together international sustainability experts, and stakeholders and representatives from research facilities and future research infrastructure projects worldwide, to identify the challenges, best practices and policies to develop and implement sustainable solutions at research infrastructures. This includes the increase of energy efficiencies, energy system optimisations, storage and savings, implementation and management issues as well as the review of challenges represented by potential future technological solutions and the tools for effective collaboration. In collaboration with CERN, the ESS, DESY, the PSI and the ERF, the ESRF will host this year s event , which is also part of Grenoble: European Green Capital 2022.
EVENTS
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Alexandra Pacureanu, ESRF scientist, and Andreas Schaefer from the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK, have been awarded £2 million by UK Research
and Innovation and the UK s Wellcome Trust for research on Integration of functional and structural knowledge across scales to decipher information processing in the mammalian brain . The project is one of nine backed by the Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund, with the aim to harness physics developments to tackle challenges in the life sciences.
Bernhard Keimer (far left) of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State
Research in Stuttgart, Germany, and Giacomo Ghiringhelli (right) of the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, are two of the three joint winners of this year s Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for superconductivity research. Both regular ESRF users, Keimer and Ghiringhelli will share the 7500 prize for experiments determining spin and charge correlations in
high-temperature superconductors using X-ray and neutron scattering . Keimer won his share for illuminating neutron and X-ray scattering experiments revealing resonant magnetic excitations and ordering phenomena in cuprate superconductors , while Ghiringhelli won his share for pioneering resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments on cuprate superconductors . The prize, which is awarded every three years, was established in 2000 by the organisers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, and is sponsored by the publisher Elsevier.