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Methods Course - "Structural Studies in Modern Biology"
Basic hands-on training in X-ray crystallography, SAXS, modeling and simulations
How can we use structural techniques to explain biological phenomena. Basic insights in X-ray crystallography, SAXS, modeling and simulations.
This course is addressed to PhD students in life science within the HHU.
Lecturers: Florian Altergoer, Jens Reiners, Christoph Gertzen
Date : 10th to 14th of June 2024, 09:00 am until 17:00 pm
Room: 25.41.00.43 (ZIM) and CSS labs (26.24.01.024)
Number of participants: 20
Deadline for application: 15.05.2024
Topics of the course:
- what can the techniques used for
- introduction and basics for X-ray crystallography, SAXS and Modeling
- sample quality for X-Ray and SAXS, buffer requirements and limitations.
- practical sessions about selected topics in X-ray crystallography and SAXS
- data evaluation and analysis
- what can you learn from these data
- introduction to modeling techniques and different tools
- assessing model quality
- practical sessions about how to get a protein model
- presentation of advanced techniques, e.g., docking, MD, QSAR