{"id":548,"date":"2021-12-02T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/kastritislab\/?p=548"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:07:35","slug":"organizing-an-embo-workshop-on-the-recent-advances-in-structural-biology-of-membrane-proteins-and-winning-another-poster-prize-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/kastritislab\/2021\/12\/organizing-an-embo-workshop-on-the-recent-advances-in-structural-biology-of-membrane-proteins-and-winning-another-poster-prize-in-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing an EMBO workshop on the recent advances in structural biology of membrane proteins (and winning another poster prize in the process)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It turns out that, as Panos found out, organizing an EMBO workshop is hard, but highly rewarding work! Along with Sandro Keller (who is also a close collaborator of our group), Christian L\u00f6w<\/a> and Christina Paulino<\/a>, our Group Leader Panos organized an EMBO workshop on the “Recent advances in structural biology of membrane proteins<\/a>“, showcasing the latest techniques and important research in the field, from (among others) membrane protein expression, to lipid layer biophysics, and (of course) Cryo-EM and computational analysis of membrane proteins!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many stimulating talks from field leaders, such as the ones given by Brian Kobilka, Christine Ziegler, Ori Avinoam, Tamir Gonen, and Anne-Claude Gavin, informing the audience about critical advances and key topics in the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also a lot of discussion on how the field needs to move to more “native” research, a topic on which our lab is very intimate with and we are very happy that we can contribute actively with our insight and results!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop also included poster presentations and our lab was represented by Dmitry and Kevin (you can find their info in the People<\/a> tab), who presented our own research on the workshop topic, more specifically about photosynthetic membrane complexes (Dmitry) and nanodisc applications for membrane proteins of native cell extracts (Kevin)! There was a lot of hype for our posters, especially Kevin<\/strong>‘s, which brought back the 1st place poster prize<\/strong> once again! Congrats to Kevin for making this 2 out of 2 recent conferences that our research won the poster prize!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a fan of membrane protein research, cryo-EM and native cell extracts be sure to send us a mail, we would be glad to talk to you about our work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here you can see Kevin’s poster<\/strong> (1st prize winner):<\/p>\n\n\nEMBL_3page_landscape_Janson<\/a>\n

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Also you can follow him on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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