InstructImportant notice: Event will no longer be held face to face but will continue as a virtual meeting as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please connect remotely to this meeting via GoToMeeting https://www.gotomeet.me/InstructERIC/instruct-eric-and-start
Join us to find out about how Instruct-ERIC and the START project can help researchers in structural biology and the life sciences.
Instruct-ERIC is the European Research Infrastructure for Structural Biology, providing training and access to high-end structural biology facilities through our centres of excellence. This event is organised together with the GCRF START project (Synchrotron Technologies for African Research and Technology https://start-project.org/) and aims to further the relationship between Instruct-ERIC and structural biologists and other life scientists in South Africa.
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Meeting connection and poster upload instructions
This workshop is organised satellite to the Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures, an event bringing together research infrastructures and policy makers from Africa and Europe to build collaborations. Find out more about the symposium at http://bit.ly/ri-vis-africa.
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| Welcome and introduction | ||
| 14:00 | Host introduction to the workshop objectives | Trevor Sewell |
| 14:15 | Address by Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town | Sue Harrison |
| 14:20 | Instruct-ERIC: Introduction to Instruct, operational model and benefits of membership (access to facilities, expertise, training, R&D awards) | Dave Stuart |
| Examples of Structural Biology Research in Africa and technologies available through Instruct-ERIC | ||
| 14:50 | Cryo-EM | Jeremy Woodward |
| 15:05 | X-Chem fragment screening platform | Erick Strauss |
| 15:20 | Structure-based development of drugs for hypertension and heart failure | Ed Sturrock |
| Examples of Structural Biology Research in Africa | ||
| Opportunities | ||
| 15:40 | START: Opportunities for Instruct-ERIC and START to work together | Gwyndaf Evans |
| 16:00 | Future plans and pathway to membership | Susan Daenke |
| 16:15 | Meeting close |
