The aim of the school is to present an overview of the use of neutrons to probe the structure and dynamics of biological systems, including basic tutorials on neutron diffraction and scattering and instrumentation, accompanied by practical courses.

For further details please visit:Â https://sites.google.com/view/bioneutrons2018

Registration deadline: 30th June 2018

The registration is free of charges for CNRS employees.Â

This year's summer school is devoted to methods and applications of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron reflectometry, and is targeted at those who have no or little previous experience with neutron scattering methods. The school will consist of a combination of introductory lectures and training in scattering techniques and will provide participants with an unique opportunity to become familiar with neutron scattering methods and their application to current research topics.

Attendance is limited to 35 students and to people affiliated with US universities and US industry. Financial support for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members will be made available, on request.

For further information and more contact details, please visit:Â https://www.ncnr.nist.gov/summerschool/ss18/index.html

Application deadline: 2nd April 2018

The course is limited to 26 participants. Application deadline is 31st August 2018.

For more information and registration, please visit:Â http://meetings.embo.org/event/18-sas#Register

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) covers introductory aspects of synchrotron and XFEL radiation. A link to the course can be found at

https://www.edx.org/course/synchrotrons-and-x-ray-free-electron-laser.

A short 'teaser' video is also viewable at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIGssgri50, which gives an insight into the course contents.

The course is aimed at a broad scientific audience from historical-artefact restorators and paleontologists, through biologists, biochemists and chemical engineers, to materials scientists and physicists. It includes the following themes:

• Interaction of X-rays with matter;
• The production and physics of synchrotron and XFEL radiation;
• X-ray optics, beamlines, and instrumentation;
• X-ray diffraction and scattering;
• UV and X-ray spectroscopies;
• X-ray imaging (mainly tomography and lensless imaging/ptychography);
• Extra week on phasing techniques in macromolecular crystallography.

The course begins next Monday 5th March 2018 and lasts for nine weeks - each week, two to three new videos are released (youTube videos embedded in the edX player, which can be downloaded and viewed at leisure), each approximately 20 minutes long, plus optional problems (and optional final exam at the end of the course). Enrollment on the course (see above link) is free; a Verified Certificate can be purchased at the end for those who so wish and have achieved the pass grade.

This is an excellent opportunity, especially for younger staff and students, to learn more about the fascinating and interdisciplinary world of synchrotron science and all its myriad possibilities in an engaging and exciting manner!

The 12th Central European Training School on neutron techniques will be held at the Budapest KFKI Campus of Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 6th-11th May 2018.

All newcomers (PhD and Master's students, post-doctoral researchers and young researchers) into this field of structural research are welcome. The school will consist of 2 full days of lectures and 3 days of experimental work, around the topic of neutron scattering and imaging techniques.Â

Application deadline is 15th March 2018.Â

A limited number of grants are available for EU students.Â

For more information and registration, please visit:Â https://www.kfki.hu/cets/

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Techniques to be Taught:
• Electron microscope alignment
• Negative stain and cryoEM sample preparation
• Automated Data Acquisition
• Single Particle Analysis
• Tomography data collection &analysis
• Atomic model building and validation

This practical crystallization course is meant for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdocs with an interest in macromolecular crystallization. The course consists of theoretical lectures, seminars, practical work and demonstrations, with a focus on protein crystallization.Â

Participants of the course are encouraged to present their own work at the planned poster section.Â

Applications deadline for attending the course is 31st March 2018.Â

For further information and contact form, please visit:Â Â https://macromolcryst2018.febsevents.org/

Muons are a valuable and versatile probe of condensed matter. The µSR (muon spin rotation / relaxation / resonance) spectroscopic techniques are used to investigate magnetic, superconducting, semiconducting, molecular, ionic and metallic systems.

The aim of the Muon Spectroscopy Training School is to provide a practical training course for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers on the use of muons in condensed matter research.

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The annual ISIS Practical Neutron Training Course is aimed at PhD and post-doctoral researchers who have little or no experience of neutron scattering, but whose future research program aims to make use of neutron scattering techniques at ISIS.

We are pleased to announce that the next ''Atelier de BioCristallographie 2018'' organised by the University Paris-Saclay, the Ecole Polytechnique (Marc Graille), the University Paris-Sud (Inès Gallay), the Synchrotron SOLEIL (Serena Sirigu), and the I2BC (Julie Ménétrey and Marie-Hélène Le Du) will be held at the Synchrotron SOLEIL (Saint Aubin, France) from the 9th to the 13th of April 2018.

The course is aimed to French speaking PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, researchers and engineers who already know the basics but wish to deepen their knowledge of X-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules.

The workshop will include morning lessons and afternoon practicals and will cover the following program:

• Crystal freezing
• X-ray data collection and processing on the Proxima1/2 Beamline at the Synchrotron SOLEIL
• Phasing (Anomalous Dispersion and Molecular Replacement)
• Structure refinement and validation

The participants are expected to attend the MOOC “Voyage au cÅ"ur du vivant avec les Rayons X : la Cristallographie” prior to attending the workshop.

Registrations are limited to 12 participants and will be closed on February 16, 2018.

The course has two parts: half a day devoted to lectures on April 5 morning, in the Biocev auditorium - no registration is needed, everyone is welcome to attend the presentations and lectures given by:
Jan Dohnalek (IBT Biocev Vestec)
Andreas Heine (IPC Marburg)
Bohdan Schneider (IBT Biocev Vestec)
Tomas Koval (IBT Biocev Vestec)
Petr Pompach (CMS IBT Biocev Vestec)
Manfred Weiss (Bessy II)
Sameer Velankar (to be confirmed, or another speaker from EBI)
John Darby (Chemistry, U. of York)

The remaining part of the workshop (three half days, April 5 afternoon, April 6 morning and April 6 afternoon) consist of a "workshop", hands on sessions for 16 registered participants. This part will be dealing with

• The initial pre-screening using biophysical methods (Tatsiana Charnavets, CMS)
• Dispensing target protein crystals to a fragment library (Jiri Pavlicek, CMS)
• In situ testing of crystal diffraction, data collection and evaluation of the results (Jiri Pavlicek, CMS)

Deadline for submission of applications is February 9, 2018

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RapiData 2018 at SSRL is a practical course in macromolecular X-ray diffraction data collection, data processing and structure solution. The aim of the RapiData course is to educate and train young scientists in data collection and processing methods at synchrotron beamlines, using state-of-the-art software and instrumentation

The course will comprise hands-on experiments at the SSRL beamlines, software tutorials, and lectures on the following topics:

• Specimen preparation, tactics in data collection
• X-ray light sources
• X-ray detectors
• Data reduction
• Structure solving by MAD, SAD and Molecular replacement
• Complementary methods (spectroscopy and small angle scattering)