The school and workshop is targeted at postgraduate students. PDRAs, academic staff and industrial participants are welcome if places are available.

 Sessions to include:

• Introduction to absorbance, fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy
• Principles of CD spectroscopy
• Linear dichroism
• Good practice
• Data bases for biomacromolecules
• CD of membrane proteins
• What is inside a CD spectrometer
• DNA-metalcomplex interactions
• Applications of SRCD and CD to structural and functional genomics
• CD theory & Dichrocalc

The two-day event will cover three topics, using interspersed lectures and hands-on sessions. Each day terminates with a one-hour slot in which participants can work on their own data supported by facilitators

• Homology Modelling
  
• Structure-Based Function Prediction
  
• Advanced Modelling Methods

This training event is largely a hands-on workshop familiarising participants with protein modelling methods and tools for inferring (dys)function, based on protein structure. Conventional homology modelling will be the major focus but advanced ab initio and covariance-based methods will also be mentioned.

Aimed at participants from graduate level onwards with no prior experience of modelling but a good understanding of protein structure principles and terminology, this event offers training in both modelling and structure-based functional inference.

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

Advances in Enzymology from Determining Enzyme Function to the Interplay of Large Enzyme Systems

Motor Mechanisms from Single Molecules to Cellular Function

Energy Transfer and Dynamics of Chemical Reactions Involving Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Interfaces, Solutions, Materials, and Biological Systems

Optical Innovations Solving Challenges in the Life Sciences

Molecular Basis for Electrical Signaling in the Nervous System and Beyond

Exploring the Molecular Basis of Cellular Excitability

Single-Molecule Microscopy: Life at a Higher Resolution

Single-Molecule Microscopy: Life at a Higher Resolution

Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Macromolecules

Exploring and Exploiting Proteases in Development and Disease

The Interplay of Creative Chemistry and Cellular Processes in Metals in Medicine

Disordered Proteins: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities