News

January 2012
Professor Sir John Walker receives 2012 Keilin Memorial Medal and delivers the 2012 Keilin Lecture.
On 10th January 2012, Professor Sir John Walker delivered the 2012 Keilin Memorial Lecture of The Biochemical Society at the Society's annual symposium in Cambridge, UK. He also received the 2012 Keilin Medal.

EDICT Final General Assembly 
The final General Assembly will take place on 16th & 17th April in Tavira, Portugal.

October 2011
Symposium on Membrane protein crystallization, 14-15 November 2011
IBS and Partnership for Structural Biology, Grenoble. 
The first day (14th of November) is devoted to presentations on crystallization and recent structures, the second day (15th) to practicals on crystallization using in lipidic phases using the robot. The first day will be open to all participants. The second will be restricted to a limited number of participants selected on the basis of their project and the availability of purified proteins. Between the 14th and the 15th, it will be possible to screen several crystallization conditions for a few number of proteins brought by participants.

REGISTRATION
SYMPOSIUM
For the 14th please contact Linda Ponnet (linda.ponnet@ibs.fr) before November 7th with the following information:
name, first name, date and place of birth (this is mandatory to enter the EPN campus)
there a no registration fees

PRACTICALS
In addition if you are interested to participate to the practicals, please send also the following information to Linda (linda.ponnet@ibs.fr): a few lines describing the protein (size, number of predicted helices,..), the quantity of purified protein available, the detergent in which the protein is purified, an estimation of the detergent and protein concentrations of the sample.
 

November 2010.

Nature paper for Bernadette Byrne.                                                                                                                                  

EDICT partner Bernadette Byrne has recently had a paper published in Nature. The paper 'Maltose-neopentyl glycol (MNG) amphiphiles for solubilization, stablilization, and crystallization of membrane proteins' is avaliable to view online

July 2010

Nature paper for Manuel Palacin.
EDICT partner Manuel Palacin has recently had a paper published in Nature. The paper 'pathophysiology and treatment of cystinuria' is avaliable to view online

Nature paper for Robert Tampe            
EDICT partner Robert Tampe has recently had a paper published in Nature. The paper 'ABC proteins in antigen translocation and viral inhibition' is avaliable to view online

April 2010
Science paper for Peter Henderson, Leeds, Mark Sansmon, Oxford, So Iwata and Alex Cameron, Imperial
EDICT partners have recently had a paper published in Science. The paper, 'Molecular Basis of Alternating Access Membrane Transport by the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1' can be viewed online.

EDICT General Assembly
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Dates: 13th - 15th April 2010
 

February 2010
Biochemistry Journal paper for Roslyn Bill, Aston
EDICT partner, Roslyn Bill, has recently had a paper published in Biochemistry. The paper, 'Membrane trafficking of aquaporin 1 is mediated by protein kinase C via microtubules and regulated by tonicity' is available to view online.
 

November 2009
EMBNTrain Workshop, Membrane Proteins - production, purification, stabilisation and structures 
Location: University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dates: 15th - 21st November 2009
Further information can be found at: http://www.embn.uni-frankfurt.de/embntrain/leeds

July 2009
EMBN Workshop Current Membrane Protein Research - July 12th - 18th 2009
Location: University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Dates: 12th - 18th July, 2009
More information on the workshop can be found at: http://www.rug.nl/gbb/EMBNworkshop

May 2009
Nucleic Acids Research Journal paper for Arne Elofsson, Stockholm
EDICT partner, Arne Elofsson, has recently had a paper published in The Nucleic Acids Research Journal. The paper, 'TOPCONS: consensus prediction of membrane protein topology' is available to view online.

April 2009
EDICT General Assembly
The EDICT General Assembly will be held on 29th and 30th April at the hotel Eden Roc, San Feliu de Gixols, Spain.

February 2009
Journal of Biological Chemsitry paper for Baruch Kanner, Israel
EDICT partner, Baruch Kanner, has recently had a paper published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. The paper, 'Transmembrane Domain 8 of the γ-Aminobutyric Acid Transporter GAT-1 Lines a Cytoplasmic Accessibility Pathway into its Binding Pocket' is available to view online.
 

Protein Science Journal paper for Bert Poolman and Dirk Slotboom, Groningen
EDICT partners Bert Poolman and Dirk Slotboom have published in the Protein Science Journal. The paper, 'Selenomethionine incorporation in proteins expressed in Lactococcus lactis' can be viewed here.

Two Associate Partners join EDICT
Eric Beitz from the University of Kiel and Ferdinando Palmieri from University of Bari have joined EDICT as Associate Partners.

November 2008
Nature paper for Raimund Dutzler, Zürich
EDICT partner, Raimund Duztler, has recently had a paper published in Nature. The paper, 'Structure of a potentially open state of a proton-activated pertameric ligand-gated ion channel' is available to view online. 

PNAS paper for Edmund Kuni, MRC
EDICT partner, Edmund Kunji, has recently had a paper published in PNAS. The paper,' The mechanism of transport by mitochondrial carriers based on analysis of symmetry' is available to view online.  
 

Work Package Meetings
Three EDICT meetings took place in November. Work Package 7 met on 20th November in Cambridge, Work Package 11 met on 25th November and Work Package 6 met on 27th November in Aarhus.
 

Membrane Transport and Communication Conference
The first joint conference for 'membrane transport and communication' is being held from 20th to 23rd November at the Biocenter of the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Further information and registration information can be found at http://www.mtc.uni-frankfurt.de/

October 2008
Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology paper for Olga Sokolova, Moscow
EDICT partner, Olga Sokolova, has had a paper published in the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. The paper, 'The Domain and Confrontational Organization in Potassium Voltage-Gated Ion Channels' can be viewed online. 
 

Biophysical Journal paper for Anna Moroni, Milan
Anna Moroni from Milan has had a paper published in the Biophysical Journal. The paper, 'Development for the Viral Kcv Potassium Channel' can be viewed here.
 

Structural Biology Infrastructure Open Meeting
The entire community is invited to participate in mapping out future European infrastructures for structural biology. The meeting will take place from 16th to 17th October in the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry. Further information can be found on the INSTRUCT website. 

September 2008    
EDICT WP1 work package meeting
Sept 3-4 a WP1 meeting was held in Stockholm. This resulted in an updated homepage and a database for targets and deliverables. 

June 2008
EDICT Kick-off meeting
The EDICT kick-off meeting took place from 18th to 20th June in Düsseldorf, Germany.

April 2008   
BBC Radio 4 'The Material World' Interview
Listen to Professor Peter Henderson, EDICT coodinator and Professor Chris Tate from the MRC discuss membrane proteins on the Material World radio programme by clicking here
' The Material World' - Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.