The stem - cell - focused Centre of Regenerative Medicine of Barcelona, Spain, the Carl - Ivar Brändén
Building for structural biology in Grenoble, France, and the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology all promise a multidisciplinary and international environment for the training of young researchers and the potential for world leadership in their areas of science.
The Carl - Ivar Brändén Building (CIBB), inaugurated in January this year, continues Grenoble's tradition of pulling forces together to enhance its research
capacity for structural biology.
By joining forces with Professor Wim Versées at the VIB research
center for structural biology, the scientists were able to figure out the three - dimensional structure of Skywalker, making it possible to study the protein in microscopic detail.
The final result was gratifying and hard - won, which is true of most discovery science, but perhaps more
so for structural biology, especially for students who have never solved a structure before.
Its goals include: providing access to state - of - the - art
infrastructures for structural biology, using the research infrastructures to translate fundamental research into bio-scientific applications, and stimulating access for non-structural biologists.
As for IVMS, «they have a direct contact with [the] scientists [who] are running the facilities»
for structural biology research, he says.