Registration includes:
- 4 nights’ accommodation (from 4 – 8 September)
- Catering (all breakfast, lunch, and dinner during the meeting)
- All excursions (including Bosphorus boat tour & memorial forest trip)
- Transfer from/to airport
Payment
Participants are requested to pay the registration fee via money transfer using the IBAN method.
Selection criteria
This course is intended for PhD students and early career postdocs who are interested in learning experimental and computational approaches for determining the structure of a protein. The priority will be given to students who plan to use both experimental and computational approaches in their own projects. Applicants will be required to submit an abstract, motivation letter, CV, and a reference letter from their current supervisors. Selection will be made in terms of a gender and geographically balanced distribution.
Abstract guidelines
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be focused on topics related to structural biology, biophysics, and computational structural biology.
The abstract topics should pertain to various techniques within the field of structural biology, such as macromolecular crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and computational structural biology.
Poster specifications
Posters should be in A0 size (70 × 100 cm) and oriented in portrait format.
Travel grants and registration fee waivers
Travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.
Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. EMBO travel grants and registration fee waivers are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.
Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered.
Additional travel grants are available for EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan.
Special travel grants and registration fee waivers
A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are availablefor scientists working in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. Grants are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.
A maximum of 700 Euros per participant are available to cover registration fees, travel, and accommodation (no additional subsistence costs can be covered). To apply, please indicate the itemized amount requested in the travel grants section of the registration form.
Child care grants
EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional childcare costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the childcare grant and specify the sum that you will need.
Code of conduct
Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy
At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting. EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this EMBO meeting and can be found here.
