Cerdanyola del Vallès, 27^th January 2021

  ALBA II Colloquium is an open discussion forum in which the user community, ALBA staff, world experts in synchrotron research, and potential future users exchange experiences in their research, show the current frontier in synchrotron-based characterization, and discuss methods to understand the functionality of complex systems.

The new ALBA II project foresees transforming ALBA from 3rd to 4th generation synchrotron, through the upgrade of its instrumentation, creating a facility able to support the community with state-of-the-art capabilities, necessary to tackle the grand challenges of the 21th century.

In particular, this upgrade will lead to new methodologies to visualize the structure and dynamics of complex systems, building on multi-length scale imaging, coherence driven techniques, and big data driven analysis techniques.

The first session of the ALBA II Colloquium, entitled “Cryo-EM structure of Helicobacter pylori urease with a novel inhibitor in the active site at 2.0 Å resolution”, gave an overview about the advantages of Cyo-EM and its applications in drugs design. In particular, Eva Cunha (Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway) showed the application of this technique in the research against the pathogen Helicobacter pylori. The talk was followed through videoconference by 68 participants connected from different countries around the world, such us Portugal, Italy, Jordan, Poland, Pakistan, Sweden, Slovakia and Australia, apart from Spain. The video and the are available here.

ALBA II Colloquium series has just started and the next talk will be on 8^th February at 16h, devoted to spectroscopy, by Mark Hbertsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory).

Program and list of confirmed speakers