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Structural biology

The Structural Biology group operates a world leading suite of synchrotron radiation beamlines dedicated to the study of biological macromolecules:

  • a dedicated serial crystallography beamline (ID29)
  • two highly intense, tunable beamlines (ID23-1 and ID30B)
  • a unique beamline for fully automatic data collection MASSIF-1 (ID30A-1)
  • two microfocus / minibeam beamlines dedicated to protein crystallography (ID23-2 and MASSIF-3 (ID30A-3))
  • a protein solution scattering beamline (BM29)
  • a cryo-EM microscope (CM01)
  • an in crystallo optical spectroscopy facility (icOS)
  • a high-pressure MX freezing facility (HPMX)
  • a protein support laboratory (CIBB lab)
 
Contacts

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Montserrat Soler Lopez
SB Group Leader
+33 (0)4 76 88 17 70
email

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Max Nanao
SB Group Deputy
+33 (0)4 76 88 40 87
email

The MX and BioSAXS beamlines are operated jointly with the EMBL through the Joint Structural Biology Group (JSBG) agreement. CM01 is operated as a PSB platform and jointly run by scientists form ESRF, EMBL and IBS.

20-07-2023

Cryo-electron microscopy sheds light on heart regulation and cardiac diseases

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05-06-2023

Cryo-electron microscopy and SAXS help reveal how the sleeping sickness parasite evades the human innate immune system

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09-12-2022

How recruiting a novel subunit enabled Rubisco, the carboxylase of photosynthesis, to evolve higher specificity

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26-01-2024

What you look like is influenced by the collaboration of two types of transcription factors

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14-12-2023

New insights into cells in early Alzheimer's

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01-12-2023

ESRF helps unpack mechanism of DNA repair

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