Dear all, eBIC and CCP-EM are proud to announce the inaugural symposium of eBIC, the UK national cryoEM centre at Diamond Light Source, and the third CCP-EM Spring Symposium on April 24–26, 2017. This three day conference will be held at the Diamond/RAL Campus, Harwell, Oxfordshire. The eBIC opening symposium will be on the first day, highlighting the advances of cryoEM and feature presentations with an emphasis on emerging and challenging technologies, followed by CCP-EM featuring of state-of-the-art presentations related to cryo-EM methods and applications. Confirmed speakers include: eBIC Speakers: Yifan Cheng, UCSF School of Medicine John Briggs, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Radostin Danev Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Greg McMullan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Sharon Wolf, Weizmann Institute of Science CCP-EM Speakers: Piet Gros, Utrecht University Maya Topf, Birkbeck / UCL David Waterman, STFC Tanmay Bharat, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / University of Oxford Paul Adams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tristan Croll, University of Cambridge Erik Lindahl, SciLifeLab Kay Grunewald, STRUBI Carolyn Moores, Birkbeck / UCL Morgan Beeby, Imperial College London Rob Nicholls, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Ausra Domanska, University of Helsinki Becky Thompson, University of Leeds Full details and registration for the conference is provided here: http://www.ccpem.ac.uk/training/spring_symposium_2017/spring_symposium.php http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Events/2017/eBIC-CCP-EM-Symposium.html Places are limited and registration will be on a first come first serve basis. We look forward to seeing you in April, Peijun, Tom & Colin and the rest of the eBIC and CCP-EM teams http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/Integrated-facilities/eBIC.html http://www.ccpem.ac.uk/ -- Dr Tom Burnley, PhD CCP-EM | @ccp_em | www.ccpem.ac.uk Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) The Research Complex At Harwell Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, R92 OX11 0FA 01235 56 7871