NMR Structural Biology in Life Sciences in the Post-Genomic Era

Infrastructure Cooperation Network


 
An initiative to improve the visibility of the European NMR community
Among the Research Infrastructures (RIs) financed by the European Commission in the 4th and 5th Framework Programme to provide access to European users, there is a core of four, dealing with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in Life Sciences, which have complementary and partly overlapping interests.
Building upon their previous experience in the coordination of a Concerted Action for NMR in Life Sciences, these RIs, in collaboration with user group representatives, an European manufacturer of equipment for magnetic resonance and representatives of two top-level American research teams have taken the Initiative of setting up an Infrastructure Cooperation Network on NMR Structural Biology in Life Sciences in the Post-Genomic Era, with the following objectives:
  1. Manage a Round Table to assess the quality of the service provided by the LSFs to the NMR community, to debate on the perspectives of users' access to the LSFs, and to devise and promote the actions necessary to increase quality and quantity of access to the LSFS.
  2. Implement a virtual network among the facilities, providing a common interface for the users. The diffusion and development of NMR-related databases and software will be promoted.
  3. Promote scientific and technological innovations in the field of NMR in Life Sciences.
  4. Co-ordinate and provide guidelines for post-genomic NMR research in Europe, also seeking collaboration with relevant projects outside Europe.
The four RIs are:
 
PARABIO Florence, IT  (Partner #1)
Bijvoet Center (SONNMRLSF) Utrecht, NL                         (Partner #2)
UNIFRANMR Frankfurt, D  (Partner #3)
WnmrCWageningen, NL  (Partner #4)

and are flanked by the following:

i. Five user groups:
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France  (Partner #5)
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom  (Partner #6)
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany  (Partner #7)
Concejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain  (Partner #8)
Medical Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom  (Partner #9)
ii. An European manufacturer of equipment for magnetic resonance:
Bruker Analytik GmbH, Germany  (Partner #10)
iii. Two laboratories from USA:
University of California, Berkeley, CA  (Partner #11)
New York Structural Biology Center , New York, NY  (Partner #12)

After starting its activities, the ICN has implemented a fruitful collaboration with the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The installation of the BMRB mirror is one of the results of this partnership.
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Last update 21 May 2003