PRACTICAL TRAINING

Besides actively helping users with developing research questions, facility staff is also willing to provide hands-on training when users visit them for their experiments. Such on-site training often reaches beyond the collection of data, often involving experiment optimisation and data processing, integration or analyses. Research collaborations, small or large, are frequently discussed even though service provision is our primary objective!

During the Corona-pandemic, visits of users to facilities to receive hands-on training have been largely impossible. Eventually facility access took place remotely, either by sample shipment followed by experimentation by facility staff or by remote user-control over machinery at facilities. To allow the iNEXT-Discovery users a flavor of what facilities did with their precious samples we organised webinars in which facility staff presented their expertise and equipment, also explaining routine and specialist access possibilities.

Furthermore, to inform potential users, we prepared with the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), an entire methods edition with iNEXT-Discovery structural biology technologies. Accompanied by an overarching editorial and video footage, these JoVE protocols give a very good flavour about the access services at our facilities!

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

Theoretical and practical workshops are organised by iNEXT-Discovery partners to disseminate knowledge and expertise in state-of-the-art structural biology approaches (see below). We include links and announce workshops whenever they are being organised, also through our Twitter channel. An overview of other iNEXT-Discovery events can be found here.