The first scientific meeting of (Molecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure), held between 20 and 22 June at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, was attended by Prof. Therese Hunter and Prof. Gary Hunter, of the Department of Physiology & Biochemistry at the University of Malta. They presented some of the outstanding protein analysis work performed by Dr Marita Vella.
MOSBRI is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project which helps to provide researchers with access to state-of-the-art techniques not available to them in their own laboratories. It enables multi-technological studies of biological systems at the intermediate level between atomic-resolution and cellular-scale observations. It includes the instrumentation and expertise of 13 academic centres of excellence and 2 industrial partners from 11 different European countries, coordinated by the Institut Pasteur.
MOSBRI provides free Trans-National access (TNA) through a process of peer-reviewed applications to any of the MOSBRI centres. Techniques that may be utilized during a TNA include advanced spectroscopies (CD, EPR, FTIR, MST), hydrodynamics (AUC, DLS, MALS, SAXS, TD), Thermodynamics (DSC, DSF, ITC), real-time biosensing (BLI, QCM, SPR) and single-molecule approaches (AFM, optical tweezers, single particle fluorescence).
Travel and accommodation is funded by MOSBRI during a TNAs period which may be anything from one to four weeks. Multidisciplinary research is encouraged and could feature TNA access to more than one centre in rotation (a pipeline), while concentrating on solving a particular problem requiring several diverse techniques.
Anyone interested in MOSBRI can access the or contact Professor Gary Hunter in the first instance.
