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SUMMARY:Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand
  the molecules  of life - Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFR
 SC\, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Structural biology has been highly successful during the last 
 60 years. The first protein structure of sperm whale myoglobin was solved 
 in 1960 using X-ray crystallography\, a method now producing over 10\,000 
 structures per year\, all of them deposited in and available from the Prot
 ein Data Bank (PDB).  In recent years\, electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) o
 f single particles plunge-frozen in a thin film of amorphous ice\, has dev
 eloped rapidly in power and resolution\, so that over 3\,000 PDB depositio
 ns based on cryoEM were made in the last year.  Many of these cryoEM struc
 tures represent unstable\, flexible or dynamic assemblies whose structure 
 cannot be determined by any other method\, and improvements to the method 
 are being continuously developed.  We are fortunate now to have superbly d
 etailed images of many of the most important molecules of life\, with elec
 tron microscopy still having great potential to expand its reach.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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