The CRBS Student Consortium hosts a biweekly student seminar series with the promise of exciting student talks.
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The seminar series since 2018 were a great success and witnessed the attendance and participation of students and professors from across the CRBS. The 2023-2024 series is building on this by delivering exciting research conducted by CRBS students.
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We are pleased to present the latest schedule here.
upcoming
EVENTS
CRBS annual Symposium 2023
The 5th Annual CRBS Symposium will be held on Monday November 6, 2023.
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The following speakers have confirmed their presence: Catherine Drennan (MIT and HHMI, USA), Suliana Manley (EPFL, Switzerland), Christian Siebold (Oxford University, UK), Malik Chaker-Margot (University of Montreal, Canada) and Lisa Münter (McGill University, Canada).
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Registration is free but students and postdocs need to submit their abstracts before noon on October 20th 2023 if they want to be selected for an oral presentation.
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Please register here
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Program coming soon.....
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Thank you to our sponsors:
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Booklet
The CRBS Booklet is a collection of student experiences as speakers in the Student Seminar Series hosted by the CRBS Student Consortium. These seminars are an integral part of the graduate research experience and highlight the rich diversity of research problems being addressed through biophysical, chemical, and synthetic biology approaches.
CRBS summer bootcamps
Summer Bootcamp 2023
July13th, 20th, 27th, 2023; 10:30am-2:00pm
Fundamentals of Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
Instructor: Kim Munro
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August 8th and 9th, 2023 (introductory lecture and demos)
Mass Spectrometry for Structural Analysis of Proteins and Protein Post-Translational Modifications
Instructors: Chris Thibodeaux, Jean-François Trempe, Mark Hancock and Kim Munro
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Summer Bootcamp 2022
August 19th, 2022; 10:00am-1:00pm
Chimera program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data
Instructors: Peter Yang & Yao Shen
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August 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 2022; 10:00am-1:00pm
Fundamentals of Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
Instructor: Kim Munro
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June 17th, 2022; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Exploration des structures de protéines avec PyMOL et alphafold 2
Instructor: Jean-Francois Trempe
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Summer Bootcamp 2021
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July 27th, 2021; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Using Native Mass Spectrometry to Investigate Protein Tertiary and Quaternary Structure
Instructor: Christopher Thibodeaux
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August 3rd, 2021; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Investigating protein-ligand interactions using NMR
Instructors: Jean-Francois Trempe & Tara Sprules
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August 10th, 2021; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Introduction to Biological Computations with Python
Instructor: Juan Carvajal
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Summer Bootcamp 2020
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June 30th, 2020; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Exploring Protein Structures and Interactions using PyMol
Instructor: Jean-Francois Trempe
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July 21st, 2020; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Probing Protein Dynamic Structure with Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
Instructors: Christopher Thibodeaux
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August 11th, 2020; 1:00pm-4:00pm
Learning to do Map Segmentations and Make Movies in Chimera and Chimera X
Instructor: Joaquin Ortega
CRBS Bench-to-Business workshop
CRBS Bench-to-Bedside workshops
Juin 20th, 2023; 1:00pm-2:00pm
How protein structure can explain why patient mutations cause disease.
Inaugural session – June 16th, 2020; 2:00pm-4:00pm
From bench to patients: How structural biology transforms medicine
CRBS annual Symposium
The Fourth Annual CRBS Symposium was held at the McGill New Residence Hall in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) on Monday, November 7, 2022. The day featured three outstanding international speakers - Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK), David Schriemer (University of Calgary), Maria Spies (Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA) - local speakers, oral and poster presentations from upcoming graduate students and postdocs and lunch with the exhibitors along with a Poster Pub to finish off the day.
Program 2022
The Third Annual CRBS Symposium was held virtually on Monday, November 8, 2021. The day featured two outstanding international speakers - Andrew Carter (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK) and Ben Engel (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany - local speakers, oral and poster presentations from upcoming graduate students and postdocs and virtual booths from vendors.
Program 2021
The Second Annual CRBS Symposium was held virtually on Sunday, November 8 and Monday, November 9, 2020. The day featured three outstanding international speakers - Eva Nogales (HHMI, Univ. California Berkeley), Chris Lima (Sloan Kettering) and John Rubinstein (SickKids Toronto) - local speakers, oral and poster presentations from upcoming graduate students and postdocs and virtual booths from our sponsors.
Program 2020
The First Annual CRBS Symposium was held at the McGill New Residence Hall in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) on Monday, June 17, 2019. The day featured two outstanding international speakers – Lorena Beese (Duke University) and Dmitry Lyumkis (Salk Institute) – local speakers, oral presentations from upcoming graduate students and postdocs, lunch with the exhibitors along with a Poster Pub to finish off the day.
Previous incarnations:
The CRBS Symposia are the descendant in spirit of the GRASP Symposia, information about which can be found here.
