[3dem] Covid19 and cryo-EM

[plisson celia]

Dear all, 

I think a lot of us are wondering how to be useful during this crisis; a couple of researchers from our institute (and beyond) have set up a Covid-19 crowdfighting platform: crowdfightcovid19.org; if you are interested in joining us, please find informations and contacts below.
best regards to all, stay safeCelia
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Dr Célia Plisson-Chastang, PhD, HDR
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote - CBI
UMR CNRS 5099-Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Bâtiment IBCG, 118 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
Telephone  : +33(0)5 61 33 59 50
Fax : +33(0)5 61 33 58 86


Hi,

We are a platform aiming to redirect scientific resources towards the fight against COVID-19 (crowdfightcovid19.org). This platform has two sides:

- For scientists at all levels of their career, even if they work in fields completely unrelated to COVID-19: They simply need to fill a form, so that we can be in contact if we need their help. If we need it, it can be as simple as answering a question related to their discipline, but there are also many other tasks that we may request. There is no commitment at this point, and it takes 5 minutes to sign up.

- For researchers who are already working on COVID-19: They can ask us to perform any task for them, for free. These tasks can include labor intensive tasks (annotating data, analyzing images manually, etc.), answering questions (from simple questions about a protocol, for example, to general research questions), or setting up new techniques for them. Everything is coordinated by scientists highly skilled in the field of interest, so the input we need from them will be kept to a minimum.

Please, have a look to our platform (crowdfightcovid19.org) and sign up if you want!

And also help us disseminate this initiative, please!

Crowdfight COVID-19
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crowdfightcovid19+contact at gmail.com
crowdfightcovid19.org
@Crowdfightcovi1


 

    Le dimanche 22 mars 2020 à 12:45:36 UTC+1, De Biasio, Alfredo (Dr.) <adb43 at leicester.ac.uk> a écrit :  
 
 Dear Daniel, 
It is not a naive question, it is a compelling one. If our facilities will be shut down for months, we should rather think of ways to make them useful to the research community combating COVID-19. Perhaps coordinating with virogists who have already access to recombinant viral proteins that may be imaged by Cryo-EM, could be a possibility.

Best regards, 

Alfredo De Biasio

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Dr. Alfredo De Biasio
Lecturer
Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology (LISCB)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Henry Wellcome Building
University of Leicester,
Lancaster Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
t: +44 (0)116 252 5391
e: adb43 at leicester.ac.uk
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From: 3dem <3dem-bounces at ncmir.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Levy Daniel <Daniel.Levy at curie.fr>
Sent: 22 March 2020 09:22:52
To: 3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu <3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu>
Subject: [3dem] Covid19 and cryo-EM 
Dear All

I apologize for that naive question. I'm not an expert on viruses.

However, I would like to know if there's anything we can do for the researchers working on Covd19. This could be, for example, providing access to microscopes, imaging samples under safe conditions, analyzing images, sharing data, answering questions.. 

A negative answer will be also helpful, thus we could concentrate on others things

Best wishes 

Daniel 

 

Daniel Lévy, phD

Molecular Microscopy of Membranes

Institut Curie

UMR CNRS 168

PSL, Sorbonne Université

11 rue P.M.Curie

75005 Paris, France

https://science.institut-curie.org/research/team-levy

 

 
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