<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear EM community</font><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">the last years have been incredible exciting and have shown what cryo-EM is capable of and that we are here to stay and make a difference. </font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Thanks to the “resolution revolution” and the constant redefinition of protein size limitation cryo-EM has become a real competitor of X-ray crystallography in the field of membrane proteins, where resolutions around 3.5A are the average. </font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Hence, the attendance of cryo-EM people in less method-orientated conferences has grown significantly. </font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><font class="">I have the honor to be the chair of the upcoming 2016 Gordon Research Seminar (<b class="">GRS</b>) on </font><span class=""><b class="">Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating</b>. </span></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">The GRS and the subsequent Gordon Research Conference (<b class="">GRC</b>) will take place on <b class="">January 30-31and January 31- February 5,respectively, in Italy.</b></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">The meetings focus on the structure-function relationship of three important classes of membrane proteins: receptors, transporters and ion channels, where cryo-EM reached many break-throughs in the last years. <br class=""></font><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><font class="">Crina </font><font class="">Nimigean (GRC chair) and I are still looking for good candidates to attend and speak at the conference. </font></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">There are still <b class=""><font color="#0056d6" class="">slots free for oral presentations for the GRS and GRC to be selected from abstract submission. </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Interested? Then apply now!</font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">GRS: <a href="https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=17192" class="">https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=17192</a></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">GRC: <a href="https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=12689" class="">https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=12689</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Please find a poster attached. </font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Could you hang it up in your lab and advertise it in your group meeting? </font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Thanks a lot. </font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Hope to see you soon,</font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">Cristina</font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue"> </font></div><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue"></font></div><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""></font></div></body></html>