Topping out ceremony for interdisciplinary Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB
Today, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) celebrates its topping out ceremony on the DESY Campus in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The CSSB is a joint initiative of nine german research institutes, including the Institute of Complex Systems, Structural Biochemistry (ICS-6) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Starting in 2017 the CSSB will conduct research on bacterial and viral infectionsusing a unique and interdisciplinary approach. The novel light sources at DESY and the cryo-electron microscopes in the future CSSB building will be used for this purpose. The new Centre builds a bridge between structure and systems biology. CSSB combines structural and molecular biological methods and imaging techniques with systems biology approaches to further our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the infection processes. This knowledge will enable the development of better treatment methods against both bacterial and viral pathogens.
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