Join the Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine in collaboration with the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory for
Electron Microscopy on PDB’s 55th Birthday: Where will we be at 55 years of EM depositions?
Jason Kaelber, Rutgers University
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at noon ET | 9am PT
Please register for this free event. An institutional email address for registration is preferred. You will receive confirmation and a Zoom link by email before the event.
Want to attend in person in New Jersey? Contact RCSB PDB for details.
Other PDB55 Events
From mechanism to inhibitors: Controlling deubiquitinating enzymes in cells
Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University
October 20, 2026 (register)
Streaming (YouTube playlist):
- Human neutralizing antibodies against Measles virus from an MMR vaccine
(Erica Ollmann Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology) - Making sense of invisible density in single particle cryo-EM
(Yifan Cheng, University of California San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) - Decoding conformational ensembles to leverage entropy for function and design
(Stephanie A. Wankowicz, Vanderbilt University and Radial, Astera Institute)
Visit wwPDB.org for updates on other PDB55 events.
PDB55 Resources
- Crystallography: Protein Data Bank Nature New Biology 233: 223 (1971) doi: 10.1038/newbio233223b0
- Molecule of the Month articles: Celebrating 55 Years of the PDB | Fifty Years of Open Access to PDB Structures | PDB Pioneers
- Posters Commemorating 75 Years of Discovery and Innovation at the NSF
- Molecular Backgrounds For Virtual Meetings
- Structural Biology and Nobel Prizes Overview
- A timeline tracks highlights from the PDB and the structural biology community
- The PDB50 board game explores the process of structure discovery
- Structural Biology Playing Cards celebrate PDB and the structural biologists who have determined and deposited their many biomolecular structures
- Presentations, articles, and other resources created for PDB’s 50th anniversary

