Belgium BAG

The Belgium BAG includes groups situated at four Flemish universities: Antwerpen, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The proposed projects are highly diverse, including viral, prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins with a strong focus on targets and processes of biomedical relevance. Many projects deal with membrane proteins, cell surface receptors and protein-protein complexes. Central to the research in the BAG associated groups is the employment of integrative methods in structural biology combining X-ray crystallography, SAXS, and electron microscopy. Many crystals in the various proposed projects are small in size and radiation sensitive, requiring the use of the high brilliance MX beam lines, preferably with micro-focused X-rays.