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The Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) on the DESY campus in Hamburg is an interdisciplinary centre with partners from several universities and research facilities. Their common goal is to unravel the attack mechanisms of pathogens at the atomic level in order to design tailor-made medication against them.</p> <div class="section htmltext-Wide"> <p> In our globalized world, infection research is becoming ever more important. Thanks to long-distance travel and global exchange of goods, bacteria and viruses can spread very rapidly. Only by learning how these pathogens function will we be able to effectively protect ourselves against them.</p> <p> That<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s the approach pursued by CSSB, where biologists, chemists, medical scientists, physicists and engineers join forces to investigate the interaction of pathogens with their hosts. DESY offers them unique facilities in Germany that provide optimal conditions for structural biology. Using super microscopes such as PETRA III, FLASH and the European XFEL, reseachers can study biological samples in different ways – ranging from structural analysis of single molecules to real-time imaging of processes in living cells – and thus explore the molecular basis of diseases with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution.</p> <h2> New approaches to combat common diseases</h2> <p> At CSSB, researchers decipher, among others, the interaction of proteins in medically relevant infections caused by viruses, bacteria and parasites. A typical research topic is, for example, to unravel the mechanism by which the malaria parasite enters the red blood cells. This is an extremely complex process involving not only one but a variety of proteins, with many fundamental questions still to be resolved. Using DESY<span lang="EN-GB">’</span>s state-of-the-art light sources, the CSSB partners are developing new interdisciplinary approaches in the fight against common diseases caused by infections.</p> </div> <div class="section smallteaser" style="" id="e306543"> <a href='http://www.cssb-hamburg.de/' target='_self' class='LinkElementExternal' title='CSSB' alt='CSSB'> <img alt="" src="https://www.desy.de/e141261/e306529/e306536/e306543/@@DESYSmallTeaserImage" /> <a href='http://www.cssb-hamburg.de/' target='_self' class='LinkElementExternal' title='CSSB' alt='CSSB'> <h2>CSSB</h2> <p>Centre for Structural Systems Biology</p> </a> </a> </div> <div style="" class="infobox infobox-Full" id="e306538"> <div class="title">Partner at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB</div> <p id="infoboxContent306539"> Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine<br /> Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY<br /> European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL<br /> Hannover Medical School<br /> Leibniz Institute of Virology<br /> Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research<br /> Research Center Borstel<br /> Universit盲t Hamburg<br /> University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf<br /></p> </div> </div>  </div>  </div> <div id="page-footer" class="footer clearfix"> <a target="_blank" title="zu 'Die Website der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft'" href="https://www.helmholtz.de/"> <img id="logo-helmholtz" alt="Logo der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft" src="/++resource++desy/images/2017_H_Logo_RGB_EN.png" /> </a> <div class="address"> <h2 class="hidden">Footer Navigation</h2> <ul id="footer-nav" class="nav"> <li class="first"> <a class="doa_eng_version" href="//www.desy.de/declaration_of_accessibility/index_eng.html" title="Declaration of Accessibility">Declaration of Accessibility</a> </li> <li> <a href="//www.desy.de/data_privacy_policy/index_eng.html" title="Data Privacy Policy">Data Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li class="last"> <a href="https://www.desy.de/imprint/index_eng.html" title="Imprint">Imprint</a> </li> </ul> <p class="copyright"> © 2024, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY </p> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var dohide = false; function hideNav() { if(dohide) { dohide = false; $("#targetgroup-nav ol ol").removeClass("show"); } } function showNav() { dohide = false; $("#targetgroup-nav ol ol").addClass("show"); } // Fancybox IDs $("a.zoom").fancybox(); // old IEs wont recognize multiple elements with same ID tag... $("a#single_image").fancybox(); $("a#inline").fancybox({ 'hideOnContentClick': false, 'frameWidth': 600, 'frameHeight': 300 }); $("a.group").fancybox({ 'zoomSpeedIn': 300, 'zoomSpeedOut': 300, 'overlayShow': false }); $("#targetgroup-nav li a").focus(function() { showNav(); }).blur(function() { dohide = true; setTimeout("hideNav()", 500); }); $("#targetgroup-nav li").hover(function() { showNav(); },function() { dohide = true; setTimeout("hideNav()", 500); }); $('li.area > a').click(function(){ $(this).parent().toggleClass("active"); return false; }); //GCS $('#cse-search-form > .regularInput').focus(function() { $(this).css('background','#fff'); }); $('#cse-search-form > .regularInput').blur(function() { $(this).css('background','#fff url(https://www.google.com/cse/intl/en/images/google_custom_search_watermark.gif) left no-repeat'); }); </script>  <script type="text/javascript"> var piwik_id='291'; var _paq = _paq || []; _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u=(('https:' == document.location.protocol) ? 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