On October 20th, the wwPDB will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the launch of the Protein Data Bank by streaming presentations from leading structural biologists.
The wwPDB Foundation has partnered with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to share select presentations from the 2026 Triennial Congress to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the launch of the Protein Data Bank.
Watch Making sense of invisible density in single particle cryo-EM by Yifan Cheng from the University of California San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (abstract).
The wwPDB is very grateful for these contributed presentations.
Additional wwPDB partner-hosted events will be announced.
Register for PDB55 October 20, 2026 Webinars
- Electron Microscopy on PDB’s 55th Birthday: Where will we be at 55 years of EM depositions?
Jason Kaelber, Rutgers University - From mechanism to inhibitors: Controlling deubiquitinating enzymes in cells
Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University
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)
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