PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION
The meeting will last from after lunch (not provided) on Monday September 29th, 2008, to after lunch (provided) on Friday October 3rd. A strictly limited number of Ph.D. students will be eligible for financial support. Those wishing to apply for such subsidy should submit a short CV and motivation at the time of application. Poster and oral presentation abstracts should also be submitted before 28th August for inclusion in the abstract book.
PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL
The school will be open to a maximum of 200 participants and will focus on the application of X-ray crystallographic methods to the study of proteins and nucleic acids, with emphasis on the latest developments. The program will include lectures on protein expression and purification, crystallization, data collection and processing, synchrotrons, phasing (MAD/SAD and molecular replacement), phase improvement, model building, refinement, analysis and validation of structural data. These methods sections will be complemented with seminars about new structures. Several contributions will come from participants who are encouraged to propose a title for a poster or oral contribution in their application.
LOCATION
The school will be held at Societŕ del Casino, Como, Italy. (
http://www.societadelcasino.com/), which is located literally in the centre of Como, next to the cathedral. Como can be reached comfortably by train (30-40 min. from Milan; 3-4 hours from Zurich and Basel) or by car via the A9-E36 motorway. There will be a conference dinner att Villa Geno (
http://www.villageno.it).
INVITED LECTURERS INCLUDE
Imre Berger (EMBL Grenoble), Ian Berry (Oxford University), Gleb Bourenkov (EMBL Hamburg), Dominique Bourgeois (ESRF), Florian Brueckner (Gene Center Munich), Marek Brzozowski (York University), Martin Caffrey (University of Limerick), Liz Carpenter (Diamond Light Source), Kevin Cowtan (York University), Zbigniew Dauter (Argonne National Laboratory), Simon Davis (Oxford University), Valeria de Marco (NKI, Amsterdam), Raimund Dutzler (University of Zürich), Hans Eklund (Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala), Paul Emsley (Oxford University), Robert Esnouf (Oxford University), Stephen Graham (Oxford University), Tim Grüne (Göttingen University), Udo Heinemann (PSF Berlin), Michael Hennig (Hoffmann laRoche), Rod Hubbard (Versalis), Mariusz Jaskolski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Wolfgang Kabsch (MPI Heidelberg), Claude Lecomte (Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy), Andrew Leslie (MRC LMB, Cambridge), Joseph Luft (Hauptmann-Woodward Institute, Buffalo), Natalia Markova (iNovacia, Stockholm), Garib Murshudov (York University), Frank Niesen (SGC Oxford), Poul Nissen (Ĺrhus University), Martin Noble (Oxford University), Santosh Panjikar (EMBL Hamburg), Navraj Pannu (Leiden University), Chris Phillips (Pfizer), Simon Phillips (Leeds University), Randy Read (Cambridge University), Marc Ruff (IGBMC, Strasbourg), Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson (Umeĺ University), Gebhard Schertler (MRC LMB, Cambridge), Clemens Schulze-Briese (SLS, Villigen), Irmgard Sinning (Heidelberg University), Bente Vestergaard (Copenhagen University), Gert Vriend (Nijmegen University), Martin Walsh (MRC France, ESRF), Martyn Winn (STFC Daresbury Lab), Peter Zwart (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)