Dear CCP4BBers Registration for the Ninth International Radiation Damage workshop (RD9) to be held at MAX IV, Lund 9-11th March 2016, is still open at the following website: https://indico.maxlab.lu.se/e/rd9 RD9 is limited to around 80 participants, but there is still space! The deadline for Poster Abstracts for posters is 15th February. Confirmed speakers are: Session 1 Basic Understanding of Radiation Damage Mechanisms Robert Thorne (Cornell University) Ian Carmichael (U Notre Dame) Judy Kim (UCSD) Dominika Borek (UT Southwestern Medical Center) Session 2 Practical Aspects of Reducing Radiation Damage Jonathan Brooks Bartlett (U Oxford, UK) Brian Abbey (U La Trobe, Australia) Elspeth Garman (U Oxford, UK) Gerd Rosenbaum (ANL, USA) Gianluca Santoni (ESRF Grenoble, France) Philip Roedig (DESY Hamburg, Germany) Session 3 Biological studies affected by Radiation Damage Yasufumi Umena (Okayama Univ. Japan) Mike Hough (U Essex, UK) Session 4 Damage at New Sources - XFEL and new synchrotrons Masaki Yamamoto (SPring-8, Japan) Jacques-Philippe Colletier (IBS Grenoble, France) Sebastien Boutet (SLAC, USA) Karol Nass (MPI Heidelberg, Germany) Session 5 Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields Garth Simpson (Purdue University, USA) Robert Rambo (DLS, UK) Liz Duke (DLS, UK) Raimond Ravelli (U Maastricht, The Netherlands) Rajmund Mokso (Max IV, Sweden) Best wishes Elspeth on behalf of the Organising Committee ---------------------------------------------------- Elspeth F. Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Senior Kurti Fellow and Tutor for Graduates, Brasenose College Postal address: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Tel: (44)-1865-613297 South Parks Road, FAX: (44)-1865-613201 OXFORD, OX1 3QU, U.K. E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> -----------------------------------------------------