REGISTRATION IS OPEN
for the Ninth International School on the Crystallography of
Biological Macromolecules
Como (Italy), 29th September – 3rd October 2008
for more details and to register, please visit the web page:
www.crystallographyschool.org
ORGANIZERS
Keith Wilson (York University, UK)
Derek Logan (Lund University, Sweden)
Marjolein Thunnissen (Lund University, Sweden)
PRINCIPAL FUNDING
EU Network MAX-INF2 (contract RICA-CT-2004-505977)
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
subsidy. Those wishing to apply for such subsidy should submit a short
CV and motivation at the time of application.
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 München), 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), 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 Jáskolski (Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznan), Wolfgang Kabsch (MPI Heidelberg), Claude Lecomte
(Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy), Andrew Leslie (MRC LMB,Cambridge),
Joseph Luft (Hauptmann-Woodward Institute), Natalia Markova (iNovacia,
Stockholm), Garib Murshudov (York University), Frank Niesen (SGC
Oxford), Poul Nissen (Ĺrhus 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 (Lawrencxe Berkeley Laboratory)
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