*** REMINDER ***
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
DEADLINES
Registration: 24th July
Accommodation: 25th July
Abstracts: 28th August
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
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 Società 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 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, Buffalo), Natalia Markova (iNovacia, Stockholm),
Garib Murshudov (York University), Frank Niesen (SGC Oxford), Poul
Nissen (Århus 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 (Umeå 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)
