(ignore previous posting) Meeting Notice: Early registration deadline: June 30th
We invite you to participate in a workshop entitled 'MX Frontiers at the One Micron Scale' which we are organizing at Brookhaven National Laboratory for July 23 and 24, 2009. If you examine the workshop's agenda on its website at http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/newsroom/events/workshops/2009/mx/, you will see that a panel of distinguished speakers has agreed to lecture and discuss frontiers and future directions in micro-macromolecular crystallography. These trends will influence the concepts for your new beamlines at NSLS-II, the ultra-bright new light source now under construction at BNL. This workshop will occur immediately preceding the ACA meeting (http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/) We will learn about results obtained with true micro-crystals, get a sense of the power and challenges in membrane protein crystallography, and get a glimpse of the potentials in serial crystallography. The physics of radiation damage and its mitigation at the micron-scale will be discussed from first principles to experimental verification. The pioneering crystallographers that invented, use, or manage the currently operating micro-beam lines will tell us about results from their facilities and explain capabilities and limits of current x-ray focusing optics. Other speakers will identify engineering challenges in instrumentation, specimen handling and visualization. Consider participating in this fast paced, modestly priced (late fee after June 30th), day-and-a-half workshop and register using http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/newsroom/events/workshops/2009/mx/registration/registration.asp. Dieter Schneider (schnei...@bnl.gov <mailto:schnei...@bnl.gov> ), Lonny Berman (ber...@bnl.gov <mailto:ber...@bnl.gov> ), and Marc Allaire (alla...@bnl.gov <mailto:alla...@bnl.gov> ), workshop organizers.
