Hey Everybody, I wanted to draw your attention again to the upcoming application deadline on June 15, 2013 for the CSHL X-ray Methods in Structural Biology Course to be held October 14-29, 2013.
Also please also pass this on to any colleagues, friends, professors, research associates, grad students, and I suppose relatives who would benefit from attending the course. Here's a link to the announcement: http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/2013/c-crys13.shtml The course is supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Some financial assistance is also available, see the course announcement on the details of that. I think the course is an outstanding place to learn both the theoretical and practical aspects of Macromolecular Crystallography because of the extensive lectures from world-renowned teachers and the hands-on experiments. An entire "always open" wet lab is devoted to the Course and we rent 18 iMacs for all the computational work, so everyone has simultaneous access for any and all computational work. But the real plus of this course is the interactions of the participants and the instructors --- just ask any former student. This year's course will once again see the return of the long-time instruction team of Alex McPherson, Gary Gilliland, Bill Furey and myself along with many talented experts to help us give the participants an experience in Macromolecular Crystallography learning that cannot be found anywhere else. (The student:teacher ratio ends up to be about 1:1). We expect to have the participants crystallize several proteins and determine their structures all in about two weeks. In 2012, participants also crystallized a membrane protein, collected diffraction data, and solved the structure by molecular replacement. We intend to expand on that in 2013. The course is limited to 16 participants due to the very hands-on nature of the experiments and the intimate seminar room. Please check the above web site for more details. If anyone has any questions, please send me e-mail, I will be happy to answer all queries. Jim
