Dear Colleagues, On behalf of Rigaku, I'm very pleased to introduce a new Rigaku Crystallization Webinar series. As crystallization of biological molecules continues to remain the bottleneck in structural biology, we would like to provide the community educational materials and a discussion forum on scientific methodology development and applications in this field. This Webinar series will cover a broad range of subjects in crystallization, from theoretical to practical methods of crystallization, high-throughput to high output, manual to robotic setup, and soluble proteins to membrane proteins. We are inviting world leading scientists in protein crystallization to present the latest and greatest technology and methods.
Rigaku is also focused on education in support of macromolecular crystallization. With this in mind, we would like to encourage graduate students and postdocs to present short talks in this forum, sharing your successes or challenges with your peers attending the webinar. The short presentation will be around 20 minute long and all presenters will receive a gift card of $50. In addition, student and postdoc presentations will be periodically reviewed by a panel of judges and the top presenters will be awarded a travel grant of $500, supporting the attendance of a scientific conference of their choice. Interested parties should contact Dr. Jian Xu at jian...@rigaku.com<mailto:jian...@rigaku.com>. It is my honor to announce that the following speakers will be presenting in our future webinar series (not in sequence): Dr. Bernhard Rupp Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, and k.-k. Hofkristallamt, USA Dr. Allan D'Arcy Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Switzerland Dr. Edward Snell Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, USA Dr. Jose Gavira CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Spain Dr. Janet Newman CSIRO, Australia Dr. Jeroen Mesters University of Lubeck, Germany Dr. Yvonne Thielmann Max Planck Institute, Germany Dr. Marc Elsliger The Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG), USA Our first webinar will be given on August 6th, presented by Dr. Bernhard Rupp, Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, and Dept. of Forensic Crystallography, k.-k. Hofkristallamt, USA. The detailed information about each of these presentations will be sent out multiple times prior to the webinar. Please also go to http://www.rigakuautomation.com/webinars to find out the updated webinar information. We invite anyone to submit topic suggestions for future webinars and hope that you will provide feedback for previous webinars. We are excited about this Webinar series and looking forward to seeing you there! Jian Xu, Ph.D. Rigaku Automation, Inc. 5999 Avenida Encinas, Suite 150 Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA T: 760-438-5282 x130 C: 760-576-7167 jian...@rigaku.com www.rigakuautomation.com<http://www.rigakuautomation.com> www.rigaku.com<http://www.rigaku.com> Rigaku Automation, Inc. is an ISO 9001 registered company
