International Workshop on New Developments of Methods and Software for Protein Crystallography, August 24-27, 2012 Xi’An, China

Date: 12 June 2012 18:03



International Workshop on New Developments of Methods and Software for Protein Crystallography, August 24-27, 2012 Xi'An, China
Organizers: Commission on Biological Macromolecules, IUCr;
Chinese Crystallographic Society (CCrS) and
Northwestern Polytechnical University

Program Committee: HF Fan; XD Su; TC Terwilliger; BC Wang; RM Xu
and RG Zhang

http://cbmxian2012.ccrs.net.cn/ccrs.html, please register before July 15 …

This workshop is intended to reflect and summarize some important advances of protein crystallography in methodology and automation procedures, such as new ideas and implementations for protein crystallography with emphases on low-resolution phasing and futuristic methods for crystal, nano-crystal or non-crystal structure determination; Automatic, user-friendly pipeline developments; Future data acquisition and storage for structural biology, particularly at modern synchrotron sources. The workshop will also include topics in new methods in protein crystallizations, nano-liter robots, automatic data collection at third generation synchrotrons, new light sources, new detectors, new ideas and ways of diffraction data collection, processing and storage.

The workshop is also good for students and scientists in the early stage of their careers, it will provide platforms for young scientists and students to learn the recent advances and to exchange new ideas and results.  There will be poster and selected oral presentation sessions during the workshop, and abstract or full-paper book will be printed and published.  Travel sponsorship for students and postdocs will be provided by IUCr and the workshop. Please include a copy of your advisor's recommendation letter if you would like to apply for the IUCr travel grant.

Please finish and submit the registration form to xdsu@pku.edu.cn and ccrs@pku.edu.cn befor July 15 2012
Registration fees will be collected on-side: RMB 2000 (Ca. US$320)




Confirmed Speakers: (in alphabetic order)
Paul Adams (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA);
Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing Ltd., Cambridge, UK);
Yuhui Dong (BSRF:Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, China);
Haifu Fan (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China);
Mitchell Guss (University of Sydney, Australia);
Kazuya Hasegawa (Spring-8, Japan);
Jianhua He (SSRF: Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, China);
Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University, HHMI, USA);
Zhijie Liu (Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China);
Santosh Panjikar (Australian Synchrotron, Australia);
Yigong Shi (Tsinghua University, China),
Xiao-Dong Su (Peking University, China)
Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA);
BC Wang (University of Georgia, USA);
Manfred Weiss (BESSY, EMBL, Germany);
Jian XU (Rigaku, USA); Kam Zhang (RIKEN, Japan);
Dachuan Yin (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)