Tuesday, 10 January 2012

BCA spring meeting abstract deadline fast approaching

Date: 10 January 2012 16:18


The exciting programme for the BCA Spring Meeting 2012 at Warwick is available for viewing at


In addition to the general poster call, the Biological Structures Group has sessions in the main meeting where abstracts for oral presentations will be accepted. Opportunities are available in the following sessions:

Hot Structures and Hot Methods (Chair: Jon Cooper)
Crystallography and cancer  (Chair: Jane Endicott)
Protein crystallisation methods (Chair: Naomi Chayen)
Small angle X-ray scattering (Chair: Elizabeth Shotten)
Membrane Protein crystallography (Chair: Jonas Emsley)

 Abstracts must be submitted online using the following link
The deadline is January 16th 2012

The BSG Plenary lecture
 will be delivered by Laurence Pearl
"Structural Biology of the DNA Damage Response"

BSG Invited Speakers
Piet Gros (Utrecht, Nederlands)
Terese Bergfors (Uppsala, Sweden)
Emmanuel Saridakis (Demokritos, Greece)
James Huntington (Cambridge)
Andrew Leslie (Cambridge)
So Iwata (Imperial College)
Chris Murray (Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge)
Stefan Knapp (Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford)
Clair Baldock (Manchester)
Andy Dore (Heptares Therapeutics)
Judit Debreczeni (Structural Genomics Consortium)
Paul Emsley (Oxford)
Vilmos Fulop (Warwick)
Nick Terrill (Diamond Light Source)

In addtion to the BSG program the 2011 Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman (Discovery of Quasicrystals) is attending the BCA 2012 Spring meeting, as a Plenary lecturer on Wednesday the 18th April.

  The meeting represents an opportunity to learn about advances in the utilisation of crystal structures in drug design as well as other topical methods as outlined in the program


Ingrid Dreveny 
Jonas Emsley

BSG Programme, BCA 2012 Warwick



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