<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Dear colleagues,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">We are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the Macromolecular Crystallography School 2020, to </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">be held at the Institute Química-Física Rocasolano- CSIC (Madrid, Spain).</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">Dates: April 13 - 18, 2020</b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">The workshop has been designed for postgraduate, postdoctoral and research scientists that deal with macromolecular crystallography and cryo EM but </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">need further knowledge on the routine uses, the state of the art and fundamentals that underlie the modern techniques for macromolecular </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">crystallography and cryo EM. The topics will cover crystallographic computing and fundamentals using XDS, CCP4 and Phenix, as well as the state of the </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">art on topics such as the strategies for protein production, data collection, phasing, automated pipelines at synchrotron and refinement with ARCIMBOLDO, SHELX and SIR2014 and modeling </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">with COOT. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">MCS2020 will provide six days of lectures and workshops. The course is designed for 25 highly motivated attendants.</span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Requests to participate must be sent by a free-formated E-mail, before </span><b class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">March 11th, 2020</b><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"> to the following address: </span><a href="mailto:cursos@fgua.es" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">cursos@fgua.es</a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">, indicating </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">the motivation to participate and experience on macromolecular crystallography and including a letter of recommendation from PhD </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Director (only for PhD students).</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Invited speakers and tutors:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Maria Solá, Barcelona, Spain<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Isabel Usón, Barcelona, Spain</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Paul Adams, Berkeley, USA<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Pavel Afonine, Berkeley, USA<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">- Kay Diederichs, Konstanz, Germany</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Paul Emsley, Cambridge, UK<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Rafael Fernández-Leiro, Madrid, Spain<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Carmelo Giacovazzo, Bari, Italy</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">- Eugene Krissinel, Oxford, UK</b></p><div class=""><b class="">- Jose. A. Marquez, Grenoble, France</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">- Claudia Millan, Barcelona, Spain</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">- Begoña Monterroso, Madrid, Spain</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">- Rob Nicholls, Cambridge, UK</b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">- Santosh Panjikar, Australia</b></span></p><div class=""><b class="">- Carmen San Martín, Madrid, Spain</b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Please find attached the program of the Workshop, the application form and further information at </span><a href="http://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/MCS2020/" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">http://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/MCS2020/</a></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Organizers:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Armando Albert (<a href="mailto:xalbert@iqfr.csic.es" class="">xalbert@iqfr.csic.es</a> ), Juan A. Hermoso </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">(</span><a href="mailto:xjuan@iqfr.csic.es" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">xjuan@iqfr.csic.es</a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">) and Isabel Usón (</span><a href="mailto:iufcri@ibmb.csic.es" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">iufcri@ibmb.csic.es</a><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">)</span></p></body></html>