Dear colleagues,
on behalf of the organizers (Armando Albert, Juan Hermoso and Isabel
Usón): announcement of the 7th edition of the Macromolecular
Crystallography School in Madrid. Please direct all questions regarding
the School to the organizers.
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the
Seventh edition of the Macromolecular Crystallography School 2016, to be
held at the Institute Química-Física Rocasolano- CSIC (Madrid, Spain).
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2016
Invited speakers and tutors:
Paul Adams, Berkeley, USA
Pavel Afonine, Berkeley, USA
Armando Albert, Madrid, Spain
Kay Diederichs, Konstanz, Germany
Paul Emsley, Cambridge, UK
Carmelo Giacovazzo, Bari, Italy
Xavier Gomis-Ruth, Barcelona, Spain
Juan Hermoso, Madrid, Spain
Eugene Krissinel, Oxford, UK
Rob Nicholls, Cambridge, UK
Maria Solá, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Usón, Barcelona, Spain
Please find the program of the Workshop, the application form and
further information, at http://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/MCS2016/
Applicants:
The workshop has been designed for postgraduate, postdoctoral and
research scientists that deal with macromolecular crystallography but
need further knowledge on the routine uses, the state of the art and
fundamentals that underlie the modern techniques for macromolecular
crystallography. The topics will cover crystallographic computing and
fundamentals using XDS, CCP4 and Phenix, as well as the state of the art
on topics such as the strategies for protein production, phasing with
ARCCIMBOLDO, SHELX and SIR2014, modeling with COOT and low resolution
techniques. MCS2016 will provide five days of lectures and workshops.
The course is designed for 25 highly motivated students.
Requests to participate must be sent by a free-formated E-mail, before
March 28, 2016 to the following address: cursos(a)fgua.es
<mailto:[email protected]>, indicating the motivation to participate and
experience on macromolecular crystallography and including a letter of
recommendation from PhD Director (only for PhD students).
Accepted participants will be notified by e-mail before April 4, 2016.
Organizers:
Armando Albert (xalbert(a)iqfr.csic.es <mailto:[email protected]> ),
Juan Hermoso (xjuan(a)iqfr.csic.es <mailto:[email protected]>) and Isabel
Usón (iufcri(a)ibmb.csic.es <mailto:[email protected]>)
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Pavel
On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to announce a workshop
on "Computational Approaches to the Structural Modelling of Biological
Macromolecules using Small Angle Scattering." This workshop will take place
on Friday, July 22nd, 2016 at this year's American Crystallographic
Association (ACA) Meeting in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. The meeting itself
will run from July 22-26.
WK.02 Computational Approaches to the Structural Modelling of Biological
Macromolecules using Small-Angle Scattering.
This one-day workshop will focus on computational approaches to structural
modelling and analysis. In the first session, a brief reprise of fundamental
concepts will be provided, with a focus on pitfalls in data acquisition and
reduction that can affect subsequent data analysis and modelling. The
remainder of the day will be allocated to the hand-on application of the
leading software packages to the analysis of solution scatter. This workshop
will feature direct participation from the creators of the most prevalent
software packages currently used (including BIOSAXS(EMBL), SIBYLS, CCP-SAS,
FoXs and IMP). The participating groups will present their software,
including the basis for the algorithms employed, and further deliver guided
hands-on tutorials for workshop participants. This approach will introduce
and train participants on the appropriate application of these tools,
including experimental design, model preparation, comparison of structural
models using both SAS and complementary information, validation, and most
importantly the limitations of interpretation with regards to the biological
conclusions that can be made.
The workshop format will include lectures, and a selection of hands-on
practical exercises. Students will be expected to bring laptops with
appropriate pre-installed software as necessary. Prior to the workshop, a
website will be made available containing installation instructions and
software for each tutorial.
Tentative Program Schedule
Basic Theory and Methods Joint Session 8:00 am - 9:30am
- Introduction: what is SAS data good for? (short)
- Theory Essentials: How to get your scattering profiles
- SAXS and SANS: common pitfalls, how to ensure the data is suitable for
modelling
- Cross Checks and Validation
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Coffee Break
Software Application and Tutorial Session 10 am - 7pm
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM BIOSAXS(EMBL) lectures and guided tutorial
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Lunch and Discussions (vendor presentations in the
form of 'lunch and learn')
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM IMP Lectures and Guided Tutorial
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM SIBYLS lectures and guided tutorial
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CCP-SAS lectures and guided tutorial
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Discussion
Pre-registration is mandatory. The fee to attend is:
. Student (undergrad, grad or postdoctoral) - $140
. Corporate - $275
. Non corporate or non student - $140
Lunch will be included.
Organizers:
. Angela Criswell Rigaku Americas Corporatio
Angela.Criswell(a)rigaku.com
. Richard Gillilan Cornell CHESS reg8(a)cornell.edu
. Kushol Gupta Perelman School of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania kgupta(a)upenn.edu
. Michal Hammel SIBYLS group at The Advanced Light Source (ALS)
mhammel(a)lbl.gov
. Susan Krueger NIST Center for Neutron Research/CCP-SAS
susan.krueger(a)nist.gov
. Maxim Petoukhov BIOSAXS group at the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EMBL) maxim.petoukhov(a)embl-hamburg.de
. Adam Round EMBL Grenoble around(a)embl.fr
. Dina Schneidman Institute of Life Science, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
dina.schneidman(a)mail.huji.ac.il
. Jill Trewhella University of Sydney jill.trewhella(a)sydney.edu.au
More information is available at:
http://www.amercrystalassn.org/wk.02-saxshttp://www.amercrystalassn.org/2016-meeting-homepage
Kushol Gupta, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania
<mailto:[email protected]> kgupta(a)upenn.edu / 215.573.7260 / 267.259.0082 /
<http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~kgupta> www.stwing.upenn.edu/~kgupta
