Recently we have received a NSF grant helping to build the community networks and find solutions for the challenging problems. We have also discussed with the program officer of US National Science Foundation on planning for a research conference/workshop series proposal to US NSF. This conference/workshop series will particularly focus on the technical issues and practical challenges in structural biology of nucleic acids, protein-nucleic acid complexes and small molecule-nucleic acid complexes. These challenges include crystallization, derivatization, phasing and high-resolution structure determination.

You are invited to participate in this conference/workshop series. If you are interested in our invitation, please reply this email or send your email to [email protected]. In your email, please let us know your name, research interests (up to five key words), affiliation and phone number. The details will be announced later.

Colleagues in academia are encouraged to forward this email to your friends and colleagues in industry. Colleagues in industry are particularly welcome.