We hope that you will be able to attend the International Conference on Structural Genomics 2015 "Deep Sequencing Meets Structural Biology", which will be held on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel June 7-11, 2015. This conference is intended to foster international collaboration and to provide an overview for the most recent developments in Structural Biology and Structural Genomics and future impacts on biology, medicine and disease.

The scientific topics to be covered in ICSG 2015 include:

·   Deep sequencing for modeling and refinement of macromolecular structures

·   Membrane protein structure and function using complementary methods

·   Technological advances in XFEL, Cryo-EM, NMR, SAXS, MS, MX and macromolecular complexes

·   Combining low and high resolution data and modeling for structural biology

·   Synergistic use of 3D structures and deep sequencing to realize personalized medicine

·   Protein design and deep sequencing

·   Cancer, antibiotic resistance and drug discovery

In order to widen the opportunities for younger researchers, we have organized satellite workshops before ICSG 2015 (during the day on June 7, 2015). These include:

·   Cryo-EM developments for structural biology [Sponsored by FEI]

·   PHENIX: Automated determination of molecular structures

·   HKL3000: From X-ray diffraction images to structure determination in minutes

·   Approaches to the translation of deep sequencing data into three-dimensions

·   Protein expression and characterization workshop

·   Proteopedia: A Scientific Wiki Bridging the Rift Between 3D Structure & Function

You can see all the details of the conference at http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/ICSG2015 .  

Five oral presentations will be chosen from the posters, and six poster prizes will be awarded, so be sure to submit your abstracts by April 15, 2015!

Invited Speakers will include:

Keynote Speakers:

Shamil Sunyaev - Harvard Medical School

Janet Thornton – EMBL/EBI - The FEBS National Lecturer

Speakers:

Arie Admon – Technion, Haifa

Lucia Banci - CERM, University of Florence

Pamela J. Bjorkman – CalTech, Pasadena

Samir K. Brahmachari - CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi

Susan Buchanan - NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda

Mark Gerstein - Yale University, New Haven

Wayne Hendrickson - Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Yvonne Jones - University of Oxford

Luhua Lai - Peking University, Beijing

Michael Levitt – Stanford University

Michal Linial – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abraham Minsky - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

John Moult - IBBR, University of Maryland, Rockville

Nathan Nelson - Tel Aviv University

Stefan Raunser - MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

Monica Roth - Rutgers University, Piscataway

Dinakar M. Salunke – Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Gurgaon

Eran Segal - Weizmann Institute of Science

Philip Selenko - Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP Berlin)

Sachdev Sidhu - University of Toronto

Rotem Sorek - Weizmann Institute of Science

Jan Steyaert - VIB, Flanders, Brussels

Dan Tawfik - Weizmann Institute of Science

Gunnar von Heijne - Stockholm University

Soichi Wakatsuki - Stanford University

Shigeyuki Yokoyama - Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute

Ada Yonath - Weizmann Institute of Science

Mingjie Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Weizmann Institute in the June of 2015!

Sincerely yours,

ICSG 2015 Local Organizing Committee

Joel L. Sussman, Gideon Schreiber, Tamar Unger and Israel Silman, Weizmann Institute

ICSG 2015 International Organizing Committee

Cheryl Arrowsmith, (Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto)

Lucia Banci, (University of Florence, Florence)

Jacqui Beckmann, (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne)

Mark Gerstein, (Yale University, New Haven)

Yvonne Jones, (University of Oxford, Oxford)

Luhua Lai, (Peking University, Beijing)

Katsumi Maenaka, (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)

Gaetano Montelione, (Rutgers University, Piscataway)

John Moult, (Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville)

John Norvell, Maryland (Founding Director of the NIGMS Protein Structure Initiative)

Dinakar Salunke, (Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Gurgaon)

Gideon Schreiber, (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)

Joel L. Sussman, (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)

Janet Thornton, (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton)

Gunnar von Heijne, (Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm)

Ron Unger, (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)

Shoshana Wodak (University of Toronto, Toronto)

International Structural Genomics Organization Executive Committee

Lucia Banci

Aled Edwards

Jennifer Martin

Joel Sussman

Tom Terwilliger

Shigeyuki Yokoyama