Dear All, I would like to draw your attention to this years ALS user meeting, held from October 13-15. In particular, the workshop titled "Recent advances in the automation of protein crystallography" might be of interest to the protein crystallographic community. The workshop consists of a series of short talks and a hands-on session in which various developers and beamline staff will demo latest developments on their beamlines. Scheduled speakers include: Gyorgy Snell (Takeda SD) Aina Cohen (SSRL) Jay Nix (ALS beamline 4.2.2) Babu Pothineni ( GMCA cat, APS) Scheduled Demonstrations are (tentative titles only) : * Efficient screening and data collection using Mini & WebIce (Bl. 5.0.n) Peter Zwart, John Taylor & Nick Sauter * Data collection @ 4.2.2 Jay Nix * SSRL & Webice Aina Cohen * Automated structure solution with PHENIX P. Afonine * Elves & 8.3.1 J. Holton Detailed workshop information can be found at http://bcsb.als.lbl.gov/wiki/index.php/ALS2008_Workshop Other workshops of interest held during the ALS user meeting can be found here: http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/usermtg/workshops.html Registration is now open for all participants: http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/usermtg/index.html Greetings Peter Zwart -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- P.H. Zwart Beamline Scientist Berkeley Center for Structural Biology Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA-94703, USA BCSB: http://bcsb.als.lbl.gov PHENIX: http://www.phenix-online.org CCTBX: http://cctbx.sf.net -----------------------------------------------------------------