Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the second Macromolecular Crystallography School 2013 at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Uruguay). All details can be found at www.pasteur.edu.uy/mx2013

Title:

"Macromolecular Crystallography School 2013: From data processing to structure refinement and beyond"

Dates: April 9th-17th, 2013.

Site: Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Montevideo), Uruguay

The workshop content:

Conceived to provide theoretical background and hands-on abilities in the use of computational tools to exploit X ray diffraction data. Through lectures, tutorials and hands-on trouble-shooting, the students will be trained in state-of-the-art macromolecular crystallography. Particular emphasis will be given to data processing, phasing/structure determination and model refinement/validation.

The workshop will feature authors and experts of many modern crystallographic software packages.

This workshop represents the continuation within the series started in 2010 (http://www.pasteur.edu.uy/mxcourse) on Macromolecular Crystallography.

In this opportunity it is being co-organized by the Center for Structural Biology of the Mercosur CeBEM (www.cebem.org.ar), jointly with the Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 (CCP4 – UK www.ccp4.ac.uk). Support from the Institut Pasteur International Network, the International Union of Crystallography and Institut Pasteur de Montevideo is also greatly acknowledged.

Applicants:

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists are encouraged to apply. Only 20 applicants will be selected for participation. Participants of the workshop are strongly encouraged to bring their own problem data sets so they can be used during the workshop’s hands-on sessions.

There is no registration fee.

Support for accommodation, per diem and local transportation will be provided to all participants from abroad.

Support to cover travel expenses will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Specific requests should be well-grounded as we will only be able to select a limited number.

Application:

Application deadline is February 10, 2013. Application form, the program, contact info and other details can be found at www.pasteur.edu.uy/mx2013

Please address further inquiries to [email protected]

Ronan Keegan and Alejandro Buschiazzo

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Alejandro Buschiazzo, PhD 
Research Scientist 
Unit of Protein Crystallography 
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo 
Mataojo 2020 
Montevideo 11400 
URUGUAY 
Phone: +598 25220910 int. 120 
Fax:   +598 25224185 
http://www.pasteur.edu.uy/pxf