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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
Eighth International School on the Crystallography of Biological
Macromolecules
Como (Italy), May 21-25, 2006
ORGANIZERS
Tassos Perrakis (NKI, The Netherlands) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Andrea Carfi (IRBM, Rome, Italy) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Stefania di Marco (IRBM, Italy) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Derek Logan (Lund University, Sweden) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Marjolein Thunnissen (Lund University, Sweden)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PRINCIPAL FUNDING
EU Network MAX-INF2 (contract 505977)
PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL
The school will be open to about 200 participants and will focus on
the application of X-ray crystallographic methods to the study of
proteins and nucleic acids, with emphasis on the latest developments.
The program will include lectures on protein expression an
purification, crystallization, data collection and processing,
synchrotron sources, phasing (MIR, MAD, direct methods and molecular
replacement), phase improvement, model building, refinement and
analysis of structural data. These methods sections will be
complemented with seminars about new structures. It is expected that
several contributions will come from participants who are encouraged
to propose a title for a poster or oral contribution in their
application letter.
LOCATION
The school will be held at Centro del Casino, Como, Italy. (http://
www.centrovolta.it/societ%C3%A0casino/societ%C3%A0casino.htm), which
is located literally at centre of Como. Como can be reached
comfortably by train (30-40 min. from Milan; 3-4 hours from Zurich
and Basel) or by car via the A9-E36 motorway). This is a slightly
different location to previous Schools, which have been held at Villa
Olmo outside Como.
INVITED LECTURERS INCLUDE
Methods:
Pär Nordlund, Jan-Willem de Gier (Stockholm), Simon Davies, Jonathan
Grimes, Ian Berry (Oxford), Christophe Romier (Strasbourg), Janet
Newman (San Diego), Jochen Müller-Dieckmann, Sasha Popov, Manfred
Weiss, Guillaume Evrard (Hamburg), José Antonio Perez, Raimond
Ravelli (Grenoble), Bram Schierbeek (Delft), Gwyndaf Evans (Diamond),
Clemens Schulze-Briese (SLS), Zbigniew Dauter (NCI), Harry Powell,
Phil Evans, Randy Read (Cambridge), Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing),
Richard Morris (Norwich), Kim Henrick, Eugene Krissinel (EBI), Jorge
Navaza (Gif-sur-Yvette), Garib Murshudov, Kevin Cowtan, Roberto
Steiner (York), Karsten Suhre (Marseille), Paul Adams (Berkeley),
George Sheldrick (Göttingen, Germany), Dale Tronrud (Oregon), Tom
Terwilliger (Los Alamos), Thomas Schneider (Milan)
Structures:
Elena Conti (Heidelberg), F. Ray (Paris), Nenad Ban (Zürich), Jim
Naismith (St. Andrews), Kay Diederichs (Konstanz), Bill Clemons
(Caltech), Laurence Pearl (London), Piet Gros (Utrecht), Poul Nissen
(Århus), Erica Mancini (Oxford)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION
Will be announced in the second half of January, but mark your
diaries now!
The meeting will last from Sunday May 21st, 2006, to Thursday May
25th. A limited number of Ph.D. students will be eligible for
subsidy. Those wishing to apply for such subsidy will be asked to
submit a short CV and motivation at the time of application.
