This is a pre-announcement for the annual CCP4 Study Weekend meeting to be held the 3rd, 4th and 5th of January 2008 at The University of Leeds, Leeds UK. Registration will start on the 10th of September via the Study Weekend website - the website is not yet live but the link will be included in the registration announcement on the CCP4 Bulletin Board on September 10h. The topic of the meeting will be "Low Resolution Structure Determination and Validation", and speakers will include: Tom Steitz <http://www.csb.yale.edu/people/steitz/tom/tom.html> (Yale University, USA) Piet Gros <http://www.crystal.chem.uu.nl/~gros/> (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Simon Jenni <http://www.biol.ethz.ch/IMB/groups/ban_group/members/jennis> (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Florian Bruckner <http://www.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/> (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany) Manfred Weiss <http://www.embl-hamburg.de/~msweiss/msw.html> (EMBL Hamburg, Germany) Axel Brunger <http://atb.slac.stanford.edu/~brunger/> (Stanford University, USA) Nick Furnham <http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~nick/> (Cambridge University, UK) Rhiju Das <http://depts.washington.edu/bakerpg/> (University of Washington, USA) Alwyn Jones <http://www.icm.uu.se/structural/jones.html> (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jane Richardson <http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/> (Duke University, USA) Ton Spek <http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/spea.html> (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Alexander Schuettelkopf <http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/alex_schuettelkopf/> (Dundee University, UK) Gert Vriend <http://www2.cmbi.ru.nl/who-and-where/staff/37/> (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Thomas Luetteke <http://sandbox-dev.cs.uu.nl/people/show/4849> (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Phil Jeffrey <http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/macro/> (Princeton University, USA) Chris Tate <http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/SS/> (Cambridge University, UK) You can also look forward to the conference dinner to be held on the Friday evening at the Refectory, which is located on the campus, and is included in the cost of your registration fee. The registration fee for Study Weekend will include a reduced rate for registering early. The rates (and dates) for registration are as follows: Register between 10 September and 15 October - the fee is £100.00 Register between 16 October and 17 November - the fee is £135.00 Register between 18 November and 7 December - the fee is £170.00 Please note that the closing date is 7 December. It is also worth pointing out that there are a limited amount of student bursaries available - a change from previous years. In addition to a limited number of student bursaries, you will only be able to apply for a bursary during the first registration period. Information on this can be found at the registration website by clicking on the link for Bursaries from the homepage. So mark you calendars for 10 September and register early! Maeri Howard CCP4 Group Administrator STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury UK
