Dear Colleagues: This is a reminder that today is the deadline for Early Registration and Abstract Submission for the 2010 Symposium on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods. The Symposium will be held at Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California, and the dates are March 10-14, 2010. The overall goal of the Symposium is to illustrate the power of combining state of the art methods to tackle important and challenging biological problems and to identify limitations and gaps in currently practiced hybrid methods. We are fortunate to have recruited two outstanding Keynote Speakers: Stephen C. Harrison (Harvard) and Thomas D. Pollard (Yale), as well as a great program of platform speakers who utilize multiple approaches to investigate the structural biology of complex biological systems. Further details and registration information can be obtained at our website: http://www.hybridmethods2010.com/index.html. Note that a series of platform and workshop talks will also be selected from submitted abstracts, which will enable us to feature hot emerging topics and to provide qualified students and postdocs with the opportunity to present their work.
The Symposium builds on a series of very successful previous meetings on the same theme from 2004-2008. The central premise is that gaining a comprehensive understanding of the highly sophisticated machines, complexes, and organelles of the cell requires the coordinated application of a number of complementary biophysical approaches (hybrid methods). A new innovation at the 2010 meeting will be a special workshop on "Harnessing Different Wavelengths of Electromagnetic Radiation", which will feature the rapidly developing fields of subdiffraction light microscopy and other emerging imaging techniques (e.g., X-ray tomography), as well as new advances within more "traditional" hybrid approaches such as the interfaces between electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and computational biology. Featured topics will also include other biophysical methods, proteomics and cell biology. The meeting will be divided into seven Scientific Sessions and one Special Methods Workshop Session I: Hybrid Approaches to Macromolecular Filaments Session II: Hybrid Approaches to Membrane Complexes Session III: Hybrid Approaches to Dynamic Assemblies Session IV: Computational Approaches to Hybrid Analyses Session V: Hybrid Approaches to Global Analyses Session VI: Hybrid Approaches to Cell Biology Session VII: Hybrid Approaches to Nanomachines Special Methods Workshop: Harnessing Different Wavelengths of Electromagnetic Radiation We hope to see you there for four days of exciting science (as well as some outstanding skiing!). Sincerely yours, The Organizing Committee: Wes Sundquist, Chair Phoebe Stewart, Co-Chair Dorit Hanein, Nobutaka Hirokawa, Felix Rey, Alasdair Steven, and Bill Weis. Rachel Bookman, Conference Secretariat.
