I think that 9PM is a bit optimistic :) Anyone who wants to improve their understanding of the nuts and bolts of X-ray crystallography; the who, what, where, when and why things work the way they do AND learn from a selection of THE BEST CRYSTALLOGRAPHERS in the field should take this course! I am a graduate of the 2009 course, and it was two of the hardest, yet most satisfying weeks of my professional career. The instructors take significant time to prepare and design the course so that the student is brought to a supersaturated state, and held there for the entire course of instruction. You leave the course with confidence that you can solve structures, or know where to look and who to ask when you have a problem you can't solve. I highly recommend this course!
Good luck to all! Bryan Prince -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This message is private and may contain confidential and proprietary information. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system and note that you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Any unauthorized use or disclosure of the contents of this message is not permitted and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Pflugrath Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] CSHL X-ray Methods in Structural Biology Course late Oct 2011: Application deadline June 15th I wanted to draw everyone's attention to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2011 X-ray Methods in Structural Biology course which will take place October 17 through November 1, 2011. The official course announcement is here: http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-crys11.shtml Astute viewers of that link will also note that "A Special Symposium Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Protein Data Bank" will be included this year's course. I think the course is an outstanding place to learn both the theoretical and practical aspects of Macromolecular Crystallography because of the extensive lectures from world-renowned teachers and the hands-on experiments. A good description of the course is found at the web link above as well as in the 3rd edition of Gales Rhodes "Crystallography Made Crystal Clear" where he writes on page xvii: "... the Cold Spring Harbor course who, for sixteen years, have offered what many crystallographers tout as the best classroom and hands-on diffraction training session on the planet -- 2.5 weeks, 9 AM to 9 PM, packed with labs, lectures, and computer tutorials, with homework for your spare time." If any former participants in the course want to add to that description, please feel free to respond to this thread. Thanks! Jim
