Dear Colleagues, this is the first announcement of “2014: Crystal (cl-)Year”, a meeting to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography by encouraging young people to macromolecular crystallography and fostering international collaborations.
The meeting will be held in Turin (I) on October 16-17th 2014, jointly with the NETTAB 2014, the fourteenth edition of a series of workshops on Network Tools and QApplications in Biology, whose focu theme for 2014 will be on tools and platforms for proteomics, from automation of structural bioinformatics analysis to proteomics for systems biology. 2014 Crystal (cl-)Year is an event that will bring together some of the most important crystallographers of the world. Three Nobel Laureates (Professors Brian Kobilka, John Walker and Ada Yonath) will participate in the meeting, each of them leading a conference session. The first session will be focused on the crystal structure of Membrane Proteins, the second will be focused on Energy and life, the third on Macromolecular Complexes. Prof. Edward Arnold (Rutgers Univ.) will be the leading scientist of a fourth session dedicated to Macromolecular crystallization for structure-based drug design. Eventually Prof. Paul Steinhardt (Princeton Univ.) will present the first structure of a natural quasicrystal. 2014 Crystal (cl-)Year will mainly be dedicated to young researchers (PhD students and early Post-Docs), some of whom will be selected for giving an oral contribution during the scientific sessions. This meeting will therefore provide an invaluable opportunity for younger participants to present their work to a friendly external audience made by some of the most representative scientists of the field. A poster session will enable everyone to show their results. The best posters will be awarded. Some bursary to pay the congress fees will be available for under 35 y.o. researchers. A provisional web page is on line at http://www.nettab.org/2014/CCY/ . The web site will be fully operative within the end of October 2013 at the same address. Interested companies are invited to contact the organisers for sponsorships and exhibition costs. Keep yourselves updated by visiting the web page http://www.nettab.org/2014/CCY/ constantly !!! Camillo Rosano -------------------------------------------------------------------- I've read so much about the problems of bad eating, alcohol and sex that finally I decided to give up. Reading Camillo Rosano Biopolymers and Proteomics IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro Largo R. Benzi 10 - 16132 Genova - Italy phone ++ 39 010 555 8337 fax ++ 39 010 555 8288 [email protected]
