Celebrate four decades of innovation in structural biology this fall at a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory symposium honoring the PDB's 40th anniversary and the many scientific contributions it archives.
TRAVEL AWARDS Limited funds are available to help students and early career scientists attend PDB40. Preference will be given to those who have submitted poster abstracts. To apply for assistance, download the application form from the PDB40 website, and email the completed form, a copy of your abstract, and a supporting letter from your research advisor/department chairman to i...@wwpdb.org. Funds are non-transferable. Awards will be distributed after the meeting. Applications are due by August 1, 2011. POSTERS The meeting will also host a session of poster presentations. To submit your abstract for consideration, please submit online following the link provided after registration. The status of abstracts will be posted as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. The deadline for poster submission is August 15, 2011. GENERAL INFORMATION PDB40, organized by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB), will begin with an evening reception, dinner, and oral session on Friday, October 28th and conclude with lunch on Sunday, October 30, 2011. Early registration is strongly encouraged as the meeting is expected to fill quickly. For complete meeting details, see http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/pdb40.shtml. SPEAKERS Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto, Canada) David Baker (University of Washington) Ad Bax (NIH/DHHS/NIDDK/LCP) Axel Brunger (Stanford University/HHMI) Stephen K. Burley (Eli Lilly & Co.) Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine) Angela Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh) Richard Henderson (MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, UK) Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University) Mei Hong (Iowa State University) So Iwata (Imperial College London, UK) Louise Johnson (University of Oxford, UK) T. Alwyn Jones (University of Uppsala, Sweden) Brian Matthews (University of Oregon) Jane Richardson (Duke University Medical Center) Michael Rossmann (Purdue University) Andrej Sali (University of California, San Francisco) David Searls (Independent Consultant) Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego) Janet Thornton (EMBL, Hinxton, UK) Soichi Wakatsuki (IMMS-KEK, Japan) Kurt Wüthrich (The Scripps Research Institute/ETH Zürich) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Like the Worldwide Protein Data Bank on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/l3m9qT
