Course or Conference 2
Winter School on Soft X-rays in Macromolecular Crystallography
February 18-20th, 2009 at BESSY-II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Scope:
The third Winter School on Soft X-rays in Macromolecular Crystallography (after Seefeld in 2006 and Bressanone in 2003) will bring together experts from different fields, which are key-players in the developments and further utilization of Soft X-ray applications in structural biology with the users of this modern methodology. The three days school will cover the following topics:
- The design of soft X-ray sources,
- The design of beamlines optimized for soft X-ray research,
- New detectors,
- Optimal data collection procedures for soft X-ray diffraction
- New derivatization methods of biological macromolecules
- Long wavelength approaches to increase the anomalous scattering of sulfur and other natively occurring anomalous scatterers
- Treatment of soft X-ray data, (from processing towards the phasing and phase improvements) * Radiation damage and its utilization to gain structural information
Scientific contributions from participants with examples of Soft X-ray related structural studies will be included in the program as well.
The following speakers already agreed to participate:
- George Sheldrick (Universität Göttingen)
- Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing, Cambridge)
- Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford)
- Bram Schierbeck (Bruker, Delft)
- Christoph Müller-Dieckmann (ESRF, Grenoble)
- Andy Thompson / Pierre Legrande (Soleil, Paris)
- Armin Wagner (DIAMOND, Didcot)
- Gwyndaf Evans (DIAMOND, Didcot)
- BC Wang (University of Georgia, Athens)
- Vincent Olieric (SLS, Villingen)
- Kristina Djinovic Carugo (University Vienna)
- Manfred S. Weiss (EMBL Hamburg)
- Raymond B.G. Ravelli (Utrecht University)
Scientific Organizers:
Uwe Mueller (BESSY-II, Berlin), Manfred Weiss (EMBL Hamburg), Kristina Djinovic Carugo (University Vienna)
In order to register and for further information, please visit the workshop web-page: http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/aktuell/events/winter-school-mx/