Subj: Diffraction Methods Gordon Conference
Gordon Research Conference Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology
Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire
16-21 June, 1996
There is still an opportunity to attend this year's Gordon Research
Conference on Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, but you must
act quickly. I attach the schedule as it stands now below.
Not all titles are finalized (speakers please send your final title
if you have not done so).
See website http://www.grc.uri.edu for more info on an application
and registration.
Jim Pflugrath, Chair, jwp at msc.com
Charlie Carter, Vice-Chair, carter at pasteur.med.unc.edu
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Gordon Research Conference Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology
Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire
16-21 June, 1996
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Sunday
CRYSTAL GROWTH
Arnaud Ducruix Discussion Leader
Franz Rosenberger Chemical Physics of Globular Protein Crystallization
Madeleine Ries-Kautt Practical lessons from physical chemistry
Adrian Ferre-'Amare A general method for crystallizing RNA
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Monday
NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR CONVENTIONAL PHASING
Bill Furey Discussion Leader:
Alan Friedman Data Manipulation and Scaling for MAD: Retrieving
a weak signal from noisy data
Venki Ramakrishnan The treatment of MAD data as a special case of MIR
Liang Tong GLRF: the locked rotation function
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Monday
Phases - New Horizons
Charlie Carter Discussion Leader:
Eric de La Fortelle SHARP: Maximum Likelihood Parameter Refinement
Andrea Hadfield Direct Phase Extension
Herb Hauptman Shake 'N Bake : An Algorithm for
Determination of Crystal Structures
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Tuesday
REFINEMENT I
Dave Filman Discussion Leader
Victor Lamzin Postponing interpretation until refinement
Randy Read Improved Structure Refinement through Maximum Likelihood
Gerard Bricogne Refining to LLG: exploiting partial structure information
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Tuesday
POSTER SESSION I
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Tuesday
REFINEMENT II
Mirek Cygler Discussion Leader
Micheal Chapman Electron density representation: Real-space refinement
and related applications
Axel Brunger Accurate experimental phases: do they provide
more information than refined model phases?
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Wednesday
INSTRUMENTATION
Andy Howard Discussion Leader
Elspeth Garman Macromolecular Cryocrystallography: Techniques and Results
Gerd Rosenbaum The SBC Beamlines at the APS
Dan Carter Initial Assessments of Polycapillary
Optics for Protein Crystallography
Marty Stanton CCD Detectors
Thomas Earnest Pixel Diode Array Detectors
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Wednesday
DATA COLLECTION
Wladek Minor Discussion Leader
Bob Sweet Integrated Beamline-Control and Data-Collection Software
Dan Yang Fine Slicing vs Wide Slicing
Zbyszek Otwinowski DENZO
Ed Westbrook First Diffraction Data at the APS
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Thursday
MODEL BUILDING/MAP INTERPRETATION
Jim Pflugrath Discussion Leader
Gerard Kleywegt Topography, still errancy
Bill Wright A map interpreting program with
online calculation of difference
Fourier maps and the option of
displaying reciprocal space
Suzanne Fortier Critical point analysis in protein map interpretation
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Tuesday
POSTER SESSION II
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Thursday
PRESENTATIONS
Virginia Rath Discussion Leader
Jennifer Doudna Crystal structure of the P4-P6 domain
of a group I intron ribozyme reveals
new principles of RNA folding and function.
Chris Hill HIV-1 Capsid Hexapeptide Complex with Cyclophilin A
+Oral presentions of selected posters
9:00 am Friday
Bus departs
