From sweet from bnl.gov Tue Jan 6 10:31:19 2009 From: sweet from bnl.gov (Robert Sweet) Date: Tue Jan 6 10:31:37 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Reminder: Please apply to the BNL-Biology and NSLS Course on Synchrotron Data Collection Message-ID: We are offering RapiData 2009, the eleventh offering of our popular course: Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement The course will be held 19-24 April 2009. Students could be at any level from advanced undergraduate to full professor. 48 students will be accepted; 24 will bring their own specimens for data collection. Please read the course description at http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/RapiData2009/. You'll see that many experts in the field will be available for lectures and tutorials, and you'll find the application materials at this site. For the seventh time we will hold a short lecture course on the fundamentals of crystallography for roughly five hours on Sunday 19 April. The body of the RapiData course really requires that students have a healthy knowledge of crystallography. For potential students who have some experience but are shaky about fundamentals, this course will help. There will be a small additional fee for the fundamentals course, to pay for Saturday night accomodations and food on Sunday morning and noon. Latin American Scientists: Several scholarships are available, from the International Union of Crystallography, to pay partial travel and subsistence costs for Latin-American students and junior faculty. Please apply for the course, and then contact R. Sweet (sweet@bnl.gov) if you are interested in applying for a scholarship. In accordance with the standards of the International Union of Crystallography, we observe the basic policy of non-discrimination, affirming the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin, race, colour, language, age, or gender, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science. At this course no barriers will exist beyond the application procedure that would prevent the participation of bona fide scientists. Please apply or send your students to our course, Alex Soares, Sal Sclafani, and Bob Sweet ========================================================================= Robert M. Sweet E-Dress: sweet@bnl.gov Group Leader, PXRR: Macromolecular ^ (that's L Crystallography Research Resource at NSLS not 1) http://px.nsls.bnl.gov/ Biology Dept Brookhaven Nat'l Lab. Phones: Upton, NY 11973 631 344 3401 (Office) U.S.A. 631 344 2741 (Facsimile) ========================================================================= From orry.molsoft from gmail.com Mon Jan 12 14:59:26 2009 From: orry.molsoft from gmail.com (Andrew Orry) Date: Tue Jan 13 09:50:43 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop - MolSoft February 5-6 2009 Message-ID: <496BA11E.80809@molsoft.com> **We still have some places available at out MolSoft ICM Workshop: "Protein Structure and Drug Discovery" February 5th to 6th 2009 La Jolla, CA.** Please see the following invitation to attend MolSoft's (www.molsoft.com) Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop on February 5th to 6th 2009 in La Jolla, California USA. For more information and a registration form visit www.molsoft.com/training.html. Our workshops are suitable for chemists and biologists who would like to learn more about computational drug discovery and bioinformatics. No prior knowledge in this field is required to participate. The workshop is presented by Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute) and Dr. Maxim Totrov (MolSoft). The workshops will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and "hands-on" computational experiments and will cover the following topics: - Sequence and Protein Structure Analysis - Protein Modeling and Simulations - Structure Validation and Optimization - Ligand Binding Site Prediction - Small Molecule Docking and Virtual Ligand Screening - Structure-based development of target-specific compound libraries - Cheminformatics, Chemical Clustering, Searching, Superposition etc... - QSAR, Machine Learning - Protein-Protein Docking We will demonstrate and train you in the use of many of our new developments in computational chemistry and biology including: - 3D Ligand Editor - design and optimize ligands interactively - Markush Library Docking - Multiple Receptor Docking (A method to incorporate receptor flexibility) - Automated model building into electron density - Atomic property field chemical superposition - Fast machine learning tools for QSAR - Pharmacophore drawing and searching - Compound library enumeration tools - Screen-grabbing molecular movie making "The objective of this training workshop is to help chemists and biologists solve challenging problems in the area of drug discovery by efficient use of the science and technology present in ICM molecular modeling tools." Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute and Co-Founder of Molsoft LLC) Please see our website at www.molsoft.com for more details or E mail andy@molsoft.com or call (858) 625 2000 ext.108. Please join the ICM Discussion Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/molsoft-icm-forum Latest Newsletter: http://www.molsoft.com/news.html MolSoft is a La Jolla based company that is a primary source of new breakthrough technologies in computational chemistry and biology. Molsoft is committed to solving intellectually challenging problems in drug discovery and computational biology. From lc from bluehaze.com.au Wed Jan 14 00:15:00 2009 From: lc from bluehaze.com.au (lc@bluehaze.com.au) Date: Wed Jan 14 00:15:41 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Abstract submission and Registration for ACA 2009 conference - Toronto, Ontario, Canada: July 25 - 30, 2009 Message-ID: American Crystallographic Association 2009 conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada: July 25 - 30, 2009 Abstract submission, Registration, travel advice for delegates and families of delegates for the Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association is available on the ACA2009 conference website at: http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/ Sessions Information including information on Session Focus and the current list of invited speakers: http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/agenda.html Registration information and registration form: http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/registration.html Transportation and Travel including a page giving the latest links and information for crossing the USA Border into Canada. This includes the ACA2009 Toronto Travel Grant Application form. http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/transportation.html Information on Crossing the USA Border into Canada is provided at: http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/usaborder.html ------------------ Two workshops are offered prior to the ACA meeting http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/workshops.html 1. JANA - Incommensurate Crystal Structures - Friday July 24, 2009 to Saturday July 25, 2009 Chairs: Jim Kaduk, Olivier Gourdon 2. Handling Twinning in Macromolecular Crystallography - Saturday July 25, 2009 Chairs: George Sheldrick, Garib Murshudov, Peter Zwart --------------- Optimised local Information on Toronto for visitors to the meeting via: http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/local.html and includes: Visiting Toronto for families by Tina Rose : a visitor guide to sites for both attendees and families. http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/files/toronto_for_families.pdf and Dave Smith's Toronto: a personal guide to restaurants and pubs in the area http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/files/daves_toronto.pdf Lachlan ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Contact outside working hours / Coordonnees en dehors des heures de travail: NEW E-mail / courriel: lachlanc *at* magma.ca Home Tel: (613) 584-4226 ; Cell/mobile: (613) 401-6254 WWW: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/ P.O. Box 2057, Deep River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1P0 From Peter.Swash from alcoa.com.au Wed Jan 21 16:33:47 2009 From: Peter.Swash from alcoa.com.au (Swash, Peter) Date: Fri Jan 23 09:17:21 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Mineral structures/Crystallography Message-ID: <0DFA7E9941315A4E8C518330A23AC17A01404EB6@AUABGN-MXU33.aua.alcoa.com> As a scientist involved in crystallography i have come across a kids toy called MAGNEXT. With these units one can construct pretty cheaply octahedral and tetrahedral units, with these one can then help construct larger standard mineral structures/arrangements. For teaching this very dull subject this could be ideal? peter.swash@alcoa.com.au From sweet from bnl.gov Sat Jan 24 21:09:39 2009 From: sweet from bnl.gov (Robert Sweet) Date: Sat Jan 24 21:09:46 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Only two weeks remain to apply for RapiData, the BNL Course on Synchrotron Data Collection and Structure Solving. Many positions remain. Message-ID: The application deadline is 8AM EST Monday 9 February for RapiData 2009, the eleventh offering of our popular course: Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement The course will be held 19-24 April 2009. Students could be at any level from advanced undergraduate to full professor. 48 students will be accepted; 24 will bring their own specimens for data collection. Please read the course description at http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/RapiData2009/. You'll see that many experts in the field will be available for lectures and tutorials, and you'll find the application materials at this site. For the seventh time we will hold a short lecture course on the fundamentals of crystallography for roughly five hours on Sunday 19 April. The body of the RapiData course really requires that students have a healthy knowledge of crystallography. For potential students who have some experience but are shaky about fundamentals, this course will help. There will be a small additional fee for the fundamentals course, to pay for Saturday night accomodations and food on Sunday morning and noon. Latin American Scientists: Several scholarships are available, from the International Union of Crystallography, to pay partial travel and subsistence costs for Latin-American students and junior faculty. Please apply for the course, and then contact R. Sweet (sweet@bnl.gov) if you are interested in applying for a scholarship. In accordance with the standards of the International Union of Crystallography, we observe the basic policy of non-discrimination, affirming the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin, race, colour, language, age, or gender, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science. At this course no barriers will exist beyond the application procedure that would prevent the participation of bona fide scientists. Please apply or send your students to our course, Alex Soares, Sal Sclafani, and Bob Sweet ========================================================================= Robert M. Sweet E-Dress: sweet@bnl.gov Group Leader, PXRR: Macromolecular ^ (that's L Crystallography Research Resource at NSLS not 1) http://px.nsls.bnl.gov/ Biology Dept Brookhaven Nat'l Lab. Phones: Upton, NY 11973 631 344 3401 (Office) U.S.A. 631 344 2741 (Facsimile) ========================================================================= From Andrey.Kajava from crbm.cnrs.fr Tue Jan 20 05:41:28 2009 From: Andrey.Kajava from crbm.cnrs.fr (Andrey Kajava) Date: Sat Feb 7 17:13:20 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] (no subject) Message-ID: <4975AA0B.5060209@crbm.cnrs.fr> International Jacques Monod Conference: “Protein folds in infectious and neurodegenerative diseases” Aussois (Savoie), France, 25-29 April 2009. The deadline for applications to attend this conference is February 15th 2009. Please email the application(s) and abstract(s) to Andrey Kajava (andrey.kajava@crbm.cnrs.fr). The conference will be held in Aussois (http://www.caes.cnrs.fr/Vacances/Explorer/Aussois. Registration fee includes board and lodging (385 € for PhD students; 575 € for other participants). More information: http://www.cnrs.fr/sdv/cjm/2009/steven_e.html -- passerelle antivirus du campus CNRS de Montpellier --