From sweet from bnl.gov Fri Oct 23 07:02:39 2009 From: sweet from bnl.gov (Robert Sweet) Date: Fri Oct 23 07:02:47 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Beam time is available at the NSLS Message-ID: Please visit the website at www.px.nsls.bnl.gov and select "Get Access to Beam Time." The PXRR (Macromolecular Crystallography Research Resource at the NSLS) operates five beamlines for macromolecular crystallography (MX). Two of these beamlines are undulators: X29 is the most efficient MX machine east of Chicago in the US, often serving three different research groups in a day. X25 is as bright, and has counted Rod MacKinnon, Tom Steitz, and Venki Ramakrishnan among its prize-winning users. Typical beam sizes at these undulators are 50 microns. If your crystal is only 20 microns, we can give you a beam that size. There are ALS-style automounters at X29 and two of our dipole beamlines, X12-B and X12-C. We have a new station at X26-C for the coordinated measurement of optical absorption spectroscopic and x-ray diffraction data. Several publications have come from this work and many projects are underway. A Raman spectrometer is being installed now. The PXRR is funded jointly by the NIH's National Center for Research Resources and the DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. ========================================================================= 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 events from embl-events.de Wed Oct 21 20:38:50 2009 From: events from embl-events.de (EMBL Courses & Conferences) Date: Sat Oct 24 10:13:47 2009 Subject: [Protein-crystallography] Visualizing Biological Data, 3-5 March 2010: Deadline on 16 Nov 2009 Message-ID: <0MgI6w-1MdBFA1xYs-00O6SW@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the first EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi, http://www.vizbi.org) 3 - 5 March 2010 at the EMBL's new Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany The goal of the workshop is to bring together, for the first time, researchers developing and using visualization systems across all areas of biology, including genomics, sequence analysis, macromolecular structures, systems biology, and imaging (including microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging). We have assembled an authoritative list of 29 invited speakers who will present an exciting program, reviewing the state-of-the-art and perspectives in each of these areas. The primary focus will be on visualizing processed and annotated data in their biological context, rather than on processing of raw data. The workshop is limited in the total number participants, and each participant is normally required to present a poster and to give a 'fastforward' presentation about their work (limited to 30 seconds and 1 slide). To apply to join the workshop, please go to http://vizbi.org and submit an abstract and image related to your work. Submissions close on 16 November 2009. Since places are limited, participants will be selected based on the relevance of their work to the goals of the workshop. Notifications of acceptance will be sent within three weeks after the close of submissions. We plan to award a prize for the submitted image that best conveys a strong scientific message in a visually compelling manner. Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested. We hope to see you in Heidelberg next spring! Seán O'Donoghue, EMBL Jim Procter, University of Dundee Nils Gehlenborg, European Bioinformatics Institute Reinhard Schneider, EMBL If you have any questions about the registration process please contact: Adela Valceanu Conference Officer European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 D-69117 Heidelberg Tel: +49-6221-387 8625 Fax: +49-6221-387 8158 Email: valceanu@embl.de For full event listings please visit our website: www.embl.org/events or sign up for our newsletter www.embl.de/events/newsletter