Final Announcement: From Electrons to 3D Protein Structure

[s.tilley at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk]

Dear all,

This is the final announcement of our meeting:

>From Electrons to 3D Protein Structure: a workshop on cryo-EM
MOAC Centre, University of Warwick, 30th September 2005

Registration is still available for this one day meeting that is being held as
part of the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the University of
Warwick and the official opening of the new Imaging Suite in Biological
Sciences. Topics will cover cryo-electron microscopy methods and the biological
significance of protein structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy;
see below for the full programme. The workshop is designed to be accessible to
both specialists and non-specialists alike, and aims to create a relaxed forum
for sharing problems and innovations.

Programme

10.00-10.20am	Registration

10.20-10.30am	Opening comments

10.30-11.00am	Helen Saibil (Birkbeck College, London)
		‘Cryo-EM of Molecular Machines’

11.00-12.00	Short talks
		Anna Young (Biological Sciences, University of Warwick)
                ‘Cryo-EM of GroEL single rings’
			
                Chris Kennaway (Birkbeck College, London) TBC
                ‘Dodecameric structure of the small heat shock protein ACR1
from
                 mycobacterium tuberculosis’

		Endre Majorovits  (University of Oxford)
		‘Electron Tomography of the Immunological Synapse’

12.00-12.20	Cryo-EM Question Time

12.20-1pm 	lunch

1.00-1.30 	Alan Roseman (MRC-LMB, Cambridge)
		‘A structural model for maturation of the hepatitis B virus           
                 core’

1.30-2.10 	Short talks
		Karen Davies	(University of Oxford)
                ‘Electron Crystallography of HupR, A Response Regulator from the
     
                 NtrC Family'              

		Rich Collins (University of Manchester)	
                'Sweet success: probing the interactions of the E. coli  
                 K-antigenic polysaccharide export proteins'

2.10-2.30pm 	coffee

2.30- 3.00 	Marc Schmutz (Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg)
                ‘Cryo EM in soft matter: state of the art and perspectives’

3.00-3.20 	Chris Parmenter (Chemistry, University of Warwick)
                'Cryo-TEM investigation in the self-assembly of
                 blockcopolymers'

3.20-3.30 	Closing remarks 

3.30-4.pm 	Buses to plenary lecture on Gibbet Hill site

4.00-5.0	Plenary Lecture 
4.00-6.0	Prof. Stephen Fuller (University of Oxford)
	        ‘Cryo-electron microscopy and Cryo-Electron tomography of HIV’

5.00-5.30	Dr Mark Walport  (Director, The Wellcome Trust)
                ‘The Wellcome Trust’s Role in the support of UK Biomedical     
                 Science’

5.30-6.30	Reception to celebrate Imaging Suite opening  

For further details visit the meeting website:

http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BBS/EMmeeting.html

Hope to see you there!

Corinne Smith
Sarah Tilley
Svetla McPhie

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