[3dem] 2012 Hybrid Methods Meeting Announcement

[Dorit Hanein]

2012 Hybrid Methods Meeting Announcement

Dear Colleagues:

We are delighted to announce that the 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods will be held from March 14-18, 2012 in Lake Tahoe, California at the Granlibakken Conference Center. We invite you to visit our Symposium website at: http://www.hybridmethods2010.com/ register for the Symposium, submit an abstract, encourage all other interested parties to attend and display the attached meeting poster.

This Symposium builds on a series of very successful previous meetings on the same theme from 2004-2010. As in previous years, the overall goal is to illustrate the power of combining state of the art methods to tackle important and challenging biological problems and to identify limitations and gaps in currently practiced hybrid methods. The central premise is that gaining a comprehensive understanding of the highly sophisticated machines, complexes, and organelles of the cell requires the coordinated application of a number of complementary biophysical approaches (hybrid methods). New innovations at the 2012 meeting will include a special "Vision" talk on the future of Hybrid Structural Methods by Michael Rossmann, Purdue University, new characterization methods will be combined with advances within more “traditional” hybrid approaches such as the interfaces between electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and computational biology.  Featured topics will also include other biophysical methods, single molecules in motion and cell biology.

The meeting will be divided into seven Scientific Sessions

Session I: Hybrid Approaches to Dynamic Assemblies
Session II: Hybrid Approaches to Cell Biology
Session III: Computational Approaches to Hybrid Analysis
Session IV: Latest Advances in Hybrid Methods
Session V: Hybrid Approaches to Membrane Biology and Membrane Proteins
Session VI: Single Molecule and New Characterization Methods
Session VII: Hybrid Approaches for Probing Motion

We are fortunate to have recruited two outstanding Keynote Speakers: Wes Sundquist (University of Utah), and Susan S. Taylor (UCSD), as well as a great program of platform speakers who utilize multiple approaches to investigate a variety of complex biological systems. Additional platform speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Sincerely yours,

The Organizing Committee: Phoebe Stewart, Chair, Andrej Sali, Co-Chair, Taekjip Ha, Dorit Hanein, Ron Milligan, Felix Rey, Alasdair Steven, and Bill Weis.

Rachel Bookman, webmaster
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