Programme (Printable Version)
NOTE: All talks will take place in the Conference Auditorium
THURSDAY 3rd JANUARY 2008
- 13:00 - 17:00 Registration open in the foyer outside the Conference Auditorium
- 15:00 - 18:15 CCP4 User Group Meeting in the Conference Auditorium (see "Satellite Meetings")
FRIDAY 4th JANUARY 2008
- 08:30 Registration opens in the foyer outside the Conference Auditorium
- 09:00 - 10:30 Mini Workshop: "What's New with CCP4?" in the Conference Auditorium
- 10:00 Tea and Coffee Available
SESSION 1 - Introduction (11:00 - 12:30)
- 11:00-11:45 - Wayne Hendrickson "What Structure Tells Us At Different Resolutions"
- 11:45-12:30 - Tom Steitz "Resolution, Resolution, Resolution: Starting at the Bottom and Moving Up"
LUNCH (12:30 - 14:00)
SESSION 2 - BIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS AT LOW RESOLUTION (14:00 - 16:30)
- 14:00-14:30 - Piet Gros "Structures of Complement C3, C3b, C3c and B at Medium to (very) Low Resolution"
- 14:30-15:00 - Simon Jenni "Structure of Fungal Fatty Acid Synthase, a 2.6-MD Molecular Assembly Line"
- 15:00-15:30 - Florian Brückner "RNA pol II Elongation Complex"
- 15:30-16:00 - Preben Morth "Na+/K+ ATPase (antiporter) Structure at 3.5A Resolution"
COFFEE / TEA (16:00 - 16:30) - The Auditorium Foyer & Gallery
SESSION 3 - MODEL BUILDING AND REFINEMENT AT LOW RESOLUTION (16:00 - 18:00)
- 16:30-17:00 - Manfred Weiss "What Is Resolution?"
- 17:00-17:30 - Nick Furnham "Hypothesis Testing in Model Building for Low Resolution X-Ray Data"
- 17:30-18:00 - Axel Brunger "Methods for X-ray Structure Determination at Low to Medium Resolution"
- 18:00 - End of Session
- 19:30-23:30 - Conference Dinner at University of Leeds - welcome drinks from 19:30 with dinner served at 20:00, followed by live music from the band "No Enz". The Student Union bar will be open from 18:30 for those that do not want to go back to the hotels before the dinner
SATURDAY 5th JANUARY 2008
SESSION 4 - VALIDATING PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS (09:00 - 10:30)
- 09:00-09:30 - Gerard Kleywegt "Applied Common Sense: The Why, What And How Of Validation"
- 09:30-10:00 - Randy Read "Case-Controlled Validation"
- 10:00-10:30 - Jane Richardson "MolProbity: Raising the Aspirations of Crystallography at both High and Low Resolutions"
COFFEE / TEA (10:30 - 11:00) - The Auditorium Foyer & Gallery
SESSION 5 - VALIDATING OTHER MOLECULES (11:00 - 12:30)
- 11:00-11:30 - Ton Spek "Structure Validation in Chemical Crystallography"
- 11:30-12:00 - Alexander Schüttelkopf "Validation Of Ligand Structures In Complex With Biomacromolecules"
- 12:00-12:30 - Thomas Lütteke"Quality Checks for Carbohydrate Structures in PDB Entries"
LUNCH (12:30 - 14:00)
SESSION 6 - LOOKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS (14:00 - 16:00)
- 14:00-14:30 - Rhiju Das "High Resolution Protein Structure Prediction and the Crystallographic Phase Problem"
- 14:30-15:00 - Gert Vriend "Homology Modelling and X-ray"
- 15:00-15:30 - Chris Tate "Lessons from the Structural Analyses of EmrE"
- 15:30-16:00 - Phil Jeffrey "Analysis of Problems with the ABC Transporter Structure Determination"
- 16:00 - Questions & Answers / Meeting Closes