Programme (Printable Version)

NOTE: All talks will take place in the Conference Theatre

SATURDAY 3rd JANUARY 2009

13:00 - 17:00 Registration open in the foyer of the East Midlands Conference Centre
15:00 - 18:15 SR User Group Meeting in the Conference Theatre (see "Satellite Meetings")

SUNDAY 4th JANUARY 2009

08:30 Registration opens in the foyer of the Conference Centre
09:00 - 10:30 Mini Workshop: "What's New with CCP4?" in the Conference Theatre
10:00 Tea and Coffee Available

PROGRAMME FOR MAIN EVENT (This will be updated and refined in the run up to the Conference when titles are confirmed)

Day 1 - Sunday 4 January 2009
Introduction to Meeting Themes			Chair: Clemens Vonrhein
11:00-11:10	Clemens Vonrhein	Introduction to the Meeting		Confirmed
11:10-11:50	Garry Taylor	Introduction to phasing		Confirmed
11:50-12:30	Elspeth Garman	Radiation Damage: what is it and why do we care?		Confirmed
*12:30-14:00*	*Lunch*
Session A - Before the experiment			Chair: Phil Evans
14:00-14:30	Helen Walden	Selenium incorporation using recombinant techniques		Confirmed
14:30-15:00	Peter Sun	Toward a rational approach to conventional heavy atom screening		Confirmed
15:00-15:30	Douglas Juers	Rational Approaches to Crystal Cooling		Confirmed
15:30-15:50	Tobias Beck	The magic triangle: a new phasing tool		Confirmed
15:50-16:10	Karthik Paithankar	Know your dose: RADDOSE		Confirmed
*16:10-16:45*	*Coffee/Tea*
Session B - During the experiment (I)			Chair: Liz Duke
16:45-17:15	Zbyszek Dauter	Carrying out an Optimal Diffraction Experiment		Confirmed
17:15-17:45	Gerard Bricogne	Interleaved Data Collection Protocols for Optimally Exploiting Anomalous Scattering and its Anisotropy for Phase Determination		Confirmed
17:45-18:15	James Holton	The Theoretical Limits of Macromolecular Crystallography		Confirmed
*19:30-23:30*	*Conference Dinner*
Day 2 - Monday 5 January 2009
Session B - During the experiment (II)			Chair: Andrew Leslie
09:00-09:30	Sasha Popov	BEST data collection		Confirmed
09:30-10:00	Susan Lea	With phases - two wrongs can sometimes make a right		Confirmed
10:00-10:30	Zbyszek Otwinowski	Correcting for radiation damage		Confirmed
*10:30-11:00*	*Coffee/Tea*
Session C - Using the experiment			Chair: Andrea Hadfield
11:00-11:30	Martin Weik	Specific radiation damage to probe structural protein dynamics		Confirmed
11:30-12:00	Marc Schiltz	Broken symmetries in macromolecular crystallography : phasing from unmerged data		Confirmed
12:00-12:20	John McGeehan	Raman spectrometry and radiation damage of nucleic acids		Confirmed
12:20-12:40	Arwen Pearson	"Seeing is not always believing: using single crystal UV-Visible spectroscopy to monitor radiation damage"		Confirmed
*12:40-14:00*	*Lunch*
Session D - After the experiment			Chair: TBA
14:00-14:30	Airlie McCoy	The First Map		Confirmed
14:30-15:00	Kevin Cowtan	Automated phase improvement and model building with Parrot and Buccaneer		Confirmed
15:00-15:30	George Sheldrick	Experimental phasing with SHELXC/D/E: combining chain tracing with density modification		Confirmed
15:30-16:00	Sean McSweeney	The Cheshire Cat’s Smile – Radiation Damage and the effect on Phasing Power		Confirmed
End of Meeting

Note: italic titles are not yet confirmed and will be updated as actual titles are submitted.