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NOTE: All talks will take place in the Ramphal Lecture Theatre in the Ramphal Building

Wednesday 5 January 2011

09:00 - 10:30	What's New in CCP4?	Ronan Keegan
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE / TEA
Session 0 - Introduction to Meeting Themes
11:00 - 11:10	Introduction to the Meeting	Roberto Steiner
11:10 - 11:50	Why Protein Crystallography is (still) Difficult: an Overview of Key Challenges	Bernhard Rupp
11:50 - 12:30	Using prior structural information in model building and refinement	George Sheldrick
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH (including Lunchtime Bytes sessions) in Rootes Building
Session 1 - Building a Model: Automated, Manual, Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Not
14:00 - 14:30	Recent Developments in BUCANEER for Model Building and Refinement	Kevin Cowtan
14:30 - 14:50	New Tools for Model Improvement in Coot Using Concerted Torsions Description	Paul Emsley
14:50 - 15:15	New structures solved and built with ARCIMBOLDO... and a glimpse of SUBIX	Isabel Uson
15:15 - 15:40	Low-Resolution Model Building	Alwyn Jones
15:40 - 16:10	Coarse-Grained Models for Molecular Structure Refinement and Dynamics	Willy Wriggers
16:10 - 16:45	COFFEE / TEA
Session 2 - Refining a Model: General Strategies and Novel Developments
16:45 - 17:15	Crystallographic Structure Refinement and Validation Using PHENIX	Pavel Afonine
17:15 - 17:45	Recent developments in BUSTER: autoNCS, targetting, and improved ligand restraints	Oliver Smart
17:45 - 18:15	Knowledge-based restraints in phenix.refine for improved macromolecular refinement at low resolution	Jeff Headd
19:00 - 24:00	CONFERENCE DINNER IN THE PANORAMA SUITE, ROOTES BUILDING (followed by entertainment and dancing)

Session 3 - Refining a Model: Low-Resolution, Twinning and Complex Cases
09:00 - 09:30	Computational approaches to improve the quality of structures obtained from low-resolution diffraction data	Axel Brunger
09:30 - 10:00	Low Resolution Macromolecular Crystal Structure Refinement: Problems with and Approaches To	Garib Murshudov
10:00 - 10:30	Structure Solution and Refinement of Human Complement Factor I: Tetartohedral Twinning can Happen to You Too	Pietro Roversi
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE / TEA
Session 4 - Ligands and Nucleic Acids: How to Properly Treat Non-Amino Acids
11:00 - 11:25	Modern Methods of Ligand Refinement and Analysis Using Coot	Judit Debreczeni
11:25 - 11:45	JLigand: a Graphical Editor to Create Ligand Descriptions	Andrey Lebedev
11:45 - 12:15	Challenges and Surprises that Arise with Nucleic Acids	Bill Scott
12:15- 12:40	Model completion and ligand building with ARP/wARP	Victor Lamzin
12:40 - 14:00	LUNCH (including Lunchtime Bytes Sessions in Rootes Building)
Session 5 - Validation: Keep Checking You're on the Right Track
14:00 - 14:25	2 Copies Good, 4 Copies Better: Validation by Non-Crystallographic and Cross-Crystal Symmetry	Frank von Delft
14:25 - 14:50	Statistical Quality Indicators for Electron Density Maps	Ian Tickle
14:50 - 15:20	To B or not to B? What's appropriate in models from 1 A to 4 A (And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought - W. Shakespeare)	Ethan Merrit
15:20 - 15:50	The future of validation in the PDB	Sameer Velankar
15:50 - 16:15	PDB_REDO: Constructive validation, more than just looking for errors	Robbie Joosten
16:15 - 16:30	CONCLUDING REMARKS - ALL