ECCG4 will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 17-20 June 2012: “Crystallisation in Focus: from Fundamentals to Application”
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Dear Member
The BCA contract with Northern Networking Events (NNE) expired on 30 March 2012, and following a tender process by the BCA Council, HG3 of Harrogate was selected to take over the Membership Administration from 30 March 2012, and the meeting organisation from 1 April 2013 (to organise the 2014 Spring Meeting). The contracts for both roles will expire at the same time, on 31 July 2018.
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Nominations are now open for selected positions on the committee for the Young Crystallographers Group. The YCG will be holding elections at the AGM on Monday 16th April at 17.15 at the Warwick Spring Meeting for new committee members. Nominations should be received prior to this AGM. The posts open for nomination are:
Secretary/Treasurer
PCG Rep
CCG Rep
If you would like to nominate anybody for one of these posts, or to find out what being on the committee is like and what responsibilities these committee positions have, then please contact the YCG Secretary Anna Warren (Anna.Warren@diamond.ac.uk) before the AGM on the 16th April 2011. Nominators should also check with the person up for nomination that they are willing to stand for election prior to the nomination.
Many thanks and best wishes from the Young Crystallographers
The programme committee is pleased to announce the following plenary lectureres at the forthcoming BCA Spring Meeting 2012:
Plenary Lectures
Laurence Pearl (University of Sussex)
Dan Shechtman (2011 Nobel Prize Winner)
Branton Campbell (Brigham Young University)
The BCA prize lecture
This lecture will be given by Robin Taylor in honour of Frank Allen.
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I am delighted to inform you that the winner of this year’s CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists is Dr Gareth Lloyd from the University of Cambridge.
The quality of the nominees for the prize was exceptionally high. However, the committee felt that during his career to date, Gareth has made an outstanding contribution to crystallography with some high impact publications. Gareth will give a talk on his research at this year’s BCA Spring Meeting in Warwick, where he will also be presented with his prize.
Best wishes,
Hazel Sparkes.
CCG Chair
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This is the third (and last) time that as President I have had the very enjoyable task of inviting nominations for new Honorary Members of the BCA.
Honorary Membership is the highest membership accolade of the BCA, and is awarded to a small number of colleagues who have contributed significantly both to crystallography and to the work of the BCA.
In 2009 Bill Clegg, Venki Ramakrishnan and David Taylor became our most recent Honorary Members, taking the total number to 22.
In the coming year we anticipate electing one or two new Honorary Members.
Please send your nominations, together with a short (1 page) supporting case and the endorsement of at least 3 other BCA members to me at president@crystallography.org.
For information, a list of our 22 current Honorary Members is available at http://crystallography.org.uk/honorary-members
Best wishes
Elspeth Garman
President, British Crystallographic Association
At the BCA 2011 AGM held at the very successful Keele Spring meeting a major topic of discussion was our shrinking membership. For the sustainability of the BCA we urgently need to recruit new members and re-recruit lapsed members.
Membership of the BCA offers:
We seek to involve our membership in promoting the benefits of being in the BCA and so we are running a competition where the member who manages to recruit the most new or lapsed members wins free registration for the European Crystallography Meeting in Warwick in 2013. New members can now specify on their membership form who recruited them so that the recommending member can be entered into the competition. The winner will be announced at the 2012 AGM.
We ask each BCA member to approach their colleagues and contacts in any area of crystallography to consider BCA membership. If each member recruits just one new member, we could double our membership…
A further initiative is to offer an electronic version of Crystallography News to members as a pdf file instead of a paper copy. This will assist in keeping our costs down and is also better for our planet. If any member wishes to take up this offer please email the BCA Secretary Georgina Rosair: secretary@crystallography.org.
With best regards
Elspeth Garman
President
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The 18th Summer School in Protein Crystallography will be held at The University of St Andrews. The course aims to cover the theoretical and practical aspects of protein crystallography from expression and purification, through crystal growth to data collection on in-house and synchrotron sources, phasing methods (MAD, SAD, IR, MR using SHELX, PHASER, SOLVE etc.), automated model building and phase extension (e.g. ARP/wARP, BUCCANEER, SHELXE, RESOLVE), refinement (REFMAC, SHELX) and validation.Read more at the Summer School web page.
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CellCheckCSD is a command line tool which aims to save end-users from wasting valuable diffractometer time due to collection of full datasets for crystal structures which are already published. It enables users to check their unit cell against the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), the world’s repository of small molecule crystal structures, before collecting a full diffraction dataset.
CellCheckCSD is a free service and has been developed for automated use through CrysAlisPro (Agilent Technologies), enabling users to check their unit cell from within their data collection software before starting a full experiment. It can be downloaded free of charge from the CCDC website at:
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/free_services/cellcheckcsd/
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Dear Member
I wanted to let you know that the venue for the 2012 Spring meeting will not be Loughborough University, as unfortunately they are now unable to accommodate us due to having been selected as the Olympic athletes training site.
At such short notice, we are very fortunate that Northern Networking have been able to book us in to Warwick University for the same dates with similar arrangements as for SM2010. I am happy to say that although Warwick is a more expensive venue, Loughborough have said in writing that they will be covering the difference in cost. Therefore there should be no financial implications for the BCA.
SM 2012 will be an excellent opportunity for us to have a ‘dry run’ of the venue before ECM28 in 2013.
With best wishes
Elspeth
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