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Spring Meeting 2012: change of venue

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Elspeth Garman| Comments Off

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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BSG Winter Meeting 15th December 2010

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

The final programme for the Biological Structures Group Winter Meeting is now available. The meeting will be held on Wednesday December 15th 2010 at the University of Reading. Registration opens from 10:00 am in Black Horse House with lectures starting at 11:00 in the Palmer Building on the Whiteknights Campus.

The general focus of the meeting is ‘Metal-protein interactions and their role in molecular transport and signalling.’

A limited number of student bursaries are available. For eligibility, student participants are asked to submit a short abstract (200 words) for a poster presentation and a letter of recommendation from their supervisor upon registration.

The aim of the conference is to highlight recent structure-function studies of proteins involved in molecular transport and signalling processes where metal ions play a crucial role.

Click here for more information.

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Autumn Meeting of Chemical Crystallography Group

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

The theme of the CCG 2010 Autumn Meeting is "Understanding the Solid State".

It will be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh Conference Centre (Edinburgh, UK) on Wednesday 17th November 2010.

Click here for meeting information.

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BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting 2010

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

meeting logo   APPLICATIONS OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION

Diamond Light Source

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

3-4 November 2010

Registration ends soon so sign up now!

All registrations must be received by the 27th October and accommodation bookings received after the 19th October are subject to confirmation.

The Industrial Group autumn meeting this year will take place at the Diamond Light Source.  Set over two days at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus there will be a variety of lectures by Diamond beamline scientists as well as academic and industrial application scientists.  Confirmed speakers include Bill David (ISIS), Chris Frampton (Pharmorphix), Gemma Newby (ESRF),   Emyr MacDonald (Cardiff) and Dave Rugg (Rolls-Royce. There will also be an opportunity to tour inside the Diamond ring and to see selected beamlines during the meeting.   

Registration for this event is now open and places are limited so sign up now!

Link to meeting page and registration….

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Spring Meeting 2011

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

The 2011 Spring Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association was held at the University of Keele between 11th and 14th April 2011.

The Programme Chair was Dr Arwen Pearson.

Please view the Programme and Abstract Book for further details 

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Celebrating 50 years of the British Biophysical Society

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

On 16-18th July 2010 there will be a meeting to celebrate 50 years of the British Biophysical Society at Robinson College, University of Cambridge

Registration: http://biophysics2010.org/
Enquiries: ghg24@cam.ac.uk

Plenary Speakers:
Venki Ramakrishnan (LMB, Cambridge)
Dorothee Kern (Brandeis)
Hagan Bayley (Oxford)
Stefan Hell (MPI, Göttingen)

See the pdf file below for further information.

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IG Mineral Meeting – “Between the Sheets”

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

XRD Meeting – "Between the Sheets" – 13th May 2010 , British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, Nottingham.

This is a back to back meeting with our XRF meeting on the 12th May 2010

For more details and to registration please visit the IG meeting page.

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Bill Clegg Symposium

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

A one-day symposium is to be held to mark the retirement of Bill Clegg (though not from research!) and focusing on major aspects of his research career to date: synchrotron crystallography and structural alkali-metal chemistry, including both historical and current perspectives.

Lunch will be provided. There is no fee for attendance. To assist with catering plans, please register if you plan to come, by 15 March: contact Isobel Lamb on 0191 222 7102 or isobel.lamb@ncl.ac.uk

Registration, coffee and lunch are in the Bamburgh Room, King’s Road Centre, Newcastle University (number 31 on the downloadable PDF campus map at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf; very close to Haymarket Metro Station), and the talks are in Lecture Theatre 6 of the King George VI Building (number 33 on the map; guides will show the way between these locations). For further travel information provided by the University, see www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/

Programme

From 10:00 Registration; coffee available

10:50 Welcome and opening remarks

11:00 Professor Paul Raithby (University of Bath): Bigger, brighter, faster: the development of

single-crystal X-ray crystallography in the UK

11:45 Dr Steve Liddle (University of Nottingham): A journey from lithium to uranium: a
structural tale

12:30 Dr Gary Nichol (University of Arizona, USA): Just trust me: synchrotron crystallography
from a service perspective

13:15 Lunch

14:15 Professor Bill Clegg (Newcastle University): Personal reflections (X-ray and otherwise)

14:30 Dr Simon Teat (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, USA): Lord of the Rings

15:15 Professor Rab Mulvey (University of Strathclyde): Social and structural synergy: Clegg,

Snaith, and Mulvey meet the alkali metals

16:00 Professor Dietmar Stalke (University of Göttingen, Germany): What a lithium chemist

can learn from charge density

16:45 Closing remarks

 

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13th Intensive Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

The 13th Intensive Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis will take place in Durham from March 26th until April 3rd 2011. This is a biennial school and demand for places is expected to be high. Find out more at the School’s homepage: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.x-ray-school/

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BCA/CCP4 Summer School XVII

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Richard Cooper| Comments Off

The BCA Summer School is a combined taught and practical course intended primarily for students and researchers new to crystallography. It is held in the University of Oxford’s Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall from 5th – 10th September 2010. Its aim is to provide comprehensive training in the theory and practise of crystallography, and to promote the exchange of experience and best practise within the British crystallographic community. The meeting covers the gamut of modern crystallographic theory and practice, from lattices, through phasing, to maximum likelihood and refinement. The focus is very much on relating theory to practise. The practical aspect of the workshop takes the form of intensively supervised computer tutorials. Although CCP4 programs will primarily be used in these tutorials, the aim will be to approach crystallographic questions in a software-agnostic manner.

Visit the webpage http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=698 for more information.

 

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