Forthcoming meetings

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)

please see the pdf file below for further information

The 2010 Spring Meeting will be held at the University of Warwick between 12^th and 15^th April 2010 and the theme is "Data Matters". Registration is now open online.

Please note that there is no single accommodation available for the night of Monday 12th. There are a few double rooms available. Please call the admin office 01355 244 966 for availability.

The broad ranging theme encompasses every aspect of crystallographic study, whilst promoting an interdisciplinary feel for the conference.

As usual there will be a Young Crystallographers Meeting (Monday 12^th April and Tuesday morning) and there will be a Pair Distribution Function workshop at the end of the conference. Throughout the meeting there will be a Software Fayre for demonstrations and problem solving sessions.

Programme information - timetable, session titles, prize lecturers (two knighted, FRS are amongst the recipients this year!) and satellite meetings - can be found on the Programme page.

As with last year, sessions in the meeting will comprise two invited speakers and one selected from contributed abstracts. We encourage you to look at the Programme to identify sessions of interest that you wish to contribute to. We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations for the extended deadline of 19^th October 2009. Posters are also an important part of the meeting and we encourage you to submit abstracts for these by 5^th February 2010. 

The Programme Chair for the meeting is Dr Simon Coles (contact Simon with questions or comments) and the full Programme Committee members are Elspeth Garman (President); Sandy Blake (Vice President); Harry Powell (Treasurer); David Massey (Northern Networking); Vilmos Fulop & Neil Isaacs (BSG); Ross Harrington & Hazel Sparkes (CCG); Martin Gill & Matthew Johnson (IG); Matt Tucker, Sarah Lister & Andrew Wills (PCG); Graham Findlay & Helena Shepherd (YCG) and Arwen Pearson (2011 Programme Chair).

http://www.dur.ac.uk/john.evans/webpages/pcg_rietveld_school_2010.htm

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.

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/