BSG Winter Meeting 15th December 2010

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.

CCP4 Study Weekend

5-7 January 2011

This year’s Study Weekend will run between the 5th and 7th January at the Warwick Conferences, University of Warwick.

This year, the topic for the Study Weekend is "Model Building & Refinement & Validation". In keeping with previous CCP4 meetings, the lectures will focus on the presentation and discussion of advanced methods and techniques developed and used by the leaders in the field.

Please visit the CCP4 Study Weekend web site for more information.

Autumn Meeting of Chemical Crystallography Group

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.

ECM28 Logo Competition

 

At the European Crystallographic Meeting in Istanbul last year, the BCA won the bid to host the ECM28 at the University of Warwick in 2013. We need to choose a logo for the Meeting, and in keeping with tradition we are doing this by running an open competition. The winner will receive as their prize a free registration for ECM28.

General Guidelines

  • The competition is open to all Members of the BCA.
  • Each Member can submit more than one entry.
  • Entries must be effective in both colour and greyscale.
  • Entries should have a distinct crystallographic element.
  • Entries should be in a commonly used graphics format.
  • The closing date is 31 January 2011.

Submit your entry to Susanne Coles (neé Huth) by emailing it to S.Huth@soton.ac.uk with “ECM28 Logo Competition” in the Subject line. The winner will be announced
during the BCA Spring Meeting at Keele University (11-14 April 2011).

Some previous ECM logos are shown here and can also be seen at http://www.ecanews.org/meetings.php.

— The ECM28 Organising Committee

   
   
   
   
 

 

IUCr Commission Nominations

Dear BCA members

The deadline for nominating members for the IUCr Commissions and Executive Committee is 31 August.

A nominator is required and as well as the usual personal details, it asks for the nominee’s qualifications, positions held and field of research.

The relevant forms are at http://www.iucr.org/iucr. I encourage you to consider nominating a UK crystallographer or consider being nominated for a position relevant to your area of expertise.
The nominations should come through the National Committee, i.e. the BCA Council.
If you have nominations to submit please send them to me at G.M.Rosair@hw.ac.uk

Current members of the Commissions are listed here http://crystallography.org.uk/iucr-reps

Harry Powell has already being nominated for the Chair of the Crystallographic Computing Commission.

Best wishes

Georgina Rosair
Secretary of the British Crystallographic Association

BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting 2010

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….

Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2010

A video of the 2010 Hodgkin Memorial Lecture by Professor Elspeth Garman is now available online. “Crystallography One Century AD (after Dorothy)“.

BACG Annual Conference

Sunday 5th – Tuesday 7th September 2010
Manchester Conference Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
 

Conference Programme
The 2010 annual BACG meeting is to be held in Manchester, UK and will commence with registration on Sunday 5 September and finish on the afternoon of Tuesday 7 September.

As in previous years, the Conference will include the BACG Annual General Meeting, presentation of the BACG Annual lecture and the BACG Young Scientist award together with plenary, invited and contributed lectures. There will be a poster session followed by a poster prize. The meeting will recognise the scientific work of Prof Roger Davey of the University of Manchester. This year the BACG will appoint Prof Roger Davey as its President and the meeting is held in honour of his scientific work in the field of nucleation and crystal growth

Conference programme and call for papers
Invited speakers will include:

  • Michael Doherty, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Angelo Gavezzotti, University of Milan
  • Marco Mazzotti, ETH Zurich
  • Gerard Coquerel, Universite de Rouen
  • Lian Yu, University of Wisconsin
  • Chis Hunter, University of Sheffield
  • Joop ter Horst, Delft University of Technology
  • Simon Black, AstraZeneca Paul McMillan, UCL
  • Roger Davey, University of Manchester

A vibrant programme is planned with sessions including Industrial Crystallisation and Pharmaceuticals, Fundamentals of Crystal Growth, Crystallisation in Extreme Conditions and Nucleation and Growth of Inorganic Materials.

For more information please visit http://www.bacg2010.org

Abstract submission deadline: Sunday 30th May 2010, notification of acceptance: Friday 25 June 2010.
Conference Chairs: Dr Sven Schroeder and Dr Ghazala Sadiq, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, UK E-mail: s.schroeder@manchester.ac.uk ; Ghazala.Sadiq@manchester.ac.uk

Spring Meeting 2011

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 

Using RSS for Crystallographic and Chemistry Journal News

The BCA website produces an ‘RSS feed’ which allows you to subscribe to updates when we post new content. You can also subscribe to most Journals such as those listed here.

All you need is a Feed Reader to keep track of your subscriptions. Google Reader is one such tool, and this video explaining how it works is also a good introduction to RSS: