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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.

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

Lisa Jardine reflects on the valuable example of the Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, who bridged the so-called divide between the arts and the sciences.  Listen on the BBC iPlayer.

It is with great pleasure that I write to let you know of the result of the nominations made for Honorary Membership of the BCA in 2010. We have three new Honorary Life Members:

Bill Clegg, University of Newcastle
David Taylor, Consultant
Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Congratulations to all three of them!

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

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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  read more »

First of all, apologies if you have seen this request by another route, but it is important that we contact anyone who might have information.

Lachlan Cranswick, who is well known to many members of the BCA, has been missing since he left work at Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, at 4:30pm on Monday 18 January 2010. If you have had any contact with Lachlan since then, or have any information about his whereabouts, please let the police know. The contact regarding the search is  read more »

Dear BCA Member
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the BCA
Spring Meeting 13 - 15 April 2010 'Data Matters' at Warwick University.
Register now on-line at: http://www.crystallography-meetings.org.uk/spring10.php or download the pdf form.  read more »

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.  read more »

The CSD’s 500,000^th structure is the anti-convulsant drug Lamotrigine, published in Acta Crystallographica, C65, o460-o464, 2009, by Balasubramanian Sridhar and Krishnan Ravikumar of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad. The CSD reference code for the structure is EFEMUX01.  read more »