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

The programme and theme of the meeting are currently under development, and more information will appear here during Summer 2010. The Programme Chair is Dr Arwen Pearson.

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Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

3-4 November 2010

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.  read more »

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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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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 »