As you all must know by now, we are fast approaching the IUCr Meeting in Glasgow. Preparations for this major scientific event are well in hand now, and already the signs are that the attendance will be very large indeed. So I urge you to think seriously about making plans to attend this important meeting. This will give you a unique opportunity to welcome crystallographers from all over the world who represent the whole vast range of subjects that make up our discipline. Certainly the summer is going to be a busy time for the members of the Organising and Programme Committees. If you have not yet received your copy of the 2nd circular, please contact me or Chris Gilmore. I look forward to seeing you all in Glasgow in August!
I am pleased to see that Dorothy Hodgkin's College Somerville is helping to sponsor a Dorothy Hodgkin memorial lecture in The University Museum in Oxford on March 4th to be given by Louise Johnson. Those of you who are in Oxford at the time may like to attend. (See the Latest news page in the BCA Web pages for details, address below)
Our activities on crystal growing, ably organised by Phil Smith of the Royal Society of Chemistry with a little help from BCA members, are continuing. We are hoping the national competition will be as great a success as the regional ones.
Finally, it is with sadness that I have to announce the death recently of Don Rogers, whom many of us remember for his important contributions to crystallography, especially his important work on absolute configuration.
Mike Glazer
Oxford
3 February 1999
Editor's Note: Further details of both the Dorothy Hodgkin lecture and
a link to the page describing the crystal growing competition can be found
via the BCA web site address:
http://gordon.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCA/latest.html
During 1998, a total of £3,100 was used for BCA General bursaries and was distributed to nine individuals and to two block grants. This excludes the sum awarded for BCA bursaries to the BCA St. Andrews Conference, paid for by the conference funds.
A similar report was published last year in 'Crystallography News' March
1998, issue No. 64
Each bursary is described on two lines:
on the first is the Reference no. followed by the name of the Recipient and
their Institution
the second line has the name of the Conference
and the Cost in £s
98.1 BLOCK grant Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester
"50 years of Computing Conference" £800
98.2 Dijksma, Mr F.J. Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
18th European Crystallographic Meeting, Prague,Czech Republic £200
98.3 Fisher, Mr M. Department of Mol. Biol. & Biotech., University of Sheffield
ACA, Washington DC, USA £200
98.4 Cole, Dr J.M. School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent
IUCr School, Erice, Italy £200
98.5 Peacock, Ms C.A. Mech. & Chemical Eng. Department, Univ. of Heriot-Watt
12th Int. Conference on Crystal Growth, Jerusalem, Israel £200
98.6 Smith, Miss L. School of Biochemistry & Mol. Biology, University of Leeds
ACA, Washington DC, USA £200
98.7 Hennessy, Ms A.J. Mech. & Chemical Eng. Department, Univ. of Heriot-Watt
12th Int. Conference on Crystal Growth, Jerusalem, Israel £200
98.8 Coxall, Mr R.A. Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
18th European Crystallographic Meeting, Prague,Czech Republic £200
98.9 Vinecombe, Miss E. School of Biochemistry & Mol. Biology, University of Leeds
18th European Crystallographic Meeting,Prague,Czech Republic £200
98.10 BLOCK grant to the
5th Glasgow Protein Structure Workshop at Galashiels, Scotland £500
5 students each awarded £100:
Smith, Miss L.; Dawkes, Miss H.C.; Vinecombe, Miss E. University of Leeds
McLuskey Miss K.; Goodal, Mr G. University of Glasgow
98.11 McBride, Miss L. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Strathclyde University
AsCA'98, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia £200
TOTAL value of 1998 payments = £3,100
Location Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford.
Time: 6.00 p.m. Entrance: free Details tel: (01865) 270630
The move to the University of Southampton has been completed. Full details of how to apply to use this service are on the Web at URL http://www.soton.ac.uk/~xservice/
The deadline for proposals is provisionally 28th February, but I am told
they will accept any submitted up until 15th March. I hope to have an
article describing this laboratory based service in the next issue.
This meeting will be held in rural Pennsylvania September 27th to 29th 1999. It is sponsored by the ICDD and Glaxo Wellcome Inc. if you want to go please register as soon as possible, Full details are on the web at :
http://www.icdd.com/ppxrdsymp/index.htm
Further information from the ICDD email: [email protected]
The ICDD Crystallography Scholarship Committee has selected five winners for
the 1999 Scholarship program. They are: Byron DeLaBarre, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Shannon Patrick Farrell, University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Cora Lind, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; Oshrit Navon, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; K. Scott Weil (also a 1998 recipient), Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Byron DeLaBarre's
studies focus on 'Determining the Phases for a Difficult Protein Structure.
Shannon Farrell 's research involves 'Sulpher K- and L-Edge XANES of
3d Transition Metal Sulphides and Silicate and Germanate Glasses.' The
exploration of 'New Negative Thermal Expansion Materials Related to Cubic
ZrW2O8", will be conducted by Cora Lind.
Oshrit Navon's thesis research concerns the 'Polymorphism and the
Influence of Crystal Forces on Molecular Conformation.' K. Scott
Weil will continue his 'Investigation of the Formation, Structure, and
Magnetic Beha vior of Compounds in the Nickel-Molybdenum-Nitride System.'
Jeanne Ginsburg
International Centre for Diffraction
Data
Web site:
http://www.icdd.com
Grants have been awarded to 17 principal investigators in 12 universities for laboratory refurbishment in the field of informatics. Among these relevant to crystallography are:
Professor Neil Barclay to support the Oxford
University Bioinformatics Centre,
Professor Judith
Howard, (Durham) to develop chemical databases to obtain
information on molecular interactions of importance to drug design, polymer
structure and liquid crystal formation,
Professor Maria Petrou, (Surrey) to support research in image processing
techniques to reduce exposure to X-rays during medical diagnosis,
Dr. Henry Rzepa, Imperial College, to create a
dedicated informatics and visualisation centre as part of an
interdisciplinary computational chemistry and medical science suite.
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