Workshop on Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Diffraction Studies in Structural Biology

Deadlines:
July 05

Registration deadline for participating in data collection sessions

July 06

Participants are notified for admission to the data collection sessions

July 14

Registration deadline for those not participating data collection

 
Thursday, July 27
SSRL User Administration - GERT training for data collection session participants (appointment required)
 
Friday, July 28
8:00-8:30 Registration and morning refreshments
8:30-9:00

Synchrotron radiation based structural molecular biology - Britt Hedman (SSRL)

9:00-10:00

Role of small-angle scattering in structural biology - Michel Koch (EMBL)

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20-11:20 Analysis of small-angle scattering from solutions of biological macromolecules - Dmitri Svergun (EMBL)
11:20-12:10

Using small-angle scattering to complement macromolecular crystallography - Bill Weis (Stanford)

12:10-13:00

Breakout discussion: experimental requirements (Lunch will be served)

13:00-13:20

Hutch operation training for data collection session participants

13:20-14:10 Nucleic acid studies - Dan Herschlag (Stanford)
14:10-15:00

Structural and biophysical studies of conformational dynamics in viral capsids by solution x-ray scattering - Kelly Lee (Scripps)

15:00-15:20

Break

15:20-16:00

Integration of small-angle scattering data and modeling for structure determination of mulitdomain proteins and complexes - Friedrich Foerster (UCSF)

16:00-16:40

Next generation synchrotron light sources - structural biology with ultrabright and ultrashort x-rays - Keith Hodgson (SLAC)

16:40

GERT training for data collection participants at SSRL User Administration (appointment required)

16:40

Tour of BL4-2 for those not participating in data collection

 
Saturday, July 29
8:00-8:30

Morning refreshments

8:30-9:20 Membrane systems - Thomas Weiss (SSRL)
9:20-10:10

Neutrons in biology: solutions in protein structural analysis - Joanna Krueger (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

10:10-10:30

Break

10:30-11:10

BL4-2 overview and future plans - Hiro Tsuruta (SSRL)

11:10-11:40

Experimental considerations - Marc Niebuhr (SSRL)

11:40-12:10 Software for SAXSD data collection and analysis at SSRL BL4-2 - Ping Liu (SSRL)
12:10-13:00 Breakout discussion: complementary techniques (Lunch will be served)
 
Practical sessions:
13:00-17:00

Computational session (ROB)

13:00-23:00

Experimental sessions (BL4-2)

 
Sunday, July 30
Practical sessions:
9:00-13:00

Computational session (ROB)

9:00-19:00

Experimental sessions (BL4-2)

 
Schedule and talk titles are preliminary and subject to change.