A satellite of the IUCr congress in Prague.
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Structural Biology to enhance high impact research in health and disease

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Main Topics:
· data collection (remotely @ Diamond synchrotron);
· data processing;
· phasing and structure determination;
· model refinement and validation.

25 participants will be selected, prioritizing advanced PhD students, postdocs and young researchers. No registration fee, please look in the www site for details on application procedures.
Participants will have the opportunity to collect data from their own crystals at Diamond Light Source synchrotron via remote access, with the assistance of Diamond staff.
The workshop will be virtual considering the pandemics constraints. It will combine excellent lectures with hands-on problem-solving sessions. Tutorials of state-of-the-art software will include XDS, Dials, Phaser, ShelX, Coot, Refmac, Buster-TNT, PISA, among others.
Since the workshop is virtual additional participants may elect to attend lectures only. If you wish to do this please complete the registration form and indicate that this is your choice.

Invited speakers and tutors :
• Rafael Junqueira Borges (Instituto de Biociências UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
• Kevin Cowtan (University of York, UK)
• Eleanor Dodson (University of York, UK)
• Paul Emsley (Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC, Cambridge, UK)
• Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford, UK)
• Beatriz Guimarāes (Instituto Carlos Chagas Fiocruz, Curitiba, Brazil)
• Marin van Heel (Lab. Nacional de Nanotecnologia CNPEM, Campinas, Brazil)
• Ronan Keegan (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab â€" CCP4, Didcot, UK)
• Eugene Krissinel (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab â€" CCP4, Didcot, UK)
• Andrey Lebedev (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab â€" CCP4, Didcot, UK)
• Natalia Lisa (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Rosario, Argentina)
• Joāo Muniz (Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Brazil)
• Garib Murshudov (Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC, Cambridge, UK)
• James Parkhurst (Diamond Light Source, Didcot, UK)
• Randy Read (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Silvia Russi (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, USA)
• Nukri Sanishvili (Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA)
• Isabel Usón (Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona, Spain)
• Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd, Cambridge, UK)

Organizers:
Nicole Larrieux, Clinical Biochemist. Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
Kyle Stevenson, DPhil. CCP4, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Alejandro Buschiazzo, PhD. Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

The application deadline is June 30, 2021.

Phenix User Workshop on 14th of April at 4-9pm PDT.* These times will work best for
researchers in Asia and Australasia.
 

he format of the workshop will be demos of the use of Phenix programs
combined with slides to explain the theory. We expect an interactive
meeting where attendees can ask questions for the Phenix team to answer.

The workshop will cover aspects of macromolecular crystallography
in Phenix, with the final emphasis based on the applicants’ research
interests.
 

To apply please fill out this form
. We will make every effort to
accommodate all applicants, but may need to defer some requests to a
future workshop if demand is high. We are hoping this workshop will be a
success, in which case we plan to host more in the future.

*14 APR *

 - 3.45pm - Start of Zoom session (for people to debug any issues)
 - 4.00pm - Pavel Afonine - Real Space Refine
 - 5.15pm - Nigel Moriarty - Ligands and Restraints
 - 6.00pm - Jane Richardson - Validation
 - 7.00pm - Question/Answer session

 

The Phenix developers will be holding an online *Phenix User Workshop on
the 7th and 14th of April at 4-9pm PDT.* These times will work best for
researchers in Asia and Australasia.
 

The format of the workshop will be demos of the use of Phenix programs
combined with slides to explain the theory. We expect an interactive
meeting where attendees can ask questions for the Phenix team to answer.

The workshop will cover aspects of macromolecular crystallography
in Phenix, with the final emphasis based on the applicants’ research
interests. 

*AGENDA:*
*7 APR *

 - 3.45pm - Start of Zoom session (for people to debug any issues)
 - 4.00pm - Paul Adams - Phenix Overview
 - 4.30pm - Tom Terwilliger - Map Improvement
 - 5.45pm - Tom Terwilliger - Model Building
 - 7.00pm - Question/Answer session

 

*14 APR *

 - 3.45pm - Start of Zoom session (for people to debug any issues)
 - 4.00pm - Pavel Afonine - Real Space Refine
 - 5.15pm - Nigel Moriarty - Ligands and Restraints
 - 6.00pm - Jane Richardson - Validation
 - 7.00pm - Question/Answer session

The Phenix developers will be holding an online Phenix User Workshop on the 15th and 16th of September at 8am-12pm PDT. These times will work best for researchers in North and South America, Europe and Africa. We plan to hold a future workshop at a time better suited to researchers in Asia and Australasia.

The format of the workshop will be demos of the use of Phenix programs combined with slides to explain the theory. We expect an interactive meeting where attendees can ask questions for the Phenix team to answer.

The workshop will cover aspects of crystallography and cryo-EM in Phenix, with the final emphasis based on the applicants? research interests. To apply, send email to [email protected] with a short paragraph about your interests. We will make every effort to accommodate all applicants, but may need to defer some requests to a future workshop if demand is high. We are hoping this workshop will be a success, in which case we plan to host more in the future.

The program will include the following sessions:

• QSAR without Borders
• Artificial Intelligence in Drug Design
• Molecular Dynamics and Kinetics
• Chemical Space Annotation and Expansion
• Modelling Drug Safety
• Challenges in GPCR Drug Design
• Modelling Drug Transport Mechanisms
• Predicting Off-Target Pharmacology
• Network Medicine
• New Modes of Target Interaction
• New Trends in Quantum Mechanics
• Future Challenges Ahead

Dear Friends and Colleagues

We are thrilled to announce that the 2020 ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography, to be held at Purdue University on May 31^st to June 7^th, is now open for applications.

The ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography is a week long program that is now well into its third decade of instruction here in the United States. The course is directed towards Single-Crystal Chemical Crystallography and Powder Diffraction techniques, as applicable to small molecule studies and is designed to instruct attendees in the theory and practice of these two aspects of crystallography. Mornings are full with lectures on the theory of the experiment and afternoons and early evenings are covering hands-on workshops.

More information can be found at https://acasummercourse.net/ or https://acasummercourse.net/application/. To submit your application, please visit the address https://acasummercourse.net/2020-application/

Please do not hesitate contacting us at [email protected] with any questions you might have

For the organizers,

Matt Zeller, Purdue University

Christos Malliakas, Northwestern University

Charlotte Stern, Northwestern University

Allen Oliver, Notre Dame University

CONEXS Conference

Emerging Trends in X-Ray Spectroscopy

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The Collaborative Network for X-Ray Spectroscopy (CONEXS) is an EPSRC-funded network in partnership between Newcastle University and Diamond Light Source. The first CONEXS Conference will be taking place at Newcastle University on the 18-20 February 2020, bringing together leading national and international experts to discuss emerging trends in X-ray Spectroscopy and examine the intersection of experiment and theory.

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Date: 18-20 February 2020

Venue: Newcastle University, UK

Call for Abstracts

We are now welcoming submissions for abstracts for both oral presentations and posters, the abstract guidance and the submission form are available here:Â https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/abstractsubmission/.

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Registration (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/registration/)

Registration for the conference is now open, at a rate of £150 (standard) or £75 (students/ECRs). This price includes attendance at the conference dinner.

Keynote speakers

•            Prof. Serena DeBeer, Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion

•            Prof. John Rehr, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Washington

•            Prof. Sonia Coraini, Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Denmark

•            Dr. Anna Regoutz, Lecturer in Materials Chemistry, University College London

•            Prof. Matthias Bauer, Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Paderborn

•            Prof. Neil Hyatt, Professor of Nuclear Materials Chemistry, University of Sheffield

•            Dr. Marius Retegan, Scientist, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

•            Dr. Olga Safonova, Senior Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute

•            Dr. Mihaela Gorgoi, Beamline Scientist, EMIL Berlin

•            Prof. Jakub Szlachetko, Associate Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS

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Conference website: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/

The meeting provides a review of state of the art profile fitting analyses using TOPAS, hosting a program of invited speakers. The major component is to demonstrate TOPAS's outstanding modeling methods and related applications in X-ray and neutron diffraction.

This workshop will focus on the basics of the Jana2006 software package, allowing participants to experience utilising the software to deal with simple and modulated structures, disordered structures, and the phenomenon of twinning. No prior knowledge of using Jana2006 is necessary for interested participants.

There is space for 15 participants, and registration is NOW OPEN.Â

There are no registration fees associated with attending this workshop; no financial support can be provided.Â

The European Crystallographic Computing Forum is a participant driven event. We encourage informal tutorials between participants. Participants can bring small software projects and work on them together with other participants in teams, being helped by the invited tutors and each other.

Mornings will be filled with plenary discussions and lectures on topics of general interest to computing in all disciplines of crystallography, afternoons and evenings will be run code-camp style, intersparsed with tutorials as needed.

The NYC Computational Cryo-EM Summer Workshop brings together applied mathematicians, software developers, and experimentalists from the field of cryo-EM to advance the state of data analysis and processing. This includes development of new algorithms and software, as well as identifying new problems introduced by recent experimental techniques.

Specific topics include:

• advances in reconstruction algorithms,
• software implementations and automation,
• motion correction,
• 2D and 3D classification and continuous heterogeneity analysis,
• related mathematical results, and
• new challenges.