8th annual CCP4 USA Crystallography School

The first two days will be dedicated to data collection and processing. The rest of the school will focus on structure solution, refinement and validation.

The course is intended mainly for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists in the area of structural biology from all across the globe. The school is not meant as an introductory level course to protein crystallography. It is designed more for applicants with reasonable expertise in crystallography and experience with the CCP4 suite. The purpose of the school is to address specific problems that the applicants face while collecting diffraction data and while solving and refining novel structures. Applicants with crystals for data collection or with already collected data will be given strong consideration, although these are not mandatory requirements.

Several of the leading PX software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials on their software and will also be available to help with problems during hands-on sessions of the school.

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Outline
The Okazaki conference has been one of the most important activities in Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), with its origin dated back to just after the foundation of IMS. The Conference has been normally held once or twice per year, with focusing on some specific topic that is emerging as a fundamental issue in the field of molecular science and related research area. The 74th Okazaki Conference is designated as "Frontier of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Molecular Science." We would like to discuss new science that can be opened by advanced XAFS techniques like spatial and/or time-resolved measurements. Although XAFS has matured as a sophisticated promising technique, recent progress based on the advance of synchrotron radiation light sources is still outstanding. We will summarize here the advanced XAFS methods and discuss near-future XAFS techniques and more importantly new science. It will be also fruitful if the new XAFS science can contribute to construction plans of diffraction-limited synchrotron radiation facilities in Japan.

The thirteenth International Conference on Electron Spectroscopy and Structure: ICESS-15, will be held in Stony Brook, New York, Sept 28th to bring together some 400 people interested in the properties of electrons and their interactions in systems ranging from atoms and molecules to complex condensed matter materials. Specific topics fordiscussion will include Atomic and Molecular Science, Photochemistry, Quantum Materials, Imaging Spectroscopies, Novel Instrumentation, and Nanomaterials.

Electronic structure is one of the fundamental properties of matter, and as such has been the subject of scientific investigation for more than a century. Â However the last two decades have witnessed important new discoveries in all areas ranging from the atomic level through to that of complex materials. Â There have also been significant developments in new methods, both theoretical and experimental, for investigating these properties. Â Â New experimental techniques have often evolved at the large scale facilities and by 2015 it is anticipated that the new state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation source at BNL, the NSLS II will be operational. Â It is anticipated that attendees will have the opportunity to tour this important facility.

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Symposia 1: Advances in Multifunctional Composite materials

Symposia 2: Advances in Thin Films

Symposia 3: Advances in Polymers and Ceramics

Symposia 4: Advances in Energy Storage and Conversion Devices

Symposia 5: Advances in Biosensors and Biomaterials

Symposia 6: Advances in Catalysis

Symposia 7: Low dimensional, Nano and 2D materials

Fundamental Mechanisms of Ordering from the Atomic to the Mesoscale

The Crystal Growth and Assembly Gordon Research Conference (previously known as "Thin Film and Crystal Growth Mechanisms GRC") is dedicated to the knowledge and understanding of the fundamental atomic and nanoscale physics and chemistry that are central to the nucleation and growth of crystals for a wide array of technologies. This well-established conference draws researchers from around the world from the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and beyond. Historically, the conference has emphasized concepts rather than specific materials, technologies or growth methods. Attendees are drawn together by a common interest in understanding the mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth and applying this understanding to the development of new materials. This focus has attracted scientists with a broad range of specializations: from biomineralization to quantum dots, from advanced scanning probe microscopies to multiscale molecular modeling, and from the interactions of proteins with inorganic materials to the role of stress in pattern formation. This dynamic conference brings together researchers who find common inspiration in seeing how the general principles of crystal thermodynamics and growth kinetics are applicable to many fields.

• Assembly Mechanisms
  (Peter Vekilov / Keynote: Daan Frenkel / Zvonimir Dogic)
• Surfaces and Interfaces
  (Alexander Chernov / Ulrike Diebold / Joanna Millunchick / David Srolovitz)
• Nanoparticles
  (Tobias Hanrath / Hongyuan Chen / Yu Huang)
• In Situ Characterization of Growth
  (Haimei Zheng / Mingwei Chen / Gen Sazaki / Eli Sutter)
• Bio-Inspired Crystallization
  (Yael Politi / Boaz Pokroy / Jeffrey Rimer)
• Nanowires
  (Frances Ross / Ritesh Agarwal / Jerry Tersoff / Erik Bakkers)
• Crystals for Energy Production
  (Aram Amassian / Alberto Salleo / Richard Lunt)
• Molecular Assembly and Crystallization
  (Michael McBride / Bart Kahr / Michele Parrinello / Boris Rybtchinksi)
• Quasicrystals and Colloids
  (Sharon Glotzer / Clemens Bechinger / Ulrich Wiesner)

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Energy Conversion, Storage, and Transport

From Model Studies to Complex Real World Systems

Surface Science Techniques for Addressing Contemporary Issues

Converging Disciplines for the Advancement of Inter-RNA Interactions

Connecting G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mechanisms to Physiological Functions

New Frontiers in GPCR Signaling: From Biased Agonism to Disease Progression

Workshops on Membrane Protein Technologies: April 9, 2015

MPS 2015 Meeting: April 10-12, 2015

The goal of the meeting is to share developments in technologies appropriate for the determination of the structure of membrane proteins, membrane protein complexes with other proteins and ligands, and to highlight recent results. The meeting brings together keynote lectures, oral presentations and poster presentations. Subjects range from membrane protein construct design, expression to mass spectrometry, spectroscopic, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy imaging, and hybrid approaches.Â

Industry sponsors are invited to participate fully in the meeting. Students and postdoctoral scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Workshops are offered that share experience and training in most recent developments in areas including but are not limited to membrane protein expression systems, protein purification, solubilization, crystallization, LCP, free electron laser sample preparation, and NMR.

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LCLS-II will provide revolutionary opportunities for addressing Grand Challenge questions from the level of electrons and atoms to the long-range, mesoscopic to macroscopic properties that emerge. These opportunities arise from the unprecedented combination of high-repetition rate, photon energy range, short pulse duration and high coherence of LCLS-II.

Material Physics Workshop ​9-10 February 2015

• Peter Abbamonte - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Â
• John Hill*Â - Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Theo Rasing - Radboud University Â
• Oleg Shpyrko - University of California, San DiegoÂ
• Thomas Russell - University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Justin Wark -Â University of Oxford
  

Invited Speakers:

• Wah Chiu - Baylor College of MedicineÂ
• David Eisenberg - UCLA
• Robert Stroud - University of California San FranciscoÂ
• Todd Yeates* - UCLAÂ (not yet confirmed)
• George Phillips - Rice UniversityÂ
• Dmitri Svergun - European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg
  

Chemistry Workshop 12-13Â February 2015

Invited Speakers:

• Reinhard Dörner - Goethe University FrankfurtÂ
• Harry Gray - Cal Tech
• Jon Marangos - Imperial College LondonÂ
• Robert Schlögl - Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck SocietyÂ
• Villy Sundstrom - Lund University
• Mike Wasielewski* -Â Northwestern (not yet confirmed)

The Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference (formerly "Polymers West") has a long-standing tradition as a GRC that features a breadth of the most exciting and state-of-the-art aspects of macromolecules. This tradition will continue in the 2015 Conference and discussion of new macromolecules that are stimuli responsive and even made from sulfur will be highlighted. Macromolecular assemblies, biomaterials and even textiles will be considered. The invited speakers represent a variety of disciplines from chemistry, physics and engineering who will consider macromolecular material synthesis, processing, properties, characterization and theory and simulation. An emphasis of topics considered in this meeting will be rheological properties and processing of macromolecular materials.

Macromolecules: From Synthesis to Application

The Gordon Research Seminar on Macromolecular Materials is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to showcase innovative research from early career scientists working on novel materials synthesis routes, characterization methods or direct applications related to macromolecular materials research. The Macromolecular Materials GRS will provide an interdisciplinary forum for interaction and collaboration among colleagues in the areas of materials synthesis, characterization and processing.

This workshop is intended to capture current research interests regarding interfaces, domains, domain walls, vortices and skyrmions in ferroics as an emerging field in solid state physics and materials science.

Thematic areas

• Domains and domain walls
• Skyrmions
• Vortex, anti-vortex and vertex structures in ferroics
• Nanoelectronics using domain wall logic
• Nanoscale characterisation of ferroelectric, ferroelastic, magnetic and multiferroic materials
• Interface studies of ferroics