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Date: October 3 - 4, 2018
Location: Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
The two-day workshop, held during ALS user meeting, will provide participants with software tutorial sessions for biological SAXS in addition to hands-on training in experimental techniques.
The latest advances in SAXS studies on biological systems will be discussed with particular focus on advances in synchrotron scattering techniques, modeling of dynamic and flexible structures, bioSAXS with membrane protein, and integrating bioSAXS analysis within cryo-EM imaging.
Updates on current developments of software for SAXS analysis pertaining to structural biology will be reviewed.
The first day of the SIBYLS annual workshop will focus on applied science while the second day will focus more on practical tutorials.
We will begin with a brief run-through on current updates. Greg Hura, Berkeley Lab’s SAXS Beamline Scientist will introduce the future of high throughput.
Three keynote speakers: Walter Chazin (Vanderbilt), Thomas Weiss (SLAC, Stanford) and Steve Meisburger (Princeton), will continue Dr. Hura’s discussion by elaborating on the basics of SAXS and the fascinating integration of bioSAXS in integrative structural biology.
Michal Hammel, another one of Berkeley Lab’s SAXS Beamline Scientists, will present current developments in size exclusion chromatography coupled SAXS (SEC-SAXS) and give a talk about integrating high-resolution models in the SAXS modeling.
Other distinguished speakers from the SIBYLS user community: Chris Brosey (MD Anderson) , Fatma Zehra Yildiz (Harvard) and George Ueda (University of Washington) will contribute to the basis of the workshop over the two days by sharing complementary experimental approaches and modeling techniques.
For the second day, students and postdocs are encouraged to bring their own SAXS data collected at SIBYLS. During the morning session, we will provide an opportunity for participants to present and discuss their projects with the group. If you are interested in presenting, please email Kathryn Burnett. This will provide for a flux of ideas among workshop participants, and inspire new perspectives for future data analysis.
The afternoon session will be dedicated to practical hands-on exercises with experts in SAXS software for data processing (SCATTER, FrameSlice and RAW, SAXS similarity maps, modeling tools (FOXS - MultiFoXS, BILBOMD and SAXS shape calculator).
Enrollment is limited to 30 participants.
Organizers: Michal Hammel, Greg Hura
Inquires: Kathryn Burnett
Registration: Registration is now open. To attend the workshop you need to REGISTER for the 2018 ALS user meeting. When you register, indicate that you plan to attend the “9th Annual SIBYLS bioSAXS Workshop”.
SCHEDULE :
October 3rd, 2018
8:45 am Michal Hammel and Greg Hura “Welcoming remarks”
9:00 am Greg Hura (LBL) “Redefining frontier in bioSAXS”
10:00 am Break
10:20 am Walter Chazin (Vanderbilt) “Redefining of protein dynamicity by integrating NMR and SAXS”
11:00 am Steve Meisburger (Princeton) “Redefining of bioSAXS by the SEC-SAXS approach and SVD deconvolution”
11:40 am Michal Hammel (LBL) “Integrative structural modeling by combining crystallography, SAXS and X-ray tomography”
12:00 pm Lunch and Exhibitors—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent
1:30 pm Beamline tour and demonstration, Greg Hura and Daniel Rosenberg, LBNL
2:20 pm Thomas Weiss ( SLAC) “TBD”
3:00 pm Break
3:20 pm Chris Brosey (MD Anderson) “What Combined Measurements From Structures and Imaging Tell Us About DNA Damage Responses”
3:50 pm Fatma Zehra Yildiz (Harvard) “TBD”
4:20 pm George Ueda (Washington Uni) “Computational design of self-assembling cyclic protein homo-oligomers”
4:40 pm Soumya Remesh (LBL) “HU multimerization shift controls nucleoid compaction as seen through SAXS and X-ray tomography”
5:00 pm Gather for Evening Session—Building 50 Auditorium
October 4th, 2018
9:00 am Short students presentations followed by an open discussion
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Greg Hura: “SAXS analysis part 1”
11:15 am Michal Hammel: “SEC-SAXS data processing and SVD deconvolution”
12:00 am Lunch and Exhibitors—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent
1:00 pm Greg Hura, “SAXS Analysis part 2”
1:30 pm Michal Hammel “Tools for modeling flexibility in proteins using SAXS data”
2:00 pm Greg Hura “SAXS Similarity Maps”
2:20 pm Practical session with Mentors
5:00 pm Closing comments: Michal Hammel and Greg Hura
Determine the limits of radiation-induced aggregation or damage, and adjust your data accordingly (particularly for the guinier region of your data).
Remove data points from either end of your data.
Improve signal to noise ratios, particularly at the Wide-angle region of your data.
We are pleased to announce the 8th annual SIBYLS bioSAXS workshop as part of the Advanced Light Source 2017 User Meeting:
Date: October 3 - 4, 2017
Location: Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Description:
The 8th annual SIBYLS bioSAXS workshop will cover frontiers in Biological SAXS. The two-day workshop will provide participants with software tutorial sessions for biological SAXS in addition to hands-on training in experimental techniques. The latest advances in SAXS studies on biological systems will be discussed with particular focus on advances in synchrotron scattering techniques, dynamic and flexible structures in biomolecule, membrane protein scattering, and complementary methods in crystals and in solution. Updates on current developments of software for SAXS analysis pertaining to structural biology will be illustrated.
The first day of the workshop will begin with a brief run-through on current updates. Greg Hura, Berkeley Lab's SAXS Beamline scientist at SIBYLS, will introduce the capabilities of the new detector and the future of high throughput SAXS at the SIBYLS Beamline 12.3.1. The keynote speaker, John Tainer from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, will continue Dr. Hura's discussion by elaborating on the basics of SAXS.
Michal Hammel, another one of Berkeley Lab's SAXS Beamline Scientists, will give a talk about SAXS modeling, SAXS profile computations using FOXS, and calculations of SAXS shape.
Other distinguished speakers (TBD), will contribute to the basis of the workshop over two days by sharing complementary experimental approaches and modeling techniques. This will provide for a flux of ideas among workshop participants, and inspire new perspectives for future data analysis. The second day of the workshop will be dedicated to practical hands-on exercises.
Enrollment is limited to 30 participants.
Organizers: Michal Hammel, Greg Hura
Inquires: Kathryn Burnett
Registration: Early registration is open until September 18th. When you register, indicate that you plan to attend the "Biological Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS)" workshop. Here is the link to REGISTER for the 2017 Advanced Light Source User Meeting.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, October 3rd
12:20 Lunch (ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent)
14:00 Welcoming Remarks: Michal Hammel, LBNL (Bldg 2, rm 100B)
14:15 John Tainer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
"Making macromolecular structures speak"
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Greg Hura, LBNL
"What is going on with the SIBYLS Beamline?"
16:00 Kathryn Burnett, LBNL: Mail-in SAXS at SIBYLS
16:20 Michal Hammel and Daniel Rosenberg, LBNL: SEC SAXS at SIBYLS
17:00 End of first day's workshop
Wednesday, October 5th (Building 2, room 100B)
9:00 Short presentations followed by open discussion
10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 Beamline tour and demonstration, Greg Hura and Tad Ogorzalek, LBNL
11:15 Greg Hura: SAXS Analysis
12:00 Lunch (ALS patio and Exhibitors Tent)
13:00 Henry Tang, LBNL
"Conformational Change Analysis with SAXS"
13:30 Soumya Remesh, LBNL
"Tools for modeling flexibility in proteins using SAXS data"
14:00 Practical session with Mentors
16:45 Closing comments: Michal Hammel, LBNL
17:00 End of BioSAXS workshop
This film was recorded at the International Crystallography Conference, 1965, Melbourne, Australia, by the CSIRO Film Unit in collaboration with the Australian Academy of Science. If you are at all interested in the history of crystallography, and of science in general, I think you will find this video to be 15 well spent minutes.
This film was made possible with support from UNESCO, the International Council of Scientific Unions, the Australian Academy of Science, the International Union of Crystallography, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the University of Melbourne.
Are you looking to apply your skills in Integrative Structural Biology to the development of new approaches to explore organization of functional bacterial chromosome? The SIBYLS Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of Integrative Structural Biology. For more details on the position, please see the pdf document below….
SIBYLS has installed new robotics that halve the time it takes to collect a full 96-well plate, from approximately 5 hours to 2.5 hours per plate (with the potential to collect a plate in 10 minutes over the coming year). We believe this will be a game changer for many reasons. We will be able to accommodate more users per week, enable new screening methods, and have more time to offer SEC-coupled SAXS and time resolved SAXS. In addition to the new robotics, we have improved instruments for higher data quality. Our new monitor of transmitted beam intensity should greatly reduce buffer subtraction errors. We have also replaced the windows for lower background. In completing these upgrades, the stage is now set for increased sample to detector distance providing access to lower q (an upgrade that will occur sometime during the summer).
Central challenges in the design of large and dynamic macromolecular assemblies for synthetic biology lie in developing effective methods for testing design strategies and their outcomes, including comprehensive assessments of solution behavior. The authors of this paper created and validated an advanced design of a 600-kDa protein homododecamer that self-assembles into a symmetric tetrahedral cage. The monomeric unit is composed of a trimerizing apex-forming domain genetically linked to an edge-forming dimerizing domain. Enhancing the crystallographic results, high-throughput small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) comprehensively contrasted our modifications under diverse solution conditions. To generate a phase diagram associating structure and assembly, we developed force plots that measure dissimilarity among multiple SAXS data sets. These new tools, which provided effective feedback on experimental constructs relative to design, have general applicability in analyzing the solution behavior of heterogeneous nanosystems and have been made available as a web-based application. Specifically, our results probed the influence of solution conditions and symmetry on stability and structural adaptability, identifying the dimeric interface as the weak point in the assembly. Force plots comparing SAXS data sets further reveal more complex and controllable behavior in solution than captured by our crystal structures. These methods for objectively and comprehensively comparing SAXS profiles for systems critically affected by solvent conditions and structural heterogeneity provide an enabling technology for advancing the design and bioengineering of nanoscale biological materials.
Yen-Ting Lai1, Greg L. Hura, Kevin N. Dyer, Henry Y. H. Tang, John A. Tainer and Todd O. Yeates Designing and defining dynamic protein cage nanoassemblies in solution 14 Dec 2016:Vol. 2, no. 12
