SAXS Workshop “Frontiers in biological SAXS”
We are pleased to announce the 5th annual SIBYLS bioSAXS workshop “Frontiers in biological SAXS”
Date: October 7-8, 2014 Location: Advance Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, CA
Small angle scattering (SAS) is experiencing a dramatic increase in popularity within the structural biology community. The availability of synchrotron radiation, low-noise detectors, powerful computing hardware, and better algoritms, has made the technique accessible to a much larger audience than ever before. At the same time, biologists are investigating ever more complex systems that pose increasing challenges to conventional crystallography. The latest advances in SAXS studies on biological systems will be reported and discussed in 2 days workshop by invited experts with focus on following four topics (see program).
1) Advances in Synchrotron Scattering technique
2) Dynamic & Flexible Structures in Biomolecules
3) Membrane Protein Scattering
4) Complementary Methods in Crystals and in Solution
The two-day workshop will provide training on experimental techniques and software tutorial sessions primarily for biological SAXS studies. Participants will also receive updates on current development of software dedicated to analyze SAXS for structural biology. Half day of the workshop will be dedicated for data processing by workshop participants.
Enrollment is limited to 30 participants.
Organizers: Michal Hammel, Greg Hura
Inquires: Jane Tanamachi
Registration: To attend “Frontiers in biological SAXS” you need register for the 2014 Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting. ALS user meeting will be held at Berkeley Lab beginning Monday, October 6. “Frontiers in biological SAXS” will begin Thuesday October 7th and continue through Wednesday October 8th. When you registering, you must indicate “Frontiers in biological SAXS”
Tuesday, October 7th LBNL Building 2 , room 100B
11:30 Lunch at the ALS patio
12:30 Welcoming Remarks Michal Hammel and Greg Hura “Frontiers in biological SAXS”
12:45 Lois Pollack, Cornell Univesity
13:15 Edward Snell, Hauptman-Woodward Institute
13:45 Lokesh Gakhar, University of Iowa
14:15 Coffee Break
14:30 Greg Hura, LBNL
15:00 Dina Schneidman, University California, San Francisco “SAXS based modelling of proteins with long disordered fragments”
15:30 Sherry Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan “Molecular architecture and stepwise assembly of IL-33 signaling complex”
16:00 Michal Hammel LBNL “A molecular switch in nucleoid compaction dictates bacterial pathogenicity”
16:30 TBD
17:00 TBD
Wednesday, October 8th LBNL Building 2 , room 100B
9:00 Michal Hammel, LBNL “Data reduction and processing tutorial”
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Greg Hura “Data reduction and processing tutorial”
12:00 Lunch Break at the ALS patio
13:00 – till late Practical session with Mentors (Greg Hura, Michal Hammel, Dina Schneidman, Sherry Wang)