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CORNELL LABORATORY FOR ACCELERATOR-BASED SCIENCES AND EDUCATION

XDL2011 Workshop 2 Agenda

Biomolecular Structure from Nanocrystals and Diffuse Scattering
Monday, June 13th - Tuesday, June 14th, 2011


Organizers: Ed Lattman (Hauptmann-Woodward Medical Research Inst.), Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (University of Florida), Keith Moffat (University of Chicago), & Sol Gruner (Cornell University)

Workshop Agenda (html)
Workshop Poster (pdf)


DAY 1: Monday - June 13th
8:00AM Registration
Welcome and Introduction
8:20 Welcome, Announcements, Workshop Format & Goals
8:30 Don Bilderback (Cornell University) - "Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) and Ultimate Storage Ring (USR) Properties"
Presentation: PDF
8:45 Discussion
8:50 Sol Gruner (Cornell University) - "X-ray Detectors: State-of-the-art & Future Possibilities"
Presentation: PDF
9:10 Discussion
9:20 John Spence (Arizona State University & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) -
"Nanocrystals, Injectors and Correlations for an ERL"

Presentation: PDF
9:40 Discussion
9:50 BREAK
Session 1 Chair: Mavis Agbandje-McKenna
10:00 Alex McPherson (University of California, Irvine) -
"The Challenge of Novel, Nanoscale Biological Samples"

Presentation: PDF
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Seth Fraden (Brandeis University) -
"Microfluidics to Produce and Manipulate Microcrystals"

Presentation: PDF
10:50 Discussion
11:00 Bob Fischetti (Argonne National Laboratory) -
"Data Collection from Nanocrystals with Reduced Radiation Damage"
11:20 Discussion
11:40 Question / Answering Discussion (QAD)
12:00 Group photo
12:15 LUNCH and informal discussions
Session 2 Chair: Ed Lattman
1:30 Roundup Discussion
1:40 James Holton (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) -
"Predicting and Processing Nanocrystal Diffraction Data"

Presentation: PDF
2:00 Discussion
2:10 Roger Sunahara (University of Michigan) -
"G Protein Coupled Receptor Structure Determination Enabled by Microdiffraction Technology"
2:30 Discussion
2:40 Question / Answering Discussion (QAD)
3:10 BREAK - posters, informal discussion
6:30 BBQ dinner
DAY 2: Tuesday - June 14th
8:00AM WELCOME
Session 3 Chair: Keith Moffat
8:20 Roundup Discussion: Day 1 summary, highlights, and announcements
8:30 Ilme Schlichting (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg) -
"Into the Future: a structure biologist's dreams"

Presentation: PDF
8:50 Discussion
9:00 Martin Caffrey (Trinity College, Ireland) -
"Toward Rational Crystallization for Structure-Function Studies of Membrane Proteins"
9:20 Discussion
9:30 Doug Rees (California Institute of Technology) - "Membrane Proteins and Membrane Potentials"
9:50 Discussion
10:00 Question / Answering Discussion (QAD)
10:20 BREAK
Session 4 Chair: Rick Cerione
10:40 George Phillips (University of Wisconsin, Madison) -
"Non-Bragg Scattering from Protein Crystals"

Presentation: PDF
11:00 Discussion
11:10 Lee Makowski (Northeastern University) - "Next Generation Solution Scattering"
Presentation: PDF
11:30 Discussion
11:40 Phil Anfinrud (National Institutes of Health) -
"Time-resolved Scattering of Proteins in Solution: new opportunities for an ERL"

Presentation: PDF
12:00 Discussion
12:10 Question / Answering Discussion (QAD)
12:30 LUNCH and informal discussions
Session 5 Chair: Rick Cerione
2:00 Roundup Discussion
2:10 Dmitri Svergun (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) -
[XDL11w2Abstracts#Svergun]["Small-angle Scattering from Biological Solutions: potential of the ERL/USR Sources"]]

Presentation: PDF
2:30 Discussion
2:40 Brian Crane (Cornell University) -
"Biological Opportunities with Solution Scattering"

Presentation: PDF
3:00 Discussion
3:10 Question / Answering Discussion (QAD)
Paragraph writing session
3:40 BREAK
4:00 Roundup workshop discussion and summary reports
5:30 BREAK
6:30 BBQ dinner at Treman Gorge Park