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Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
President: Professor Antonino Zichichi

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL of CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Director: Sir Tom Blundell, FRS FMedSci

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Erice, Italy • 2 June (arrival) to 11 June (departure) 2017

Preliminary Programme

Lectures

Protein synthesis by large cellular assemblies
N. BAN, ETH, Zurich, CH

The anaphase-promoting complex
D. BARFORD, LMB, Cambridge, UK

Immune recognition of viral pathogens
P.J. BJORKMAN, Caltec, Pasadena, US

Electron cryo-microscopy of biological nanomachines
W. CHIU, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, US

An introduction to Cryo-EM
B. CARRAGHER, NYSBC, New York, US

RNA metabolism
E. CONTI, MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE

The complement system
P. GROS, Utrecht University, NL

Signal transduction by immune receptors
S. HUR, Harvard University, Boston, US

Cell surface signalling assemblies
E.Y. JONES, University of Oxford, UK

Membrane proteins: Structure and mechanisms
W. KÜHLBRANDT, MPI for Biophysics, Frankfurt, DE

Structural Biology, Genomics and Evolution
D. MARKS, Harvard University, Boston, US

Antimicrobial drug design
J.L. MARTIN, Griffith University, Brisbane, AU

Cellular and Membrane Trafficking
N. MIZUNO, Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, DE

Membrane transporters in the brain
P. NISSEN, Aarhus University, DK

mRNA polyA tails
L. PASSMORE, MRC, Cambridge, UK

The nuclear pore complex
M.P. ROUT, The Rockefeller University, New York, US

Structural Biology in Drug Discovery
G. SCAPIN, Merck, Kenilworth, US

Protein targeting and membrane protein biogenesis
I. SINNING, Heidelberg University, DE

Molecular mechanisms in carcinogenesis
T. SIXMA, NKI, Amsterdam, NL

Virus structure and vaccine design
D.I. STUART, University of Oxford, UK

High resolution electron microscopy
S. SUBRAMANIAM, NCI, Bethesda, US

Single molecule biophysics
A. van OIJNEN, University of Wollongong, AU

The RNA Polymerase III transcription machinery
A. VANNINI, ICR, London, UK

Glucose transporters
N. YAN, Tsinghua University, Beijing CN

DNA repair, replication and recombination
W. YANG, NIDDK, Bethesda, US

DNA processing and damage response
X. ZHANG, Imperial College London, UK


Celebrating the 50th International School of Crystallography
T.L. BLUNDELL, Cambridge University, UK
E. ARNOLD, Rutgers University, New Jersey, US
M. ROSSMANN, Purdue University, West Lafayette, US
P. SPADON, University of Padua, IT

Workshops

Low resolution refinement
T. CROLL, CIMR, University of Cambridge, UK

COOT
P. EMSLEY, MRC, Cambridge University, UK

RELION
C. GATI, MRC, Cambridge University, UK

EV Fold
D. MARKS, Harvard University, Boston, US

Integrative Modeling Platform
R. PELLARIN, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR

Validation/errors
R. READ, CIMR, University of Cambridge, UK

EMDB/EMPIAR: linking structural information from molecules to cells
A. PATWARDHAN, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK

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