Evolving methods in macromolecular crystallography

12-22 May, Erice

 

Friday, 13 May

Saturday, 14 May

Sunday, 15 May

Monday, 16 May

Tuesday, 17 May

9:00-10:30

Intro:

Spadon, Read, Sussman, Riva di Sanseverino, Irwin

Blundell

Emerging threats

Read

Hilgenfeld

Bioinformatics

Sussman

Thornton

TB structural genomics

Baker (30')

Krajewski (20')

Holton (20')

Malaria

Hora (20')

Predictions

Herzberg

Moult

10:30-11:00

coffee

coffee

coffee

coffee

coffee

11:00-12:30

Crystals

Bergfors

Byrne

Cryo

Garman

Membrane proteins

Slattery (20')

Solmaz (20')

Radiation damage

Garman

Ravelli

Experimental phasing

Bricogne

McCoy

High throughput tools

Adams

Sheldrick

12:30-2:30

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

2:30-4:00

Data collection

Dauter

Leslie

Kuhn

Leslie (F1-ATPase)

Dauter (halide soaks)

Terwilliger (selecting foldable proteins)

Excursion 1

Mothia Island

(alternative, weather permitting, is San Vito lo Capo beach)

Density improvement

Turk (20')

Emsley (25')

Terwilliger

4:00-4:30

tea

tea

tea

tea

4:30-6:30

demo

demo

Posters I

demo


 

Wednesday, 18 May

Thursday, 19 May

Friday, 20 May

Saturday, 21 May

9:00-10:30

Structures, biology & medicine

Turk

van Aalten

Moult: SNPs

Jaskolski: domain swapping

New methods

Schneider (40')

Cohen (25')

Vekhter (25')

Crystallography in industry

Pauptit (30')

Lundqvist (30')

Scapin (30')

10:30-11:00

coffee

coffee

coffee

coffee

11:00-12:30

Sussman (20')

Ultrahigh resolution

Urzhumtsev

Hakanpaa (20')

Ab initio phasing

Lunin

Bricogne

Refinement

Murshudov

Perrakis

Difficult structures

Berthold (30')

Sevvana (30')

Lott (30')

12:30-2:30

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

2:30-4:00

Molecular replacement

Glykos

Read

Excursion 2

Selinunte & Segesta

(or San Vito lo Capo beach & Segesta)

Hot topics

TBA

Future developments

Hajdu

Sayre

4:00-4:30

tea

tea

tea

4:30-6:30

demo

Posters II

concluding remarks

Detailed schedule

Friday, 13 May

9:00-10:30

Spadon, Read, Sussman, Riva di Sanseverino, Irwin

Intro

Blundell

Fragment-based drug discovery

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Crystals

Bergfors

Crystallization

Byrne

Crystallizing membrane proteins

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Data collection

Dauter

Data collection strategy

Leslie

Processing diffraction data with Mosflm

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

demo


Saturday, 14 May

9:00-10:30

Emerging threats

Read

Designing responses to bacterial toxins

Hilgenfeld

Structural genomics and rapid responses to emerging threats

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Cryo techniques

Garman

Cryo-crystallography

Membrane proteins

Slattery (20')

Designer lipids for membrane protein crystallogenesis

Solmaz (20')

Structure of Cytochrome bc1 complex from yeast with its substrate cytochrome c bound at 1.9Å resolution

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Kuhn

In situ X-ray characterization using a microfluidic crystallization approach

Leslie

From snapshots to the big picture with F1-ATPase

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

demo


Sunday, 15 May

9:00-10:30

Bioinformatics

Sussman

Natively unfolded proteins

Thornton

Extracting and exploiting structural patterns

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Radiation damage

Garman

Understanding and limiting radiation damage

Ravelli

Exploiting radiation damage for RIP phasing

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Tools for phasing

Dauter

Phasing with halide soaks

Terwilliger

Selecting foldable proteins with GFP fusions

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

Posters I with pizza party


Monday, 16 May

9:00-10:30

Structural genomics: TB

Baker (30')

The TB Structural Genomics project

Krajewski (20')

Targetting M. tb. glutamine synthetase

Holton (20')

Structural proteomics of M. tb.

Malaria

Hora (20')

Structure-based insights into the function of Pfg27

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Experimental phasing

Bricogne

Experimental phasing in SHARP

McCoy

Experimental phasing in Phaser

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-6:30

Excursion 1


Tuesday, 17 May

9:00-10:30

Predictions

Herzberg

Predicting function from structure

Moult

CASP: how well can we predict structure?

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

High throughput tools

Adams

The PHENIX project

Sheldrick

High-throughput phasing with SHELX

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Density improvement

Turk (20')

Density modification in MAIN

Emsley (25')

Statistical density modification in Pirate

Terwilliger

Probabilistic density modification

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

demo


Wednesday, 18 May

9:00-10:30

Structures, biology and medicine

Turk

Structure-based design of cathepsin inhibitors

van Aalten

Mechanism-based design of drug-like family 18 chitinase inhibitors

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Sussman (20')

Lessons from acetylcholinesterase

Ultrahigh resolution

Urzhumtsev

Macromolecules at a resolution beyond 1Å: maps and models

Hakanpaa (20')

From atomic to ultra high resolution: how high is high enough?

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Molecular replacement

Glykos

Stochastic molecular replacement

Read

Likelihood-based molecular replacement in Phaser

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

demo


Thursday, 19 May

9:00-10:30

Crystallography and inherited diseases

Moult

Modeling SNPs in human disease

Jaskolski

3D domain swapping and its relevance to conformational diseases

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Ab initio phasing

Lunin

Ab initio phasing starting from low resolution

Bricogne

Stereochemistry and ab initio phasing

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-6:30

Excursion 2


Friday, 20 May

9:00-10:30

Contributions to new methods

Schneider (40')

Using genetic algorithms to identify domains and study conformational change

Cohen (25')

Software tools for automation in ARP/wARP

Vekhter (25')

Improving experimental phasing: the role of strongest reflections

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Refinement

Murshudov

Likelihood-based refinement in Refmac5

Perrakis

Automated fitting and refinement with ARP/wARP

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Hot topics

(to be chosen from participant abstracts)

 

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

demo


Saturday, 21 May

9:00-10:30

Crystallography in industry

Pauptit (30')

Is fragment-based screening an evolving method?

Lundqvist (30')

Protein flexibility: a curse or an opportunity in drug discovery?

Scapin (30')

Structural biology in drug discovery: from structures to mice and back

10:30-11:00

coffee

11:00-12:30

Difficult structures

Berthold (30')

Structure of oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase solved from a hemihedrally-twinned crystal

Sevvana (30')

Solving non-merohedrally twinned structures by anomalous scattering

Lott (30')

Making the most of two crystals

12:30-2:30

lunch

2:30-4:00

Future developments

Hajdu

Coupling crystallography and spectroscopy

Sayre

X-ray diffraction imaging of large single particles

4:00-4:30

tea

4:30-6:30

Concluding remarks