Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that a symposium on biological small angle
x-ray scattering is being held at SLAC on February 9, 2012 as a tribute
to Dr. Hiro Tsuruta, who for almost 20 years led the development and
operation of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource structural
biology SAXS (bioSAXS) beam line BL4-2 facility. BL4-2 is one of the
most highly performing and productive experimental facilities in the
world today, and has become a beam line of choice for weakly scattering
and challenging biological systems.
The talks in the Symposium will honor Hiro’s keen scientific interests
and intellectual curiosity, offering insights by noted invited speakers
to past, present and future applications of bioSAXS. The Symposium will
encompass many aspects of the research field of biophysics, where Hiro
pursued his strong interest in structure–function relationships in
biological macromolecular assemblies at the molecular structure level.
Research on macromolecular assemblies such as virus particles, molecular
chaperon proteins, kinases, heatshock proteins and transcription
regulators are examples where Hiro worked, often with collaborators, to
gain new understanding, including study of dynamical structural changes
of these systems using time-resolved techniques.
The Symposium will be the full day of Thursday, February 9, beginning at
8:30am and concluding by around 5pm. Light refreshments and lunch will
be served. The Symposium is open to all interested in attending.
Registration is required through this web portal but there is no fee for
attending.
Please join us in celebrating Hiro’s international legacy in the growing
area of bioSAXS science, for which he pursued new developments and
science applications until the very end of his life in August of 2011.
Please see http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/bio-saxs for full details.
Best regards,
Tsutomu Matsui for Britt Hedman and Keith Hodgson
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tmatsui [at] slac.stanford.edu
