[ccp4bb] BCA spring meeting abstract deadline fast approaching

[Jonas Emsley]

The exciting programme for the BCA Spring Meeting 2012 at Warwick is available for viewing at   http://crystallography.org.uk/spring-meeting-2012/   In addition to the general poster call, the Biological Structures Group has sessions in the main meeting where abstracts for oral presentations will be accepted. Opportunities are available in the following sessions:   Hot Structures and Hot Methods (Chair: Jon Cooper) Crystallography and cancer  (Chair: Jane Endicott) Protein crystallisation methods (Chair: Naomi Chayen) Small angle X-ray scattering (Chair: Elizabeth Shotten) Membrane Protein crystallography (Chair: Jonas Emsley)    Abstracts must be submitted online using the following link http://crystallography.org.uk/spring-meeting-2012/submit-abstract/ The deadline is January 16th 2012.  The BSG Plenary lecture will be delivered by Laurence Pearl "Structural Biology of the DNA Damage Response"   BSG Invited Speakers Piet Gros (Utrecht, Nederlands) Terese Bergfors (Uppsala, Sweden) Emmanuel Saridakis (Demokritos, Greece) James Huntington (Cambridge) Andrew Leslie (Cambridge) So Iwata (Imperial College) Chris Murray (Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge) Stefan Knapp (Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford) Clair Baldock (Manchester) Andy Dore (Heptares Therapeutics) Judit Debreczeni (Structural Genomics Consortium) Paul Emsley (Oxford) Vilmos Fulop (Warwick) Nick Terrill (Diamond Light Source)   In addtion to the BSG program the 2011 Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman (Discovery of Quasicrystals) is attending the BCA 2012 Spring meeting, as a Plenary lecturer on Wednesday the 18th April.     The meeting represents an opportunity to learn about advances in the utilisation of crystal structures in drug design as well as other topical methods as outlined in the program.  Ingrid Dreveny  Jonas Emsley BSG Programme, BCA 2012 Warwick This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.