[ccp4bb] 2nd Announcement and etc - the 5th Winter School on Soft X-rays in MX

[Bi-Cheng Wang]

Posted on behalf of the Organizing Committee: John Rose and Bi-Cheng Wang (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.) Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany) Christoph Mueller-Dieckmann (ESRF, Grenoble, France) 2nd Announcement and New Additions to the Program The 5th Winter School on Soft X-Rays in Macromolecular Crystallography Location: Georgia Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 30602 Dates: March 1 - 4, 2015 Registration: Online at:  http://wssxmc.bmb.uga.edu.  We announced the Winter School on the CCP4 bulletin board on December 19, 2014.  Since then, we have added a new Session on Detector Considerations on Monday evening, March 2 (please see the attached Program Outline) and updated the course information on the three hands-on workshops on Wednesday, March 4. The aim of the School is to bring together experts and young scientists interested in using the anomalous signal from light atoms (e.g. S, P, Ca, K, Mg) for macromolecular structure determination employing soft (lambda > 1.5Å) X-ray techniques. The previous four Schools were held in Europe: 1st Winter School:  Bressanone/Brixen, Italy; Feb. 25-27, 2003 2nd Winter School:  Seefeld, Austria; March 22-25, 2006 3rd Winter School:  Berlin, Germany; February 18-20, 2009 4th Winter School:  Grenoble, France, February 6-8, 2012 There will also be hands-on workshops on Wednesday March 4.  Optimizing Native-SAD Data Collection -  (John Rose & Albert Fu) will demonstrate features that may be used to optimize data quality. Getting The Most Out of Data Processing - (Albert Fu & John Rose) will demonstrate data processing using XDS, Kylin and HKL2000.  Experimental Phasing With SHELX C/D/E - (George Sheldrick) will demonstrate the use of the SHELX suite for experimental phasing of SAD data. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops (Windows, Mac or Linux) so that they may work through the test data during the workshop. The required software and data sets will be provided via the web (directions will be provided at the Winter School) or via USB drive at the meeting. Limited travel bursaries are still available to young investigators (students and postdoc) who wish to attend.  You may submit your application online at http://wssxmc.bmb.uga.edu/Travel_Bursary.html or contact John Rose (jpr...@uga.edu). Online registration at:  http://wssxmc.bmb.uga.edu.  An updated Program Outline is attached.

5th Winter School Program Outline_150204.pdf
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