Gordon Conference: Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology

July 14-19, 2002

Connecticut College

New London, CT

Michael S. Chapman, Chair

Tom Terwilliger, Vice-Chair

 

Sponsored by: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bruker AXS; Emerald Biostructures, Inc., F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.; Florida State University; Glaxo Smith Kline; Gordon Research Conferences; Hampton Research Corp.; IMCAT; MAR USA Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Molecular Structure Corp.; National Institutes of Health; Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.; Structural Genomix.

 

Last updated 7/11/02.

 

Sunday 14th July

2:00 pm

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9:00 pm

Arrival & check-in

6:00 pm

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Dinner

 

 

 

Membrane Proteins + Don Wiley Memorial

 

 

 

Discussion leader: Cynthia Stauffacher (Purdue University)

7:30 pm

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8:00 pm

Patrick Loll (MCP-Hahnemann University)

Crystallization Screens for Membrane Proteins – Can we Achieve Reasonable Success Rates?

8:00 pm

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8:30 pm

TBA or Cynthia Stauffacher (Purdue University)

Title

8:30 pm

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8:35 pm

Introduction – to Wiley Memorial Lecture

Steve Harrison (Harvard University)

8:35 pm

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9:30 pm

Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute)

Don Wiley Memorial Lecture: Structural Basis of Cellular Immune Recognition

 

 

 


 

 

Monday 15th July

7:30 am

-

8:30 am

Breakfast

 

 

 

Data Collection: Automation & Phasing requirements

 

 

 

Discussion leader: B.-C. Wang (University of Georgia)

9:00 am

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9:15 am

B.-C. Wang (University of Georgia)

Automation in Protein Crystallography Data Collection - An Overview

9:15 am

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9:45 am

Zheng-Qing Fu (University of Georgia)

Approaching Automation Of Data Acquisition: Quality

Control and Evaluation

9:45 am

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10:15 am

Steve Muchmore (Abbott Laboratories Inc.)

Robotics 101:  A field guide to crystal mounting and data collection robotics

10:15 am

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10:45 am

Howard Robinson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Remote Synchrotron Crystallography:  FedEx Web Tools & Databases

10:45 am

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11:05 am

Coffee Break

 

 

 

New Approaches to the Phase Problem

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University)

11:05 am

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11:35 am

B.-C. Wang (University of Georgia)

Direct Crystallography: Phasing From Native Crystals

11:35 am

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12:05 noon

Randy Read (Cambridge University)

New Advances in Maximum Likelihood Phasing

12:15 pm

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12:30 pm

Photograph!

12:30 pm

-

1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

-

4:00 pm

Free time

4:00 pm

-

6:00 pm

Poster session

6:00 pm

-

 

Dinner

 

Evening session continues…

Monday 15th July, continued

 

 

 

New Approaches to the Phase Problem (continued)

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University)

7:30 pm

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8:00 pm

Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing, Ltd.)

Bayesian approaches to exploiting weak phasing signals

8:00 pm

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8:30 pm

Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Maximum-likelihood Density Modification and Automated Model-building

8:30 pm

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9:00 pm

Victor Lamzin (European Molecular Biology Organization)

ARP/wARP for Automated Model Building and Refinement: the Next Generation

9:00 pm

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9:30 pm

Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University)

Options in MAD Phasing

 

 


 

Tuesday 16th July

7:30 am

-

8:30 am

Breakfast

 

 

 

Ribosomes & Large Complexes

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Jennifer Doudna (Yale University)

9:00 am

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9:30 am

Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC / Cambridge University)

Some General Lessons from the Determination of the Structure of the 30S Ribosomal Subunit

9:30 am

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10:00 am

Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute)

The High Resolution Structures of the Two Ribosomal Subunits: Functional Insights

10:00 am

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10:30 am

Roger Burnett (Wistar Institute / University of Pennsylvania)

Combined Imaging with X-ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy Reveals the Shared Evolving Architecture of Human Adenovirus and the Lipid-Containing Bacteriophage PRD1

10:30 am

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11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am

-

11:30 am

Jamie Cate (University of California, Berkeley / LBL)

Structural studies of the bacterial ribosome

11:30 am

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12:00 noon

Undeterred – Impressive structure determinations

2 or 3 favorite posters of Profs. Doudna, Stauffacher & Hendrickson

12:00 noon

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12:30 pm

Tom Steitz (Yale University)

The atomic structure of the ribosome: how we got there and what we learned

12:30 pm

-

1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

-

4:00 pm

Free time

4:00 pm

-

6:00 pm

Poster session

6:00 pm

-

 

Dinner

 

Evening session continues…


 

Tuesday 16th July, continued

 

 

 

Enzyme Mechanism

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Greg Petsko (Brandeis University)

7:30 pm

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8:00 pm

Dagmar Ringe (Brandeis University)

Structural Enzymology of Pyridoxal Phosphate Dependent Enzymes

8:00 pm

-

8:30 pm

TBA

Title

8:30 pm

-

9:00 pm

Hot posters in Mechanism, Structure Analysis…

2 of the best Introduced by Greg Petsko and David Eisenberg

9:00 pm

-

9:30 pm

Karen Allen (Boston University Medical School)

Caught in the Act: Enzyme Transition States and Intermediates

 


 

Wednesday 17th July

7:30 am

-

8:30 am

Breakfast

 

 

 

New Detector Technologies

 

 

 

Discussion Leaders: Andy Howard (Illinois Institute of Technology)

9:00 am

-

9:15 am

Andy Howard (Illinois Institute of Technology)

New Crystallographic Detector Technologies: Ready for Prime Time

9:15 am

-

9:45 am

Roger Durst (Bruker / Nonius Inc.)

Advances in CCD Technology for X-Ray Crystallography

9:45 am

-

10:15 am

Klaus Bartels (MAR Research)

Minimizing the point-spread function: flat panel detectors

10:15 am

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10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

 

More Than Intuition – Theoretical Analysis of Structure in Understanding Function

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Alex MacKerrel (University of Maryland)

10:30 am

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11:00 am

Alex MacKerrel (University of Maryland)

Computational Studies of Base Flipping In DNA

Alone and Complexed to the Cytosine 5-Methyltransferase from HhaI

11:00 am

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11:30 am

Jeff Evanseck (Duquesne University)

Mapping Biomechanical Motion by Chemometric Methods

11:30 am

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12:00 noon

Jiali Gao (University of Minnesota)

Dynamics, Pathways and Tunneling in Enzyme Catalysis: A Computational Perspective

12:00 noon

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12:30 pm

Michael Gilson (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology)

Understanding Molecular Interactions

12:30 pm

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1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

-

4:00 pm

Free time

4:00 pm

-

6:00 pm

Poster session

6:00 pm

-

 

Dinner

 

Evening session continues…

Wednesday 17th July, continued

 

 

 

Structure Visualization & Analysis

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Art Olson (The Scripps Research Institute)

7:30 pm

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8:00 pm

Art Olson (The Scripps Research Institute)

Tangible Interfaces for Molecular Biology

8:00 pm

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8:30 pm

Joe Corkery (Open Eye Software Inc.)

Visualization and Data Analysis with VIDA

8:30 pm

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9:00 pm

Michel Sanner (The Scripps Research Institute)

Component-based Molecular Visualization

9:00 pm

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9:30 pm

Chandrajit Bajaj (University of Texas)

Analysis and Visualization of Electron Density and Other Volumetric Macromolecular Properties

 


 

 

 

Thursday 18th July

7:30 am

-

8:30 am

Breakfast

 

 

 

Integrating Sequence & Structural Analysis

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: David Eisenberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

9:00 am

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9:35 am

Janet Thornton (Eur. Bioinformatics Inst. & Univ. Coll., London)

From Protein Structure to Biological Function and Evolution

9:35 am

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10:10 am

Ed Marcotte (University of Texas)

Global organization of proteins into pathways and systems

10:10 am

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10:25 am

Poster mini-talks (selected by Alex MaxKerrel & Art Olson)

Models of Analysis & Interpretation…

10:25 am

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10:50 am

Coffee Break

10:50 am

-

11:25 am

Andrej Sali (Rockefeller University)

Modeling of the Structure of Proteins and Macromolecular Assemblies

11:25 am

-

12:00 noon

David Eisenberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

Protein Interactions: Amyloids and Prions

12:00 noon

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12:30 pm

Business meeting

12:30 pm

-

1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

-

4:00 pm

Free time

4:00 pm

-

6:00 pm

Poster session

6:00 pm

-

 

Dinner

 

Evening session continues…

Thursday 18th July, continued

 

 

 

What’s New in Averaging –
25th Anniversary of the CECAM Workshop

 

 

 

Discussion Leader: Art Olson (The Scripps Research Institute)

7:30 pm

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7:40 pm

Art Olson (The Scripps Research Institute)

Opening comments

7:40 pm

-

8:05 pm

Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing, Ltd.)

Averaging in the old days

8:10 pm

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8:50 pm

Jack Johnson (The Scripps Research Institute)

Combining cryoEM and crystallography; strategies and results

8:50 pm

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9:30 pm

Steve Harrison (Harvard University)

Complex Virus Structures

 

 

FRIDAY 19th July

 

7:30 am - 8:30 pm             Breakfast

 

9:00 am                                    Departure

 

GENERAL NOTES:

 

Most talks are 30 minutes, including 5 minutes of discussion.  In a few cases it has been possible to extend them to 35 minutes, in which the last 10 minutes should be reserved for discussion.

Last updated: Thursday, July 11, 2002