A Bacterial Factory for the Production of
Membrane Proteins for Structural and Functional Studies - Dr. Philip Laible,
Argonne National Laboratory
Fast screening of optimal expression
elements and strategies for a target protein - Dr. Nico Mertens, Flanders
Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)
Designing Proteins for Crystallization and
Optimizing Protein Expression using Whole Gene Synthesis - Dr. Alex Burgin,
DeCODE biostructures
Crystallization Techniques and
Methodologies
Chaired by Naomi Chayen - Imperial College London.
A Manual Nanoscale Method for Protein
Crystallization - Dr. Joanne Yeh - Brown University
Development of a Robust Crystallization
Platform for Drug Discovery - Dr Christopher A. Bonagura, Exelixis, Inc
Protein Crystallization with Microfluidics:
Pluses and Pitfalls - Dr Herb Klei, Bristol Myers-Squibb
Evaluation of Crystallization Droplets I:
Monitoring Nucleation and Crystal Growth, II: Visualisation &
Differentiation of Protein/Salt Crystals - Prof. Christian Betzel, University
Hamberg
Title to be announced - Naomi Chayen -
Imperial College London
Tuesday 18th
Process Integration & Informatics
Chaired by Dr. Larry DeLucas - Alabama University at Birmingham
Automation and data handling in protein
crystallization - Dr. Bernhard Rupp, University of California -LLNL
Protein Informatics: Issues in storing,
retrieving and analying protein structural information in a drug discovery
environment - Dr. Kal Ramnarayan, Cengent Therapeutics
From crystals to pdb: building a high
throughput crystallography pipeline for structural genomics - Dr. Jessica Chiu,
Stanford University, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Title to be announced - Dr. Larry DeLucas -
Alabama University at Birmingham
Diffraction techniques and Hardware
Chaired by Dr Bi-Cheng Wang, University of Georgia
Software for Automatic Data Handling in
High-Throughput Crystallography - Dr. Paul Adams, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
A Compact Light Source for Protein
Crystallography - Prof. Ronald D. Ruth, Lyncean Technologies, Inc.
Crystal Engineering : Structure Based
Strategies for Protein Crystallisation - Dr. Neera Borkakoti, Medivir UK Ltd
A low maintenance, low cost X-ray system
ideal for structure based drug discovery and the building of protein libraries
- Dr. Leigh Rees, Oxford Diffraction Ltd.
Title to be announced - Dr Bi-Cheng Wang,
University of Georgia