Speakers

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Plenary Speakers

The following speakers have agreed to give plenary/special lectures at the 9^th BSR.
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Tom Blundell (Cambridge, UK): "From Structure to Drugs: Exploring Chemical and Biological Space"
Johann Deisenhofer (Dallas, USA): "Special concluding lecture: Biology & SR - Current, past & future"
Janos Hajdu (Uppsala, Sweden): "Flash Diffractive Imaging of Single Particles and Biomolecules"
Keith Hodgson (Stanford, USA): "Structural Biology and Synchrotron Radiation: From First to Fourth Generation Accelerator Based Photon Sources"
Malcolm Irving (King's College, UK): "Towards the understanding of Muscle mechanism"
So Iwata (Imperial College/Diamond, UK): "Are membrane proteins still a special case?"
Hartmut Michel (Max-Planck, Frankfurt, Germany): "Na+/N+-antiporter and cytochrome c oxidase, a comparison of two proton translocating enzymes"
Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Cambridge, UK): "Ribosome and Protein-Nucleic acid complexes"
David Stuart (Oxford, UK): "Challenges of Structural Virology"
Dmitri Svergun (EMBL, Germany): "Structures of Proteins and their complexes in solution"
Shigeyuki Yokoyama (RIKEN, Japan): "The Changing Face of Structural Genomics/Proteomics"

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Invited Speakers

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The following invited speakers will give talks within the parallel sessions.

Shuji Akiyama (JST, Japan): "Real-time SAXS Observation of Assembling-Disassembling Complexes of Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock Proteins"
David Albesa-Jove (Imperial College, UK): "Recent advances in the structural characterization of Clostridium difficile toxins using macromolecular crystallography and SAXS techniques"
James Murray (Imperial College, UK): "Photosystem II"
Laurence Barron (Glasgow, UK): "Raman Optical Activity: An Incisive Chiroptical Spectroscopy for Studies of Biomolecular Structure and Behaviour"
Bernard Brooks (Bethesda, NHLBI, NIH, USA): "Multi-scale Methods for Macromolecular Systems in Computational Biophysics"
David Brown (Pfizer, UK ): "The Role of Synchrotron Radiation in Drug Discovery"
Stephen Burley (SGX, San Diego, USA): "Fragment-based discovery of selective, orally bioavailable tyrosine kinase inhibitors for targeted treatment of human cancers"
Nathan Cowieson (University of Queensland, Australia): "Protein function via high throughput structure determination using SAXS, SRCD and cross-linking"
Paul Dumas (SOLEIL, France): "Sub cellular probing and imaging using synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy: a new diagnostic vision"
Raimund Dutzler (Zurich, Switzerland): "The ion binding properties of ClC chloride channels and transporters"
Aled Edwards (SGC and University of Toronto, Canada): "Structural Chemistry Of Human Protein Families"
Michel van der Rest: "SOLEIL, status and the life science programme"
Robert Fischetti(Argonne National Laboratory, USA): "GM/CA-CAT's "mini-beam" apparatus provides 7 micron beam for macromolecular crystallography"
Elspeth Garman (Oxford, UK): "An experimental determination of the radiation dose limit for cryo-cooled protein crystals"
Graham George (Saskatchewan, Canada): "Molecules, Cells and Organisms: Spectroscopic Imaging of Biological Tissues"
Eric Girard (SOLEIL, France): "Progress in instruments and methods towards fully-fledged high pressure macromolecular crystallography (HPMX). Recent structural results on nucleic acids and proteins."
Kazuya Hasegawa: "Protein Crystallography With Continuous Rotation Method Using Cmos Flat Panel Detector"
Stuart Hooper (Monash, Australia): "Imaging Lung Aeration at Birth"
Mike Hough (Daresbury, UK): "In situ optical and x-ray spectroscopy in structural biology: current and future perspectives of metalloproteins research"
Malcolm Howells (Berkeley, USA): "Principles Of Radiation Damage In Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging"
Robert Janes (Queen Mary, UK): "Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism (SRCD) Spectroscopy: Applications In Structural Biology"
U-Ser Jeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan): "Solution X-Ray Scattering And Absorption On The Global and Local Structure changes Of Cytochrome-C in Unfolding"
Harren Jhoti (Astex Therapeutics Ltd): "Fragment-based drug discovery"
Andrzej Joachimiak (Argonne National Laboratory, USA): "Structural Genomics Programme"
Louise Johnson (Diamond/Oxford, UK): "DIAMOND - Current Status and Latest Results"
Gerald Kneller (CNRS - Orléans, France): "Computer simulations and experiments on biomolecular systems under pressure"
Andreas Kuglstatter (Roche Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto, USA): "p38 Kinase Inhibitors: From multiple leads to a drug candidate"
Carolyn Larabell (Berkeley, USA): "3D tomography of cells"
Peter Lay (Sydney, Australia): "Biomedical Applications of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"
Hanna-Kirsti Schrøder Leiros (Tromsoe, Norway): "Crystal Structure of phenylalanine hydroxylase from Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H - reveals a monomeric cold active enzyme with local flexibility around the active site and high overall stability"
Charles Lesburg (Schering-Plough Research Institute, USA): "Engineered PXR Ligand Binding Domain for Inverse Structure-Based Drug Design"
Zhi-Jie Liu (Beijing, China): "Structure and function analysis of human p100 TSN domain"
Keith Meek (Cardiff, UK): "The use of x-ray scattering to understand corneal structure and pathology"
Albrecht Messerschmidt (Martinsried, Germany): "Molybdenum-dependent pyrogallol-phloroglucinol transhydroxylase and tungsten-dependent acetylene hydratase"
Satoshi Murakami (Osaka, Japan): "Structural studies of multi-drug efflux transporter"
Jim Naismith (St. Andrews, UK): "Wza, a new class of outer membrane protein"
Par Nordlund (Stockholm, Sweden): "Cobalt transporter"
Steve Oliver (Manchester, UK): "Yeast Genome: Molecules to Assemblies to System "
Jim Penner-Hahn (Michigan, USA): "Radiation Damage of Redox-Sensitive Transition Metal Ions"
Zihe Rao (Beijing, China): "SARS Virus Proteins"
Ian Robinson (University College, UK): "Coherent and Solution Scattering investigation of the Nucleation of Protein Crystals"
Mark Sansom (Oxford, UK): “Coarse Grained Simulations of Membrane Proteins: Protein/Lipid Interactions”
Fadel Samatey (Okinawa, Japan): "Bacterial flagella-fibre X-ray diffraction"
Ilme Schlichting (Max-Planck, Heidelberg, Germany): "Combined use of Spectroscopy and crystallography for studying protein-ligand interactions in metalloproteins"
Clemens Schulze-Briese (SLS/PSI, Zurich, Switzerland): "Cool Data And Fast Detectors - The SLS MX Beamlines"
Yoshitsugu Shiro (RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan): "Inter-domain and Inter-molecular Signaling Pathwayin Two Component System: Histidine Kinase and Response Regulator"
Irmgard Sinning (Heidelberg, Germany): "The Single Recognition Particle"
Mike Soltis (SSRL, Stanford, USA): "New Paradigm for Protein Crystallography Experiments: Automated Remote Screening and Data Collection"
Vivian Stojanoff (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA): "About The Use Of Ultra High X-Ray Energies In Macromolecular Crystallography"
Richard Strange (Daresbury, UK): "Combined X-Ray Methods For Structure-Function Studies Of Metalloproteins"
Mike Sutcliffe (Manchester, UK): "Dynamically-coupled Enzyme Catalysis: Simulation Reveals Proton Tunnelling is Driven by a Short-range Sub-picosecond Promoting Motion"
Shinnichiro Suzuki (Osaka University, Japan): "Electron transfer processes in a methylotrophic denitrifying bacterium: from methanol dehydrogenase to copper nitrite reductase"
Andy Thompson (SOLEIL, France): "Instrumental developments on the PROXIMA 1 beamline for MX at SOLEIL"
Hiro Tsuruta: "Spring-loaded inter-domain crosslinks regulate a global conformation switching in HK97 bacteriophage maturation"
B C Wang (University of Georgia, USA): "Remaining Challenges In Long Wavelength Phasing: The SER-CAT Approach"
Peter Weightman (Liverpool, UK): Opportunities for Biology on an ERL and 4GLS
Roger Williams (LMB-MRC, Cambridge, UK): "ESCRT complexes"
Yong Xiong (Yale, USA): "Atomic Structure Determination of Yeast Fatty Acid Synthase"
Naoto Yagi (SPring-8 Center, Japan): "Microbeam X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Amyloid Spherulites "
Özkan Yildiz (Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany): "Structure of the monomeric outer-membrane porin OmpG in the open and closed conformation"
Hanna Yuan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): "Structural and Functional Insight into Nucleases in Cell Defense"

Session Organisers

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The following are organisers of the parallel sessions.

Johann Deisenhofer [Membrane proteins]
Roger Fourme [Computational Biology]
David Garner [Combined SR techniques (Spectroscopy with PX)]
Richard Garratt [Combined SR techniques (Spectroscopy with PX)]
Günter Grossmann [Non-Crystalline Diffraction]
Janos Hajdu [Radiation Damage: How to get the best from your crystal]
Samar Hasnain [Metalloproteins][ Recent Advancements]
John Helliwell [Developments in instrumentation: from photon delivery to detection]
Keith Hodgson [Imaging]
Tom Irving [Non-Crystalline Diffraction]
So Iwata [Membrane proteins]
Harren Jhoti [Structural Genomics/Proteomics]
Louise Johnson [Multi-protein complexes] [Hot Topics] [Recent Advancements]
Mikio Kataoka [SR Spectroscopy (Circular Dichroism, Infra-Red, Spectro-microscopy)]
Sine Larsen [Developments in instrumentation: from photon delivery to detection]
Rob Lewis [Imaging]
Andres Liljas [New Biological Challenges]
Colin Nave [Radiation Damage: How to get the best from your crystal]
Richard Pauptit [SR Industrial Applications and structure based drug design]
Zhie Rao [New Biological Challenges]
Randy Reed [Computational Biology]
Tim Richmond [Hot Topics]
Chris Schofield [Metalloproteins]
Tom Terwilliger [Structural Genomics/Proteomics]
Soichi Wakatsuki [Multi-protein complexes]
Bonnie Wallace [SR Spectroscopy (Circular Dichroism, Infra-Red, Spectro-microscopy)]
Andrew Wang [SR Industrial Applications and structure based drug design]

Plenary Speakers | Invited Speakers | Session Organisers