Programme

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Janos Hajdu - the 2007 Maslen Fellow

Structural Biology Labs
Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden
http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hajdu/
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v2/n12/abs/nphys461.htm

Prof. Anthony K. Cheetham FRS

Director, International Center for Materials Research
University of California
Santa Barbara California
http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~cheetham/

Dr. Mike Lawrence

CSIRO Health Sciences & Nutrition
Parkville, Victoria
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05106.html

Prof. John Helliwell

Manchester
http://www.ch.man.ac.uk/people/academic/jrh.html

Prof. Bonnie Wallace

Birbeck
http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg25a/

Prof. Martin Dove

Cambridge
http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/astaff/dove/

Proposed Themes:

1. New Facilities and Crystallography at the Beamline
2. Crystallography from Small Molecules to Supramolecular Chemistry
3. Allied methods: SAX, WAX, XAFS, Imaging and Other Techniques
4. Materials Science and Nanotechnology
5. Structural Genomics and High-Throughput Crystallography
6. Proteins Related to Disease and Drug Discovery
7. Hot Topics in Macromolecular Crystallography
8. Theoretical, Computational and Educational Crystallography
9. e-Science for Crystallography
10. Young Crystallographers Session

International speakers include:

• Prof Janos Hajdu (Upsala) - single particle flash diffraction.
• Prof Tony Cheetham (California) - solid state material, nano-materials
• Prof Martin Dove (Cambridge) - UK e-Science e-Minerals project and diffraction physics
• Dr Alun Ashton (UK Diamond synchrotron) e-Science for Diamond
• Dr Kenneth Shankland - (UK ISIS neutron facility) e-Science and Grid at ISIS
• Dr Simon Teat (US ALS synchrotron) - Small molecule crystallography at the synchrotron
• Prof Bo Iversen (Aarhus) - Charge density studies at the synchrotron
• Prof Bob von Dreele (Argonne) - Protein structures from powder diffraction
• Dr Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos) - Automated Protein Structure modelling and PHENIX
• Dr Ronon Keegan - CCP4 e-Science and MrBUMP
• Prof John Helliwell (Manchester) - Protein Crystallography
• Prof Bonnie Wallace (London) - Protein Crystallography
• Dr Katherine McAuley (Diamond) - Protein Crystallography at Diamond
• Dr Matthias Gutmann (ISIS) - Small Molecule Crystallography with Neutrons

Dr Shane Kennedy will give a presentation on the capabilities of the new research reactor OPAL, which officially opens the week after Crystal-25. Dr Andy Broadbent will likewise report on the status and capabilities of the Australian Synchrotron, which is to be officially opened in June.