Detailed Programme

Programme

Tuesday April 10

Tuesday		Conference Start
1:55—2:00pm	Welcome	Brendan Kennedy
	Session 1	Opening Plenary Session
		Chair: Brendan Kennedy
2:00—2:30		Keith Nugent (30 min)	Coherent X-ray Science
2:30—3:15		Bonnie Wallace (45 min)	Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy and Protein Crystallography: Complementary Methods in Structural Genomics
3:15—4:00		John Helliwell (45 min)	Softly does it! Cracking lobster shell crustacyanin protein crystal structures.
Coffee 4:00—4:30
Tuesday	Session 2	Young Crystallographers
		Chairs: Allan White and Stuart Batten
4:30—4:45		Jack Clegg (15 min)	The supramolecular chemistry of bis-ß-diketones: A remarkable single crystal-single crystal phase transition under pressure.
5:30—5:45		Marc Kvansakul (15 min)	Insight into Viral Inhibition of Apoptosis: Structure of the M11L:Bak BH3 Complex
5:00—5:15		Paul Saines (15 min)	Insight into the Stability of Tetragonal and Rhombohedral Phases in Double Perovskites
4:45—5:00		Martin Duriska (15 min)	Structure and Properties of a Discrete Nano-Sphere
5:15—5:30		Jason Schmidberger (15 min)	A novel dehalogenase structure determined by a new approach to Synchrotron data collection.
5:45—6:00		Natasha Sciortino (15 min)	Multi-functional framework materials: Nanoporosity and spin-crossover
6:30	Mixer

Wednesday April 11

Wednesday	Plenary IV	Yanos Hajdu (50 min)	Flash diffractive imaging.
8:30—9:20am	Maslen Lecture	Chair: Jenny Martin
	Session 3	The New Facilities (80 min)
		Chairs: Erich Kisi, Chris Chantler
9:20—9:50		Shane Kennedy (30 min)	Opportunities for structural research at the OPAL reactor's Neutron Beam Facility
9:50—10:10		Andy Broadbent (20 min)	Beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron - An Update
10:10—10:25		Kia Wallwork (15 min)	High resolution powder diffraction at the Australian Synchrotron
10:25—10:40		Janet Newman (15min)	C3 - A macromolecular crystallisation resource for Australia
Coffee 10:40—11:00
Wednesday	Session 4	Crystallography at the Beamline (105 min)
		Chairs: Mitchell Guss, Andy Broadbent
11:00—11:30	Keynote	Bo Iversen (30 min)	Application of Synchrotron Charge Densities in Materials Chemistry
11:30—11:50		Matthias Gutman (20 min)	Recent highlights and future opportunities for neutron single crystal diffraction at ISIS
11:50—12:10		Katherine McAuley(20 min)	The Phase One MX Beamlines at Diamond Light Source
12:10—12:30		Sandor Brockhauser (20 min)	Kappa Goniometry
12:30—12:50		Simon Teat (20 min)	A Bright Solution to Difficult Crystals
Lunch 12:50—1:30
Wednesday	Session 5	e–Science for Crystallography I (75 min)
		Chairs: Mark Spackman, Jane Hunter
1:30—2:00	Keynote	Alun Ashton (30 min)	More speed, more data, more automation, more work?
2:00—2:15		Ian Atkinson (15 min)	JAINIS (JCU And Indiana Instrument Services) - A Remote Access and Data Management System for X-Ray Diffraction.
2:15—2:30		Peter Turner (15 min)	The Rising Power of the Web Browser: Web Services Based Collaborative Remote Instrument Control and Monitoring
2:30—2:45		Chris Myers (15 min)	VBL Outline
Coffee 2:45—3:15
Wednesday	Session 6	Hot Topics in Macromolecular Crystallography (75)
		Chairs: Peter Colman, Alice Vrielink
3:15—3:45	Keynote	Bob von Dreele (30 min)	Recent advances in protein powder diffraction
3:45—4:00		Paul Carr (15 min)	Crystal Structure of the N-terminal Domain of the TyrR Transcription Factor Responsible for Gene Regulation of Aromatic Amino Acid Biosynthesis and Transport in E. coli K12
3:00—4:15		Chaille Webb (15 min)	Crystal structure of the mitochondrial import complex, hTIM9.10
4:15—4:30		Maria Hrmova (15 min)	Substrate-product trafficking in the active site of a plant enzyme: Conventional and Laue crystallographic approaches
4:30pm	Sunset Winery Tour
7:00pm	BBQ
8:30pm	Posters

Thursday April 12

Thursday	Plenary V	Mike Lawrence (45 min)	First insights into the structure of the insulin receptor ectodomain homodimer
8:30—9:15am		Chair: Bostjan Kobe
	Session 7	Allied Techniques (90 min)
		Chairs: Mike James, Janet Newman
9:15—9:35		Peter Lay (20 min)	3D Structure Determinations and Cellular Mapping Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
9:35—9:55		Jill Trewella (20 min)	Small-angle X-ray scattering and neutron contrast variation reveal the arrangement of synaptic proteins implicated in autism
9:55—10:15		Patrick Kluth (20 min)	Characterization of metallic nanoparticles using synchrotron based analytical techniques
10:15—10:30		Chris Chantler (15 min)	Accurate Measurement and Physical Insight: The X-ray Extended Range Technique for high accuracy absolute XAFS by transmission and fluorescence
10:30—10:45		David Jacques (15 min)	Investigation of the structural basis for the inhibition of Histidine Kinase A by Sda in Bacillus subtilis
Coffee 10:45—11:15
	Parallel Sessions
Thursday	Session 8a	From Small Molecules to Supramolecular Chemistry (90 min)
		Chairs: Cameron Kepert, Tony Willis
11:15—11:35		Brendan Abrahams (20 min)	The Tetrasulfitocuprate(I) Anion - A New Building Block for Supramolecular Assemblies
11:35—11:55		Stuart Batten (20 min)	Crystal Engineering with the Scorpion King
11:55—12:15		Alison Edwards (20 min)	Superbowls and Cavitands - Guest Molecule Direction of Nano-Scale Self Assembled Systems
12:15—12:30		Joshua McKinnon (15 min)	Extensions of Hirshfeld Surface-Based Tools: Decomposing Fingerprint Plots and Visualisation of Crystal Voids
12:30—12:45		Martin Adam (15 min)	APEX II ULTRA - Precision and Accuracy
Thursday	Session 8b	Proteins Related to Disease and Drug Discovery I (90 min)
		Chairs: Paul Carr, Jacqui Gulbis
11:15—11:35		Jennifer Martin (20 min)	Crystal structure of the Munc18c/Syntaxin4-N-peptide: implications for the role of SM proteins in membrane trafficking
11:35—11:55		Ruby Law (20 min)	GABA Production by Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase is Regulated by a Dynamic Catalytic Loop
11:55—12:15		Mark Walter (20 min)	2.7 Å crystal structure of the autoinhibited human c-FMS kinase domain
12:15—12:30		Alice Vrielink (15 min)	Ultra High Resolution Crystallographic Studies of Cholesterol Oxidase: Correlation Between Structure and Catalytic Function
12:30—12:45		Charlie Bond (15 min)	Disrupting your Hollidays? Studies on Archaeal recombinational DNA repair enzymes.
Lunch 12:45—1:30
Thursday	Plenary VI	Martin Dove (45 min)	eScience for materials research with intensive computational, data and collaborative requirements
1:30—2:15		Chair: Richard Wellberry
	Session 9	e–Science for Crystallography II (85 min)
		Chairs: Ian Atkinson, Peter Turner
2:15—2:40	Keynote	Kenneth Shankland (25)	Distributed Computing for Crystallography: Experiences and Opportunities
2:55—3:10		Noel Faux (15 min)	e-Research for Crystallography at Monash University
3:10—3:25		Jane Hunter (15 min)	Real-time Collaborative Annotation of 3D Crystallographic Models
2:40—2:55		David Abramson (15 min)	High Throughput Monte-Carlo modelling using the Computational Grid.
3:25—3:40		Rhys Francis (15 min)	Platforms for Collaboration
Coffee 3:40—4:00
Thursday	Session 10	Theoretical and Computational Crystallography (100 min)
		Chair: Bret Church, Chris Howard
4:00—4:30	Keynote	Tom Terwilliger (30 min)	PHENIX: New methods for automated structure solution, model-building, ligand-fitting and refinement
4:30—4:50		Mark Spackman (20 min)	Effective molecular polarizabilities and crystal refractive indices from wavefunctions constrained to fit X-ray structure factors
4:50—5:10		Richard Welberry (20 min)	Disorder in Pentachloronitrobenzene, C6Cl5NO2: A Diffuse Scattering Study
5:10—5:40		Ronan Keegan (30 min)	What's new in CCP4 and developments in the automation of the protein structure solution process

7:00	Conference Dinner

Friday April 13

Friday	Plenary VII	Anthony Cheetham (45 min)	Trends in Inorganic Materials Science: the Role of Diffraction Methods
8:30—9:15		Chair: Ray Withers
	Session 11	Small Molecule Crystallography - a Tribute to Allan White (90 min)
		Chair: Peter Healy
9:15—9:45	Keynote	Cameron Kepert (30 min)	Coordination Framework Materials
9:45—10:00		Michael Bruce (15min)	Allan White - an appreciation of a 25-year collaboration
10:00—10:15		Alan David Rae (15min)	A false minimum in the refinement of a 9x superstructure. A problem with commensurately modulated structures with a cell volume (2N+1) that of a parent structure.
10:15—10:30		Andrew Beasley (15min)	Disorder in Polymorphic Systems
10:30—10:45		Eric Chan (15min)	Structural Systematics of Complexes of Lanthanoid Picrates with Unidentate O-donor Ligands
Coffee 10:45—11:15
	Parallel Sessions
Friday	Session 12a	Proteins Related to Disease and Drug Discovery II (120 min)
		Chairs: Jill Trewella, Mike Lawrence
11:15—11:35		Bostjan Kobe (20 min)	Structural basis for recruitment of tandem hotdog domains in acyl-CoA thioesterase 7 and its role in inflammation
11:35—11:55		Mihwa Lee (20 min)	Structures of the ligand-free and the inhibitor complexes of E. coli DHOase: Consequences for loop movement in catalysis.
11:55—12:15		Robyn Malby (20 min)	Crystal Structure of the Protease Domain of Plasmodium falciparum SERA-5
12:15—12:30		Daniela Stock (15 min)	Molecular Architecture and Function of A-type ATPases
12:30—12:45		Andreas Hofman (15 min)	Molecular Mechanisms of Cytoskeletal and Membrane-Associated Proteins: Annexins and Cyclase-Associated Protein
12:45—1:00		Nyssa Drinkwater (15 min)	Characterising induced-fit conformational changes in drug design
1:00—1:15		Corrine Porter (15 min)	Structural studies on PlyB, a potential therapeutic for the treatment of pulmonary anthrax.
Friday	Session 12b	Materials Science and Nanotechnology (120 min)
		Chairs: Ian Grey, Ross Piltz
11:15—11:35		Mogens Christensen (20 min)	Neutron and Synchrotron Investigations of Thermoelectric Clathrates
11:35—11:55		Brendan Kennedy (20 min)	Phase Transitions In Manganese Perovskites. From The Simply Unusual To The Outright Bizarre.
11:55—12:15		Jean Galy (20 min)	Structural Chemistry of M_2/3[Bi₁₂O₁₄](MoO₄)₅ (M=Pb, Bi, Ln) and Bi_2n+4MonO_6(n+1) Phases: XRD, TEM, Spark Plasma Sintering, Anionic Conductivity.
12:15—12:30		Erich Kisi (15 min)	High Resolution Neutron Powder Diffraction - a Singular Application
12:30—12:45		Chris Ling (15 min)	Layering of magnetic and non-magnetic cations in three-layer Aurivillius phases: crystallographic templates for multiferroicity
12:45—1:00		Margaret Elcombe (15 min)	The structure of Li₄NbO₄F - a joint neutron x-ray refinement.
1:00—1:15		Michael James (15 min)	Complementarity Gone Mad: Magnetostructural Correlations in Rare Earth Strontium-Doped Cobaltates

1:15—2:00pm	Conference Close and Lunch
2:30pm	Buses