RCSB PDB Newsletter | Winter 2011

Come celebrate four decades of innovation
in structural biology.

Pricing
Regular packages (Registration with housing, $550) are all inclusive and cover registration, food, and housing. Registration without housing packages ($350) include registration and food, but not housing.

The maximum number of participants is 350. Early registration is strongly encouraged as the meeting is expected to fill quickly.

Posters
The meeting will also host a session of poster presentations. To submit your abstract for consideration, please submit online following the link provided after registration.

Travel Awards
Limited funds are available to help students and early career scientists attend PDB40. Application information is available online.

Snapshot: July 1, 2011
74140	released atomic coordinate entries
Molecule Type
68651	proteins, peptides, and viruses
2265	nucleic acids
3185	protein/nucleic acid complexes
39	other
Experimental Technique
64633	X-ray
8945	NMR
371	electron microscopy
36	hybrid
155	other

Related Experimental Data Files
54054	structure factors
6245	NMR restraints
93	NMR chemical shift

Program
Presentations by our distinguished speakers will include:

Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto, Canada) Structural and chemical biology of the readers and writers of the histone code
David Baker (University of Washington) Prediction and design of macromolecular structures, functions, and interactions
Ad Bax (NIH/DHHS/NIDDK/LCP) An NMR view of the interaction between viral fusion proteins and phospholipids
Axel Brunger (Stanford University/HHMI) Challenges for structure determination at low resolution
Stephen K. Burley (Eli Lilly & Co.) Growth, globalization, and future of the PDB
Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine) CryoEM of molecular machines
Angela Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh) Synergy between NMR and CryoEM: Novel findings for HIV capsid function
Richard Henderson (MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, UK) What is needed to make single particle electron cryomicroscopy reach its true potential
Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University) SLAC1 and the splendor of atomic resolution
Mei Hong (Iowa State University) Membrane protein solid-state NMR: Elucidating the influenza M2 structure and mechanism
So Iwata (Imperial College London, UK) Overcoming challenges of membrane protein crystallography
Louise Johnson (University of Oxford, UK) Structural biology: from early days to the present and possibilities for the future
T. Alwyn Jones (University of Uppsala, Sweden) Model building man; an endangered species
Brian Matthews (University of Oregon) Protein crystallography: Getting in on the ground floor
Jane Richardson (Duke University Medical Center) Studying and polishing the PDB's macromolecules
Michael Rossmann (Purdue University) The PDB: A historical perspective
Andrej Sali (University of California, San Francisco) Determining architectures of macromolecular assemblies by aligning interaction networks to electron microscopy density maps
David Searls (Independent Consultant) Macromolecular linguistics
Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego) Evolution of protein kinases: Insights from the structural kinome
Janet Thornton (EMBL, Hinxton, UK) Abstracting knowledge from protein structures for biology in the 21st century
Soichi Wakatsuki (Institute of Materials Structure Science, Japan) Coevolution of synchrotron radiation technologies with protein X-ray crystallography
Kurt Wüthrich (The Scripps Research Institute/ETH Zürich) Structural biology by NMR and the Protein Data Bank

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