The course will culminate in world’s first remote controlled SAXS experiment connecting NTU to Hamburg, Germany
Date : 25 - 26 May 2009
Venue : Classroom 1, School of Biological Sciences
Programme
Monday, 25 May 2009
Basics of small-angle X-ray scattering
Chairperson: Prof Lars Nordenskiold, Associate Chair, Biological Sciences (Academic), NTU
| 9.00am |
Welcome Address (Prof Alex Law, Acting Chair of the School of Biological Sciences, NTU) |
| 9.05am |
Basics of small-angle X-ray scattering from solutions. (Dr Michel H. J. Koch, EMBL-Outstation Hamburg, Germany) |
| 9.50am |
Scattering data reduction and processing. ( Dr Manfred W. Roessle, EMBL-Outstation Hamburg, Germany) |
| 10.35am |
Coffee break |
| 11.05am |
Ab initio methods: how do they work? (Dr Dmitri Svergun, EMBL-Outstation Hamburg, Germany) |
| 12.00noon |
Lunch (SBS Lobby) |
| 1.30pm |
End of Session |
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
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X-rays in structural biology
Chairperson: A/Prof G. Grüber, Deputy Head of Division of Structural & Computational Sciences, NTU
| 4.10pm |
Synchrotron source for biological macromolecules. (Prof Dr Herbert O. Moser, Director, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source) |
| 4.30pm |
Combining synchrotron radiation and electron microscopy to study biological energy conversion. (A/Prof Dr Daniela Stock, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia) |
| 5.15pm |
Highlight:
Synchrotron SAXS remote data collection demonstration (Dr Dmitri Svergun, EMBL-Outstation Hamburg )
Three SAXS experiments will be initiated at NTU and performed in real time via the German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. |
|
| 6.00pm |
Dinner (SBS Lobby) |
| 8.00pm |
End of Programme |
Above two sessions are open to all. You are welcome to attend the sessions without pre-registration.
In conjunction with this course, two practical workshops in SAXS-data analysis will be conducted.
The workshops are strictly for selected participants only.
