Click here to download the conference schedule and poster abstract book: PDC_Program.pdf.
Date: September 18th - 20th
Location: Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, New York
Program committee: Edward Snell, Joseph Luft, Guillermo Calero, Vivian Cody
Conference social events include an opening reception on September 18th, poster reception and luncheon, and banquet on September 19th.
| September 18th | |
| from 4:00 pm | Hotel Registration |
5:30-8:30 pm |
Opening reception at Bacchus Wine Bar and Restaurant |
September 19th |
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| 8:00 am | Conference Registration opens, light breakfast available |
9:00 am – 9:10 am
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Opening introduction – Vivian Cody
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| First session: | RNA and DNA (Chair Clara Kielkopf) |
| 9:10 am – 9:40 am | Ned Seeman, New York University, "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life" |
| 9:40 am – 10:10 am | Guillermo Calero, University of Pittsburgh "Crystal structure of RNA polymerase II in complex with a complete nucleic acid scaffold" |
10:10 am – 10:40 am
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Joseph Wedekind, University of Rochester, "PreQ1 riboswitches use diverse modes of pyrrolopyrimidine recognition in gene regulation"
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10:40 am – 11:00 am
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Coffee
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| Second session: | Crystallization (Chair Ed Snell) |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | John Hunt, Columbia University, "Rational engineering of improved protein crystallization" |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 noon | Joseph R. Luft, Hauptman Woodward Institute, "Crystallization Screening: Technologies and Science" |
12:00 noon – 12:30 pm
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Hilary Stevenson, University of Pittsburgh, "Nanocrystal Identification and Crystal Optimization by Electron Microscopy"
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12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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Lunch
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| Third session: | Small Molecule Crystallography (Chair Matt Zeller) |
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Jesse Rowsell, Oberlin College, "A Common Supramolecular Motif in Compounds of “H-Acid”, featuring the Incommensurately Modulated Phase of the Commercially Important Sodium Hydrate" |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Silvina Pagola, College of William and Mary, "Crystal structure analysis of organic mechanochemical reaction products from X-ray powder diffraction" |
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
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Yurij Mozharivskyj, McMaster University, "Elucidating fine structural features and physical properties in responsive materials via single crystal X-ray diffraction"
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3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Coffee
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| Fourth session: | Short talks to be selected from submitted abstracts |
| 3:30 pm – 3:50 pm | |
| 3:50 pm – 4:10 pm | |
| 4:10 pm – 4:30 pm | |
| 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm | |
| 4:50 pm – 5:10 pm | |
5:10 pm – 5:30 pm
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| 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Poster session (posters will also be available during the banquet) |
6:30 pm
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Banquet – Poster prizes
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September 20th |
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| Fifth session: | New Diffraction Technologies (Chair John Rose) |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Aina Cohen, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, "Femtosecond high-resolution diffraction studies at LCLS" |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Flora Meilleur, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Locating Hydrogen Atoms in Enzymes Using Neutron Protein Crystallography" |
10:00 am – 10:30 am
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Marian Szebenyi, Cornell University, "Developments and Opportunities for Structural Biology at MacCHESS"
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10:30 am – 11:00 am
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Coffee
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| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | John Rose, University of Georgia, "The SER-CAT Virtual Beamline: Lessons learned when over 95% of all data is collected remotely" |
11:30 am – 12:00 noon
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Roger Durst, Bruker AXS, "Design and Characteristics of MetalJet X-Ray Sources"
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All member business meeting: |
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| 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm | |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |