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President
A. Alan Pinkerton
Department of Chemistry
University of Toledo
2801 Bancroft Street
Toledo, OH  43606-3390
pres@pittdifsoc.org

 
President-Elect
Thomas F. Koetzle
IPNS Division, Bldg 360
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL  60439-4814
pres-el@pittdifsoc.org

 
Past President
Thomas J. Emge
Dept of Chem & Chem Bio
Rutgers, The State Univ of NJ
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087
past-pres@pittdifsoc.org

 
Treasurer
Charles H. Lake
Dept. of Chemistry
Indiana University of PA
Indiana, PA 15705
treas@pittdifsoc.org

 
Secretary
Allen Oliver
College of Chemistry
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1460
sec@pittdifsoc.org

 
Member-at-Large
Bryan Craven
Dept. of Chemistry
Indiana University of PA
Indiana, PA 15705
member@pittdifsoc.org
 

Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference '05

 

November 3-5, 2005

Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois

 

Program

 

Symposia Honoring Profs.

Muttaiya Sundaralingam

and

Leroy Alexander

Frontiers in Neutron Scattering

Advances in Chemical Biology

 

 

Sidhu Award

Chung Soo Yoo Award

 

 

For details and registration information

www.pittdifsoc.org


 

 

 

Confirmed speakers

Alberto Albinati, University of Milan, Italy, Studying the Coordination Chemistry of Hydrogen by Neutron Scattering

Karen Allen, Boston University, Phosphoryl Transfer in the HAD Enzyme Superfamily

Christian Burger, State University of New York at Buffalo, Polymer Fiber Diffraction and Its Quantitative Analysis

Mogens Christensen, Ċarhus University, Denmark, Neutron Investigations of Semi-Conducting Clathrates

Brian Crane, Cornell University, Protein Complexes that Mediate Bacterial Chemotaxis

Juergen Eckert, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Charles Eigenbrot, Genentech, Structure-Aided Design of a Selective Inhibitor

James Hogle, Harvard Medical School, On the Outside Looking in:  A Multiscale Approach to Characterizing Poliovirus Cell Entry

Camden Hubbard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Requirements for Accurate Residual Stress Analysis by the Neutron Diffraction Method

Ethan Merritt, University of Washington, Protein Structures as Blurred Snapshots – Extracting Dynamic Information from a Static Experiment

Keith Moffatt, University of Chicago, How Do Macromolecules Respond to Light

John Parise, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Alberto Podjarny, IGBMC, Illkirch, France, Subatomic Resolution X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Studies of Fully Deuterated Human Aldose Reductase Show Catalytic Proton (Deuterium) Channel

Gordon Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired)

Janet Smith, University of Michigan, GM/CA Canted Undulator Beamlines for Macromolecular Crystallography

Peter Stephens, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Stephen Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

C. David Stout, Scripps Research Institute, Structure and Function of Transhydrogenase

Pappanan Thiyagarajan, Argonne National Laboratory, pH-Dependent Self-Assembly of Aβ Congeners into Fibrils and Charged Nanotubes

Pamela Whitfield, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Quantitative Rietveld Analysis of Powder Diffraction Data

David Worcester, University of Missouri, Columbia, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grazing Incidence Neutron Diffraction from Lipid Bilayer Membranes