Time

Topic

Lecturer (venue)

Sunday 3^rd September

15:00-16:00

Arrival and registration

16:00-16:10

Welcome

Elspeth Garman, Martin Noble  (Old Dining Hall, SEH)

16:10-18:20

Expression & purification and student stories

Jane Endicott/All (SEH)

18:30-19:30

Dinner

(SEH)

19:30-22:00

Crystallisation and remaining student stories^*

Jane Endicott/All (SEH)

Drinks sponsored by Molecular Dimensions

Monday 4^th September

7:45-8:30

Breakfast

(SEH)

9:00-10:30

MX Road map, Symmetry & Diffraction basics

Airlie McCoy (LR1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

(7^th floor)

11:00-12:30

Sources, Detectors & Data Collect

Elspeth Garman (LR1)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

(7^th floor)

13:30-15:30

Data collection and processing

Elspeth Garman (LR1)

15:30-15:50

Tea

(7^th floor)

15:50

Gather to cross over to MSTC

(7^th floor)

16:00-18:00

Data processing workshop

Elspeth Garman/All (MSTC)

18:45-19:30

Dinner

(SEH)

Evening off !!!!!

Tuesday 5^th September

7:45-8:30

Breakfast

(SEH)

9:00-9:45

Pattersons, theory and (not too grim) reality

Martin Noble (LR1)

9:45-10:30

Introduction to maximum likelihood methods

Airlie McCoy (LR1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

(7^th floor)

11:00-12:00

Experimental phasing

Airlie McCoy (LR1)

12:00-12:30

Finding heavy atom sites

Martin Noble (LR1)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

(7^th floor)

13:30-15:30

Phasing workshop I: SAD

Martin Noble/All (MSTC)

15:30-16:00

Tea

7^th floor

16:00-16:45

Preparation of derivatives and MIR

Martin Noble (LR1)

16:45-17:00

Where are we on the road map ?

Martin Noble (LR1)

17:00-17:30

Panel discussions/questions from a box

Jon Cooper/All (LR1)

18:15-21:30

Cruise along the scenic river Thames  in a Salter’s steamer, including dinner. Boat sponsored by Oxford Cryosystems, food sponsored by Bruker-AXS

Folly Bridge. DON’T MISS THE BOAT !!!!! It leaves at 18:30 sharp, with or without you

Wednesday 6^th September

7:45-8:30

Breakfast

(SEH)

9:00-10:00

Molecular replacement

Airlie McCoy (LR1)

10:00-10:30

Finding/making the search model

Nick Keep (LR1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

(7^th floor)

11:00-13:00

Phasing workshop II: Molecular replacement

Nick Keep/Airlie McCoy/All (MSTC)

13:00-14:00

Lunch

(7^th floor)

14:00-15:15

Phase improvement and averaging

Jon Cooper (LR1)

15:30-21:30  Trip to Diamond Light Source

15:30

Bus departure. Sponsored by Oxford Diffraction

(OU Club)

16:30-17:30

Tour of the ring

Alun Ashton (Diamond)

17:30-17:45

Tea

(Diamond)

17:45-18:30

Seminar: “MX at Diamond”

Alun Ashton(Diamond)

18:30-18:45

Pre-dinner drinks. Sponsored by Diamond

(Diamond)

18:45-20:15

Buffet Dinner. Drinks sponsored by QIAGEN

(Diamond)

20:30

Bus leaves

(Diamond)

Thursday 7^th September

7:45-8:30

Breakfast

(SEH)

9:00-10:30

Crystal preparation for cryocrystallography

Elspeth Garman (LR1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

(7^th floor)

11:00-12:30

Refinement

Nick Keep (LR1)

12:30-13:00

Lunch

(7^th floor)

13:30-15:30

Model validation

Peter Artymuik (LR1)

15:30-16:00

Tea

(7^th floor)

16:00-18:30

Map interpretation workshop

Martin Noble/All (MSTC)

19:30-late

Conference Dinner. After dinner speech by Professor Dame Louise Johnson, DBE, FRS.

Drinks sponsored by Marresearch. 

(SEH)

Friday 8^th September

7:45-8:45

Breakfast

(SEH)

Note: Students need to vacate rooms before the morning teaching session

9:30-11:00

Complementing crystallography with other structural techniques

Nick Keep (LR1)

11:00-11:30

Strong Coffee

(7^th floor)

11:30-12:30

Quiz/feedback/questionnaire

Elspeth Garman/Martin Noble/All (LR1)

12:30

Close

Students depart Friday afternoon