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December 2008 news
PSI in the Spotlight
PSI-SGKB [doi:10.1038/nw_psisgkb.2008.25]
This column presents announcements and other notable news related to the Protein Structure Initiative.
Call for Abstracts: 2009 NIGMS Workshop. The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) announce that the annual workshop, entitled '2009 NIGMS Workshop - Enabling Technologies for Structural Biology', will be held 4–6 March 2009 at the NIH Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda, MD. This workshop focuses on the technical challenges of protein structure determination and presents the latest technological and methodological innovations.
Many issues in structural genomics and structural biology are as applicable to the individual bench scientist as they are to high-throughput research centers. The preliminary program includes keynote presentations by Michael Rossmann and Frank Raushel; six topical sessions entitled “Protein–protein interactions and complexes”, “Technologies for functional studies”, “Homology modeling for experimentalists”, “Problems and solutions”, “New and improved technologies”, “Combined approaches”; and a poster session. All classes of protein from uncharacterized hypothetical proteins to membrane proteins and protein–protein complexes will be discussed.
For further information regarding the 2009 NIGMS Workshop, online registration and abstract submission, visit http://www.blsmeetings.net/2009workshop_enablingtechnologies. For additional information, contact Dr Charles Edmonds at Email: edmondsc@nigms.nih.gov. The deadline for submission an abstract is 11 February 2009, and selected abstracts will be invited to present their results.
Recent publications about the Structural Genomics Knowledgebase. Would you like to read more about the data and resources that the Knowlegebase provides and how we provide them? Two publications that focus on this portal and the PSI resource, the Protein Model Portal, have recently been published. We invite you to contact the PSI SGKB staff at Email: psi-sgkb@nature.com with any questions or suggestions you have.
