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January 2010 news
Structural genomics in the Spotlight
PSI-SGKB [doi:10.1038/nw_psisgkb.2009.62]
It's meetings season — here are a few SG events that you should enter into your appointment book.
Bringing structural genomics to the Biologists: PSI mini-symposium at ASBMB/EB 2010 Annual Meeting
In an effort to initiate a discussion with the broader community of biologists, the ultimate users of structural genomics and structural biology data, the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) is holding a mini-symposium on 25–27 April, 2010 during the Experimental Biology/ American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, USA. This series of sessions spans three days, covering topics such as 'Enabling Technologies', '4000 Structures and More on the Wall: What Have We Learned', and a panel discussion with PSI directors and investigators about the next phase of the PSI project, 'PSI:Biology High-Throughput Enabled Structural Biology Partnerships'.
All attendees at the Experimental Biology conference can attend this mini-symposium with their standard registration http://experimentalbiology.org/content/Registration.aspx; visit the ASBMB 2010 Meeting website for more details.
Keystone Symposium to focus on Structural Genomics
The structural biology and structural genomics community are invited to attend the Keystone Symposia conference: Structural Genomics: Expanding the Horizons of Structural Biology, to be held 8–13 January, 2010 in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Organized by members of the Protein Structure Initiative, the Structural Genomics Consortium and other worldwide structural genomics efforts, the goal of the meeting is to explore how we can best harness the current approaches from high-throughput structural genomics to tackle present and future challenges in structural biology and how we can directly apply these methods to topical and important problems in structural, molecular, cellular and chemical biology.
This four-day symposium will be held jointly with the 'Structural Biology' symposium, and will include plenary sessions and workshops such as 'Exploiting Structure for Function', 'Advances in Methodologies and Tools for Structural Biology', and 'Pushing the Limits: Advances in Challenging Systems'.
It is not too late to register for this meeting — visit the Meeting Website for more information.
2010 PSI Enabling Technologies Workshop announced
For the past several years, the PSI has held an annual workshop highlighting the latest methods, technologies, and research findings relating to the protein production and structure determination pipelines. Keeping in line with next year's new PSI:Biology project, this popular series continues with next year's workshop, entitled 'Enabling Technologies in Structure and Function'. Session topics include: 'Protein Structure and Function', 'Hybrid Methods', 'Data Mining', and 'Salvage Pathways', providing new and useful strategies against today's laboratory bottlenecks. Not limited to structural biology, these techniques can be used in a multitude of labs that conduct biological and biomedical research. Not sure what to expect? Read last year's meeting report.
The 2½ day workshop will take place on 19–21 April, 2010 at the Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and poster abstracts will be accepted until 1 March, 2010. For more information, please visit the meeting website http://meetings.nigms.nih.gov/index.cfm?event=home&ID=8126
