Lectures and hand-on tutorials will be given by:
Dr. Tom Terwilliger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Dr. Terwilliger’s group and colleagues have developed algorithms and software for analyzing X-ray diffraction data from macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids and determining their 3-dimensional structures. He and his group are a major force in the establishment of the collaborative PHENIX project, the premiere comprehensive software package for macromolecular structure determination.
Dr. Randy Read (Cambridge)
Dr. Read has worked extensively on extending the scope and power of the methods used in protein crystallography and on applying those methods to determine new protein structures. His focus is on proteins involved in pathogenesis and disease, the structures of which can be exploited in the development of new therapies. He and his group are the main developers of the Phaser program used for phasing by molecular replacement.
Dr. Zbigniew Dauter (Argonne National Laboratory and the National Center for Cancer Research)
Dr. Dauter is a world-renowned specialist in analyzing crystal structures at extremely high resolution and accuracy and in developing methods of effective diffraction data collection and in using weak anomalous dispersion effects to solve structures of macromolecules.
Dr. Karine Sparta (Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin).
Dr. Sparta is a crystallographer with many years’ experience in the structural investigation of small molecules, in particular low-dimensional magnetic systems. Since 2013, she has joined the Macromolecular Crystallography group of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at the synchrotron source BESSY II and is developing XDSAPP, an expert GUI for data processing with XDS.