AsCA'09
Joint Conference of the
Asian Crystallographic Association &
Chinese Crystallography Society
Beijing, October 22-25, 2009
Scientfic Program
The scientific program will be composed of keynote speeches, invited session talks, oral and poster presentations.
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Conference Venue
AsCA'09 will be held at Jingyi Hotel, in Northwest Beijing. The address is as follows:
Jingyi Hotel
No. 9 Dazhongsi East Road
Haidian District, Beijing 100098
Tel: +86-010-62165588, Fax: +86-010-82125309
Web: http://www.jingyihotel.com/
Official Language
The official language of AsCA'09 will be English. We regret that simultaneous interpretation will not be provided.
Invited Speakers (secured so far)
Plenary Lectures
- Ted Baker: Celebrating crystallography?
- Hongkun Park: Capturing light and poking cells with nanowires
- Yoshinori Fujiyoshi: Structural physiology based on electron crystallography
Keynote Lectures
- Joel Sussman: Proteopedia - A scientific "Wiki" bridging the rift between 3D structure and function of biomacromolecules
- David Owen: Cargo recognition during clathrin-coated vesicle formation
- Matthew Rosseinsky: Reactivity and flexibility in metal-organic frameworks: amino-acid based and post-synthetically functionalised materials
- Thomas Mak: Crystalline silver(I) complexes containing all-carbon and carbon-rich anionic ligands
Workshops
Three workshops will be held on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, in the conference hotel. Pre-registration is mandatory and should be indicated on your registration form. These workshops are listed below.
- WK01: Macromolecular crystallization, data collection and data processing techniques.
The workshop will cover both fundamental theories and hands-on demonstrations on crystallization, crystallization observation/analysis, data collection and data processing. - WK02: Direct-method SAD phasing and dual-space model completion.
Lecture and hands-on practice on the program OASIS in phasing protein diffraction data. Participants are requested to bring with them their Linux or MAC lap-top computers for hands-on practice of OASIS. By Fan Hai-fu, Gu Yuan-xin & Zhang Tao, Institute of Physics, CAS, China. URL: http://cryst.iphy.ac.cn/. - WK03: Publication of Small Molecule Structures in IUCr Journals.
The workshop will cover all aspects of publication of small molecule structures and will be particularly directed towards publication in Acta Cryst. C & E. Differences in emphasis between the two Journals will be explained as will the automated processes for submission of articles to the Journals. Information will also be given on software to aid the preparation of the CIF files which form the basis of publication of crystallographic information in most journals. Participants are also encouraged to bring structures that they may wish to publish with them on lap-top computers. There will be time, both at the workshop and during the AsCA'09 meeting itself for workshop organisers to advise authors on preparing articles to report their structures.
Poster Presentation
Posters are a visual and concise means of presenting one's work in progress or an overview of some subjects. Please note that it will be regarded as an important element of AsCA'09 and all participants are highly encouraged to attend poster presentations during the conference. The size for each poster will be 90 cm wide by 120 cm high. Poster boards will be numbered according to the same numbering scheme in the abstract book.
The poster presentations will be displayed throughout the duration of the conference. During the designated poster sessions, the presenters are requested to remain in front of their poster boards to meet with other attendees.
Preliminary Timetable
MS: Microsymposia, Hall A: Structural Biology; Hall B: Chemical crystallography (structure and properties); Hall C: Specialised crystallographic techniques
| Thursday Oct. 22 | Friday Oct. 23 | Saturday Oct. 24 | Sunday Oct. 25 | ||
| 08:00 | Registration 09:00-21:00 Workshop 01 9:30-11:30 | Registration from 08:00 | |||
| 08:30 | Opening 08:30-09:00 | ||||
| 09:00 | Plenary 1 by Hongkun Park 09:00-09:30 | Keynote 1 by Joel Sussman Keynote 2 by Matt Rosseinsky 09:00-9:50 | Keynote 3 by David Owen Keynote 4 by Thomas Mak 09:00-9:50 | ||
| 10:00 | Parallel Session 1 MS-1 (Hall A) MS-2 (Hall B) MS-3 (Hall C) | Parallel Session 3 MS-7 (Hall A) MS-8 (Hall B) MS-9 (Hall C) | Parallel Session 5 MS-13 (Hall A) MS-14 (Hall B) MS-15 (Hall C) | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30 | Workshop 02 14:00-17:00 Workshop 03 14:00-17:00 | Poster 1 (Odd numbers) | Poster 2 (Even numbers) | Plenary Session AsCA Rising Stars Symposium | |
| 15:30 | Break | ||||
| 16:00 | Parallel Session 2 MS-4 (Hall A) MS-5 (Hall B) MS-6 (Hall C) 16:00-18:30 | Parallel Session 4 MS-10 (Hall A) MS-11 (Hall B) MS-12 (Hall C) 16:00-18:30 | Plenary 2 by Yoshinori Fujiyoshi 15:45-16:35 | ||
| 17:00 | Closing Ceremony 16:50-17:20 | ||||
| 17:30 | |||||
| 18:00 | Opening and Welcome IUCr Plenary by Ted Baker Mixer 18:00-21:00 | Dinner for remaining attendees 18:00-19:30 | |||
| 19:00-21:30 | Vendor Buffet | Meeting Banquet | |||
Names of Sessions
- MS-1 Structural Biology in disease
- MS-2 Inorganic and nano-materials
- MS-3 Neutron and synchrotron sources and applications
- MS-4 Macromolecular assemblies (viruses, proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes)
- MS-5 Charge density studies
- MS-6 Advanced X-ray/neutron/electron imaging techniques
- MS-7 Membrane proteins
- MS-8 Organic crystal engineering and structure
- MS-9 Small angle scattering and soft materials crystallography
- MS-10 New tools for macromolecular crystallography (including structural genomics)
- MS-11 Metal-organic crystal engineering
- MS-12 Powder diffraction
- MS-13 Hot structures
- MS-14 Superconductivity and crystal properties
- MS-15 Electron microscopy and diffraction