NSLS Users' Meeting: Interesting things for structural biologists

[Robert Sweet]

The National Synchrotron Light Source Annual Users' Meeting is coming up:
Monday - Wednesday  -  May 20 - 22, 2002

There are workshops, punctuated by a formal, general meeting:

Workshops on Monday, May 20

- Practical Aspects of Membrane Protein Crystallography: From
Overexpression to Crystallization organized by Larry Shapiro, Columbia
University and Filippo Mancia, Columbia University
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting/2002/Biology_wkshop.htm

- X-ray Sources for Studies of Ultrafast Processes organized by John
Sutherland, BNL
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting/2002/Ultrafast_wkshop.htm

Workshops on Wednesday, May 22

- Combining Synchrotron Infrared and X-ray Micro-Spectroscopy and Imaging
organized by Lisa Miller and Antonio Lanzirotti, NSLS
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting/2002/Infrared_Xray_wkshop.htm

- Advanced Detectors Development organized by D. Peter Siddons, NSLS
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting/2002/Detector_wkshop.htm

Main Meeting on Tuesday, May 21

Keynote speaker: Dr. John Marburger, (Director of the Office of Science
and Technology)
Speakers:  Dr. Pat Dehmer (DOE),
                Dr. Judith Vaitukaitis (NIH-NCRR)
                Dr. Richard Swaja (NIH-NIBIB).
                Congressman Felix Grucci
                Dr. Steve Dierker (NSLS Chair)

For registration and meeting and workshop information, go to: 
http://nslsweb.nsls.bnl.gov/nsls/users/meeting