BSR2007 Jul 09, 2006 9th International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation 13-17 August 2007, Manchester, England Chair: Samar Hasnain and Louise Johnson Held over 4 days at the Manchester International Convention Centre, the conference will be followed by a visit to Diamond Light Source on 17th August. For the full program and to register, please visit: www.bsr2007.com Plenary Lectures Janos Hajdu (Sweden) High Resolution Structure from a single molecule Keith Hodgson (USA) New Opportunities and Challenges: Journey from SPEAR to X-FEL Malcolm Irving (UK) Towards the understanding of Muscle mechanism So Iwata (UK) Are membrane proteins still a special case? Venki Ramakrishnan (UK) Ribosome and Protein-Nucleic acid complexes David Stuart (UK) Challenge of Structural Virology Dmitri Svergun (Germany) Structures of Proteins and their complexes in solution Shigeyuki Yokoyama (Japan) Structural Biology Revolution: Changing Face of Structural Genomics Johann Deisenhofer (USA) Special concluding lecture: Biology & SR -Current, past & future Parallel Sessions Include Structural Genomics/Proteomics SR Spectroscopy (Circular Dichroism, Infra-Red, Spectro-microscopy) Non-Crystalline Diffraction Combined SR techniques (XAFS with PX) Developments in instrumentation: from photon delivery to detection Membrane proteins Metalloproteins Imaging From Structure to Drugs/vaccine Structures of Proteins and their complexes in solution Multi-protein complexes SR Industrial Applications and structure based drug design Radiation Damage: Cryo-crystallography; how to get the best from your crystal Computational Biology New Biological Challenges -Samar Hasnain