Ph.D. course in Protein Crystallography (10 ECTS)

The course will not run in 2007 BUT WILL RUN AGAIN IN 2008 - SORRY FOR THE LATE INFORMATION!!! The information below regarding the 2006 course is left as an indication of the general theme of the course

Weeks 4 and 6 of January 2006 (January 23-27 and February 6-10)

Application deadline: December 1th 2005.

Meet our sponsor - Hampton Research

This course is partly financially supported by The Protein Science PhD School and The Chemistry PhD School

Contact persons:

Leila Lo Leggio, Phone 35 32 02 95, E-mail leila@ccs.ki.ku.dk

Anders Kadziola, Phone 35 32 02 86 , E-mail anders@ccs.ki.ku.dk

Jens-Christian Navarro Poulsen, Phone 35 32 02 89, E-mail jnp@ccs.ki.ku.dk

Biofysisk Kemi, Kemisk Institut,

Universitetsparken 5, 2100 København Ø

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How to get there

Guidelines for Protein Preparation

2006 programme (pdf format) Notice: final programme

Course description:

The course is aimed at Ph.D. students and postdocs who work within a field where protein structures are a source of information. The course is intended to enable the participants to validate three dimensional structures of proteins and the information that can be extracted from them. The course is comprised of a theoretical part, which will cover most elements of X-ray macromolecular crystallography and a practical part with hands-on practicals on protein crystallization and analysis and validation of structural information. For the practical part we encourage participants to bring their own proteins.

Registration:

The course is limited to 12 participants, and applications will be sorted by the relevance of the course to the research projects of the participants. Early application an advantage. To be considered for the course, send an application to one of the contact persons listed below before December 1st. The application can be sent by mail or e-mail. The application form can also be downloaded in Word-rtf format by clicking here.

Practical information:

The language of the course is English. The course runs over two weeks (4 and 6) from Jan 23th to 27th and from Feb 6th to 10th, 2006. The course will be held at the Centre for Crystallographic Studies. The teachers will be invited researchers and staff from the centre. The course is structured with lectures in the morning, and hands-on practicals in the afternoon. Attendance is compulsory for getting credit for the course, and evalution of the participants will be based on oral presentation of results and lab protocols. There will be a participation fee of 3500 Dkr (5000 Dkr for industry) covering lunch, tea/coffee and teaching material.

Contents of the course:

· Protein crystallization

· Crystal symmetry

· X-ray diffraction

· Structure determination

· Improvement of experimental phases

· Structure refinement

· Structure analysis and validation

· Protein databases

· Comparison of protein structures

 

 

Name:

Ph.D. student ( ) Postdoc ( ) Other:

Date of immatriculation:

Telephone: Fax: E-mail:

Name and address of institution:

 

 

 

Name of supervisor / principal investigator:

A short decription of your research project(s):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like to bring protein for crystallization: Yes ( ) No ( )

Would you like to work with your own project(s) for the computer practicals: Yes ( ) No ( )