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2009 Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry to Attend ACA Chicago Meeting


Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Thomas A. Steitz	Ada E. Yonath

Last year the names of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath were forever tied together in history as co-recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From diverse backgrounds and following different routes, their paths have reached what some describe as the highest honor for scientific achievement.

ACA is proud to announce that these distinguished Nobel Laureates will be presenting lectures at the 2010 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan will be giving a plenary lecture on Saturday and Thomas Steitz will be giving a plenary lecture on Wednesday. Ada Yonath will be giving a plenary lecture during session 07.18 on Macromolecules, Complexes & Assemblies.

NOBEL PRIZE: Official Announcement

ARTICLE: Winter issue of ACA RefleXions, p. 7

PROGRAM: View the scientific program for the 2010 Meeting.

2010 ACA Award Winners Announced

ACA congratulates the winners of the 2010 K. Trueblood, I. Fankuchen and Etter Early Career Awards.

	Raymond C. Trievel is an Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan where he is investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying protein modifications and their regulatory roles in gene expression and signal transduction. He will receive the 2010 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award for his achievements in elucidating the substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism of histone methyltransferases in the short time that he has been an independent researcher.
	Anthony L. Spek has been selected to receive the 2010 Kenneth Trueblood award for his outstanding contributions to chemical crystallography and crystallographic computing. He is a Professor in Chemical and Computational Crystallography at Utrecht University Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research in the Netherlands.
	David Watkin (Oxford University) is the recipient of the 2010 Isidor Fankuchen Award for his stewardship of the crystallographic software package "CRYSTALS" for x-ray structure refinement and analysis. The worldwide success of CRYSTALS, used by students, academics and industrial users alike, can be attributed to its ease of use and to Watkin's unceasing support of the software and its users.

AWARDS: Learn more about this year's award presentations

2010 Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL - July 24-29, 2010

Mark your calendar for the 2010 Annual Meeting to be held in downtown Chicago, IL. All workshops, scientific and poster sessions along with an exciting Exhibit Show will take place in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. The Early Registrtation deadline is May 31st.

REGISTRATION: Register online by May 31 for the early rate

HOTEL: Make reservations at the conference rate at the Sheraton

2011 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA, May 28 - June 2

The 2011 Meeting in New Orleans is coming up fast. Get the details on deadlines, people, places and events online. Registration begins after the Chicago meeting!

WEBSITE: Coming soon

EARLY REGISTRATION: Deadline March 31, 2011

Commercial Reusable Experiments for Science & Technology (CREST-1) mission

Reservations are now being accepted on the first Commercial Reusable Experiments for Science & Technology (CREST-1) mission, scheduled to fly aboard the historic last scheduled Space Shuttle flight STS-134, launching 2011 February 26.

The CREST-1 mission provides investigators with several flight-proven, miniature laboratories that are capable of simultaneously accommodating up to 120 separate investigations. By distributing the cost of the mission across numerous experiments, meaningful scientific research can be performed at exceptionally low prices.
The mini-labs being flown have been successfully utilized on past space shuttle missions for professional research in protein crystal growth, cell biology, zeolite crystal growth, collagen assembly, fluid sciences, thin film membrane casting, micro-encapsulation of drugs, industrial processes, and other applications. They have also been used for a broad array of student experiments at the middle and high school level in areas such as seed germination; growth, reproduction, and response of organisms; cell biology; and fluid sciences (see, e.g.: http://www.itaspace.com/students.html)

This is a time-critical opportunity: act now to participate in the historic, last scheduled Space Shuttle flight.

Additional information on CREST-1: http://www.american-aerospace.net/crest1.html

ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY: Space Shuttle Experiment Opportunity - Time Critical

CREST-1 UNIVERSITY STUDENT SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM (CUSSP): College Level

CREST-1 STUDENT SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIMENTS PROGRAM (SSEP): GRADES 5-12

In Memoriam

Remembering those who contributed knowledge to the scientific community and enriched the ACA with their committment to the field of crystallography.

Obituaries in RefleXions newsletter:

Summer 2009	Spring 2010
-Les Lessinger -Fred Richards -Robert Newnham -Audry Rossman	-David H. Templeton -Lieselotte Templeton
Winter 2009	Summer 2010
-Clara Brink Shoemaker -Louis Delbaere -Warren DeLano	Lachlan Cranswick