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.  For more details on these lectures and the scientific program, please see visit the meeting website.

NOBEL PRIZE: Official Announcement

ARTICLE: Winter issue of ACA RefleXions, p. 7

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

Upcoming 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 Abstract deadline and the Young Scientist Travel Grant Application deadline are both March 31, 2009.  The Early Registrtation deadline is May 31st.

Registration and abstract submission are now open.

Hotel Reservation website now avialable.

New iPhone & iPod Application for Researchers

A new application lets researchers download and store AIP Journal articles to their iPhone or iPod Touch.

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ACA Member Receives 2010 ICDD Award in Crystallography

ACA extends sincere congratulations to member Mahadevan Lakshminarasimhan of Ruhr University in Germany.  Out of the fifty-five crystallographers who submitted applications,  Mr. Lakshminarasimhan was among the top ten selected by the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD) to receive the 2010 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship.  He has been recognized for his work exploring the regulation of mammalian Sirtuins using structural biology.

In Memoriam

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is proud to announce an important milestone in the history of crystallography - the archiving of the 500,000th small molecule crystal structure to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).

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Xforum

As a new forum dedicated to crystallographers, Xforum offers a unique way for scientists to discuss X-ray diffraction and crystallography matters.

Call for Nominations for the Fifth Max Perutz ECA Prize

The ECA invites nominations for the Fifth Max Perutz European Crystallographic Association Prize to
recognize a significant achievement or discovery in crystallography, ideally during the past 5-10 years.

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