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2009 Nobel Prize Winners 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.  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

Young Scientists at Home in ACA

 

Find out everything you need to know to get the most out of your student or postdoc membership and the Annual Meetings.  Drive your career forward by networking with the right people and gaining cutting edge knowledge in your field.  If you're not a member yet, here are a few reasons why you should be!

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 be housed 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. 

ACA Reaches Out: 2010 Small Molecule Summer Course

 

The 10-day intensive course will be offered tentatively June 21st through June 30th, 2010 at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. While some advanced topics will be introduced (Structure solution from powder data, advanced probability methods, solving difficult structures), the curriculum will mostly emphasize fundamental crystallography and no prior crystallographic experience will be assumed. 

2009 Election Results

 

Ballots for the election of Council members, Standing Committee members, SIG officers and adoption of the Fellows Program were mailed in October.  Ballots postmarked or compelted online by November 15th were included in the final count.  

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

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

Lyle JensenBob Bau

Clara Brink Shoemaker

Hans Freeman
Luis G. Roldan 

Liselotte Templeton

Bob Bau (pictured)

Louis Delbaere

 
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre Archives 500,000th Crystal Structure

 

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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