Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 

Pittsburgh Workshop Schedule and Speakers

Time Title Speaker
8:30 Welcome / Introduction Guillermo Calero
8:35 The Basics of Crystallography and X-ray diffraction Joanne Yeh
9:20 Intro to protein crystallization and cryo-condition determination Edward Snell
9:55 Break  
10:15 High Throughput Crystallization Screening at HWI Joseph Luft
10:50 Beam line automation and how to prepare for the synchrotron experiment Aina Cohen
11:25 Live Demo of remote data collection Clyde Smith
12:00 Lunch  
1:00 Data Collection and Data Processing using Web-Ice Ana Gonzalez
1:35 Refinement, Model Building and Structure Validation Irimpan Mathews
2:20 Success Story with Beamline Automation Guillermo Calero
3:00 Break  
3:20 Hands-On Sessions (45 minutes each +5 minutes to switch)
A: Connecting to SSRL and Conducting a Remote Experiment
B: Sample Preparation for Remote Data Collection at SSRL
 
5:00 Adjourn  

Note: Participants are encouraged to attend the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference on the following day. There will be a session on how to collect a good SAD data set and a session on Structure Refinement which will be particularly informative to new crystallographers.