[Neutron] Program for Neutrons in Biology Conference in Santa Fe

[Paul Langan]

Dear Colleagues,

please find below the final program for the International Conference on 
Neutrons in Biology, to be held in Santa Fe October 25th-28th 2009. If you 
work on biological systems or renewable energy and the environment, then I 
would like to encourage you to register for the conference and also to 
submit an abstract for the poster session as soon as possible. You can do 
so at http://lansce.lanl.gov/neutronsbiology/ We have a top class list if 
speakers from across the world.

Paul

Sunday October 25th

6pm - 8pm: Check in

Monday October 26th

Session: Welcome and opening addresses (Chair: Paul Langan)

8:45am – 9:10am        Al Hurd (LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

9:10am – 9:30am        Jose Olivares (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, USA)

Session: Recent results from neutron crystallography (Chair: Alberto Podjarny)

9:30am - 10:15am      Keynote: Ryota Kuroki (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 
Japan)
Structure of Enzyme-Inhibitor Complex by Neutron Crystallography

10:15am - 10:45am    Julian Chen (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany )
Neutron Structure of DFPase: Insights into Phosphotriesterase mechanism

Coffee Break (10:45am - 11:15am)

11:15am - 11:45pm    Susana Teixeira (Keele University, UK & Institute Laue 
Langevin, France )
Sweet Neutron Crystallography

11:45am - 12:15pm    Andrey Kovalevsky (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, USA)
Direct Determination of the Protonation States of Histidine Residues in a 
2Å Neutron Structure of deoxy-Human Normal Adult Hemoglobin and 
Implications for the Bohr Effect

12:15pm - 12:45pm    Pavel Afonine (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
                                     PHENIX and Neutrons

Lunch Break (12:45pm – 2:15pm: No Host)

Mini-symposium: "Neutrons for renewable energy and the environment" 
(Organizer Mike Kent: Chair Cliff Unkefer)

2:15pm - 2:45pm        Keynote: Yoshiharu Nishiyama (Centre de Recherche 
sur les Macromolecule Vegetales if CNRS, France)
                                     Looking at Hydrogen Bonds in Cellulose

2:45pm - 3:15pm        Mike Kent (Sandia  National Laboratory, USA)
SANS Study of Enzymatic Digestion of Cellulose

Break (3:15pm - 3:30pm)

3:30pm - 4:00pm        Zoe Fisher (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, USA)
Enzymes for Carbon Sequestration: Neutron Crystallohgraphic Structure of 
Carbonic Anhydrase II: Implications for Catalysis

4:00pm - 4:30pm        S. Gnanakaran (Theoretical Biology & Biophysics 
Group, Center for nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
                                     Multiscale Modelling of Biomass and 
its degradation by enzymes for Biofuels


4:15pm – 5:15pm        Paul Langan (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, USA)
Understanding Enzymes and Biomass for Bioenergy

Dinner Break (5:15pm – 7:00pm: No Host)

Session: Instruments and sources for neutrons in biology (Chair: Nobuo 
Niimura )

7:00pm - 7:30pm        Ichiro Tanaka (Ibaraki Uiniversity, Japan)
                                     Overview of IBARAKI Biological 
Diffractometer (iBIX)

7:30pm - 8:00pm        Matthew Blakeley (Institute Laue Langevin, France)
                                     Neutron Macromolecular Crystallography 
with LADI-III

8:00pm - 8:30pm        Cameron Neylon (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
First Biology on SANS2d: Will Time-of-Flight SANS on Pulsed Sources Deliver 
for Solution Structural Biology?

8:30pm - 9:00pm        Andrey Kovalevsky (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, USA)
The Protein Crystallography Station at LANSCE


Tuesday October 27th

Session: Recent results from small angle neutron scattering (Chair: Mike Kent )

8:45am - 9:30am        Keynote: William Heller (Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, USA)
Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Contrast Variation: A Powerful 
Combination for Studying Biological Structures

9:30am - 10:00am      Rex Hjelm (LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
                                     The Motive Mechanism of Mitotic 
Kinesin-12, Ncd

10:00am - 10:30am    Kishore Chandra Dash (India)
Comparative Study Macromolecular Structure of Pure Infected and Cancerous 
Human Bone- A SAXS Analysis

Coffee Break (10:45am - 11:15am)

Session: Recent results from neutron crystallography (Chair: Matthew 
Blakeley )

11:00am - 11:45pm    Keynote: Alberto Podjarny (Institute of Genetics, 
Molecular and Cellular Biology, France)
Neutron Diffraction Studies with “Tiny” Crystals: the Cases of 
Perdeuterated Aldose Reductase and Antifreeze Protein

11:45pm - 12:15pm    Taro Yamada (Ibaraki University, Japan)
                                     Neutron Crystallographic Analysis of 
T6-Insulin and Trypsin-BPTI Complex

12:15pm – 12:45:pm   Jenny Glusker (Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA)
Neutron Crystallographic Studies of the Mechanism of Xylose Isomerase

12:45pm – 1:15:pm     Tim Mueser (Toledo University, USA)
X-ray and Neutron Diffraction and Mass Spectrometry Studies of Hemoglobin: 
Elucidating Erythrocyte Senescence


Lunch Break (1:15pm – 2:30pm: No Host)


Workshop: "Computational Tools in Neutron Crystallography" (Organizers: 
Pavel Afonine and Marat Mustyakimov Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley 
National Laboratories)

2:30pm - 5:30pm        Hands-on Tutorials from Developers of PHENIX and nCNS

Dinner Break (5:30pm – 7:00pm: No Host)

Session: Posters

7:00pm – 8:30pm


Wednesday October 28th

Session: Recent results from inelastic neutron scattering (Chair: Trevor 
Forsyth)

9:00am - 9:45am        Keynote: Giuseppe Zaccai (Institute Laue Langevin, 
France)
                                     Neutrons and Biological Molecular Dynamics

9:45am - 10:30am      Keynote: Hans Frauenfelder (Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, USA)
Neutron Scattering and Protein Dynamics

Coffee Break (10:30am - 11:00am)

Session: Recent results from neutron reflectometry (Chair: Joe Zaccai)

11:00am - 11:45am    Keynote: Giovanna Fragneto (Institute Laue Langevin, 
France)

11:45am - 12:15pm    Luke Ashley Clifton (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
                                     Pyroindoline Binding to Lipids and its 
Relation to Wheat Endosperm Structure

12:15pm - 12:45pm    Jarek Majewski (LANSCE, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, USA)
                                     Thermo-responsive Polymer Supports 
Single Lipid Bilayers: Neutron Scattering Studies


Lunch Break (12:45pm – 2:00pm: No Host)

Afternoon: Free for Committee Meetings and touring

7:00pm - 7:30pm        Reception
7:30pm - 9:00pm        Banquet

After Dinner Speaker: Benno Schoenborn "The history of neutrons in Biology"

9:00pm Close of Conference

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