From: Manolia Margaris (Manolia@stanford.edu)
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 9:10 PM
 

Dear NMR Friend,

We are pleased to bring to your attention the following Advanced Study Institute sponsored by NATO:

WHO: The International School of Structural Biology and Magnetic Resonance
WHAT: 6th course: Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biological Macromolecules and Assemblies
WHERE: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice-Sicily, Italy
WHEN: July 10-22, 2003
URL: http://smrl.stanford.edu/erice2003/

We have assembled an outstanding speaker list from the fields of NMR, x-ray crystallography, computation, dynamics and mechanism. This is an ideal course for students and postdoctoral fellows, with great opportunities for the young scientists to present their work.

PURPOSE OF THE COURSE: The school will teach the principles of biomolecular structure determination by crystallography and NMR, and how dynamics measurements are made and computed on biological systems. The integration of other biophysical methods for the study of dynamics will also be stressed.

SPECIFIC COURSE TOPICS: Principles of NMR; Optical Spectroscopy; Principles of X-ray Crystallography; Nucleic acids and protein complexes; NMR Physics; Novel methods for structure determination of proteins and complexes; Protein-nucleic acid complexes; Single-molecule methods; Drug design; Large RNA NMR; Molecular dynamics simulations; Protein design and folding; Molecular recognition.

Please bring this course to the attention of potential participants as soon as possible. We have extended the application deadline to June 1st. More details can be found on the attached poster and on the course website at

 
http://smrl.stanford.edu/erice2003/

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