Administrative Assistant BAG Meeting: Deborah Davison
Administrative Assistant MicroSymposium: Fabienne Mengoni
email address: udm4@esrf.fr

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Overall Programme

Aim and scope

The recent phase-I upgrade of the ESRF has resulted in the construction and commissioning of several new end-stations for practising Structural Biology. These include a new beam-line for BioSAXS (BM29), a facility for completely automatic data collection (MASSIF-1), a new high-flux microfocus beam-line (MASSIF-3) and a new end-station (ID30B) for MAD/SAD experiments that provides both high flux and variable beam-size over its entire wavelength range.
The program for Monday 9th February will comprise a meeting of ESRF BAG Responsibles (invitation only) that includes presentation of the facilities for structural biology at ESRF, visits to the new end-stations available for Structural Biology and a round table discussion concerning the future of Structural Biology Facilities at ESRF.

On Wednesday 11^th February 2015, the microsymposium 'Structural Biology at ESRF - more than crystallography' will concentrate on the presentation of a series of highlights resulting from use of the ESRF's experimental facilities for structural biology. The microsymposium itself will interleave plenary talks from invited speakers with shorter talks selected from submitted abstracts.  As the use of techniques complementary to crystallography is currently gaining ground we particularly encourage the submission of abstracts describing work where the use of such techniques has been instrumental in providing structural insight. We also encourage the submission of abstracts from younger scientists.